Qiuyan Xu, PhD, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor- Gravitate AI

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Qiuyan Xu, PhD is a statistician, an entrepreneur and a colleague at Walnut. We talked about the startups she has invested in, her immigrant journey and the work she does at Gravitate AI (https://www.gravitate.ai)

Sponsors: Purdue University entrepreneurship & Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Introduces Qiuyan Xu, PhD, Statistician, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
• Qiuyan Xu Talks About Her Investment in AOA Diagnostics
• Qiuyan Xu Talks About Her Investment in Octagon Therapeutics
• What Sal Daher Looks for in an Academic Founder
• Qiuyan Xu Wonders About the Long Holds in Life Science Investments
• “It's an important thing to remember now that the early-stage, angel-scale life science investing is really, really just beginning to take off.”
• “There are some angels who have done very successfully, with just a handful of companies.”
• “Weeding out the obvious losers. I think it makes a lot of sense.”
• We Still Know Surprisingly Little in the Life Sciences
• Qiuyan Xu Came to the US in 2003 to Study Statistics at UC Davis
• “...I got my PhD in 2008, in statistics, in the middle of a recession.”
• What Drove Qiuyan Xu to Become an Entrepreneur
• Qiuyan Xu’s Company Is Gravitate AI (https://www.gravitate.ai/)
• Gravitate AI Helps with Data Cleaning & Automation as Well as Customizing Open-Source AI Solutions
• How Qiuyan Xu Became an Angel Investor
• Contagious Enthusiasm
• Qiuyan Xu’s Advice to Angel Investors
• “You're urging angels to step right in, but at the same time, exercise control and have a budget.”
• Advice to Founders

Topics: robotics / AI, discovering entrepreneurship, angel investing strategies