LSN has partnered with Meeting Mojo, an emerging partnering portal developer based in the UK to develop the RESI Partnering Platform. RESI attendees can use the system to find other attendees who are a fit for their product, development stage, and other relevant factors. This highly customized solution uses metatagged profiles populated by LSNs propitiatory investor data that can be searched by the entrepreneurs to pinpoint a specific fit for an investment mandate by one of the investment firms present at RESI. The RESI Partnering Platform provides the foundation for a one-of-a-kind partnering experience based on current investor mandates that can be easily matched to the emerging biotech and medtech startups that fit the investment criteria.
In short RESI partnering provides an opportunity for life science companies and investors to meet the right people, create compelling dialogues, and foster long-term relationships.
A biotechnology-focused equity hedge fund based in Western US is looking to invest in therapeutics space. The investment size can vary greatly and the fund is very flexible depending on each company’s needs. The fund is geographically agnostic and looks to invest globally.
The firm is highly interested in biotech therapeutics. The fund is extremely opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications and will consider companies at all stages of development. The fund recently invested in a European-based company developing small molecule therapeutics for CNS diseases and a US-based company developing therapeutics for oncology.
The firm seeks a company with a strong and experienced management team or technical experts in the relevant technology. The fund will require either a board seat or observer status.
If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com
The operational and investment arm of a family office is looking to make equity investments into early stage companies and small mid-market growth companies ranging from $.5 to $1 million. The firm is very open to syndication particular with early stage deals and is capable of providing additional capital in follow on rounds when appropriate. The firm prefers to invest in companies located in the eastern United States and looks to make approximately 1-2 new investments per year.
The firm is looking for companies in the Medical Technology and Diagnostics space. Within these areas the firm is looking for 510k devices that are more technically based with a particular interest in hospital equipment and professional diagnostics. The firm is not interest in devices where the final consumer is the patient. The firm is looking to devices that improve the standard of care and is willing to invest in companies at all phases of development. The firm is generally open to all indications.
If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com
The corporate venture capital arm of a large pharmaceutical company is currently looking to make equity investments into early stage life science companies. The firm has the ability to allocate up to $10 million dollars per company, generally in milestone driven tranches. The firm is able to invest in companies from around the globe and is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
The firm is looking for early stage companies working with therapeutics and companion diagnostics. The firm is open to review both small molecules and biologics as well as companies working with single assets or platform technologies. The firm seeks to invest in indication areas including Immunology, Oncology, Immunoncology, MS, and Fertility. The firm generally looks for companies with assets that are pre-clinical or in Phase I of clinical trials.
The firm is looking for privately held companies with experienced management teams. The firm looks to take an active role following investing generally taking at least a board seat. The firm is willing to both lead rounds and co-invest as a member of a syndicate.
If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com
A venture capital firm based in the Western United State is currently investing out of its 2nd fund. The firm makes primarily equity investments ranging from $50,000 to $5 million over the lifetime of the investment. The firm prefers to invest in companies located in United States although they are also open to review internationally based opportunities and are currently working with a few companies in Israel. The firm plans to make approximately 2 new investments over the next 6-9 months.
The firm is looking for seed and venture stage medical and diagnostic device companies. In these areas the firm is most interested in single use devices capable of delivering a therapy, and in indications such as cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, orthopedic problems, respiratory conditions, and gastrointestinal disorders. While this is the firms primary focus, they remain open minded to other types of devices and indications as well.
The firm looks for professionalism in a firms management teams and is willing to work with firms that do not yet have a complete management team in place. The firm does not always look to take a board seat into companies however they firm does look to add value by developing strategic corporate partnerships in Japan when appropriate.
If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com
The list below represents the investors who are currently confirmed to attend the RESI @ TMCx conference this June 8th in Houston. This number can be expected to double during the final month leading up to the event. Whether you are just thinking of raising capital in the life science space or have actively begun the process, the RESI conference offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity to get some feedback and build relationships with the investors in your market.
As of April 28, 2015 | Click the image to learn more about the investors
The ROI from attending the RESI conference is pretty dramatic. A fundraising CEO can book up to 16 one-on-one meetings for the day through our partnering software, and more by taking advantage of the networking opportunities that are offered before and during the event. No matter where you are in the fundraising process, RESI @ TMCx is the place to start a dialogue that will hopefully evolve into a compelling relationship and ultimately an allocation.
What makes RESI such a uniquely valuable event for life science entrepreneurs is not only the number of active investors we bring to the table, but also their diversity. RESI has unigue value in that its primary focus is the bringing together 10 categories of investors, including family offices, corporate venture capital, large pharma and biotech, venture capital, and more as depicted in the chart below. This breadth of diverse early stage investor participation makes RESI a great fit for a life science fundraiser seeking any kind of investment, from seed money to series A or B capital to strategic partnership.
Data as of April 28, 2015
Whether your company was just formed or you are looking for capital to fund your next clinical trial, it is never too early to start a relationship with an investor, and the RESI conference will have a strong showing of those with serious interest in the life science space. All of these investors will be profiled in our partnering software, which goes live next week and helps you schedule a meeting based on mutual fit with just a few clicks. Start the fundraising dialogue now. Register here.
Still have questions? Feel free to email or call our conference manager Natasha Eldridge at n.eldridge@lifesciencenation.com or 617-580-5001; she will be happy to address any concerns you have.
It’s been an exciting Q1 for the biotech industry, with the PwC MoneyTree Report recording 193 biotech and medtech venture financing deals. The LSN Company Platform tracks life science financing events more broadly than the MoneyTree Report; in addition to venture financing rounds, the platform also records other forms of financing secured by the 30,000 biotech and medtech companies tracked, including debt financing, research grants, IPOs, and post-IPO offerings. This is useful information if you’re providing services in the life science sector and need to know your customers’ capital landscape. The platform also records the lead investor and any co-investors in each financing event.
It may be months before all the deals that took place in Q1 are formally announced and accounted for, but at present the LSN Company Platform has recorded 229 life science financing events that took place in Q1 2015. These financings raised a total of almost $10 billion, buoyed by huge late stage private rounds and follow-on public offerings. Among the financing events LSN tracked, the median amount raised was $15 million. Figure 1 provides a complete breakdown of the amount raised by the financing events recorded in Q1:
Figure 1 | Source: LSN Company Platform, Data as of March 31, 2015
Q1 saw a healthy crop of small, sub-$5 million rounds, which are typically raised by early stage companies, but also many significantly larger raises, including post-IPO financings in which companies that went public in 2013 and 2014 tapped the markets for additional capital.
While the bulk of the tracked financing events occurred in the U.S., the LSN Company Platform also recorded deals in Canada and throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania (see Figure 2).
Figure 2 | Source: LSN Company Platform, Data as of March 31, 2015
In 157 cases, the LSN Company Platform recorded the indication areas in which the companies are developing assets (in many cases, the companies were targeting more than one indication area). Figure 3 shows that oncology was the leading field for financing, with 62 oncology companies raising money in Q1; companies in diseases of the nervous system and metabolic diseases rounded out the top 3 indications for life science financing.
Figure 3 | Source: LSN Company Platform, Data as of March 31, 2015
In 125 of the 229 records, the LSN Company Platform was able to track the phase of development of a company’s lead asset. (The rest include companies for which this isn’t relevant or doesn’t fit on the biotech development pathway, such as life science service providers and many medtech or healthcare IT companies, and cases in which the phase of the lead asset is unknown). As Figure 4 shows, the largest number of raises involved companies with a lead asset in Phase II, but LSN tracked financing events for companies as early in the pipeline as the discovery stage:
Figure 4 | Source: LSN Company Platform, Data as of March 31, 2015
This chart demonstrates that it’s never too early to think about financing, even if your company is still at the discovery stage of development. In addition to giving you some vital runway time, talking to investors now can help you plan out your future fundraising path; financing rounds generally take 9 to 18 months to close, and the more interested investors you can be in touch with at the early stage, the easier it will be to bring those later rounds together.
