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Health and biotech founders: your next milestone needs capital. It may not need another round.
AGENDA
10:00 to 11:00 | Accelerators: More Than Mentorship How can the right accelerator unlock the resources you actually need to grow? Hear from leaders at Nucleate, Cyclotron Road @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Fogarty Innovation about the funding, infrastructure, expertise, and networks their programs provide, alongside Immergo Labs founder Michael Powell, who has grown his company through Fogarty Innovation, NVIDIA Inception, and Innovate Bay.
11:00 to 12:00 | Industry Partnerships: How Startups Get in the Door How do startups get in front of major industry players and turn those relationships into real opportunities? Hear the corporate perspective from Roche Diagnostics, the ecosystem perspective from SynBioBeta, and firsthand founder experiences from Samay, which built a paid R&D partnership with Chiesi Pharmaceuticals, and DeepSeq, which participated in the Merck Digital Sciences Studio.
12:00 to 1:00 | Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 | Government Grants & Contracts: Fund Your R&D How do founders identify the right government opportunities, build competitive applications, and sequence funding as their companies grow? Hear perspectives from people with experience inside NIH and ARPA-H, alongside founders who have navigated NSF I-Corps, NSF SBIR Phase I and Phase II, and a U.S. Air Force/AFWERX SBIR contract.
2:00 to 3:00 | Philanthropy: Foundations Fund Startups Too When can philanthropic capital fund work inside a for-profit startup, and how do founders access it? Hear directly from Tara Health Foundation about how philanthropic funders approach innovation, and from Matrubials founder Ishita M Shah about building a successful partnership with the Gates Foundation. Additional speakers to be announced.
3:00 to 4:00 | Debt, Credit, & Taxes: Extend Your Runway by $500k Today! As grants, contracts, revenue, and equity begin to overlap, how should founders manage an increasingly complex capital stack? Hear from tax attorney and CPA Shilpa Dinavahi of JKZ LLP on tax strategy and R&D credits, life sciences venture banker Brandon Clark of Banc of California on debt and structured financing, and CFO Dan Marotto of Kranz Consulting on when startups need more sophisticated financial leadership. Leave with a tip worth $500K.
Join health and biotech founders, funders, investors, operators, and ecosystem leaders for a full day focused on getting great science and technology from research to commercialization. No pitches. No decks. Bring your questions.
Hosted by NDVC.fund and sponsored by the Hanwha AI Center. This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com. Hanwha AI Center (HAC) is a private membership for all those dedicated to AI. As a hub for innovation, HAC brings together passionate entrepreneurs, researchers, and visionaries to explore the societal and technological impacts of AI on human life.
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