Y Combinator group partner Surbhi Sarna is living proof that you can do things differently—and be different than all the people around you—and still become a successful entrepreneur or investor.
Sarna started building the ovarian cancer-detection medical device company, nVision Medical, without a Ph.D. or MBA when she was 24. She fundraised $17.5 million (and sold nVision to Boston Scientific for $275 million) as an Indian American woman operating in femtech—a segment of the health tech industry some male investors were then referring to as “bikini medicine.” She landed her first customer during a gynecology appointment. And, increasingly rare in today’s venture capital world, she became a prolific venture investor without opening a Twitter account (that is, until a few weeks ago).
