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Assessing VC funding in biotech

Ever since Prospect Ventures “handed back $150M “:https://www.fis.dowjones.com/WebBlogs.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020111006e7a60005l&ProductIDFromApplication=&r=wsjblog&s=djfvwof of committed money to its limited partners, there has been plenty written on the lack of venture capital funding for the life sciences.  Read more

Financing early stage biotech

I read Bruce Booth’s blog, Life Sci VC, when I get the chance, and he’s often lent his skills to Nature Biotechnology. We had him into our offices as part of our “Meet the Author “:https://www.nature.com/bioent/authors/index.html series, for example, where he discussed his article on biotech IPOs.  Read more

Four Types of “Premature Scaling” in Biotech

Earlier this week the Startup Genome project released a report on the DNA of internet startups. Essentially what attributes lead to success or failure. One of the things they found was that 74% of startups failed because of “premature scaling”. Sounds like an unfortunate medical condition. Its when internet startups build their companies too fast and spend too much money before they really know what they have – their product, customer, market, etc…  … Read more

Starting a biotech? Advice for how to pitch VCs

Lots of great advice exists for tech entrepreneurs trying to pitch to VCs, but very little for the aspiring life science entrepreneur, especially for therapeutics startups. Since that’s the type of deal we invest a good portion of our fund at Atlas, I thought I share a few thoughts.  Read more