Year in Review Video – 2024 Edition
https://youtu.be/ryfz4zM6RJA Our Annual Year in Review Video - 2024 Edition At long last, here is our Annual Year in Review video - 2024 Edition. In this video, we cover: FDA…
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Biotech Bankruptcies: Why?
Biopharma Dive recently published a series of articles on biotech bankruptcies. The first lists bankruptcies in 2019, while the other lists companies which are teetering towards bankruptcy. As the article notes,…
HBM Pharma/Biotech M&A and New Drug Approvals Reports
We're late to the this party, but HBM Partners issued their two annual reports on M&A Activity and New Drug Approvals. Both reports also have Excel files with raw…
The Age of Virtual Pharma: Creative Financing and Exit Models
At last month's Biotech Showcase, a panel discussion was held discussing different models for advancing assets without resorting to a license. The link to the discussion is here. It…
As Scarce As…
Twenty Five. That's it. What are we talking about? Some of the data in yesterday's excellent post by Bruce Booth on Early Stage Venture Scarcity really caught us by surprise. What…
The Biotech IPO Window: Party Like It’s 1999
According to Burrill & Company, July had the busiest week of biotech IPO activity ever, continuing a trend of heavy fundraising during 2013 so far: In all, 29…
LLC may be better than C corp
We generally agree with the notion that many early-stage biotechs should be structured as LLCs instead of C corps. This short interview with Attorney Albert L. Sokol highlights one key…
Venture Financing: Is China the answer?
As we read the continuing bad news regarding venture financing in biotech, we came across this bit of news from the UK: BioCity Nottingham-based CompanDX Limited, the Nottingham Trent University…
Slow summer? Hardly
Thank goodness for Twitter. How else can one keep up with all of the news and happenings in our industry during the "slow" month of July? Here are a few…
AOL Sells Patents To Microsoft
AOL sells patents to Microsoft. Why? The reasons for AOL selling these patents are pretty clear: Shares of AOL surged as much as 45% Monday, hitting their highest point in…