Anup Arora
Founding Managing Director & CIO

Anup has 25 years of investment, operations, and consulting experience in the healthcare industry. He has spent the last 20 years investing in venture and growth stage life sciences and healthcare companies.

Anup co-founded K2HV in 2018, since which time the firm has committed more than $2 billion in debt and equity capital to life sciences and healthcare companies through more than 50 financing transactions. Prior to K2HV, Anup was a Managing Director at Hercules Capital, where he led nearly half a billion dollars in capital commitments to private and small-cap public companies in the healthcare space. Previously, Anup was a Managing Director at Easton Capital, where he was involved in numerous venture capital investments in biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics, and healthcare IT companies. During his tenure with Easton, Anup was also actively engaged in the strategic and operational management of several of his portfolio companies, including Bluebird Bio (FKA Genetix Pharmaceuticals) where he served as Chief Business Officer. Prior to Easton, Anup worked in global marketing at Pfizer, and as a strategy consultant with Strategic Decisions Group. He also spent two years engaged in biomedical research at Stanford Medical School.

Anup holds an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School, as well as a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.