D.A. Wallach

D.A. Wallach is a venture capital investor and an acclaimed recording artist who has appeared on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list and been named by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. While an undergraduate at Harvard University, Wallach studied with professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and received the Andrew Ramroop and Alain Locke prizes as the top graduate in his department. Prior to leaving school, Pharrell Williams discovered D.A.’s band Chester French and signed the group to Interscope Records, where they released two full-length albums. He has toured with Lady Gaga, Weezer, and Blink 182, performed on tv shows such as "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," and appeared in Rolling Stone and Vogue.

In 2011, Wallach stopped touring in order to focus on his other passion -- investing. He has since built a parallel career as a venture capitalist, backing a series of industry-defining technology companies including Spotify, SpaceX, Ripple, The Boring Company, and Memphis Meats. Since 2015, Wallach has focused on biotechnology and healthcare, seeking to reinvent medicine through breakthrough start-ups like Beam, Glympse, Doctor on Demand, Devoted Health, and Neuralink. As co-founder and General Partner of Time BioVentures, he brings this experience to a new generation of talented entrepreneurs in the life sciences.

Outside of work, Wallach appeared as an actor in the film "La La Land," which received 14 Academy Award nominations. He publishes essays on a range of topics on his website and is the co-founder of the non-profit Franca Fund for preventive genomics, an advisory board member of No Patient Left Behind, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute.