Zak Doric

Zak Doric is a Partner on the Bio and Health team at Andreessen Horowitz, based in Marin County, California. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, where he researched the molecular mechanisms of familial Parkinson’s disease as a Hillblom Graduate Fellow, and earned a BSc in Neuroscience from McGill University. Prior to joining his current venture capital firm, Doric completed a specialized fellowship at Flagship Pioneering, where he developed and evaluated venture hypotheses for the creation of new biotechnology companies. In his current investment capacity, he recently co-led a $13.5 million seed funding round for the biotechnology startup company Phylo. Doric leverages his extensive academic research background, which includes peer-reviewed publications in Science Advances and Nature Communications, to focus entirely on identifying and funding early-stage biotechnology and healthcare enterprises.