Neil Devani founded and leads Necessary Ventures, which leads $1-2M pre-seed rounds in deep tech, hard tech and AI companies tackling fundamental challenges across healthcare, reindustrialization, climate, financial services and education. He was the first investor and a board director at Vicarious Surgical, invested early in Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Wayve, Solugen, Andela, Akido and Arc Boats, and sits on the boards of Plural, OneImaging, Beyond Health, Pathos, Insightful Instruments and Rubi Laboratories. He hosts the Money Moves show, advises Upsolve and Comar Mollé LLP, and trained in medicine at Drexel before earning a J.D. from Stanford Law School.