Dr. Inga Deakin

Inga recently joined Draper Esprit to build and support the healthtech investment portfolio. Her experience includes 6 years at VC Touchstone/Imperial Innovations investing in life science and digital health companies emerging from top UK universities. She led investments, bringing in new and diverse syndicate investors, and was on the board of 5 companies, resulting in 2 acquisitions and bringing medical and life science products from research stage to the market. She then spent 3 years in the USA, gaining international industry and healthcare experience, as Chief of Staff in a commercial stage genetic molecular diagnostics company, and most recently as Entrepreneur in Residence at Duke University. Her scientific training includes a DPhil and MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford, and a BA from the University of Cambridge.