"Benitec, an Australian gene therapy biotech company, who is looking for institutional investors with expertise in the biotech space to take substantial holdings of at least 5%"
D, here is advice from a venture capitalist and some of what he says seems very familiar.
If we think of BLT as a start-up, albeit already a public company with public investors, he says,
“A lot of companies got created [in the 90's] with the thinking, ‘If you build it they will come,’ ” Goodman says. But the flush times receded as the financial returns from many companies fell short, he says. A shakeout among life sciences venture firms followed, as IPO exits became fewer and leaner. These days, startups and their investors should be setting their sights on an acquisition by a larger pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, not an IPO, Goodman says. And to do that, they have to figure out what those larger companies want.
I am still scratching my head to know what our strategy is.
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