Varda Shalev is one of the very few venture investors who is also a practicing primary care physician with decades of hands-on experience as a family doctor, which deeply informs her view of what is practically adoptable in real-world health systems and clinics. She built and led one of the world's largest longitudinal medical data assets as founder and head of Maccabitech, the research and innovation institute of Maccabi Healthcare Services, giving her unusually deep expertise in real-world evidence and how to translate large-scale clinical datasets into products and companies.