Dr. Nandini Tandon, Co-Founder, IndUS Setu Global, is a venture capitalist for past 17 years in Silicon Valley, presently engaged in bringing her deep domain experience to her next cross-border fund, to leverage the complementary strengths of USA and India, in emerging and critical technologies.

As a venture capitalist Nandini made 12 investments in life saving breakthrough technologies with 11 exits, 9 being acquired by market leaders such as Pfizer, Gilead Amgen, General Electric and 2 companies following IPO route.

Dr. Tandon was Managing Director, Lumira-MDS Capital in Palo Alto with 1.2 billion USD under management and before was Partner, RBC Capital Partners, in San Francisco, and was responsible for opening and establishing both the offices.

Dr. Tandon, strong champion of both health and economic equity, and inclusion of women led developments, received in 2015 the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, an honor conferred by President of India, for her investments in life-saving technologies; in 2016 she received Uttar Pradesh Ratna award, and in 2017, Women of Excellence Award, in USA.

Nandini has been on multiple global, private, public, for profit and not for profit boards, across US, UK, Netherlands, UAE, and India.

Presently, she is advisor to Stanford University’s Byers Center for Bio Design and Center for Innovation in Global Health, is on the board of Bay Area Economic Council Institute, the premier US economic think tank, is on the board of MCI Inc., an AI to EQ company, is Board Member of QB3, Quantitative Biology, (UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz), is on Board of Advisors to Maker Bhavan Foundation and is on the Leadership Council of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, IIT GN.

Nandini is very engaged in building partnerships between USA and India, is Co-Chair of Bay Area-Silicon Valley-India Focus, was co-chair Healthcare delegation of Mayor of San Francisco to India, under the SF-Bangalore Sister City initiative and is on its board. She was Vice Chairman and Board Member, for world’s most technologically advanced hospital, El Camino Hospital (ECH), Silicon Valley, California. She has been on the boards of hospitals in USA, UK and Middle east.

A White House Intern, Nandini received Ph.D. in biochemistry, Phi Lambda Upsilon from Duke University, North Carolina and B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, Virginia. She holds a global patent in semiconductor from Microelectronic Center of North Carolina, RTP, NC.

Dr. Tandon is married and lives in Silicon Valley, California with her husband and their son.