BIOBusinesSolutions

Online Venture Financing Platform

Description
Companies looking to raise capital often experience frustration and waste an enormous amount of time when trying to identify relevant lead investors. To help member companies target appropriate investors and expedite the fundraising process, BIO has partnered with IPEEX. The BIO-IPEEX program offers biotechnology company members access to a state-of-the-art online venture financing platform which tracks the entire universe of active life sciences investors. This includes over 3,000 institutional investors, venture capital funds and hedge funds as well as in excess of 2,800 venture backed life science companies profiled by sector or sub-sector, technology and/or product focus, location, and size. IPEEX is the only tool that: (1) identifies and ranks all active lead investors based on their historic investment activities and their demonstrable investment appetite; (2) maps all co-investment relationships enabling CEOs to use their existing investors' relationships more effectively to secure meetings; (3) eases the thorough preparation of fundraising meetings; and (4) uses up-to-date intelligence on who to approach and why for the highly efficient creation of a syndicate. This simple, user-friendly executive information system enables senior biotech executives to actively participate in deal prospecting and make confident decisions based on clearly presented, verifiable facts.

Member Benefits:

	25% off standard price
	50% off standard price for private companies that have yet to attract funding from professional investors

Eligible Association Members
Many state/regional biotechnology associations have partnered with BIO to offer their members the benefits of the BIO BUSINESS SOLUTIONSsm program. In addition to BIO members, private biotechnology companies that are a member of any of the biotech associations from the following states can take advantage of the BIO-IPEEX program:

To be announced shortly.

More Information
To learn about specific details about the BIO-IPEEX program, contact IPEEX at 1-888-670-1646 or email Gordon Duncan at gordon.duncan@ipeex.com or David Hawkins at david.hawkins@ipeex.com.

To learn more about IPEEX and its various venture financing capabilities, visit www.ipeex.com.

FreeMind Group: Assists with NIH and DOD funding opportunities. FreeMind specializes in raising funds from government agencies and other non-dilutive sources through grants and contracts.

Nature Publishing Group is offering a Pay-Per-View access option for NPG journals. Member companies can view and download individual articles published in any of the journals on the NPG platform.

Not a BIO member? You still may be eligible. View the list of participating state/regional biotech associations.

"The BIO Business Solutions program is very valuable to a company, especially now. Everybody is looking to save money in any way they can, and some ways are, frankly, quite painful. This one is a method that is not painful at all - in fact, it is easy. We pretty much do what we've always done; we're just paying less money for the same things. It's a win-win." Matt Pfeffer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MannKind Corporation