Ursheet Parikh leads Mayfield's human and planetary health investing with a focus on backing platforms at the intersection of AI, synthetic biology, and CRISPR that can impact entire species over decades rather than building single products. He's known for pushing companies like Mammoth Biosciences to develop broad platform ecosystems similar to Microsoft for PCs, while staying deeply involved in helping scientist-founders transition into entrepreneurs and keeping regulatory strategy as central as scientific strategy from the earliest stages. Ursheet Parikh leads Mayfield's human and planetary health investing with a focus on backing platforms at the intersection of AI, synthetic biology, and CRISPR that can impact entire species over decades rather than building single products. He's known for pushing companies like Mammoth Biosciences to develop broad platform ecosystems similar to Microsoft for PCs, while staying deeply involved in helping scientist-founders transition into entrepreneurs and keeping regulatory strategy as central as scientific strategy from the earliest stages.