BIOS Angels: World’s 1st TechBio Angel Syndicate ✨

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4 min readJun 19, 2021

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Alix Ventures: Supporting Early Stage Life Science Startups Engineering Biology to Drive Radical Advances in Human Health

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Overview 🎉

We’re excited to announce the launch of BIOS Angels — The world’s first angel investing syndicate dedicated to TechBio Startups🔬

As we embark on the century of biology the era of platform companies is just beginning 💥

The life sciences sector with the rise of TechBio is experiencing unprecedented innovation, a change we believe is leading to some of the most impactful solutions in decades 🚀

Notable IPOs & exits in the last year have set the stage & established North Star playbooks, such as:

  • AbCellera — ~$6.81B Market Cap: Anti-Body Discovery
  • Gingko Bioworks — ~$15B Market Cap: Organism Engineering
  • Grail — ~$10B Acq: Early Cancer Detection
  • Guardant — ~12.15B Market Cap: Early Cancer Detection
  • Recursion — ~$6.5B Market Cap: AI Enabled Drug Discovery
  • Twist — ~5.44B Market Cap: DNA Synthesis Production

Amongst so many others have all IPO’d or exited recently, shaping a radical transformation for the future of patient care ❤️

BIOS Angels will aim to partner amongst passionate accomplished founders with unique insights into engineering biology to solve some of the world’s most daring problems facing us in Life Sciences. Through an unrivaled community comprised of the utmost leading experts in Life Sciences, possessing unmatched technical rigor & industry insights, we’ll aim to support breakthrough startups pushing the bounds of the possible to drive patient impact 🌟

Join Now: Click to Apply :)

So what types of deals & companies will we look at? Glad you asked…

Invest Profiles 🧬

1 — Core: ~ 5–7 Investments Annually

These deals will primarily include Seed stage companies working at the intersection of biology & engineering. We’ll look for transformational scientific insights that can form the basis for platform type companies to emerge. We’ll invest across therapeutics, diagnostics, services, & manufacturing. Really as long as its a platform nothing is out of bounds.

We will offer select allocations to BIOS Angels members for a total of $500K — $1M when appropriate to participate.

2 — Series As / Follow Ons: ~ 3–5 Investments Annually

These deals will primarily include Series A stage companies working at the intersection of biology & engineering. We’ll invest in platform companies across therapeutics, diagnostics, services, & manufacturing, really as long as its a platform nothing is out of bounds.

We will offer select allocations to BIOS Angels members for a total of $1M — $2M when appropriate to participate.

3 — Series Bs / Follow Ons: ~ 1–3 Investments Annually

Same as above^^, but for primarily Series B stage companies.

Here we’ll offer select allocations to BIOS Angels members for a total of $5M — $10M when appropriate to participate.

4 — Community Sourced Deals

We welcome ALL BIOS Angels Members to bring deals to the table for the syndicate to deliberate over. After diligence, should the syndicate choose to move we will open allocations to the group to decide over.

How We’ll Operate 🌎

For all deals, BIOS Team / Alix Ventures Investment Team will prepare an 1 - internal investment memo to be shared with ONLY the syndicate, 2 - market overview & research report, & 3 - provide non-confidential company materials to aid in diligence.

We’ll aim to move quick, often going from syndication deliberations to final allocations in 1–2 weeks.

Should you want to participate simply raise your hand & based on the allocation available we’ll invite those to invest via a pooled entity known as a Special Purpose Vehicel or SPV for short (Note — associated fees & structure may vary).

So Who Can Join?

We encourage only those who are accredited investors (See Criteria) to apply to join BIOS Angels. Otherwise, we no specific criteria applies, but we have a soft spot for founders/operators that can add value to the portfolio :)

Look no further….

Join Now: Click to Apply :)

Questions? Contact: HQ@Bios.Community

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