Next Phase Newsletter

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

If the pandemic taught us anything, it is that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Making connections and doing business while being hundreds or thousands of miles apart from our counterparts seemed like a ridiculous proposition only a few years ago, but alas! Nobody thinks that way today.

In fact, the RESI conference successfully created a digital platform for exactly that: making connections and doing business. Early-stage companies, investors, strategics and service providers discovered how to make the best of the situation and be very productive. The usefulness of remote, virtual meetings is evident today and will likely be around for the foreseeable future. But we saw last month at RESI Boston that there is a real desire to return to face-to-face gatherings.

While virtual meetings will continue to be useful, the return to in-person partnering conferences like RESI Boston and the upcoming RESI San Francisco, January10-12 have important advantages:

• Ad-hoc meetings throughout the day
• Networking receptions
• The undeniable power of a handshake (or elbow bump!)

To that end, any company in the early-stage life sciences arena must have JPM week in January in San Francisco on their radar. It’s the week that thousands of relevant investors, strategic partners and new technology startups converge on the City by the Bay to look for opportunities to connect and do business. Apart from scheduling planned meetings throughout the week, every evening is full of networking events to make more connections. It can be the most productive week of the year for many companies!

RESI San Francisco,, January 10-12, 2023 is a key part of JPM week. For early-stage players, it is, without a doubt, the best venue to identify and meet 500+ global investors and strategic partners. The RESI Partnering Platform allows you to schedule multiple meetings with the right counterparts on January 10. For the following two days, you can schedule both virtual and in-person meetings anywhere in the city using the RESI Partnering Platform.

As a lead-up to JPM week, LSN is offering a Digital RESI, November 15-16 partnering event. You can meet virtually with 200+ investors and strategics to get the most out of the final quarter of 2022 and be ready for new and follow-up meetings in January. We are offering a super discount bundle package for RESI November & RESI JPM San Francisco.

Bundle Package Earlybird Offer – Digital RESI November + RESI JPM San Francisco

By Candice He, Vice President of Business Development, Global Investment Strategist, LSN

Last month, Life Science Nation (LSN) was honored to collaborate with The National Institute on Aging to provide our newest entrepreneurial course to the 20 finalists of the Healthy Aging Start-Up Challenge. The course consists of two pre-course digital sessions and two in-person days leading up to RESI Boston, which helped prepare the participants for global partnering initiatives.

The program started with two 2-hour pre-course virtual sessions, aiming to introduce the timeline, required tools, and materials of a fundraising campaign, as well as the fundamental knowledge of different types of investors and strategies for successful partnering.

The 2-Day Entrepreneurial Immersion Course, hosted at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, was delivered by LSN faculty and invited industry experts. The cohort received step-by-step instructions on managing global investor target lists and fundraising campaigns, and had interactive exercises on practicing tagline and elevator pitches with their mentors face-to-face, which motivated the innovators to polish their pitch with prompt guidance.

A Shark Tank exercise concluded the course with each finalist delivering their pitch presentations to an investor panel of five, each with rich experience in the early-stage life science arena. Both NIA team and the entire faculty was highly impressed by how much the messaging had improved since the first day. Benefitting from the real-time feedback, many finalists considered the Shark Tank a vital rehearsal exercise before heading to RESI for investor meetings.

Feedback from the cohort of the NIA startup challenge:

“This was an amazing course. We had the opportunity to revise our tagline and elevator pitch with the feedback of our colleagues. We learned about various important topics related to launching a company. The mentors provided the support and guidance that we needed to keep improving and bring our innovation to life.” 

“The RESI Conference was great for me. I casually met very impressive people in the digital health field, in the legal field, and in the venture capital field. I presented in the digital health group. The partnering platform was good to use to lead folks towards my startup as a bridge to a greeting. The platform itself also was structural in my approach to meet potential investors as a warm introduction. The platform was mentally structural in helping arrange my future fundraise.” 

Transitioning from the world of academia to business is never easy, but the process can be efficient with directions from experts on what to expect and how to proceed. LSN continues building bridges between scientists and CEOs by offering more Entrepreneurial Courses to incubators, accelerators, and non-profit organizations worldwide. Contact us to learn more!

By Rory McCann, Director of Marketing & Conference Producer, LSN

Given the very recent success of Life Science Nation (LSN)’s first in-person event in 2+ years, RESI Boston, the demand for early-stage life science partnering opportunities is higher than ever. LSN’s pivot to digital events proved that there is a need for virtual partnering to accommodate the high volume of deals in the sector with limited logistics. However, there is no replacement for a face-to-face meeting or connections over coffee. Therefore, LSN continues to develop both hybrid and virtual events, and is offering a special deal on both!

RESI San Francisco, January 10-12, 2023 is our return to the West Coast for a 3-day hybrid experience. In-person RESI kicks us off the first day, featuring expert panels, educational workshops, and the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge. This is followed by an additional two days of virtual partnering to accommodate the hustle and bustle of healthcare’s biggest partnering week of the year. Fundraising doesn’t start and stop with partnering events, which is why we are bundling Digital RESI, November 15-16 and RESI San Francisco registrations to enable continuous connections through the end of the year and the beginning of next.

Startups and Service Providers can save $1,000 on their bundle when they register by October 21. We hope you’ll join us and take advantage of the opportunity to maximize your fundraising efforts and meet with investors and strategic partners who are a fit for your product and stage of development. Bundle and save by October 21 for both Digital RESI November and RESI San Francisco!