Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA
Partner @ MFV Partners
About
Dr Ruchi Dana is a multi-award winning doctor, thought-leader, innovator and entrepreneur. She is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at various industry conferences and sits on several corporate, startup and NGO boards. As a Board Member of Dana Group, Dr Ruchi Dana is responsible for the company’s strategy throughout the GCC and Arab world region, advancing Dana Group’s position as an innovative industry leader, and a socially responsible enterprise that recognizes diversity and inclusion. Ruchi has also worked with Golden Seeds, a women focused Angel Network in New York and New Silk Route Growth Capital, a PE firm in Dubai, she has mainly focused on healthcare related investments at both these firms. While still in her early thirties, Ruchi is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded three businesses: Jugaad, an on-demand last mile logistics provider in the UAE, Pik A Venture, a crowdfunding accelerator platform for South-East Asia and One Big Family, an app for the elderly. Ruchi has been recognized by Forbes Middle East as the “Next Generation Business Leader, Arab World” for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019 and she has also been recognized by Campden Wealth as the “Women to Watch” in September’18 issue. Ruchi has also been recognized as “Top 75 Family Business Leaders” 2019 by Campden Research (UK)and was conferred with the Yuva Ratna Award, 2018. Most recently, Dr Ruchi was featured by Forbes on Power Businesswomen 2020 Middle East list. Ruchi is the President, COO of Duluth Medical Technologies Inc, a Silicon Valley based Robotic Medical device startup. Duluth is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable surgical robots, to improve patient care. Ruchi has been working on medical devices right through her undergraduate college days and has published & presented various papers on low-cost medical devices at international conferences. While at Stanford, Ruchi was part of the Stanford BioDesign Team and her team won NIH grant for needs finding under the C-IDEA consortium at Stanford university. Dr Ruchi Dana is an Experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the Investing, Startups, MedTech, Life Science, industrial engineering and retail industry. Ruchi completed her MD from AMU and got her full-time MBA and PMP (Public Management and Social Innovation) degrees from Stanford University Ruchi mentors startup founders & also volunteers her time for Médecins Sans Frontières, TiE and AIF (American India Foundation). For speaking & interview opportunities, plz email ruchi AT danagroups.com
United States
Stanford
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Experienced Speaker, Board Level, Non-Executive Director, Portfolio Optimization, Investment Management, Management, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Corporate Development, Private Equity, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Medical, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Management, Medicine, Financial Modeling, Due Diligence, Business Strategy, Valuation
Experience
Partner
MFV Partners
Palo Alto, California, United States
MFV Partners is an early stage deep tech venture fund based in Palo Alto, CA. MFV backs visionary deep tech entrepreneurs developing products and solutions that disrupt traditional verticals and ecosystems across Space, Manufacturing, Robotics, Computational Biology and Knowledge Services.
Board Observer
OrisDX
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OrisDX has raised $4M Seed to Launch First-of-Its-Kind Saliva-Based Multiomic Platform, Targeting Oral Cancer. This pivotal investment fuels OrisDX's commitment to pioneering saliva-based multiomics, starting with the detection of oral cancer. It will accelerate the broad deployment of our innovative, non-invasive technology, set to revolutionize early detection and transform patient outcomes.
Partner
Harper Court Ventures
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Supporting and funding pre-seed deep tech startups coming out of the University of Chicago ecosystem
Partner and Executive Board Member
DANA Group (www.danagroups.com)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai based Business House with a manufacturing presence in MENA & Asia. Branch offices & manufacturing facilities in Dubai, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, India, Qatar, Libya and headquarters in the United Arab Emirates.
Investor and Mentor
Aikenist Technologies
President, COO, Board Member
Duluth Medical Technologies Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Duluth is a robotics surgical device startup, which is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable robots, to improve patient care. Our vision at Duluth is to Democratize Healthcare, making it more equitable and affordable.
Global Women in VC Channel Lead : Healthcare and Family office
Global Women in VC
The largest community of women in venture globally.
Board Member : Cybersecurity for Executives, California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico
California, United States
Board Member : Cybersecurity for executives California State University Chico https://badges.education/Chico/cy-ruchi-dana/ https://rce.csuchico.edu/cybersecurity-for-executives
Advisor
Loyal VC
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Loyal VC operates a global startup index fund with over 125 investments across more than 30 countries. The fund is designed to minimize systemic bias inherent in the investment process, unlocking greater returns. Its diverse portfolio of founders, of whom currently over 30% are women CEOs and almost 30% are from emerging markets, includes 80% social impact entrepreneurs who leverage technology to address one or more of the UN sustainable development goals.
Venture Advisor
MBX Capital
San Diego, California, United States
MBX is a venture capital partnership investing in good health, for everyone. At MBX, our investment team focuses on early-stage (Seed to Series B) healthcare, med device and biotech companies
Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
General Management
-- CFO and Co-President of Stanford GSB MENA Club (Middle East and North Africa), -- CFO of Stanford GSB SASA Club (South Asian Students Association), -- Co-President of Stanford GSB Sales Club, -- Global Study Trip Leader: India GST, -- China Team selected for Stanford Biodesign Global Exchange program with PKU, -- Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation -- Led my team to be selected as 1st cohort of Stanford Venture Studio by Center of Entrepreneurial Studies, Stanford
Aligarh Muslim University
Medicine, Surgery
MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Leaders
Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Leaders
MIT Sloan School of Management
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