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ScienceVest

Published on Feb 06, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ScienceVest

Investing Platform for the Life Sciences
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Scientific Funding Gap Problem

  • Lots of money
  • Lots of money >10M
  • Money is scarce between 500K - 10M
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Early stage science investments

  • High technical barrier
  • Discovering quality investment opportunities is difficult
  • High risk / long term return horizon
  • Scientist unable to communicate value / opportunity to investors
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Thousands of scientific innovations go unsupported due to a lack of systematic early stage investment

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How do we make it easier to invest?

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An Investment Platform for the Life Sciences

How we solve(Problem)

  • Vetted investment opportunities(Discovery)
  • Investment Information Flow(Lower Technical Barrier / Communication)
  • Serve as Intermediary to lower up front cost / effort per investment (Lower Risk)
  • Lower investment amounts + diversification (Lower Risk)
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Where we are?

  • Beta version of platform is 75% developed
  • Have vetted initial batch of 10 life science startups signed up to list upon launch out of hundreds
  • Growing investor base for beta launch
  • Finishing legal requirement compliance for equity investing platforms
  • Launch Scheduled for January 2016
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Competitors

  • AngelList (No science Focus / No Vetting)
  • FundersClub (No Science Focus)
  • Experiment (No Equity / Only Donation)
  • HealthFundr (Only focus on Health, no traction)
  • Benefunder (Only Philanthropic / No traction)
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Javier(Founder)
self taught software engineer @SAP. Studied economics & biotechnology. Sales experience at large agency and growth marketing experience for several startups.

Raising 75K to finish product, and prove traction by June 2016. Already have 20K committed, need 55K more to close.

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