The LSN mantra is that raising capital is a numbers game.  To succeed, you must find investors that are a fit for your product and stage of development, go global rather than restricting yourself to your local region, and target all ten categories of early stage life science investor rather than restricting your view to one source of capital.

Every few months it seems that someone in the investment world has an epiphany that they must create a global family office network. The idea always seems compelling and usually involves a plan to sponsor small, intimate conferences that target companies seeking investors. The network creators begin courting the venture community and healthcare CEOs with descriptions of the family offices that allegedly bought in and will attend these conferences - and the price to appear at them is often  a lot of money. The attending fundraising CEOs theoretically benefit from getting in front of the new hot category of investor, and it's suggested that the family offices will participate in such a small meeting in return for the chance to trade strategies, tactics, and evaluations with other similar entities.  This model and concept is all about getting special access, which sounds almost too good to be true...

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LSN RESI 5 Biotech Family Offices Panel