# Vik Bajaj

> Vik Bajaj is a physicist, company builder and co-founder and co-CEO of Prometheus, where he works with Jeff Bezos on AI tools for engineering and manufacturing. His career spans magnetic resonance research at Berkeley, the founding of Google Life Sciences, leadership at Foresite Labs, and a new effort to shorten the path from design to finished object.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Co-CEO, Prometheus
- **Organizations:** Prometheus, Foresite Labs, Foresite Capital, Xaira Therapeutics, Verily (Google Life Sciences), GRAIL, Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
- **Nationality:** Canadian-American
- **Education:** BA and MS, biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, PhD, physical chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral research, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** First recipient of the Anatole Abragam Prize, awarded in 2013 by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance., Co-founded Google Life Sciences, later Verily., Co-founded and led Foresite Labs.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Became a research scientist and principal investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- **2013** — Received the first Anatole Abragam Prize for magnetic resonance research; also worked at Google X in this period.
- **2014** — Began an adjunct appointment at Stanford University School of Medicine.
- **2015** — Co-founded Google Life Sciences, later named Verily, and served as chief scientific officer.
- **2016** — Became chief scientific officer at GRAIL.
- **2017** — Joined Foresite Capital as a managing director.
- **2018-2019** — Co-founded and began leading Foresite Labs, publicly announced in 2019.
- **2023** — Co-founded Xaira Therapeutics.
- **2025** — Co-founded Project Prometheus with Jeff Bezos and became co-CEO.
- **2026-06** — Prometheus emerged publicly with a $12 billion Series B and an approximately $41 billion valuation; Bajaj and Bezos explained their aims in a CNBC interview.

## Achievements

- First recipient of the Anatole Abragam Prize, awarded in 2013 by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance.
- Co-founded Google Life Sciences, later Verily.
- Co-founded and led Foresite Labs.
- Co-founded Xaira Therapeutics.
- Co-founded and co-leads Prometheus.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Prometheus disclosed a $12 billion Series B at an approximately $41 billion valuation; Bajaj and Bezos discussed its engineering aims with CNBC.
- **2025-11** — Bajaj was publicly identified as co-founder and co-CEO of Project Prometheus.

## Links

- Website: https://www.prometheus.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drvikbajaj
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vik_bajaj

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Last updated: 2026-09-29