Bala Varadhan is a Principal at F-Prime focused on early-stage crypto, blockchain, and Web3 investments. Before joining F-Prime, Bala was with Avon Ventures and previously honed his expertise at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he specialized in private equity due diligence and growth strategy. Bala’s career also includes roles in private equity and law, which have equipped him with a strong foundation in investment and transactional analysis.
Bala holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a JD from the Pritzker School of Law, and dual B.A.s in Economics and Liberal Arts from The University of Texas at Austin. His interest in the crypto space began in 2013 with his initial exposure to Bitcoin.
Sachin Patodia is a Partner at F-Prime. Prior to joining F-Prime, Sachin founded Avon Ventures and accumulated nearly two decades of experience at Fidelity’s Asset Management group as a portfolio manager on the equities team. Sachin’s investment expertise began during his early years in product management at various tech startups, providing him with a background in both finance and technology.
Sachin earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and holds dual degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S.E. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Economics. His passion for emerging technologies sparked his early involvement with Bitcoin in 2014.
Jessica Chen, M.D., is a Venture Partner at F-Prime and the Chief Health and Wellness officer of ThriveWell™, an umbrella company committed to promoting health, wellness, and longevity nationwide. Her mission to enhance people’s well span incorporates a holistic, community-based approach to care that moves beyond a typical clinical setting and focuses on purpose, healthy eating, exercise, spirituality, and preventive medicine. She also incorporates her personal experiences into her work. ThriveWell’s MRS Diet, for example, was inspired by Dr. Chen’s approach to feeding her own family. M, mostly plant-based. R, real whole foods. S, stop eating before you are full.
Dr. Chen perfected her holistic approach to care as the Chief Clinical Officer at ChenMed, a nationally recognized full-risk healthcare organization serving more than 200,000 patients across 15 states. At ChenMed, Dr. Chen helped implement a care model that reduced hospitalization by 30 to 50 percent and helped patients live, on average, five to seven years longer than their non-ChenMed counterparts. She then led the company’s clinical, recruitment, onboarding, training, and leadership programs; inspiring new generations of physicians to achieve the same results through a doctor/patient relationship built on trust and influence. Her efforts to achieve a culture of high-quality outcomes were instrumental in ChenMed being named to Fortune Magazine’s 2020 Change the World list, the only healthcare delivery organization so recognized.
Dr. Jessica Chen holds a doctorate degree from the University of Miami and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital. She is actively involved in Nicaragua Medical Missions, a Christian non-profit organization that provides medical assistance to underserved communities in Nicaragua. She is married to her medical school sweetheart, Dr. Gordon Chen, ThriveWell’s Chief Executive Officer. Together, they have four children.
Gordon Chen, M.D., is a Venture Partner with F-Prime and the Chief Executive Officer of ThriveWell™, an umbrella company committed to promoting health, wellness, and longevity. The organization employs integrated, holistic offerings through two unique brands that provide concierge-style outcome-based medical care with access to an exclusive facility for motivated adults to maximize their healthspan (BLU By ThriveWell), and a proactive approach to home care that keeps members active, eating right, mentally engaged, and productive (ThriveWell At Home).
Dr. Chen discovered how adults benefit from outcome-based, longevity medicine within a community-based environment that focused on purpose, nutrition, movement, and spirituality when he and his family built out ChenMed, America’s leading primary care provider for older adults. As the organization’s Chief Medical Officer, he helped over 200,000 older adults across 15 states significantly improve their outcomes and gain 5-7 healthier years.
Dr. Chen is also an accomplished author, co-writing “The Calling: A Memoir of Family, Faith and the Future of Healthcare,” which outlines his family’s story and their vision for proactive, transformative care. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as a preventative cardiology expert, Dr. Chen is deeply involved in charitable work, supporting medical missions in Nicaragua and at-risk youth through his family’s non-profit, Youth Impact Center. He is married to his medical school sweetheart, Dr. Jessica Chen, ThriveWell’s Chief Health and Wellness Officer and former Chief Clinical Officer of ChenMed. Together, they have four children.
Megan Jenkins joined F-Prime in April 2024. Prior to joining F-Prime, she was Controller at Sandbox Industries managing financial operations, investor reporting, and financial analysis.
Earlier in her career, Megan was a manager at Ernst & Young, LLP in their financial services assurance practice serving public and private clients in the wealth & asset management industry.
Megan earned an MBA and an MS in Accounting from Northeastern University and a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Economics from Union College. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As CMO of Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW), Allison sets the company’s marketing and revenue operations strategy worldwide. Since joining Flywire in 2019, Allison has led the growth of its marketing function, building out new teams in APAC and EMEA, and scaling up a new revenue operations function. Allison was also instrumental in leading Flywire to its successful IPO in May, 2021.
She has more than 15 years of marketing experience, including seven years at Rapid7 (Nasdaq: RPD). There, she focused on building and optimizing the company’s growth by building and scaling demand generation, business development, and operations. Previously, she worked at Forrester in several digital and field-based roles.
Allison is on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and serves as strategic advisor to early-stage companies. Allison holds a Master of Arts in Integrated Marketing from Emerson College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Cameron Raglin is an Associate at F-Prime, focusing on early-stage investments in healthcare technology and services companies. Prior to joining F-Prime, Cameron was a Consultant at Bain & Company, where he advised healthcare Private Equity transactions and business strategy for Fortune 100 healthcare and technology companies. He also served as a Senior Analyst at Twist Bioscience, focusing on corporate strategy, business development, and company operations.
Cameron holds a B.A. in History from Amherst College, with a minor focus in Physics and Pre-Medicine.
Michelle Goodrich joined F-Prime as a Manager of Human Resources to support the development and execution of human resource strategies for the firm. Michelle has over 10 years of experience as an HR professional and brings an extensive background in training and development, benefits, employee relations and human resources compliance.
Prior to F-Prime, she oversaw the HR department for Beacon Hill Staffing Group, a billion-dollar staffing agency located nationwide. She has also held various HR roles in insurance, technology, and hospitality-based industries.
Michelle holds a B.A. in Psychology and minored in Business Administration from The University of Massachusetts Lowell, a graduate certificate in Human Resources Management from The University of Massachusetts – Boston, and is a Certified Professional with The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM-CP).
Raj Basak is a Senior Associate with F-Prime and works across the healthcare sub-sectors including therapeutics, medical technology, and life-sciences tools. Prior to joining F-Prime, Raj was a member of the Healthcare Investment Banking team at Goldman Sachs in New York where he worked on over $15 billion in announced financing and M&A transactions across biopharma.
Raj received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University and was a part of the Program in Physics, Engineering, and Biology (PEB). Raj’s doctoral research focused on studying the biophysical mechanisms underlying nociception in sensory neurons. While in graduate school, Raj was also a Canaan-Yale fellow with Canaan Partners and an analyst with Certara.
Prior to graduate school, Raj worked in laboratories at Columbia University Medical Center and Brown University. His research has been published in Biophysical Journal, Nature, Science Translational Medicine, among others. Raj also holds a B.S. in Physics with Research Honors from The Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, where he was awarded the Ward medal. His undergraduate thesis focused on interrogating field theory approaches to quantum tunnelling.
Cathy Wong joined F-Prime as Senior Director of Finance in July 2023. Cathy has over 14 years of accounting and finance related experience. Prior to joining F-Prime, Cathy worked as a Controller in the GP Services and management company at THL. Earlier in her career, Cathy held various accounting and tax roles at Blackstone, Bain Capital, Bain & Company, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Cathy holds a B.S. in Business Administration with dual concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Boston University. She is a certified public accountant in the state of Massachusetts.