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Tag Archives: venture financing
Biotech Hall of Fame: Interview with Biotech’s First Investment Banker
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to discuss biotech’s storied history with Fred Frank, one of the industry’s greatest luminaries, on what we can learn from the past to help shape the future. Fred Frank, formerly Vice Chairman of both Lehman Brothers Inc. and Peter J. Solomon Company, recently became Vice Chairman of Burrill & Company and Chairman of Burrill Securities, the broker dealer arm of Burrill & Company. He was the first life Read More >
Big Ventures
It is rare to see triple digit millions in private financing rounds, but it does happen once or twice a year on average. In the headlines last week, was the largest triple digit VC round in years – the $160M in venture capital funding for Intarcia. With the simultaneous debt financing of $50M, the total funding round was $210M. Behind the deal were existing investors New Enterprise Associates, New Leaf Venture Partners and Venrock, plus Read More >
It Takes a Village: The New Pharma-VC Model for Biotech Investing
High-profile funding collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and traditional venture capital funds have made headlines in recent months, pooling resources and expertise in an attempt to source and develop the most successful drugs. BIO Executive Vice President Alan Eisenberg moderated It Takes a Village: The New Pharma-VC Model for Biotech Investing, a panel discussion about these new funding models, during the opening plenary session at the 2012 BIO Investor Forum. In the past, venture capital could Read More >
BIO Europe Spring 2012 – Opening Remarks
For Monday’s Opening Remarks at BIO Europe Spring 2012, I covered the following topics: Public market performance in the US vs other sectors Private funding environment. Drug pipeline deal volume. For a copy of the slides, they can be found here.
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Tags: BIO Europe, deals, Industry Analysis, opening remarks, orphan, Partnering, Partnering Stats, PowerPoint, PRIVATE BIOTECH, PUBLIC BIOTECH - Stats, PUBLIC BIOTECH - Stock performance, public sector research, Venture Capital, venture financing, venture funding
Tags: BIO Europe, deals, Industry Analysis, opening remarks, orphan, Partnering, Partnering Stats, PowerPoint, PRIVATE BIOTECH, PUBLIC BIOTECH - Stats, PUBLIC BIOTECH - Stock performance, public sector research, Venture Capital, venture financing, venture funding
Multiple Assets Diversify the Deal
With a recent surge in pharma companies collaborating earlier on with small biotech companies, discovery stage partnering deals are becoming increasingly popular. Striking a discovery stage deal can be extremely beneficial for both parties in today’s environment – pharma gets to fill its ever elusive R&D pipeline as patent expirations loom, and the small biotech struggling to raise money to stay alive gets the capital infusion necessary to stay in play. Panelists in the “Broad Read More >
