Tracy Warren

Tracy Warren is an influential leader who devotes deep experience in
entrepreneurship and early-stage venture capital investing to American Heart
Association Ventures as Senior Managing Director. Passionate about women’s
and children’s health, she leads the investment strategy for the Go Red for
Women Venture Fund.

Notably, Tracy has been an active and successful investor in women’s health
through Astarte Ventures, a firm she founded in 2013. Pre-seed investments in
Alydia (sold to Organon for $240M), Maven Clinic (the first women’s health
unicorn) and Materna Medical have produced significant cash on cash returns,
validating the investment case for women’s health.

Tracy served as venture capital manager for Healthworx, the venture arm of
CareFirst BCBS, prior to joining AHA Ventures. She was previously co-founder
and CEO of Astarte Medical, a health IT start-up focused on early life nutrition
and gut health for preterm and critically ill infants.

Among other game-changing roles, Tracy was co-founder and executive director
of FedIMPACT, which commercialized technologies from Department of Energy
national laboratories, and co-founder, board chair and CEO of NellOne
Therapeutics, Inc., a regenerative biologics company.

Tracy is a co-inventor on three patents and has authored numerous articles on
early nutrition and pediatric care. Among many board positions, Tracy served
on the Board of the Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Medical
Center, where she chaired the Technology & Innovation Advisory Committee,
and the Clemson University Research Foundation Board. Tracy holds a BS in
Accounting and International Business from New York University and MBA at
Columbia Business School in Finance.