Summary List PlacementTake all venture capital predictions with a grain of salt, Venrock partner Cami Samuel told Insider. Though Andreessen Horowitz may have predicted a flood of investment dollars in infectious diseases in 2021 inspired by the pandemic in its start-of-year blog post, the early-stage biotech VC is sticking to her guns. Last March, Samuels told TechCrunch that the pandemic likely wouldn't drastically increase investors' interest in infectious diseases. Almost a year later, Samuels told Insider her stance hasn't changed.