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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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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Biotech M&A in 2012: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
January 30, 2013
The numbers are in on the 2012 Pharma/Biotech M&A performance, at least according to our friends at HBM Partners. They’ve released another well-annotated deal report and database. The quick summary from a venture-backed biotech perspective: it was a good year
Early Stage Biotech Showing Positive Signs of Scaling Its Wall of Worry
January 15, 2013
As 2013 begins, and the JPM conference is behind us, it’s a great time to reflect on the state of the biotech industry and the sentiments around early stage investing in particular. While pessimism abounds in many corners about the
JPM Takeaway: Pharma Wants to Engage Earlier & More Actively
January 11, 2013
Most of the news flow around the JPM Healthcare conferences centers around the main event: public companies presenting their earnings forecasts, R&D updates, new partnering deals, and the like. There’s also a small private company track at JPM, and there are



