A five-year reauthorization of the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer programs is just the president’s signature, or a few days, away.
Singapore-based Immortal Dragons has launched with $40 million under management, mostly from its founder Boyang Wang, with a focus on investing in early stage companies developing treatments to extend life.
Europe has more oncology startups than the U.S., but many more U.S. companies scale up to the later growth stage. Given the proven links between patent ownership and access to finance, that critical gap is in part because U.S. companies hold nearly twice as many patents as European counterparts, according to an analysis by the European Patent Office.
Companies working in the field of women’s health have long struggled for funding, but as the number of these companies increase and new dedicated venture capital funds emerge, the conversation is changing.
Venture capitalists (VCs) on three different panels at Biocom California’s Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference gave advice to startups on a range of topics from what they’re looking for before investing to what startups should be doing to find pharma partners.
Insanity has often been defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results, and Japan seems to be trapped in that rut largely because it can’t seem to do innovation differently, said speakers at the BioJapan 2023 meeting held Oct. 11 in Yokohama, Japan.
Insanity has often been defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results, and Japan seems to be trapped in that rut largely because it can’t seem to do innovation differently, said speakers at the BioJapan 2023 meeting held Oct. 11 in Yokohama, Japan.
Israeli venture capital fund, Shoni Health Ventures, launched a new fund focused on startups specializing in digital health and medical devices. Recognizing that innovative solutions with the potential to improve global health may go unrealized as health tech startups struggle to attract early-stage investors, the fund is focused on investing in companies at the pre-seed and seed-stage.
The U.K. arm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is to be acquired by HSBC UK Bank plc for a symbolic £1, after senior ministers and the Bank of England worked all weekend on a rescue package. The acquisition is to complete immediately, averting what the U.K. government had acknowledged would be a crisis for the biotech and tech sector.
PARIS – French sovereign bank Bpifrance SA, the Digital Health Agency (ANS) and Impact Healthcare SAS have just published results from the first survey on progress being made by digital health startups in France. The survey, with financial support from Astrazeneca plc from the U.K. and French law firm Delsol Avocats Selarl, was carried out among roughly 100 founders of digital health startups in France. It reveals a lot of information relating to the progress made by digital health projects 18 months following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a matter of recognizing there are barriers to the French market even though e-health products and services are booming following the COVID-19 crisis,” Jean-Yves Robin, managing director of Impact Healthcare and co-author of the study, told BioWorld.
