Vijay Pande is a PhD scientist and former Stanford professor who led the Folding@home distributed computing project before becoming the founding partner and architect of Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health strategy. He looks for companies that turn biology into an engineering discipline through AI-powered design tools and standardized platforms, often seeking founders who follow his own path from petri dishes to pitch decks as world-class scientists learning to build venture-scale companies. Vijay Pande is a PhD scientist and former Stanford professor who led the Folding@home distributed computing project before becoming the founding partner and architect of Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health strategy. He looks for companies that turn biology into an engineering discipline through AI-powered design tools and standardized platforms, often seeking founders who follow his own path from petri dishes to pitch decks as world-class scientists learning to build venture-scale companies.