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🧭 Could Mexico help you build your biotech?

Ashley Marín of Scirena BioVentures on the opportunity hiding in plain sight

Oct 5, 2026

🧭 China is changing biotech. Where do you compete?

Marc Appel on where Asia-Pacific can help you build a stronger biotech company (plus a free industry report)

Sep 28, 2026

🧭 Build something scientists will actually use

Ian Levine on finding customers, raising $1M, and turning a research problem into ModernVivo

Sep 21, 2026

🧭 Your technology works. Will anyone use it?

Tim Martens and Elizabeth Little of Vaark Ventures on what actually makes a healthcare startup investable

Sep 14, 2026

🧭 Your science is complex. Your story shouldn’t be.

Krishna Dave on India and the storytelling playbook for scientists (bonus resource inside)

Sep 6, 2026

🧭 Why great biotech startups can still fail

Chris Potts of Persephoni Bio on the business decisions that make or break a company, from finding your first investors to IP and platform strategy

Aug 23, 2026

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🧭 JPM is 12 weeks away. Work backwards.

The real deadline is much closer than you think.

Oct 18, 2026

🧭 Don’t stop at your first 40 investors

Aug 16, 2026

🧭 Your investor list is lying to you

Aug 9, 2026

🧭 Answering your most pressing questions

Aug 2, 2026

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Investor lists

The directories to get you started: angels, angel groups, family offices, micro-VCs and established VCs, researched for biotech. Each issue explains how to qualify them before you reach out, and links the full list.

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🧭 Stop calling it patient capital

What I learned from mapping 100+ family offices (plus a link to the directory)

🧭 The brand name VC trap (and how to avoid it)

A smarter approach to established biotech VCs

🧭 The start of a beautiful friendship

Your guide to Micro-VC's & Emerging Managers

🧭 The Biotech Family Office playbook

Plus: 25+ healthcare-focused family offices inside

🧭 Your first $500K starts here

How to find angels who actually get biotech

Teardowns and free tools

Steal the playbook: deal teardowns plus templates, trackers and reports.

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🧭 How Tubulis turned a $22.8M license into a $5B exit

What every biotech founder should steal from the playbook

🧭 Anthropic's $400M bet on biology

Inside the Coefficient Bio deal and what it reveals about Anthropic's life sci ambitions

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280+ VCs, angel groups and family offices that invest in early-stage life science, plus templates and AI prompts to reach them.

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JPM Week 2027 Planner

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Asia Biotech Industry Report

28 pages on Asia's growing role in licensing, deal activity and global drug development.

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Hi, I'm Vadim 👋

I've spent 15+ years across pharma, global health, venture and startups. Today I help life science founders build the business behind their science.

Bio Founder GPS is what I wish someone had handed me when I started working in life science startups: the frameworks, the investor lists, and honest conversations with people who've been on both sides of the table.

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