Nworah Ayogu

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  Thrive Capital’s Dr. Nworah Ayogu on Why Neuralink Is More Interesting Than SpaceX

  October 14, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

  Dr. Nworah Ayogu, MD, MBA, Partner at Thrive Capital, joins Sourcery to discuss how AI is transforming drug discovery, medicine, and the economics of healthcare. A Harvard-trained physician, founding team member of Cityblock Health, former General Manager of Amazon Clinic and first Chief Medical Officer of Amazon Pharmacy, Nworah is now a partner at Thrive Capital. The investment firm has grown to over $65bn in AUM and its healthcare portfolio includes Neuralink, Nudge, Isomorphic Labs, OpenEvidence, OpenAI, Oscar Health, and Cadence. We cover AI's potential to accelerate drug development, I…

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  Capital at the Breakpoint: 7wire, General Catalyst & Thrive Capital on Where Health AI Compounds

  March 16, 2026 · 📺 Lux Capital

  Health AI has moved past category creation, and now comes the harder work of capital discipline. Lux Partner Deena Shakir sits down with Alyssa Jaffee (Partner, 7wire Ventures), Holly Maloney (Managing Director, General Catalyst), and Dr. Nworah Ayogu (Partner, Thrive Capital) to explore where asymmetric outcomes are still hiding in a maturing market. From 7wire's case for tech-enabled services, to General Catalyst's bet on acquiring a health system outright, to Thrive's framework for backing companies that are bilingual across hardware and healthcare, this panel is a masterclass in how the sh…

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  Interesting Times - Thrive Capital Partner Dr. Nworah Ayogu

  January 05, 2026 · 📺 New York Stock Exchange

  This [episode] is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities. Any companies mentioned are referenced solely for illustrative or informational purposes; they do not represent all investments made by Thrive, and there is no guarantee that current or future investments will be similar in quality or kind.

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  Business Models for Health Care Impact

  March 12, 2025 · 📺 UCLAAnderson

  Dr. Nworah Ayogu is head of health care impact at Thrive Capital. With an A.B., M.D. and MBA from Harvard University, Ayogu has worked with governments, payers and health systems to improve access and quality of care, and has published research in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He was the founding medical director for CityBlock Health and served as a member of the Biden administration’s White House Health Equity round table. He trained in Internal Medicine at Columbia University and is a board-certified internist, and he has held faculty appointments at Harvard and NYU. In a conversation wi…

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  Medical & Tech Leader Predicts Health Care’s Potential | Sanford Health News

  January 28, 2025 · 📺 Sanford Health

  In this episode, host Courtney Collen with Sanford Health News talks with Dr. Nworah Ayogu, head of Healthcare Impact at Thrive Capital. Dr. Ayogu is a speaker at the 2024 Summit on the Future of Rural Health Care. #ruralhealthcare #healthcare #sanfordhealth Read the full story: https://news.sanfordhealth.org/podcas... Subscribe for more stories: https://san.fo/2EuFiCY Visit our Sanford Health Facebook page:   / sanfordhealth   Follow us on Twitter:   / sanfordhealth   Follow @SanfordHealth on Instagram:   / sanfordhealth   Connect with us on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/sanford-health/

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  Amazon Clinic Dr. Nworah Ayogu at CNBC Healthy Returns Summit 2023

  April 04, 2023 · 📺 CNBC Events

  Amazon Clinic’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nworah Ayogu explains how Amazon is delivering digital health care in 2023 and beyond.  Dr. Nworah Ayogu, Amazon Clinic Chief Medical Officer & GM Interviewer: Bertha Coombs, CNBC Reporter  More from the CNBC Events: https://bit.ly/40ZdNd1 Subscribe to the CNBC Events Marketing Newsletter here: https://cnb.cx/3nJqzht Follow on Twitter:   / cnbcevents   Follow on LinkedIn:   / cnbcevents   #CNBC #virtual #health #digitalhealth

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