By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the LSN Partnering Conference Series
As the life science arena shifts, so do investment and licensing mandates and the technologies that investors and strategic partners seek. Life Science Nation (LSN) is known for its curated partnering database for fundraising early-stage companies across the silos of drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital health. This database has ten categories of investors ranging from angel groups and family offices to VCs, PEs, Big Pharma/Medtech, foundations and the non-dilutive federal, state and regional agencies.
The LSN mantra to healthcare scientist-entrepreneurs and fundraising CEOs is that partnering is a numbers game, and that getting a Global Target List (GTL) of potential partners that are a fit for your stage of development and product set is a crucial step to a successful fundraising campaign. Furthermore, it’s essential to canvass outside your region, engaging global partners to maximize the likelihood of building a relationship that could secure a partnership.
The LSN Investor Research Team curates the LSN Investor Database, which consists of profiles that fundraising clients can access with an annual subscription. Tools like the database are essential aids for success in a global fundraising campaign. The database features more than ten thousand investor contacts representing several thousand funding and licensing firms. The team’s goal is to keep all the partnering mandates updated in order to ensure the best fit, and this is done through bi-annual interviews.
These firms are willing to be part of the LSN Investor Platform because we provide them with quality deal-flow, companies that know they are a fit for the firm’s investment theme or partnering interests. Additionally, each year, five Redefining Ealy Stage Investments (RESI) partnering events attract the who’s-who of early-stage life science investing and give them another avenue to connect with fundraising companies that match their interests. These conferences consist of investor panels, workshops, and matched partnering meetings, taking advantage of the profiles the investor research team gathers and the long-term relationships we build while keeping their mandates current.
The relationship between LSN and the global investor community is deep and has helped hundreds of companies get funded by connecting with investors and partners. Just this week, the Investor Research Team has updated over forty-five mandates, facilitating super fresh profile updates for LSN clients seeking funding. Check out this week’s investor mandates and reach out to your LSN business development representative to view these investors and learn how to get plugged into the LSN partnering ecosystem.
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Strategic business leader with extensive experience creating value, driving strategy and launching product commercialization in diverse life science companies. Deep general management and fundraising expertise having raised over $500 M in equity including IPO. Innovative, collaborative and entrepreneurial, strong communicator and tenacious. Energized by turning innovation into commercial reality, working with creative scientists, and communicating value to partners and investors.
David Hendren has extensive experience launching, financing, and building successful ventures from incubation to exit, with particular expertise in healthcare, biomedical technology, digital health, and related technology and service areas. He has deep knowledge and broad perspective from 25+ years in leadership roles on virtually all sides of the table, including VC, entrepreneur, CEO, board member/chair, advisor, consultant, and counsel. David has led, co-invested and executed deals with leading firms and strategics, with exits including IPO, M&A, and technology licensing transactions. In operating, board, and advisory roles, David has been central to identifying opportunity, building teams, formulating strategy, securing capital, developing business and strategic alliances, and driving successful exits to harvest value for stakeholders.
John is the General Counsel at Khosla Ventures. He joined Khosla in 2016 and has been working with investors and entrepreneurs since 2007. Prior to joining Khosla, John spent nine years at WilmerHale where he represented investors and entrepreneurs in hundreds of financing and acquisition transactions. Given his experience, John has also served as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at numerous Bay Area law schools on the topic of venture capital transactions.
Mark J. Mihanovic, head of the Firm’s California Corporate group and head of the Emerging Companies/Venture Capital group, focuses his practice primarily in the areas of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He represents companies in a broad range of industries, with a particular emphasis on technology, life science and health care companies. Mark serves as corporate liaison partner in the Firm’s strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai. Mark serves as lead counsel on behalf of issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements (including private investments in public equities (PIPEs)) of equity and debt securities. He handles stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, proxy fights and joint ventures and has had primary oversight responsibility for the regional and worldwide acquisition programs of multiple clients. Mark represents early-stage companies in connection with formation and organizational issues and venture capital and other financings and has also represented investors in complex venture capital transactions involving equity and debt. Mark has substantial experience advising corporate boards of directors and management regarding fiduciary duties (including in connection with potential change in control transactions and consideration of “poison pill” stockholders rights plans) and corporate governance issues. He assists publicly traded companies with their Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other securities compliance matters. He also advises investment banks on securities compliance issues and in acting as financial adviser and delivering fairness opinions in the context of acquisitions and restructurings.
Aroma Sharma focuses her practice on a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, acting predominantly for private and emerging companies. Aroma has advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, corporate and equity restructuring and recapitalizations and joint ventures in various industries, including technology and health and life sciences. She also advises clients regularly on general corporate and corporate governance matters. Aroma also has experience working on cross-border transactions, including business’ international expansion into new territories.
