Hot Longevity Mandate: Canada-Based Diagnostics Company

The company is Canada’s largest diagnostic lab and is the leading diagnostic testing facility for communities in Ontario and BC. The company does 120 million diagnostic tests a year in centralized labs and 450+ offices and patient service centers. The firm has made a number of acquisitions in the last 10 years, and consolidated lab testing by acquiring the largest competitive lab in Ontario and the only competitive lab in BC. The firm is looking solely for long term strategic partnerships with organizations that have technology in point of care testing and novel diagnostic testing as well as technology platforms. The company looks globally for opportunities.

The company is looking for strategic partnerships in both the medical device and diagnostic sectors. The firms main focus is point of care technologies, rapid testing, cardiovascular, wearables and biometrics, and the firm is open to all indications. The company also looks to women and men’s health, as well as novel mental health and brain related technologies. The firm is open to pre-clinical companies.

The company looks for management teams with deep subject matter expertise within their field and a strong track record. The firm is open to both co-investing or leading an investment, where they will seek board seat representation.

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

Hot Longevity Mandate: China-Based Venture Fund

The firm is Healthcare focused fund, headquartered in Shanghai and has presence in US and Europe. The fund has strong preference for early stage opportunities. The senior team members have strong operating experience in biotech and pharma companies, they have strong preference to lead investments and play active contribute to the success in their portfolio companies.

The firm is particularly keen on cardiovascular, regenerative medicine, CNS and hearing related opportunities. Panacea Venture is otherwise agnostic in regards to specific disease indications and is willing to look at all early-stage opportunities, however, diagnostics is currently considered as a low priority.

As the firm seeks to be an active lead investor, the firm strongly prefers a board seat in companies. Outside of the board requirement, the firm is looking for strong management team with passion and capability in advancing the company’s technology.

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

Hot Longevity Mandate: UK-Based Venture Fund

The firm is a venture builder founded in 2016 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom. The firm seeks to build new ventures from scratch, generating innovation in novel science and technology from the earliest stages of development. Currently, the firm is focused on 4 main pillars: energy, agriculture, curative therapeutics, and computation. The firm invests pre-seed/seed capital into the companies they build. The firm will consider global opportunities.

Within life sciences, the firm is indication agnostic and has worked in areas including cystic fibrosis, oncology, neurodegeneration and microbiome. The firm has partnered with groups such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Cancer Research UK to devise new therapeutic approaches in their key focus areas. The firm has a strong interest in cell & gene therapy and synthetic biology, but is open to considering all other modalities – the firm has also launched companies that work on a more traditional approach. In terms of stage of development, the firm invests in the companies it builds at formation stage and is open to working together with other organizations to undertake company creation and support proof-of-concept data generation. The firm generally does not currently build, or invest in, medical devices, diagnostics, or digital health companies.

As a venture builder, the firm does not have strict requirements or expectations on company operations or management team. The firm has generally built companies in the UK. That said, the firm has worked with scientists all across the globe to build its companies, and their portfolio also includes companies in other geographies such as the USA.

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

RESI January 2022 to Remain Virtual

By Dennis Ford, Founder and CEO of Life Science Nation, Creator of the LSN Partnering Conference Series

RESI January 2022 will remain virtual for the health and safety of our global community and will not have an in-person component. RESI partnering is a powerful, valuable tool at the fingertips of fundraising executives, and the team at Life Science Nation has chosen to optimize the virtual experience, rather than limit the in-person one. Through technological advancement and a more accessible price point, the RESI partnering experience is more impactful than ever with investors, collaborators, and licensing channel partners using RESI to source, vet, and sign deals. We hope you’ll join us for another Digital RESI January and support global public health initiatives for a brighter future together.

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RESI November Deadline Tomorrow

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

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Life Science Nation’s last conference of the year, RESI Partnering Week (RPW), November 16-18, is actively taking registrations from startup companies, investors, service providers, and more across the globe and the super early bird registration rates end this week. The conference is unique in that it features three tracks of content around drugs, devices, digital health, global investment, AI applications, and age-tech and senior care across panels, fireside chats, and workshops, as well as more Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) sessions than ever before.

Last year’s RESI November event attracted over 350+ investors across ten different categories of investors from venture capital, family office/private wealth, big pharma, large medtech, and more. Do not miss the opportunity to close off this year with another robust partnering event at an unbeatable price! Sign up by Friday, October 8 to save $200!

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Sometimes Money Isn’t Enough

By Karen Deyo, Director of Investor Research, Israel BD, LSN; Gregory Mannix, Vice President International Business Development, General Manager Europe, LSN

Life Science Nation (LSN) and the Redefining Early Stage Investment (RESI) conference series are built on the belief that a startup can improve its fundraising success by partnering often and making sure that the investors and strategic partners they reach out to are a fit for their technology and stage of development. However, while fundraising is a key piece of the puzzle to achieving success, it is not the only piece.

The other pillar of the RESI conference is our service provider attendees, many of whom sponsor the events. These companies can play a crucial role in giving startups advice to navigate the complex path of taking a technology to a finished product. Simply put, a lack of funding is not the only reason a company may fail – if the company makes an early mistake through inexperience, this can cause issues down the road when they can no longer be fixed.

The service providers who attend RESI can offer valuable insight to early-stage companies based on years, and often decades, of experience working in this space. Taking the opportunity to connect with them at RESI can help a startup achieve that next milestone on the most efficient path. It is often worth the additional cost to know that it is done right and often much faster than achieved in-house.

Sponsors at RESI Partnering Week represent a wide array of valuable services that early-stage companies will benefit from, and they offer guidance and workshops at RESI. Here are some examples:

  • MWE has offered workshops on Negotiating Term Sheets—always a favorite at RESI—and on Commercialization of AI Technologies.
  • Burns & Levinson has shared guidance on such relevant topics as Intellectual Property and Cross-Border Transactions.
  • First Republic Bank discussed the wide array of services that banks can offer to startups.
  • Venture Valuation offered valuable insight on Company Valuation for Fundraising

Other sponsors can provide information on topics ranging from insurance needs for life science companies (Medmarc) to Clinical Trials in Australia (Avance Clinical) to financing of scientific equipment (Boldview Capital), to name just a few.

Aside from information and insight, the great service provider companies that come to RESI are available to help early-stage companies on the long journey to commercialization or exit. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities and how LSN’s business development team can help you reach your goals.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Healthcare & Life Sciences Investment Branch of Global Manufacturing Company Invests in Medical Devices and Software-Enabled Technologies

A healthcare and life sciences branch of a leading manufacturing company invests primarily in Series A or later companies in digital health, medical devices, genomics and molecular diagnostics technologies, but can expand their focus conditionally. While some of their investments are strategic, the firm is willing to invest outside of corporate strategic areas. The firm is a global investor, and can act as both a strategic partner and a financial investor, depending on the company.

The firm can invest as a strategic manufacturing company, but is also interested in software-enabled technologies and connected devices. While the firm may consider PMA devices, most investments are in 510k-pathway products. For purely digital health products, such as IoT technology, the firm would like to see some revenue and market traction before investing. For both medical devices and digital health, the firm is agnostic to indication. The firm’s interest in genomics and molecular diagnostics primarily relate to the oncology space, and prefer to see technologies with some clinical data.

The firm may take a board seat after investing, if they are the lead or if they have strategic value to offer the portfolio company, but will generally not take a board seat if they are co-investing.

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