By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO, Life Science Nation (LSN); Creator, Redefining Early Stage Investment (RESI) Conference Series, 4D Meets AI Conference, and Longevity, Health & Innovation Conference; Architect, Focus on Cures Accelerator; Owner, Boston Innovation Capital (BIC); Member, SPIC/FINRA Advisory Firm
New Sponsorship Program
Life Science Nation (LSN) has built a sourcing and funding global superstructure featuring elite global technology assets and the investors, Pharma and channel partners who seek them. The international infrastructure consists of early-stage life science buyers and sellers, each with updated curated data profiles that are matched up at LSN’s dedicated partnering events. In 2021, these partnering events will join forces to become a global quarterly Healthtech Partnering Week, featuring RESI, 4D Meets AI, as well as Longevity, Health & Innovation partnering conferences. These events will take place in conjunction with global life science hubs, enabling fundraising CEOs to leverage the partnering system as part of a global capital raising campaign. Sponsorship at these events help companies gain unprecedented visibility into the early-stage life science community, and also leverage LSN’s close-knit network of key decision-makers to make promising connections with future clients and strategic partners. The sponsorship program is designed to help organizations increase global exposure through high visibility branding and messaging, target and source assets and strategic partnerships, advertise products and services through programming and direct contact with industry leaders. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, download our sponsorship brochure.
The Digital Experience: 2020-2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the global economy and business climate, but LSN has not slowed down. On the contrary, LSN has accelerated since March 2020 through its focus on deal-making. LSN partnering conferences are experiential, interactive, and focus on building relationships and successful transactions. LSN stands out among other educational life science networks for this mission. LSN’s continued mission has been to connect buyers and sellers to move the needle in the early-stage life science partnering arena. Partnering is neither a trend nor conference sideshow, rather an essential matching exercise that needs curated profiles of both the buyer and the seller, and an integrated search feature that can match companies based on mutual fit.
Matching Buyers and Sellers Together
LSN matches buyers and sellers based on stage of development and product fit through curating detailed up-to-date profiles of every constituent of the two groups. This method enables efficient partnering at LSN events and avoids empty tables and ill-fitting meetings. Matching requires profile curation and detailed database management, therefore, a large volume of LSN resources go towards maintaining and constantly improving this imperative feature. In addition to efficient matching, LSN offers educational resources available to fundraising executives including LSN CEO, Dennis Ford’s book, The Life Science Executive Fundraising Manifesto which guides scientist-entrepreneurs through the concepts of building branding and messaging. Additional resources include free tutorials and webinars aimed at preparing CEOs to book meetings with investors effectively, which includes adroit messaging and a 4-step follow-up process, which has been proven to advance the needle from 4-6 meetings to 12-20 meetings. Fundraising is a numbers game and understanding how to get the most of out of these global partnering events is the key to a successful capital raise.
Partnering is an Ongoing Experiential Activity
The LSN partnering theme is that it is a crucial, ongoing, and experiential activity. LSN believes that partnering cannot be done once or twice a year, as business deals do not work that way. In the life science arena, it can take 9-18 months to put a deal together. This means that all buyers and sellers need a simple, low-cost, straight-forward vehicle to meet and engage monthly in order to find new opportunities for their respective pipelines, advance a conversation, continue to vet and develop a relationship, or close deals. LSN’s recent entrée of digital events has proved and invigorated this concept. Life science is a virtual third-party service domain, making a new, hybrid, global ecosystem timely and compelling. We look forward to advancing life-saving deals through our Healthtech Partnering Weeks, and hope you’ll consider partnering with us. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, download our sponsorship brochure.
Want to learn more? The business development team at Life Science Nation is available to answer questions and share additional details to help you meet your partnership goals!
International
Greg Mannix
Chief Conference Officer, Vice President International BD
g.mannix@lifesciencenation.com
West Coast (USA)
Candice He
Global Investment Strategist
c.he@lifesciencenation.com
East Coast (USA)
Ashley Zborowski
Director of Business Development
a.zborowski@lifesciencenation.com
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“It was a very economical use of time; the investors got to ask their important questions and the Innovators got a good idea of the most pressing questions from the investors point of view.”
“The Pitch Sessions are a great opportunity to connect with startup CEOs and learn more about their work…It really has been an effective and efficient way to make connections, create deal flow and help startups raise money for their upcoming raises.”
“I look forward to LSN’s events because they provide an opportunity for our venture capital firm to find promising companies with exceptional technologies. The organization and technology platform make it very easy to hear numerous pitches from founders.”
“The Pitch Sessions were a great opportunity to engage with the CEO/Founders of very innovative Life Science startups. Despite the COVID-related transition from in-person to virtual meetings, the RESI team did an outstanding job organizing these sessions, ensuring that the live Q&A was very productive, and facilitating follow-up with these exciting companies.”
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