Expert Advice 17 May 2021 How to Spend Your Biotech Startup’s Money Biotech investment rounds tend to draw big headlines, but experienced players know the real work is done in between them. Avoiding some common pitfalls can make the difference between petering out and pressing on. Managing a biotech startup means always keeping an eye towards the next financing round. But piquing the next investor’s interest requires […] May 17, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Mark Zipkin Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 28 Apr 2021 How to Build a Successful Company Culture in Biotech Company culture can be essential to the success of a biotech company. Sabine Dandiguian, Managing Partner at the life sciences VC firm Jeito Capital, shares her experience building a thriving company culture in the life sciences. Company culture is “something very special” that borders on collective intelligence, says Sabine Dandiguian. There are some basics to […] April 28, 2021 - 8 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Best in Biotech 29 Mar 2021 The 25 Best Biotech Incubators Hatching Startup Stars in Europe Incubators can give biotech startups the boost they need to get off the ground. These are our top picks of the biotech incubators across Europe supporting the next generation of life science startups. Creating a biotech company is a challenging, long-term endeavor. In particular, the first steps can be essential to set up a new […] March 29, 2021 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 25 Nov 2020 How to Weather Bad Press as a Biotech Company Biomedical companies face unique challenges when it comes to media communication. Crisis communication, in particular, can make or break a company — all the more so in a sector as sensitive as healthcare. Crises can strike a biotech company at any point — the dream partner company that had shot you to fame dumps you […] November 25, 2020 - 7 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 14 Oct 2020 Everything You Need to Know About Biotech Business Models What’s my business model? Who do I partner with? How do I scale up? These are typical strategic questions a young biotech will regularly face. The business model of a biotech company can determine its long-term trajectory to success. In this article, we’ll focus on a typical ‘platform’ biotech company in the biopharma sector whose […] October 14, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 17 Jul 2020 Two UK Startups Raise Seed Funding to Revolutionize Cancer Treatment Unfazed by the financial turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Edinburgh-based firm Macomics and University of Cambridge spinout Spirea have each closed seed rounds this week to finance the development of novel cancer immunotherapies and more precise forms of chemotherapy. Macomics bagged €3.5M (£3.2M) in seed funding from the transatlantic VC firm Epidarex Capital […] July 17, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Kostas Vavitsas Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 22 Jun 2020 Epidarex Capital Targets UK Biotech with €112M Venture Fund The transatlantic life science VC Epidarex Capital has closed its third fund at a value of €112.7M, which will be used to build new biotech companies from emerging hubs across the UK. The ‘Epidarex Capital III UK LP’ fund is based on a €55.2M (£50M) commitment from the British Business Bank. The remainder comes from […] June 22, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Laura Cowen Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 27 Apr 2020 Series A Round Boosts Swedish Synthetic Biology Player by €6.4M The Swedish synthetic biology company EnginZyme has raised a Series A funding round to the tune of €6.4M to develop its cell-free synbio technology for the sustainable production of plastic, rubber, and other synthetic materials. The latest investment, which was led by French venture fund Sofinnova Partners, brings EnginZyme’s total funding to more than €10M […] April 27, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By Karen O’Hanlon Cohrt Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 27 Apr 2020 5 Ways to Become a Successful Biotech Entrepreneur Having a good enough idea to found a biotech is one thing, but being able to make a success of a company in the long run is something else entirely. Here are five tips to help you on your way to becoming a successful biotech entrepreneur. Are you working in a biotech but considering becoming […] April 27, 2020 - 9 minutesmins - By Letícia Manosso Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 24 Apr 2020 Big €10M Seed Round Funds New Class of Cancer Drugs in Switzerland The Swiss biotech FoRx Therapeutics has raised an impressive €10M in seed funding to develop a new generation of drugs that target DNA repair in cancer cells. The drugs will block a DNA repair process called break-induced replication, which was discovered by the company’s scientific founder Thanos Halazonetis. This process is used by cancer cells […] April 24, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Laura Cowen Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 13 Apr 2020 Need Funding to Fight Coronavirus? These Initiatives Have You Covered As coronavirus disease continues to take its devastating toll across the globe, there is a clear need for new strategies to curb it. Thankfully, initiatives are springing up around the world that can support European startups in the search for new methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Coronavirus disease, also known as Covid-19, is wreaking […] April 13, 2020 - 8 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Expert Advice 6 Apr 2020 How Investors Can Prepare for the Digitization of Biotech For a few decades, the worlds of biotech and digital technology have been on separate paths. Franck Lescure, Partner at the French VC firm Elaia Partners, explains how the two fields are now colliding and how investors need to catch up. At first glance, digital technology and biotech are widely different fields, each with their […] April 6, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email