By Greg Mannix, Vice President International Business Development, General Manager Europe, LSN

Redefining Early Stage Investments (the RESI conference series) is a unique gathering. Several hundred startup companies representing cutting-edge technologies from across the verticals of the life sciences attend RESI to meet the huge turnout of investors and to learn about the services that will help them develop and grow their companies.

Visibility and brand recognition with companies that will be raising funds and initiating R&D, pre-clinical, and clinical activities soon is key to add to the leads funnel. RESI gives service providers the chance to have an exhibit table right in the middle of all the activity, as well as a presence online, in our newsletter, and in the program guide.

In addition to meeting the startups, there is the opportunity to meet some of the hundreds of investors and licensing partners that have extensive portfolios of companies in need of crucial services.

For more information, reach out to the LSN Business Development Team!

Life Science Nation Business Development Team
International	East Coast (USA) & China	Midwest (USA) & Canada	West Coast  (USA)
Greg Mannix Vice President International Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me	Candice He VP, Business Development & Global Investment Strategist Book a Meeting Email Me	Antoinette Lowre Manager of Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me	Cameron Hurlburt Manager of Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me

By Joey Wong, Investor Research Analyst, Hong Kong BD, LSN

LSN is once again featuring The Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) at the upcoming in-person RESI Boston on June 5. The IPC has been immensely popular among life science entrepreneurs and startup founders that attend RESI. The selected finalists will be grouped into sector-themed pitch sessions, and each company will have 4 minutes to present and 8 minutes for Q&A with an investor panel. The IPC offers a unique opportunity for founders and CEOs to engage directly with a panel of seasoned investors, who are specialized in the sectors that they judge for, so that the feedback and questions can be highly practical and constructive for the participants. The IPC is not only popular among startups, it is also valued by many active investors as an efficient way to engage with startups within their sector of interest. Whether you are a startup CEO or an investor, we welcome you to participate in IPC at our upcoming conference.

With two months left until RESI Boston, LSN is organizing an online workshop to help participants prepare for the IPC, ensuring that they can leverage the opportunity to the fullest extent. Please see below for the workshop schedule, and don’t forget to submit your application for the IPC before April 21, the final deadline. We highly recommend you to apply as early as possible, so you will have more time to prepare and maximize your experience. I look forward to seeing you at our webinar next week.

By Karen Deyo, Director of Investor Research, Israel BD, LSN

RESI continues to be successful with a global gathering of early-stage startups, as well as the investors and strategic partners looking to invest in them. Participants from more than 30 countries on 5 continents attended RESI in the past year. Whether it is an in-person or a virtual, each RESI has 1,000+ partnering meetings booked. Individual companies have booked up to 40 meetings over the course of the conference, with more than 75% of meetings booked occurring between companies and investors.

In addition to an extremely active partnering platform, the panels, workshops, and pitch sessions are well-attended and dynamic, with enthusiastic audience participation. We’ll continue to serve life science startups all this great content and provide a wonderful partnering experience in the upcoming RESI Boston June 5-7, with one day in person (June 5) at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, followed by two days (June 6-7) of virtual partnering only. Make sure to register by Friday, April 7th for Super Early Bird tickets to save $500!

By Greg Mannix, Vice President International Business Development, General Manager Europe, LSN

Every successful entrepreneur will tell you that you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find discover your prince. Or put more directly, you need to talk to a lot of potential investors and/or licensing partners in order to close a funding round. It really is a numbers game. But how do you identify the hundreds of investment firms out there that would be a fit for your product and stage of development?

LSN has been helping early-stage life science companies develop their Global Target List (GTL) of investors for over 10 years now, based on a couple of very basic premises:

1. Your GTL must be exclusively based on fit.
2. If you have your story straight and have the right tools to present it, you can reach out to your GTL without a warm referral.

A great source for your GTL that LSN has been curating for over 10 years is the LSN Investor Database, tracking 3,000+ investment firms and over 10,000 contacts. Once you filter for your technology and stage of development, you will generate a list of hundreds of investors and licensing partners who are a fit.

COMING SOON:

LSN is continuously looking for ways to improve our offerings to startups by way of new tools and services. Very soon we will be announcing the launch of the GLOBAL PARTNERING CAMPAIGN app, a custom app in a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) program that will combine the benefits of using a CRM to organize your outreach with the powerful LSN Investor Database. Some functions of the platform that will help you stay organized:

• Create your Global Target List from the LSN Database
• Track all of your activities (emails, calls, meeting) with each investor automatically
• Run reports and generate lists for specific activities
• Set task reminders for each investor

If you would like to learn more and see what your own GTL would look like in the LSN Investor Database, just book a meeting with our BD Team below.

Life Science Nation Business Development Team
International	East Coast (USA) & China	Midwest (USA) & Canada	West Coast  (USA)
Greg Mannix Vice President International Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me	Candice He VP, Business Development & Global Investment Strategist Book a Meeting Email Me	Antoinette Lowre Manager of Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me	Cameron Hurlburt Manager of Business Development Book a Meeting Email Me

By Momo Yamamoto, Investor Research Analyst, LSN

RESI Boston June will be back again at The Westin Copley Place on June 5^th in-person followed by virtual partnering on June 6^th – 7^th. The RESI Conference will continue to highlight the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge, educational workshops, and 7 investor panels with investors and strategic partners providing the latest insights to conference attendees.

RESI Boston June will feature a variety of topics for our investor panels, including popular panels such as Big Pharma, Corporate Venture Capital, and MedTech Strategics. Life Science Nation is also excited to introduce new investor panels: Women’s Health and CNS Diseases. All of the panels, new and old, will highlight current industry trends and provide valuable advice from investors and strategic partners to help entrepreneurs with their fundraising efforts. Make sure to register by Friday, April 7^th for Super Early Bird tickets to save $500!

By Greg Mannix, Vice President International Business Development, General Manager Europe, LSN

At Life Science Nation (LSN) for the past 10 years, we have been connecting early-stage companies with investors and licensing partners who are a fit for their technology and stage of development. We saw that startups were struggling to identify the right partners outside of their immediate communities and really needed a conduit to the rest of the world. Fast forward 10 years and LSN is helping to make those connections in an array of different ways!

Watch the video below to learn more about the LSN story.

By Erika Wu, Business Development Manager, Global Tech Hubs, LSN

Life Science Nation (LSN) will be delivering an Entrepreneurial Education Workshop in concert with BioMedSA’s annual event, BioFest Invest! BioFest Invest will held on Wednesday, April 19th at the University of the Incarnate Word, and will feature programming topics relevant to life science entrepreneurs, a pitch competition, and networking opportunities with a wide array of resources and potential collaborative partners and investors.

During the week leading up to the event, on Thursday, April 13th, LSN will be hosting a one-day educational course for a group of BioMedSA’s fundraising startups who will be attending and pitching at BioFest Invest. This LSN one-day education course will be hosted by LSN’s CEO, Dennis Ford, and Business Development Manager, Antoinette Lowre, and will feature three lectures and 1 on 1 coaching sessions revolving around developing a compelling storyline and netting out the value of the founders, team, technology and market impact.

Entrepreneurial Education Courses at BioMedSA

1. It All Starts with The Story The most successful entrepreneurs are always the best storytellers. Finding a way to naturally formulate your company’s unique story and portraying this through multiple modalities whether it be a 1-minute elevator pitch or a 12-slide pitch deck is one of the most effective ways to get potential investors and partners on board with your value proposition. This bootcamp will cover the importance of entrepreneurial agency, finding your voice and developing a compelling narrative for the different players that will emerge along a deal chain, and language tools to refine your hook. 2. First-Time CEOs: Avoiding Pitfalls This session will cover some of the most common pitfalls that catch first-time and serial entrepreneurs off guard. From false premise and being tentative to surrounding yourself with executives that do not have augmentative and complimentary skillsets, there are many things that can slow the growth of your early-stage life science entity. By learning how to avoid these issues and not run yourself over, your chances of making it to the market will increase greatly. 3. Branding & Messaging Discuss the importance of preparing, planning and executing a global fundraising or licensing campaign. Learn how to position and pitch your company by telling your story and communicating effectively through a tagline, elevator pitch, tear sheet, executive summary, and slide deck.

1-1 sessions to perfect your story and marketing materials.

If you have any questions about hosting an LSN education course, or are interested in meeting LSN in San Antonio, Texas, please contact Antoinette Lowre.