I first met Andreas as a jury member at the Rebel Bio Pitch day back in Spring of 2017 when he was heading the Life Science team at M Ventures. …

I steeled myself to write a post mortem article for my company about a year ago, when it was in life support. Life being what it is, things changed mid-article and somehow, the company survived — at least for a while. …

A chat with Sean O’Sullivan on social impact, the world-changing power of biotechnology, and his motivations as an investor. “I’m afraid that my verbal language is going to be full of, you know, incomplete sentences and everything else, so if you can correct me and make me sound more intelligent…

There’s something very scary that happens around entrepreneurs and con artists alike. We (either the first or the second group, I’ll let you decide) are in a constant mission of making the world fit us. We don’t just avoid taking the world as it is, we actively stretch the lines…

I love seeing those post and pictures that have “faith in humanity restored” as a tagline. People paying it forward with coffee and food, helping animals cross streets, and just doing random acts of kindness all around. I can’t believe I almost forgot, but I was lucky enough to be…

The startup-powered resurgence of the generalist: A reading list for the overwhelmed first-time founder The Monday after Easter finds me walking around the streets of Cork, Ireland. …

Originally posted in emiliadiaz.cl as part of the Life as a Rebel series. If you ask any serious investor what’s the most important thing a startup can do they’re likely to mention three things: sell, sell and sell. IT based startups know this well and are used to making things…

Originally posted in emiliadiaz.cl as part of the Life as a Rebel series. When the fear of my startup going under became dread, I turned to post mortem articles. There’s a vast collection of start-up autopsies littering the web, written by illuminated founders trying to make sense of their brainchild’s…

Interested to see how one of the biggest biotech accelerators worldwide is from the inside? Join me in the four-month adventure that is Rebel Bio, SOSV’s global biotech accelerator. Previous part here. — Originally posted in Emilia Díaz / Life as a Rebel We move to the lab and immediately feel the loss of the coffee machine. The seating arrangements are also unfortunate since, as anyone who’s ever worked in a lab can testify, whoever provides laboratory stools believes we should all get…