When : 28 Feb 2017; 800am-930am
Where: Quorum, Uni City Science Center
Who: James Hill
James Hill, Senior Associate at Edison Partners. At Edison Partners, James focuses on sourcing investments in Healthcare IT, FinTech, MarTech and Enterprise 2.0. His prior experience includes work in the startup business environment and legal fields. Edison Partners concentrates on helping companies navigate, accelerate and scale growth at each stage of their journey. Join us to have your questions answered by an expert!
James Hill
Invest until USD$30 million
48 portfolio companies, USD$3.6 billion investment
Almost 25 Percent for each portfolio
Fund life cycle is 10 years.
Registration with FDA takes a lot of time.
We have done 18 IPOs before.
Valuation process - depends on company to company basis
2.6 times revenue
Pre-money valuation
We'll meet with you few couple times
Partnership meeting to get more answers
Talking to your competitors
The more you can show growth, the fast you grow is better
We look at many Office Technology Transfer companies (University companies).
The challenge is how you value the patents (from the university).
One company invested USD57 million for Ohio State University
Combination of great CEOs with good companies --> Success factor
Our due diligence process is very thorough...
We could have been very confident in the business we invested.
Some technology companies selling something but with no/less value to the customer.
Trump's Presidency creates some uncertainties in pharmaceutical industries.
2/3 of our companies are succeed or ...
Many points I missed...sorry..
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