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Bruce Booth is a Partner at Atlas Venture focused on helping start and fund emerging biotech therapeutics companies. He's married to a wonderful woman and has three great kids. Active skier, runner, fly fisherman.
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- That said, "First-time" venture financings of new biotech are down however, and this is a concern. Need more new startups. #cvforum13 4 days ago
- Panel at #cvforum13 says Biotech VC funding at 95 levels. Not true. Overall biotech VC roughly stable for decade, w/ quarterly variation. 4 days ago
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
More Than Half of Biotech Venture Financings Are Early Stage Deals
July 26, 2012
Most readers won’t believe the title, or at least not if they’ve read much in the past few years about the anemic early stage biotech environment. But hopefully this post will convince them. It all comes down to what do
Where Is Everyone? Biotech’s Dwindling Number of Venture Firms
July 24, 2012
The past few weeks have been full of bad news about biotech venture: the numbers were abysmal as venture investments into biotech during the first half of 2012 were off some 40% from last year. This drop can’t be a
Venture Debt: Under-Appreciated Tool for Building Biotechs
July 11, 2012
Cash-burning R&D-stage biotechs have big appetites for cash, which is typically addressed with an equity-based diet. It’s also supported through corporate partnerships and other less dilutive means such as grants and foundation funding. But another important and often under-appreciated source



