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Welcome to BioStart

Are you a biotech start-up? BioStart is designed specifically for innovative, early-stage, entrepreneurs from the life sciences and biotechology industry.

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BioStart is a quarterly newsletter explicitly designed for innovative, early-stage, entrepreneurs from the life sciences and biotech industry, where we'll be sharing everything money, space and people!

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Join BioStart network on LinkedIn 

Our new LinkedIn network, BioStart, is exclusive to biotech start-ups and entrepreneurs, where you can exchange ideas, seek advice and share insights with other forward-thinking professionals in the industry.

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BIA Innovation Map

BIA Innovation Map

While there are many organisations and initiatives aimed at supporting early-stage companies, identifying the right one for where your business is right now can be difficult. The Innovation Map is a directory of accelerators, incubators and other support organisations that enables you to start narrowing down which offers are right for you, and help your company develop to its full potential.

Visit biaconnectandinnovate.org

Funding your biotech
start-up

You can't do biotech without money, so don't be afraid to reach out to investors early.

Biotech CEOs and founders at the BIA Start-up Festival share insights on how to approach fundraising for early stage companies. They discuss the importance of having a solid business case, the types of investors and different sources of funding available, as well as how to pitch your company to them.

Funding your biotech start-up

Why is networking so important?

BIA has one of the strongest networks in the UK when it comes to life sciences and biotech.

In this video, CEOs and founders of biotech start-ups share their tips for successful networking and explain why attending events like the BIA Start-up Festival is vital for an early stage company in life sciences. They discuss the importance of  peer learning and being known in the community.

Why networking is key for start-ups

Addressing start-up challenges

Biotech start-ups need to communicate their vision to investors.

Janette Thomas, CEO of Five Alarm Bio, Jeroen Verheyen, CEO of Semarion, Aidan Courtney, Chairman of VascVersa, Jonathan Kwok, CEO of Infinitopes and Dan Peters, CEO of MarraBio, share their insights on the different stumbling blocks that biotech start-ups face when talking to investors.

Tips from biotech start-up CEOs

Steve Bates on the expertise within the biotech start-up community

What is great about our start-up community is the size, scale and expertise already within it. The number of UK start-ups is growing.

In fact, the UK accounts for around 35% of all life science start-ups in Europe, largely due to the UK's strong academic research base, world-class universities and supportive government policies.

Expertise in biotech start-ups community

 

BIA Start-up Festival 2023 - spotlight on early-stage biotechs

BIA is doing a great job bringing us together so that people can get support from each other and benfits from resources available.

The BIA Start-up Festival 2023 was a great success, with over 150 entrepreneurs and participants from across the UK early-stage biotech and innovative life sciences companies. 

BIA Start-up Festival 2023: Highlights

Tips for success when building your biotech start-up

As a founder, be very aware of the market space, especially the earlier you are, the more you need to know.

Funding, mentorship, building a great team, and market awareness are all essential factors in the success of any start-up company. Whether you're an investor or a biotech start-up, BIA is here to help.

Success tips for biotech start-ups

Angel Investor Danny Bosch on the true value of start-ups

with any early stage start-up that I encounter, I take the valuation with a pinch of salt.

Having worked extensively with start-ups, Angel Investor Danny Bosch is able to percieve the actual value of a business.

Danny Bosch says start-up founders need to be excited

 

Angel Investor Danny Bosch: how to perfect your pitch

just having a slide with clear timelines can give me a lot of confidence that the team has some plan ahead of them.

Danny Bosch has heard many pitches. In this video, he pinpoints exactly what he is looking to see in a pitch.

Angel Investor Danny Bosch outlines how to perfect your pitch

Angel Investor Danny Bosch's three tips for success 

First of all, have a good business plan with clear milestones.

This is the first of three tips veteran investor Danny Bosch gives on how to start a sucessfful biotech start-up.

Angel Investor Danny Bosch's three tips for success

British Patient Capital investor Charlotte Davison's three tips for a great biotech start-up

Team means everything.

Having learned many lessons along the way, Charlotte Davison shares her top three tips.

British Patient Capital investor Charlotte Davison's three tips for a great biotech start-up

British Patient Capital investor Charlotte Davison explains how to seek funding

(you need to have an) Ability to get your message and your propostion across quickly.

Charlotte Davison insights that investors are not trying to be difficult with their questions; they just want to get to know you and your business.

Charlotte Davison explains how to seek funding