Podcasts
July 19, 2022
Mike Alkire, President of Premier, Inc. sits down with Deena Shakir, for a fascinating discussion on her career leading transformative investments in healthcare and other sectors. They discuss her career before tech and how investing in women’s health is not only a great ROI for the investors but from a health equity perspective is one the keys to achieving the type of population health we want to see.
April 25, 2022
Harry Stebbings talks with Deena about her origins in venture coming from the world of politics. They discuss competition in venture and why founders should think twice before taking multi-stage fund money at seed. They also cover Deena as a person and why we should be optimistic around Diversity and Inclusion.
April 21, 2022
Justin Gordon talks with Deena about how she invests in transformative technologies to improve lives and livelihoods. They also discuss her interest in intersectional and underdog entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies to accelerate human and population health advances and equity.
June 22, 2022
On this episode of Non-Technical Alexis Gay talks with Deena about quarterly visits to Disneyland, long-distance AIM-ing, Paw Patrol, stevia schlepping, and ironic skinny jeans. Get to know Deena in a more personal way as she opens up with never-before-shared anecdotes and much more.
April 5, 2022
Soaked By Slush podcast episode #3 is joined by Deena to discuss spotting generational founders early and why mothers are better professionals. Topics covered include recognizing iconic entrepreneurs early to Deena’s efforts to write a children’s book about a young girl who starts a company.
March 2, 2022
Continuing her series on women leading deep tech investments, VP at Boost VC, Maddie Callander, sat down with Lux Capital Partner, Deena Shakir, to discuss her journey to venture and how she approaches solving some of the world’s biggest problems.
January 19, 2022
“I don't have all the answers. I have an amazing support system, but I'm still drowning and exhausted. I think the more we're open about that, the more things will change.”
January 12, 2022
It was a record year for female founders in 2021: Women raised roughly $40 billion, nearly doubling a record set in 2019. Women-led companies outperformed the market and found quicker "exits." What will 2022 bring? Barron’s hosts a conversation with investors Deena Shakir, partner at Lux Capital and Stacie Olivares, a former member of the CalPERS Board.
December 15, 2021
Following Tech Bites tradition, the last show of the year is a look into the future of trends and innovations. What do some of the top women in food tech see for 2022?
August 28, 2021
After news broke that meditation app Headspace and on-demand mental health care platform Ginger were merging, we couldn’t resist hopping on the mics to do a bonus episode. And, because we were in the mood for hot takes, Natasha and Alex held the conversation on Twitter Spaces. The special guests we had on, who we’ll get to down below, did not disappoint.
August 7, 2021
Deena Shakir always optimized her career for impact — though she could have never imagined that it would land her in venture capital. Listen to Deena’s unconventional (though very logical) journey from D.C., to Google.org, to a partner at LUX Capital where she invests in health tech startups today.
April 25, 2021
Listen in to discover what it’s like to be a mom in VC and how the broader investing and entrepreneurial ecosystem can foster a supportive and empowering workplace culture.
March 17, 2021
A fascinating conversation with host Shiv Gaglani for a peek into the promising work being done at the intersection of business, investment, technology and healthcare to improve lives and livelihoods.
January 3, 2021
Deena joins Amira Yahyaoui and discusses how she ended up in tech, how COVID has impacted higher education, and her thoughts on governance and technology.
December 22, 2020
Deena discusses her background as the daughter of Iraqi immigrants in California and her early career as a journalism and government, the behavior trait that drives Lux Capital as a firm, how Lux makes critical decisions as a firm and why portfolio management is a team sport there, the establishment of a company culture and the process of hiring employees that will fit in to it, what growth in fund size means in dictating strategy and mindset, and her advice for starting your own fund.
December 12, 2020
Deena discusses why she thinks frontier tech is going mainstream, with a variety of other topics regarding her career, the differences between GV and Lux Capital investment theses and backgrounds, the decision-making process within Lux as a core group and team effort, and the new technological innovations that she is interested in.
April 16, 2020
Here Deena, Erik Torenburg, and Kristen Baker Spohn discuss how COVID has rapidly accelerated digital health adoption, which spaces their company is interested in in a post-COVID world, advice for founders trying to sell to large organizations and employers, the status of data in health care and whether it can be a differentiator, the difference in companies focused on prevention instead of treatment, along with other spaces of healthcare that the three of them are interested in.