Partner
Neil Devani
Founder and Managing Partner, Necessary Ventures
- Firm
- Necessary Ventures
- Title
- Founder and Managing Partner
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 17 September 2026
About
Neil Devani has spent the past decade partnering with founders to build companies the world needs. At Necessary Ventures, he backs deep tech, hard tech, and AI companies tackling fundamental challenges across healthcare, reindustrialization, climate, financial services, and education. Neil's investments include multiple companies that have reached public markets, among them Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a biotech pioneer applying AI to drug discovery and development, and Vicarious Surgical, a next-generation robotics company developing minimally invasive surgical systems, where Neil was the first investor and board director before being followed by Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, and Bill Gates.
Background
- Education
- Neil earned his B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University, attended medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine, and completed his J.D. at Stanford Law School.Source (opens in a new tab)
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