Bob Kocher

Active Investor

Partner at Venrock

Burlingame, California

Bob Kocher, Partner at Venrock is an active investor based in Burlingame, California. This profile covers what Bob Kocher backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Bob Kocher is a Co-Founder and serves as President and Board Member at Lyra Health. Dr. Kocher serves as Advisor at Suki. He serves as Partner at Venrock. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Accompany Health. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Need (Other Healthcare Technology Systems). He serves as Board Member at Devoted Health, Virta Health, and Aledade. He serves as an Advisor at Grand Rounds. He is a Board Observer at The Public Health Company. Most recently, he was a Principal at McKinsey and Company, where he led the McKinsey Center for Health Reform, as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center for Health Reform. He joined McKinsey and Brookings after serving in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic policy at the National Economic Council. He helped shape the legislation that defined healthcare reform, focusing on cost, quality, and delivery system reform. He has experience working with all the constituencies in the healthcare ecosystem (hospitals, health systems, employers, insurers, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies, policymakers, and governments) to improve operating performance, clinical outcomes, operations, and patient experience. He received his MD with AOA honors from George Washington University and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He serves as Board Member at Sitka.

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