RE: The new funding landscape7 Jan 2026 10:03
So you think grant money is going to stave off the placing? Really? If he is lucky enough to get £250k of free cash from a grant that covers what another month's admin costs. Ridiculous.
Look,
1) you need to get costs under control, pie off non productive staff and get a focus, no multi job staff, proper dedicated individuals solely 100% focus on this business.
2) get the lab actually covering its ars@ so it doesnt have to rely on financial handouts, by that i mean paid invoiced revenue coming in covering the cost. That means sorting his sales and marketing out so he can get invoiced work in.
3) And then if he can get the balance so that 100% is covered by invoiced lab work but only uses 70% capacity of the lab resource he can then use the remaining 30% on own peptides and projects (in other words the paid work funds own work) - he has to stop this constant merry go round of raise, spend, raise, spend, raise, spend consolidate, raise again.
4) when he returns to the table in a few weeks time for the next raise, he raises enough cash for ideally a two year runway. A the very worst 18 mths so not focusing all his attention on constantly squeezing shareholders for more cash all the time.
Its not rocket science is it, but they lack any commercial acumen, proven. it remains a lifestyle play it is not a business. Thats how it is, you know exactly what's coming I am just amazed the brokers allow it, money being raised constantly on a business that constantly fails to perform causing constant financial loss to small investors.