Managing Partner
Preetha is managing partner at Pier 70 Ventures and invests in early stage companies, with diverse leadership teams, creating the Future of Health.
Preetha is a successful entrepreneur, investor, technologist and educational thought leader. Previously she was Associate Dean for Science at Emory University.
She was founder/CEO of OpenStudy, an online learning platform with over 60M global learners. Preetha raised multimillion-dollar funding from the NSF, National Institute of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Hewlett Packard Foundation before an institutional round. Recognized as one of Fast Company’s Top Ten Innovative Companies in Education, she was honored at the White House as an Innovator. As CEO, she scaled the company and led it to a successful exit.
Preetha is an LP in How Women Invests and on the boards of TIE Silicon Valley, a non-profit, and Pelvital, a femtech company.
Preetha holds a Ph.D. in life sciences from Yale, an M.S. in chemistry from IIT Delhi and an MBA from Emory University.