RE: Easy solution to an easy problem.18 May 2024 20:27
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Here's an example of the kind of company you are talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech
"BioNTech was founded in 2008 based on research by Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, and Christoph Huber, with a seed investment of €150 million from MIG Capital and AT Impf."
Great scientists, and because they were recognised as such, two companies were prepared to pitch in with €150 million.
With this sort of start, they quickly became one of the go-to companies when big pharma wanted research doing.
They now how an mcap of in excess of $20 billion and this was much higher during the pandemic.
So a few questions:
1) How are VAL going to attract scientists of the calibre of Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, and Christoph Huber?
2) How are they going to get the necessary finance in the first place?
3) Why choose VAL in preference to a completely new start-up where you approach the scientists of your choice first, and having secured your dream team, you then provide the seed capital.