Raising Venture Capital For Biotech Companies

Gain access to biotech venture capital as efficiently as possible by doing the right things from the beginning of your fundraising. This book includes a collection of improvements that will increase your rate of success on receiving capital without loosing your shirt in the process. From how to make the biotech investor listen to you to the reasons deals get killed and everything in between, including a wealth of appendix material that guides readers through the basic slides of a presentation, the ins and outs of term sheets, key terms and more, this book is a must-read for anyone in need of funding. Topics covered include: - which business plans fail and why - understanding the interests of the investor - planning for solvency and liquidity - knowing and minimizing product risk - the value of a scientific advisory board - important points around patents - questions frequently posed by investors - questions to extend to biotech investors - what constitutes a good biotech deal - when is a bad time to try and close one - how to close your presentation, the deal and each round successfully and more.

Biotechnology Venture Capital Valuations is an authoritative, insider's perspective on biotech venture capital for both the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Featuring partners, presidents, and CEOs of top venture capital and investment firms, Biotechnology Venture Capital Valuations provides best practices for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at all stages of investment with a focus on determining valuations and structuring deals. These industry experts discuss their strategies for considering a biotech investment, locating investment opportunity, assessing risk, and negotiating with the entrepreneur, as well as offering different valuation methods for a variety of common scenarios. This book provides valuable insight for those investing capital as well as those needing it, including explanation of the different goals of the venture capitalist and entrepreneur, common mistakes made on both sides, and how best to establish a productive relationship between the two.

Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This "Valley of Death" squanders our public investments in medical research and with them, the promise of longer and healthier lives. The authors explicate the Translation Gap faced by early stage biotech companies, the result of problematic technology transfer and investment practices, and provide specific prescriptions for improving translation of important discoveries into safe and effective therapies. In Preserving the Promise, Dessain and Fishman build on their collective experience as company founders, healthcare investor (Fishman) and physician/scientist (Dessain). The book offers a forward-looking, critical analysis of "conventional wisdom" that encumbers commercialization practices. It exposes the self-defeating habits of drug development in the Valley of Death, that waste money and extinguish innovative technologies through distorted financial incentives. Explains why translation of biotech discovery into medicine succeeds so infrequently that it’s been dubbed the Valley of Death Uncovers specific decision-making strategies that more effectively align incentives, improving clinical and financial outcomes for investors, inventor/entrepreneurs, and patients Examines the critical, early stages of commercialization, where technology transfer offices and Angels act as gatekeepers to development, and where tension between short-term financial and long-term clinical aspirations sinks important technologies Deconstructs the forces driving biotech, recasts them in a proven conceptual framework, and offers practical guidance for making the system better

Strategies for Biotechnology Venture Capital 2008/2009 is an authoritative, insider's perspective securing venture capital and achieving growth in the biotech industry for VCs, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. Featuring managing partners at top VC firms and CEOs of funded biotech companies, these experts provide key strategies for all stages of an investment with a focus on raising capital, establishing valuations, determining exit strategies, and structuring deals. From spotting opportunities and evaluating potential ROI to increasing fundraising and growing the company, these specialists offer strategies for building a management team, assessing potential exit scenarios, and navigating market opportunities. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of leading minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to successful deal-making in this ever-evolving industry.

Managing directors and partners from ten of the nation's leading VC firms on spotting the best investments in life sciences.

With reference to India.

This book opens up the world on private equity investment in one of the hottest industries – Biotechnology. The book describes how Europe has fallen behind the US due to under-investment and bad management by the VCs who control the companies. Detailed analysis shows why it is in VCs' interests to damage the very companies they invest in.

This invaluable book tells the reader how to invest in the healthcare biotechnology and life sciences sector, one of the fast-growing sectors of the US economy. Aimed at biotech investors as well as bioentrepreneurs and venture capitalists, it has been written from the perspectives of risk management and asset management/allocation. It strives to teach readers how to fish, rather than giving them fish. The author has over ten years of Wall Street experience in biotech research, investment banking and asset management. He holds an MBA in Finance and a PhD in Biochemistry.