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About Investor

Rajit Malhotra serves as a Venture Partner at Peak State Ventures, where he focuses on seed through Series B investments in Consumer Health, Pharmaceuticals, BioTech, Food and Beverage, Real Estate/PropTech, Health & Hospital Services, Diagnostics, Digital Health, and Health IT sectors, with investment ranges typically between $100K and $5.0M, with particular attention to Los Angeles/Southern California opportunities. His background includes being a co-founder and board member of Shantha Biotech, which was sold to Sanofi-Aventis for $850 million, demonstrating his successful entrepreneurial experience in the healthcare and biotechnology sectors. Malhotra has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and consultant, having advised the C-suite and board at numerous Fortune 500 companies, and he brings extensive expertise in digital healthcare to his venture capital role at Peak State Ventures, which focuses on companies shaping the Future of Work through technological breakthroughs.