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Workshops at Healthtech Partnering Week

11 Feb

By Gregory Mannix, Vice President International Business Development, LSN

Workshops at Healthtech Partnering Week are live webinars designed to educate leaders of fundraising companies on elements of the early-stage landscape often overlooked, which can include patents, recruitment, intellectual property, insurance, financial management, and so much more. Check out some of the great content coming your way this March:

Venture Valuation provides global valuation services by assessing companies and products. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Patrik Frei, Venture Valuation has done over 700 valuations for biotech, pharma, and medtech companies around the world, and supports companies’ growth with entrepreneurial education and industry insight.

The Venture Valuation team is bringing their expertise to Healthtech Partnering Week, March 15-19 with two workshops: Company Valuation for Fundraising and Product Valuation for Deal-Making. Each workshop is designed to provide early-stage founders with practical insight into financing and licensing trends, valuation approaches, licensing negotiations, and finding the right investors and strategic partners.

These skills are a necessary component to the growth of early-stage companies, and we invite all start-ups in life science and healthcare to get to know the Venture Valuation team and take advantage of their expertise by joining us at Healthtech Partnering Week.

Sign up to save on early-bird rates by February 19!

Patrik Frei, PhD
CEO
Venture Valuation

Gergely Ivanyi, PharmD
Business Analyst
Venture Valuation

Elias Neuendorf, MSc
Business Analyst
Venture Valuation

Company Valuation for Fundraising

Instructors: Patrik Frei, PhD, CEO, Venture Valuation
Gergely Ivanyi, PharmD, Business Analyst, Venture Valuation
Valuation is a key aspect of fundraising. An average value assumption for each company in a specific financing stage just does not do it anymore. For entrepreneurs, as for investors, it’s important to understand the value drivers of a company. We are looking at the financing trends of the last years, discuss dos and don’ts when speaking with investors and look at how to value a life science company with no revenues.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

    • Overview financing trends
  • Which is the right investor?
  • Dos and don’ts
  • Company valuation approaches

Product Valuation for Deal-Making

Instructors: Patrik Frei, PhD, CEO, Venture Valuation
Elias Neuendorf, MSc, Business Analyst, Venture Valuation
Companies looking at in- or out-licensing need to understand the value dynamics of their product to negotiate realistic deal-terms. Successful business development depends on understanding the fundamentals as well as keeping up with the latest licensing deal trends. We will be looking at the latest deals including up-front and total deal values for different stages and indications and discuss the fundamental valuation approach to asset/product valuation as a basis to estimate possible licensing deal terms.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Overview licensing deal and trends
  • How to find the right licensing partner
  • Asset/Product valuation approach
  • Licensing deal negotiation

If you’re interested in hosting a workshop or panel at Healthtech Partnering Week, our Business Development Team is happy to learn more in order to meet your goals. Contact us to start the conversation!

Healthtech Partnering Week March Schedule

4 Feb

By Claire Jeong, Chief Conference Officer, Vice President of Investor Research, Asia BD, LSN

claireHealthtech Partnering Week, the premier partnering experience for early-stage companies innovating life science and healthcare, is fast approaching! We are thrilled to announce the schedule for the week. If you haven’t signed up yet, there’s still time to save on early bird rates – sign up by February 19 to save and start meeting your fundraising goals!

Check Out Our Live Panel Schedule for Healthtech Partnering Week, March 15-19

Digital RESI

Digital Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) is Life Science Nation’s flagship partnering event, featuring active, early-stage investors across biotech, medtech, and healthtech. RESI seeks to highlight the latest investment trends in order to advance cross-border, cross-domain partnerships.

Time (EST) Monday, March 15 Tuesday, March 16 Wednesday, March 17
10:00 AM Early Stage Therapeutics Investors Panel Diagnostics Investors Panel Tools and R&D Services Panel
1:00 PM Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session I Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session III Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session V
2:00 PM Medical Devices Investors Panel Combination Devices Panel Digital Health Panel
3:00 PM Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session II Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session IV Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session VI
4:00 PM Digital Therapeutics Panel Cell & Gene Therapy Panel

4D Meets AI

4D Meets AI panels host active investors and their portfolio companies to discuss funding, partnerships, and the future of AI in each one of the 4Ds: drugs, devices, diagnostics, and digital health.

Time (EST) Thursday, March 18 Friday, March 19
9:00 AM Drugs Panel Diagnostics Panel
1:00 PM Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session I Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session II
2:00 PM Devices Panel Digital Health Panel
More Content Panels to Come
Stay Tuned for the 4D Meets AI Workshops

Longevity, Health & Innovation

Longevity, Health & Innovation features two tracks: Investment Ecosystem and Market Overview. The panels, co-organized with Mary Furlong & Associates are designed to provide a whole picture of the longevity marketplace, focusing on early-stage investments and strategic partnerships, as well as technology, innovation, regulation, and advancements in the field.

Time (EST) Thursday, March 18 Friday, March 19
10:00 AM Digital Health for the Elderly Panel Investing in New, Now, and Next Panel
11:00 AM Early Detection of CNS Disorders Panel Therapeutics for Thriving Panel
12:00 PM Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session I Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Session II
3:00 PM Stakeholders in the Longevity Marketplace Panel Investors and Entrepreneurs Share the Latest Trends Panel
4:00 PM Care Economy Panel Health Technology Panel

Life Science Nation’s 2021 Partnering Theme: Bigger and Better

28 Jan

By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the RESI Conference Series

Life Science Nation (LSN) is ramping up its partnering theme for 2021 by emphasizing global roadshow preparation for the 4,500 fundraising CEOs and scientist-entrepreneurs at our cross-border, cross-domain, digital partnering events. LSN’s infrastructure is designed to help early-stage companies prepare for the capital and partnering journey with products and services including, but not limited to:

  • Two databases: Investor Platform with 10,000 global investors and strategic partners, and Company Platform with 60,000 life science companies.
  • 300+ university, regional, and governmental tech hubs that use LSN partnering events to help their local technology companies get global exposure.
  • Growing global super-structure consisting of a cross-border, cross-domain, two-way bridge for licensing and funding life science technology assets.
  • Quarterly Healthtech Partnering Week (HPW), consisting of three partnering conferences: RESI, 4D Meets AI, and Longevity, Health & Innovation (co-organized with Mary Furlong & Associates), that further develops our global footprint as a major force in connecting buyers and sellers in the international arena.
  • Focus on Cures Accelerator for sourcing, vetting, developing and preparing key companies for global licensing and fundraising campaigns.
  • I-Bank, Boston Innovation Capital, for licensing and funding campaigns for elite healthcare technology companies internationally.

LSN has invested 8 years in building out this global network, and our 2021 growth will serve as a compass toward the future. We look forward to developing our products, services, as well as deep alliances with the global players leveraging this unique golden age of life science, where breakthrough and game-changing technology is in no short supply.

 

Join the Healthtech Partnering Week Agenda

28 Jan

By Rory McCann, Marketing Manager & Conference Producer, LSN

Life Science Nation (LSN)’s Healthtech Partnering Week, March 15-19, 2021, has announced its agenda, and we hope you’ll consider taking part! Whether you are a fundraising CEO, scientist-entrepreneur, service provider, regional tech hub, or investor, there are ways to get involved and take advantage of the weeklong partnering event by attending, speaking, pitching, sponsoring, or exhibiting.

Investors

Digital Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) is a powerful gathering focused on early-stage funding across all verticals of life science. One of its strongest connection tools is its live investor panels offering insights into the early-stage fundraising process. If you’re an investor working with companies developing cutting edge biotech, medtech, and healthtech advancing the power and potential of healthcare and medicine, apply to join a panel at RESI.

4D Meets AI is hosting panels where active investors are joined by their portfolio companies to discuss funding, partnerships, and the future of AI in life science and healthcare. Join us for four live panels, each delving into one of the 4Ds: drugs, devices, diagnostics, and digital health. If you’re an investor in AI in healthcare and have a portfolio company to highlight, apply to participate on a 4D Meets AI panel.

Investors seeking opportunities in age-tech and longevity is a powerful and growing community. If you work with companies developing technology to advance Senior Care, Cardiovascular Disease, Oncology, Central Nervous System (CNS) Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD), Hearing Loss & Sight Deterioration, Arthritis, or Mental Health Conditions, apply to join the conversation at Longevity, Health & Innovation.

Early-Stage Companies

The Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) is an opportunity for early-stage companies actively raising seed capital (25K-2MM), Series A (2MM-10MM), or Series B (10MM-50MM) to gain additional exposure to conference attendees, pitch directly to a panel of relevant investors, and participate in a live Q&A session. Participating companies pay registration and a pitching fee to host their company materials on the Live Agenda and participate in the live pitch session.

Companies can learn more and apply for each Healthtech Partnering Week conference:

Tech Hubs

Tech hubs are invited to offer constituents to participate in Healthtech Partnering Week with special offers specifically for them. Constituents can save 50% on registration and receive a free dedicated landing page for optimal exposure on the conference Live Agenda. Additionally, LSN hosts partnering webinars to help CEOs make strong connections with 350+ healthcare investors, including a training workshop to help CEOs seeking financing to move their technologies forward in the development process.

Service Providers & Strategic Partners

Sponsorship helps companies gain visibility in the early-stage life science community by leveraging our close-knit network of key decision-makers to make promising connections. If you fall into any of these categories, LSN’s Business Development team would like to connect to share how Healthtech Partnering Week can help you meet your goals:

  • Global investors, channel partners, strategic partners and big pharma sourcing technology assets for their pipeline, channels and new silos
  • Service providers selling their services to funded CEOs, establishing relationships with global strategic partners and expanding market presence.
  • Investors expanding their portfolio through technology assets, finding investment partners for joint deal syndication, and finding service providers to help develop their portfolio.

View our complete offerings in the Sponsorship Brochure and let us know how our dedicated team can add value to your sponsorship experience.

Announcing Healthtech Partnering Week, March 15-19, 2021

21 Jan

By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the RESI Conference Series

Life Science Nation (LSN) is pleased to announce the next Healthtech Partnering Week takes place March 15-19, 2021. Super early bird registrations save $100 when they sign up by January 29!

Healthtech Partnering Week is an early-stage fundraising vessel, featuring three back-to-back digital partnering conferences: Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI), 4D Meets AI, and Longevity, Health & Innovation (LHI), which is co-organized with Mary Furlong & Associates. The previous Healthtech Partnering Week, held in conjuncture with J.P. Morgan’s virtual Health Care Conference, hosted 20 panels, 10 live pitch sessions, 2,000+ meetings, and welcomed 600+ investors actively seeking opportunities in healthcare and life science.

Each conference is designed for early-stage fundraising executives to reach potential partners based on product fit and stage of development. Many have begun relationships that have led to millions invested. LSN is proud to be a regular part of the early-stage fundraising ecosystem within life science and healthcare and invites you to join us in March!

Learn More at www.healthtechpartneringweek.com.

Innovator’s Pitch Challenge Applications Open at LSN Healthtech Partnering Week

21 Jan

By Claire Jeong, Chief Conference Officer, Vice President of Investor Research, Asia BD, LSN

claireLife Science Nation (LSN)’s Healthtech Partnering Week serves as a vehicle for early-stage fundraising within life science and healthcare with many valuable features, including a match-based partnering system and hours of educational materials like entrepreneur bootcamps, branding workshops, and investor panels. However, one of the most powerful additions to the digital partnering space is the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC).

The IPC highlights exceptional early-stage companies and provides them the opportunity to pitch live to a panel of investor judges. Accepted companies submit pitching materials, including a pitch deck, executive summary, and a long-form pitch video that are sent to judges to review prior to live Q&A sessions. During the live session, each company will present a brief elevator pitch and participate in a Q&A from the judges and audience.

IPC applications are open until Friday, February 19th. Accepted applicants who sign up before Friday, January 29 will also save $100 on registration. Learn more about the IPC and how it can help boost your exposure and increase visibility to hundreds of investors and strategic partners!

J.P. Morgan Week Update: The Perfect Venue to Launch LSN Healthtech Partnering Week

7 Jan

By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the RESI Conference Series

It’s that time of year again! J.P. Morgan’s Annual Healthcare Conference has spawned countless concurrent healthcare conferences taking advantage of the influx of industry professionals eager to network and make deals for nearly forty years. The Redefining Early-Stage Investments (RESI) conference series has been a popular addition for several years, and it seemed the obvious choice when we looked to launch our own Healthtech Partnering Week.

Over the past ten months, as many industries slowed down, Life Science Nation (LSN)’s partnering events have ramped up, delivering an increased number of one-on-one meetings between fundraising early-stage companies and investors. The metrics speak for themselves, as we’ve seen an average of 1400+ meetings take place over three days of digital partnering, proving that digital partnering works with investors pulling the deal-making trigger. The proof-of-concept, preclinical and clinical trial money is flowing.

Learn more about Healthtech Partnering Week and join the 500+ investors.

What’s the difference?

MATCHING LSN’s customized partnering system enables fundraising CEOs, investors, and strategic partners to seek opportunities based on several search criteria, most importantly including product fit and stage of development, helping attendees avoid wasted meetings, which can amount to more than half the meetings booked at standard partnering conferences. LSN’s database of thousands of investors and start-ups provides detailed profiles that help attendees increase their chances of success by matching with the best partners for them.

MESSAGING LSN has interviewed thousands of investors in order to learn what their criteria are for taking a meeting and engaging with an investment prospect. The trends we found have been written into a book (FREE PDF COPY) designed to help the scientist-entrepreneur understand how to get their branding and messaging straight. This starts with a cogent 5–7-word tagline, a lucid 6-7-sentence elevator pitch, and a one-page data sheet that succinctly presents all relevant information a potential investor would need at first glance. Finally, tell your unique story through a two-page executive summary and elaborate on your technology in a 10–12-page pitch deck.

FOLLOW-UP Partnering is an extremely competitive contact sport. You need to get your company and message above the noise. Investors and strategic partners are inundated with meeting requests, and if you do not have a compelling tactical plan to go after and secure meetings, you run the risk of getting only 4-6 meetings, instead of 15-20+. It’s a numbers game – we don’t make the rules, but we know how to play by them.

LSN has developed a 4-step follow-up process. The concept of follow-up stops most early-stage entrepreneurs in their tracks and thus limits their interaction with targeted partners. We walk a fundraising CEO through all these issues and set them on the right path through our content, bootcamps and seminars. Preparing CEOs for partnering success is rarely given enough attention, and LSN is passionate about using its insight to help deal-flow to promising teams and their tech.

Check out more tips on partnering and a tutorial of the LSN system. There’s still time to register for events at Healthtech Partnering Week. Don’t miss out!

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