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Chris Oh Joins 53 Stations

We’re excited to welcome Chris to 53 Stations as a Principal based in New York. He joins as a senior leader on the investment team and will build out the firm’s presence on the East Coast. Chris has over seven…

Lynn Kha, MBA fellow on the 53 Stations healthcare team, attended Asembia’s AXS26 Summit, the industry’s largest specialty pharmacy conference, to pressure-test the firm’s healthcare sourcing against the pain points manufacturers, payers, HUBs, and specialty pharmacies are facing.  At 53…

Deb Wolf has served as CMO at Dataminr, Lookout, and BetterUp, and was Workday’s first marketing hire, helping build the function through IPO. As part of the 53 Stations Wayfinder network, a curated community of executives, operators, and industry experts…

What does it take to build a go-to-market strategy that actually works? Tina McNulty has spent nearly 30 years figuring that out. As the newest member of the 53 Stations Wayfinder network, she brings deep operational and strategic experience and…

The CFO role has quietly become one of the most expansive—and most pressured—seats in the building. Beyond finance, today’s CFO often owns IT, HR, benefits, procurement, legal, and risk. They’re being asked to do more with less, integrate AI before…

We recently partnered with Pete Mathias of Reveille VC to bring over 30 investors and operators to Idaho National Laboratory for a multi-day summit on nuclear research and innovation. INL is the nation’s lead nuclear energy research facility, and functions…

AI is becoming a singularly a disrupting force in healthcare. The ways we deliver care, share information, and make critical decisions are being redefined with emerging technology, seemingly much faster than other novel health technologies in recent memory. At JPM…

As we kick off 2026, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a transformative second year for the firm. We achieved a lot. The firm deployed capital into an exceptional slate of companies across healthcare, wealth tech, and the built…

Raising capital is exhilarating. It validates your product and buys you runway to build – and hire the builders. But it also raises the most important question founders face: How do we scale what makes us special without breaking it? …

Electricity demand is soaring across every sector. Analysts forecast that global consumption could more than double, or even triple, by 2050. Nowhere is this strain more visible than on the front lines of national security. Today’s defense installations are dense…

We tend to talk about AI in terms of algorithms and training runs, but the real race is happening in the physical world. Nations and corporations are scrambling to build data centers, secure their energy supply, and deploy the talent…

Building a board is uncharted territory for most early-stage founders. To dig into what works (and what doesn’t), we turned to Eric Stone, operator, advisor, board member, and 53 Stations Wayfinder, to share lessons from his own experience as a…