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October 10, 2019

Q&A: Venturing in the Midwest with a VC founder

  • Jan Garfinkle worked at two medical device startups before leaving California for the Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    • By BARBARA ORTUTAY
    AP Technology Writer

    SAN FRANCISCO — Jan Garfinkle is not your typical VC founder, and not just because she's a rare woman running a venture capital firm she founded nearly two decades ago. Though she hails from the Bay Area, she started Arboretum Ventures, a health care VC firm, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She also serves as the chairwoman of the National Venture Capital Association.

    Garfinkle worked at two medical device startups — both of which were bought by Eli Lilly and then spun off in an initial public offering in 1994 — before leaving California for the Midwest. She shared her perspective on medical innovations and the disgraced blood diagnostic startup Theranos in a recent interview with The Associated Press.


     
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