Timing and Relationship: The Key to Compelling Investor Mandates

April 8, 2021September 24, 2021 ~ Next Phase Admin ~ Leave a comment

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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Starting with Pep: An Early-Stage Conversation with Creative Bio-Peptides

April 8, 2021June 15, 2022 ~ Next Phase Admin ~ Leave a comment

By Rory McCann, Marketing Manager & Conference Producer, LSN

Creative Bio-Peptides is an early-stage company, founded and led by Dr. Michael Ruff, with a mission to improve lives through developing oral receptor-active peptides targeting neurodegenerative diseases. We spoke with Chief Business Officer, Michael Simon about the early-stage journey of Creative Bio-Peptides – how it was started, what their strategy looks like today, and where they see the company going forward.

Creative Bio-Peptides is a past participant at an Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) partnering event. Learn more about RESI and sign up by April 9 to save $100 on super early bird rates.

Digital RESI June Super Early Bird Ends Tomorrow

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 ~ Next Phase Admin ~ Leave a comment

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

Digital Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI), June 8-10, is around the corner, which means that super early bird rates end tomorrow! Sign up by Friday, April 9 to save $100 on registration to take advantage of the RESI partnering system which enables early-stage fundraising executives to source investors and strategic partners based on a fit for their product and stage of development.

Digital RESI June also offers a variety of investor panels, educational workshops, and the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge – all designed to offer valuable insight to entrepreneurs and opportunities to make matches, build relationships, and cut deals. Digital RESI has been a part of hundreds of companies’ early-stage fundraising success stories. Sign up to save and make it a part of yours!

Hot Mandates: Canada-Based Venture Fund

April 7, 2021 ~ Next Phase Admin ~ Leave a comment

The venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada and actively invests in health technology, sports technology, fitness, and nutrition businesses. The firm is an early-stage investor and focuses on investing in Seed to Series A rounds. The firm makes initial investments up to $100K through equity or convertible notes and will make 2-4 investments per year. The firm is raising a new fund that will focus on companies along the Pacific Coast of the USA and across Canada, but currently focuses on investing in Canada-based companies. With the launch of the new venture fund, the firm will invest up to $500k in first rounds.

The firm is dedicated to investing in preventative health and proactive technology solutions that optimize health, activity and longevity. As social impact and technology investors, the firm is committed to the development of technologies, products and services that both enhance and promote an individual’s ability to stay optimally healthy and active over an entire lifetime. The firm focuses on innovative health technologies including digital health, mobile health, sport technology, wearable technology, and those that help with chronic disease management and corporate wellness initiatives. The firm is very interested in consumer-facing technologies that can enhance health and wellness, quality of care, as well as technologies that could be used in developing preventative health strategies and solutions. The firm does not have minimum revenue requirements and will consider companies in their earliest stages as long as they demonstrate high growth potential. The firm will not consider therapeutics or diagnostic companies. Medical devices subject to a 510k approval process will be considered.

The firm seeks to invest in private companies developing technologies that positively impact health and wellness. The firm can work with all types of management teams with flexibility, although strong experience and a successful track record is a plus. The firm works closely with their portfolio companies and will provide needed expertise, including access to an international network of strategic advisors to support their growth.

If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email LHI@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Mandate: Investment Firm with Advisory Arm Looking for Technologies in Preclinical Stage, Including AI Applications

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A specialized life science investment and advisory firm provides a turnkey solution for life sciences companies, spanning venture capital, corporate advisory and investment banking, through to preclinical, clinical research, development, commercialization and sales.

Headquartered in Sydney and with offices in London, Shanghai and New York, the firm has a unique business model that serves to finance and advise across the entire spectrum of the drug development cycle. The Group consists of several tech transfer and financing entities and currently manages two, one hundred million-dollar funds that focus on the biotech theme through investments realized in companies at different R&D and corporate stages.

The firm typically invests $5M-10M AUD per company, the amount varies depending on the technology and structure of investment opportunity. The firm also has the capability to structure special purpose vehicles and/or financial instruments to realize specific investments that fall out of their mandate. The science, advisory, and capital arms work in synergy with each other to further the development of the research and development cycle.

The firm seeks biologic therapeutics, theranostics, medical devices, diagnostics, genomics, medical artificial intelligence applications, bio-printing and biosensors. The main focus is in discovery to preclinical stage assets but will also review clinical stage assets.

The firm typically leads investments, has the ability to invest globally and through various structures and/or financial instruments it may remain invested for several years across the R&D cycle.

If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email 4dmeetsai@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Mandate: Large Healthcare Company Looking for Strategically Related Medical Technologies, Focus Areas Include AI in Healthcare

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A large healthcare company with offices worldwide invests in medical technology companies that are strategically relevant to them. The firm invests in new technologies via venture investing, collaborations, incubation, or M&A. The firm invests globally.

The firm’s primary focuses within healthcare include in-vitro diagnostics (particularly immuno and molecular diagnostics), digital lab services (including capacity management, care coordination, technologies that help physicians make diagnoses and other key decisions) and AI technologies in healthcare. The firm will invest in any medical indication area, and prefers companies that have at least attained proof of concept data or with a product on market demonstrating traction and revenue.

If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email 4dmeetsai@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Mandate: European Focused VC Interested in Big Data Driven Technologies

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A European-focused venture capital firm founded in 2015 has partners based in Europe and the US. The firm has a current fund that is actively investing in Spain, Portugal, the UK, and Ireland. The firm is expanding into the Baltics and raising a new €100 million fund. The firm looks for companies mainly in Europe and works closely with the team to expand the business into new markets. The firm invests in series A & series B financings as a Lead or co-Lead with investments ranging from €3 million to €8 million over the life of the company. The firm is actively looking for investment opportunities and plans to make around 12 investments with the new fund over next 4 years. The firm will only invest in private companies.

The firm is an opportunistic investor and will consider medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare IT companies. The firm is strongly interested in diagnostics and healthcare IT companies as well as data- analytics and IoT companies. Previous investments include a pharmacogenetic test company and a drug delivery technology platform, clinical trial analytics and others. The firm is very opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications. For therapeutics, the firm will only consider products that are in phase 2 stage or later. In terms of digital health, the firm has interests in consumer-facing platform and analytics areas, such as big data-driven technologies on complex medical research.

The firm looks for management teams with highly relevant experience and strong industry knowledge is a must. The firm looks for management teams that are willing to work alongside a hands-on investor, and the firm always looks to take a board seat. The firm prefers companies to be backed by strong IP protection and must have already raised seed capital.

If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email 4dmeetsai@lifesciencenation.com.