D.A. Wallach
About D.A. Wallach
D.A. Wallach is a leading venture capital investor and an acclaimed recording artist. Discovered by Pharrell Williams while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College, D.A. began his career as one half of the duo Chester French, releasing two full-length albums through Interscope Records and touring with Lady Gaga, Weezer, N*E*R*D, and Blink 182. He has performed on TV Shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and has been featured in Rolling Stone, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. Beyond Chester French, D.A. has collaborated on songs with Janelle Monae, Rick Ross, and Pusha T, among others. His solo debut record for Capitol Records, Time Machine, is available on Spotify and Apple Music. In 2011, D.A. stopped touring in order to focus on his other passion, investing. He has since built a parallel career as a venture capitalist, backing a series of industry-defining technology companies including Spotify, SpaceX, Ripple, The Boring Company, and Memphis Meats. Since 2015, D.A. has focused almost exclusively on biotechnology and healthcare, seeking to reinvent medicine through breakthrough start-ups like Beam, Glympse, Doctor on Demand, Devoted Health, and Neuralink. Forbes deemed D.A. one of its “30 Under 30,” and Fast Company named him one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. He is the co-founder of Inevitable Ventures and Time BioVentures, both Los Angeles-based investment firms, and is an advisor to The Dreamers Fund, a partnership with the actor Will Smith. Outside of work, D.A. appeared as an actor in the film La La Land, which received 14 Academy Award nominations. He publishes essays on a range of topics on his website www.dawallach.com, and is the co-founder of the non-profit Franca Fund for preventive genomics.