By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the RESI Conference Series
Successful fundraising campaigns begin in 2022. Planning your 2023 capital investor and licensing roadshow needs to start with a full-on run at Digital RESI November. Life Science Nation (LSN) is offering a bundle package for Digital RESI November and RESI JPM San Francisco to get your best foot forward for funding in 2023. Digital RESI November is a two-day dedicated virtual partnering event featuring 250 investors and strategic partners, most of whom also showing up for RESI San JPM Francisco for in-person meetings. This affords startups the opportunity to sort their partner target list and set up for a fruitful JPM week, kicking off your global 2023 partnering. The combination of virtual and in-person meetings is compelling (one thing we got out of Covid) as you can save time and money on travel, while still securing the key meetings with strategic players that are a fit for your exact stage of development and product set.
LSN knows hybrid events work, as we have procured some interesting metrics at our RESI Boston event in September. We saw 600 attendees show up to RESI Boston with an additional 300 for the virtual component. These numbers were evenly split by fundraising CEOs and scientist-entrepreneurs and capital investors and licensing partners. LSN also found that 250 of the sell-side attendees got a majority of the 2,000 meetings by making multiple requests and leveraging an appropriate follow-up process to the buy-side attendees. The numbers speak for themselves with an average of 8-12 meetings, with many having over 20 meetings. Securing a strategic partnership is a numbers game and sticking with a proven process to identify the right targets through our match-based partnering system and then going after meetings with these matched partners works.
LSN hosts five Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) events each year around the globe. Strategic partnering doesn’t work by attending one or two events. You need to generate some mojo and get yourself in front of the global players that are a fit. Virtually or in-person, it all starts with the initial dialogue that will develop into a relationship over multiple meetings, and eventually, a deal.
Check out the Digital RESI November and RESI San JPM Francisco bundle and and kick off your 2023 strategic partner roadshow in a few short weeks! RESI San JPM Francisco is one of the most compelling and dynamic meetings of the year with 1,200 attendees, and is usually sold out a week or so beforehand, so investing in the package now is a no-brainer!
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