Paul Walker

Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare, NEA
Paul Walker leverages 25+ years in public biotech markets, biochemistry training and a CFA, focusing on later-stage/public/crossover biotech as a contrarian, patient multi-year partner to public companies recovering from setbacks.
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About Paul Walker

Paul Walker leads NEA's healthcare investing practice with an unusual background that combines 25+ years of public biotech markets experience—starting as a mutual fund portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton before moving to venture—with technical training in biochemistry and a CFA designation rather than the typical MD/PhD credentials. He specializes in later-stage, public, and crossover biotech investments, positioning himself as a contrarian partner for management teams of public companies that have experienced setbacks and need patient, multi-year capital.

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Enterprise, Biotech, Fintech, Health, Consumer
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Seed - Series B+
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$50K - $50M

NEA is one of the world's largest venture capital firms with over $25 billion in assets under management and a distinctive dual leadership model where separate technology and healthcare practices operate under one roof, each led by long-tenured managing general partners. The firm has maintained continuous fund-raising and investment activity since 1977, promoting all general partners internally with an average 17-year tenure, and operates as a "quiet giant" that has backed globally important companies like Databricks, ByteDance, and Cloudflare while maintaining a reputation for being execution-driven rather than marketing-led.

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