December 5th: Financing your Biohealth Startup
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December 5th Schedule
Use this page to buy tickets to the December 5th afternoon workshop, evening panel, or the full day.
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3:00pm-5:00pm Workshop - How do you Evaluate the Financial Health of your Business? Finance for Life Science Companies Workshop
Financial Modeling is essential to business, and the aim of the workshop is to provide entrepreneurs in the life sciences with practical skills in using accounting data to make decisions, and in reading financial statements to effectively manage their business, to converse with investors, stakeholders and bookkeepers on a more interactive level.
This workshop is designed to show the entrepreneur how to read and use key data from the financial statements, to understand how a business manages its profitability and cash flow.The 2 hour workshop will use the two main statements, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement, to manage the cash flow cycle from purchases to banking the cash.
By the end of the workshop, candidates will be able to efficiently read the main financial statements, and using a number of key figures, develop a story line of the effectiveness of the business in generating sales revenue through to cash flow.
Workshop will be provided by Alex Sigal
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5:30pm-7:30pm Panel - Demystifying Investment in Life Science Startups Panel
Listen to flash presentations from Cann Forecast, Affinite Instruments and Shaddari.
Startup investing is about more than just money—the best investors bring contacts, relationships, and industry expertise to open up markets previously unavailable to most entrepreneurs.
When you connect with the right investor, it’s like finding a new partner. Raising funds is all about connecting with the investor who’s right for you.
Learn how your Life Sciences startup can leverage the local investment ecosystem. You’ll gain invaluable insight into how investors view valuations, due diligence, friends and family money, crowdfunding, team building, scalability, iteration, exit strategies--and much more.
Leading early stage venture capitalists and investors will be joining this panel to share insights on their investment strategies, core areas of interest and best practices when engaging with strategic investors.
Confirmed panelists:
- Véronique Bougie from Mperia
- Jean-Francois Pariseau from Amplitude
- Xavier-Henri Hervé from District 3
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Biohealth Innovation week is a dynamic bootcamp that will bring together the key players in Montreal’s Biohealth sector to provide informative workshops and panel discussions. You will have the opportunity to discover the latest trends in Biohealth, network with Life-Science Startups, Venture Capitalists and the leading community players in Montreal’s bio-innovation ecosystem. Sponsored by the city of Montreal and District 3.
