If your early-stage life science company needs some funding help, you still have a few days to apply for a chance to pitch your company story to investors and colleagues at the 2016 annual Southeast BIO Investor & Partnering Forum.
The extended deadline for signing up to present at SEBIO closes at 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 1. If your company is among those subsequently picked by a panel of judges, you’ll have a chance to pitch to potentially interested investors at the Forum when it’s held October 11 to 13 in Jacksonville, Fla.
The SEBIO event, held with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center as a not-for-profit partner, provides a showcase for some of the most promising bioscience and medical technology companies in the organization’s seven-state region. Besides North Carolina, that includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
It gives executives of young companies picked by a selection committee of regional and national venture capitalists a chance to collect advice and investment.
Setting the stages
Companies can vie for a spot in the EARLY/Stage event if they’re seeking early rounds of investment. They participate in an individual private advisory session led by early-stage investors, entrepreneurs and experienced life science managers and service providers. Then the judges pick several finalists to present to the full conference audience. From them, an overall winner is announced at the closing lunch.
Another group of participants, dubbed MAIN/Stage presenting companies, have generally completed at least one round of institutional financing. They each make a 10-minute pitch to the full conference audience.
There is also a BIO/Plan competition in which presenters outline their business opportunities to the audience and to a panel of celebrity judges.
More information is available on the SEBIO website or by calling Suzanne Cantando at (919) 272-4391.
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