Life Science Fest: June 3-4, 2008
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The Northern California technical community is immeasurably enhanced by TechCoire's efforts to bring together entrepreneurs, VC's, infrastructure providers as well as successful major corporate managers.

Gordon Campbell, Managing Director,
Techfarm Ventures


Fund-raising Factoid

TechCoire has showcased 26 companies at the past two venture conferences and 17 of them have gone on to raise over $130M in angel and VC funding since then.

 

Entrepreneurs

Call for Business Summaries to Present to Investors
May 5th- Submission Deadline for Entrepreneurs

Update : Submission deadlines passed : Announcement on May 12th
Life Science entrepreneurs seeking capital are invited to apply to present. Seed to Early stage companies seeking investment capital are encouraged to apply to present at the Promising Innovation Showcase at the conference.  You must be seeking seed or early (500K to $7M) to mid stage capital of no more than $20M dollars and must be geographically located in the United States or have a significant point of presence in the US. Your product, idea or business must be in the life sciences area - including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, bio informatics, intelligent medicine, personalized medicine and innovation in the healthcare industry.

Partial List of participating angels and investors

Angels Forum, Aphelion Capital, Asset Management Company, Biotechnology Value Fund, Bay City Capital, Band of Angels, Claremont Creek Ventures, , Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Keiretsu  Forum,  Panorama Capital, Prospect Venture Partners, Proximal Ventures, Psilos Ventures, RCT Bioventures, Sanderling Ventures, Saratoga Ventures, Science Futures Inc, Technology Partners, Tenex Greenhouse Ventures, DFJ Frontier, Wavepoint ventures

How to Apply

Only a limited number of opportunities are available and the selection committee will choose the best of the presentations based on a number of factors including the merit of the innovation, investor-worthiness of the idea and investor readiness. Please send your executive summary AND your investor pitch (draft format is fine ; This is for us to get to know as much about your company)  before May 5th to info@lifesciencefest.com be considered to present.

Selection Process

There's a three-phased selection including initial pre-screen on May 6th, followed by team review on May 8th and ranking. Only the top 12-14 companies by ranking will get selected to present. We will notify you on or before May 12th via email or phone about your selection.

Selected candidates will be notified on or around May 12th, upon which you can register as a presenter for the conference. If you are selected, you will pay $895 which covers your presentation fee, coaching fee and the cost to attend the two full-days of the conference.  Two additional registrants from the same organization are just $195 each for the entire conference.  Once you are selected to present, you will be asked to present to the team (in person or over the phone) during the week of May 19th. Finally, on June 3rd, you will present to the investors. You will have 15 minutes for your presentation plus additional time for Q&A at the event giving you ample time to explain your innovation to the investor and to obtain feedback.

If you are a life science entrepreneur, you cannot afford to ignore this conference.

Questions : Please call us at 916-458-5270