Osage University Partners (OUP)

🔔 New Webinar 🔔 Registration is now open for our second installment of our Meet the VCs series, this time focused on ClimateTech. We’re pleased to have Christina Karapataki of Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Kyle Teamey of RA Capital Management joining us. Christina will provide an overview of the five grand challenge areas (manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings) that are the focus of Breakthrough Energy Ventures, why they are considered so critical, and types of investments they are making in those areas. Kyle will discuss RA Capital’s Planetary Health Fund which creates and funds companies that develop and commercialize cost-effective solutions to reduce emissions, increase resource availability, and restore environmental quality. Come get to know these VCs and how they are working with startups out of academia. This webinar is intended for all audiences working on climate solutions in academia. Bring your questions on investing and startups in the climate tech space. We look forward to seeing you on July 31st! 📆Wednesday, July 31st | 🕛12:00pm ET | 📝https://lnkd.in/ed4p78Tq

🔔 NEW WEBINAR 🔔 Join OUP for a two-part webinar series on finding a CEO for your academic startup company. The first session will focus on the evaluation process for CEO candidates. Osage University Partners (OUP)'s Managing Partner, Marc Singer will discuss the importance of the leadership team to a startup’s success and explore methods for evaluating outside CEOs. The webinar will highlight relevant backgrounds and important characteristics of a startup CEO, and it will provide tools to assist with candidate evaluation. Marc will also provide data on the performance of different types of CEOs, including grad students and professors, from OUP’s tech portfolio. 📅 Friday, June 21, 2024 | 🕛 12:00pm ET | 📝 https://lnkd.in/eYcNKiXx

🔔 NEW WEBINAR 🔔 Join OUP for a two-part webinar series on finding a CEO for your academic startup company. The first session will focus on the evaluation process for CEO candidates. Osage University Partners (OUP)'s Managing Partner, Marc Singer will discuss the importance of the leadership team to a startup’s success and explore methods for evaluating outside CEOs. The webinar will highlight relevant backgrounds and important characteristics of a startup CEO, and it will provide tools to assist with candidate evaluation. Marc will also provide data on the performance of different types of CEOs, including grad students and professors, from OUP’s tech portfolio. 📅 Friday, June 21, 2024 | 🕛 12:00pm ET | 📝 https://lnkd.in/eYcNKiXx

🔔 New Webinar 🔔 Please join us for the first in a series of webinars to introduce you to VCs who often invest in startups arising from academic research. Our introductory "Meet the VCs" session will highlight Mission BioCapital and Portal Innovations, LLC, both of which are early stage life science investors that also offer state-of-the-art shared lab facilities in multiple locations. Our speakers are Jennifer Griffin, Partner at Mission BioCapital, and Joe Collura, Director at Portal Innovations. Come learn about what they offer, what they look for, and how they typically work with university startups in the life sciences. -- Mission BioCapital is a venture capital firm focused on making pivotal early-stage investments in life sciences companies. Their core goal is to make life science entrepreneurship more accessible and efficient than ever. They support their portfolio companies through a unique combination of shared lab space all over the world, capital investment, and access to strategic partners. With investment offices in the nation's leading life sciences clusters in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, Mission BioCapital is dedicated to helping entrepreneurial scientists build successful companies, from idea to exit. Tracing their roots back to 2009, Mission BioCapital is now investing out of its 5th fund with approximately $500M in assets under management. Learn more at missionbiocapital.com. -- Portal Innovations is a venture capital firm that helps exceptional life sciences innovators build their companies where they live. They surround these entrepreneurs with the resources and community they need: Seed capital, fully equipped lab space, and expertise and introductions to other investors and partners. Read more at portalinnovations.com 🗓 Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 🕛 12:00pm ET | 📝 https://lnkd.in/eVidiRZu #VentureCapital #MeetVCs #EarlyStageInvestments

🔔 New Webinar 🔔 Please join us for the first in a series of webinars to introduce you to VCs who often invest in startups arising from academic research. Our introductory "Meet the VCs" session will highlight Mission BioCapital and Portal Innovations, LLC, both of which are early stage life science investors that also offer state-of-the-art shared lab facilities in multiple locations. Our speakers are Jennifer Griffin, Partner at Mission BioCapital, and Joe Collura, Director at Portal Innovations. Come learn about what they offer, what they look for, and how they typically work with university startups in the life sciences. -- Mission BioCapital is a venture capital firm focused on making pivotal early-stage investments in life sciences companies. Their core goal is to make life science entrepreneurship more accessible and efficient than ever. They support their portfolio companies through a unique combination of shared lab space all over the world, capital investment, and access to strategic partners. With investment offices in the nation's leading life sciences clusters in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, Mission BioCapital is dedicated to helping entrepreneurial scientists build successful companies, from idea to exit. Tracing their roots back to 2009, Mission BioCapital is now investing out of its 5th fund with approximately $500M in assets under management. Learn more at missionbiocapital.com. -- Portal Innovations is a venture capital firm that helps exceptional life sciences innovators build their companies where they live. They surround these entrepreneurs with the resources and community they need: Seed capital, fully equipped lab space, and expertise and introductions to other investors and partners. Read more at portalinnovations.com 🗓 Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 🕛 12:00pm ET | 📝 https://lnkd.in/eVidiRZu #VentureCapital #MeetVCs #EarlyStageInvestments

It was a full house yesterday at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the 2024 #Science2Startup symposium. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a day filled with insightful presentations, engaging panel discussions, and valuable networking opportunities centered around the future of the #biotech industry.   Boston's vibrant #lifesciences ecosystem makes it an unparalleled hub for innovation, and we are thrilled to continue our efforts to drive forward scientific breakthroughs and entrepreneurial ventures. On the F-Prime Capital team, we'd specifically like to thank Jessica Alston and Stacie Weninger for participating as Advisors, Chong Xu for moderating, and Alexander Munoz, MD, Raj Basak, Davina Magargal, Allison (Gosman) Kanter and Emily Tynan for their work on the Steering Committee.   Stay tuned for details on next year's event!   Atlas Venture │ 5AM Ventures │ Osage University Partners (OUP) │ RA Capital Management │ MassBio │ Colliers │ Deloitte │ Evotec │ Goodwin │ Pliancy │ Silicon Valley Bank