Category Archives: Governance

At the end of the day, biotech venture capital is a business and driving returns is the ultimate metric. For twenty years, to deliver on that, I’ve embraced what I call the “first principle” of early stage biotech investing: if

Talented people make the magic happen in biotech.  This is the second post in my “Twenty Years In Early Stage Venture” trifecta. Yesterday’s was on Science. Today we’re talking about the People part of biotech. After a couple decades and

By Cody Tranbarger, EIR at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC As the biotech industry trudges through its fourth consecutive year of middling performance and sluggish capital markets, corporate governance has become a salient

A biotech’s Board often plays important roles in shaping the company’s success or failure: contributing strategic guidance, providing proper governance, stewarding fiduciary responsibilities, raising a startups’ profile, aiding business development, to name a few. Over the life of a biotech,

As with everything in life, it’s always about the people.  Bet the jockey, not the horse.  Great entrepreneurs and C-level executives are very hard to come by in R&D-intensive biotech companies, and its probably one of the biggest bottlenecks in