STAT June 30, 2025
A Q&A with Jessica Owens of Initiate Ventures on being an investor during profoundly uncertain times
ASPEN, Colo. — When Jessica Owens was toiling away in graduate school, she didn’t know what a venture capitalist was, much less that she’d one day launch her own firm and raise its inaugural $45 million fund.
Owens co-founded Initiate Ventures, a Bay Area VC firm, after a winding career that spans roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a stint in a cancer biology Ph.D. program before she ditched the lab to explore the world of finance. Along the way, she co-founded Grail, a cancer detection company that Illumina acquired for $8 billion....
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