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Sohila Zadran, PhD, is Partner at Archangel-1 (San Francisco), a deep tech investment firm for science-centric companies, with 50+ investments including Varda Space ($310M raised, space manufacturing), Omnipulse ($20M pre-seed), Material10, and Reality Defender (AI-generated content detection, $48M raised). She also runs the AX1 Deep Tech investment syndicate on AngelList. A neuroscientist by training, she completed her PhD from USC and a post-doctoral fellowship in Systems Neuroscience at Caltech (NIH Fellow). She currently lectures Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks at Stanford University and Maven. She founded Agarionan (biotech, in partnership with QB3, J&J Janssen Labs) and co-founded Menopause.ai (with Fogarty Institute of Innovation). Career: EIR at Khosla Ventures → Associate Partner at McKinsey → Principal at BCG Digital Ventures → Partner at GreatPoint Ventures → Partner at Trousdale Ventures → Partner at Archangel-1. Board Member at Abera Biosciences (ABERA:SS, 2024). Advisor at Strawberry Creek Ventures (UC Berkeley SkyDeck). Education: PhD, University of Southern California; Caltech (post-doc).