Kamni Vijay is a Life Sciences executive with more than twenty-five years leading global organizations across Genomics, Diagnostics, and healthcare technology. She has served as Chief Executive Officer of an AI-driven drug discovery company, which she guided to a successful exit, and as Vice President and General Manager at Bio-Techne, Becton Dickinson, Agilent Technologies, and Bio-Rad Laboratories, carrying global P&Ls from roughly $100M to more than $2B.
Across those roles she has championed more than half a dozen acquisitions and led the integrations that followed, built and scaled commercial organizations, and shaped policy with members of Congress and the FDA on Diagnostics reimbursement and emergency-use authorization. Today she also serves as an Operating Partner at a San Francisco venture firm and sits on the boards and advisory boards of several companies across Genomics, Spatial Biology, Diagnostics, and AI-driven Discovery.
She holds a PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis, where she was a three-time NIH Research Fellow, and a BA with Honors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Dartmouth College.
She is a member of YPO, Women in Bio, and the Analytical, Life Sciences and Diagnostics Association (ALDA).
A note from the founder
“Every engagement has my hands on it directly, and when a project calls for more depth or specialized skills, I bring in trusted specialists I have worked with for years, so the work carries senior attention throughout.”Kamni Vijay, PhD
What the practice stands for
A few commitments run through everything here. You will get the recommendation we would act on ourselves, said plainly, including the parts that are hard to hear. The work moves at the speed of your business without cutting the analysis short, because we know what it is like to wait on an answer you needed yesterday. And what you share stays yours: your strategy, your data, and your deals are held in confidence, always.
Above all, this practice exists because building one of these companies is genuinely hard, and the people doing it deserve a partner who has felt that weight firsthand. That is the spirit we try to bring to every conversation, starting with the first one.