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A program in fast and practical decision making for scientist founders

BSF14 //
Bootcamp for Scientist Founders

Avoid making expensive mistakes

How to frame effective customer conversations

1

How to secure the right investors

2

How to tell your best story

3

How to set up the right company infrastructure

4

Program logistics 

Rolling

Application period

TBD

BSF14 cohort selected

TBD

BSF14 online

TBD

BSF14 in-person in TBD

LOCATION

Online & in-person

INTENSITY

High

TIME COMMITMENT

20 hrs/week

CONTACT TIME

2 hr / 2 times a week

Wilbe Outcomes

$13M

the median valuation of Wilbe portfolio companies

$365M

combined valuation of 12 Wilbe portfolio companies

2.5%

average spinout terms negotiated for Wilbe founders with Technology Licencing Offices

Previous Instructors and Guest Speakers

Annalisa Jenkins

Board Member of multiple biotech companies

Committee Member, Science Board to the U.S. FDA

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Brian Fiske

Co-founder & CSO at Mythic Therapeutics

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Saalim Chowdhury

Ex Partner at 500 Startups, MD at Techstars 

Ex CTO at Skillbridge (acq by Toptal)

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Joshua McKenty

CEO at Polyguard.ai
Ex Pivotal, OpenStack, NASA, Netscape

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Lita Nelson

Ex Director, Technology Licensing Office at MIT

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Ilan Gur

Founder at Activate.org & Cyclotron Road

Program Director at ARPA-E, CEO of ARIA

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Wilbe founders

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Kart Tomberg
(BSF2)

Co-founder & CEO of ExpressionEdits

Redefining the status quo of protein expression.

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Francesco Sciortino
(BSF7)

Co-founder & CEO of Proxima Fusion

Bridging the energy of stars to Earth with fusion power plants.

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Assia Kasdi
(BSF3)

Co-founder & CEO of Milvus Advanced

Developing affordable substitutes to rare Earth materials.

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Shamit Shrivastava
(BSF2)

Co-founder & CEO of Apoha

Building the first machine that understands sensory data.

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Alex Webster
(BSF8)

Co-founder & CSO of U-Ploid

Restoring fertility to

aged eggs.

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Zahra Jawad
(BSF7)

Founder & CEO of Creasallis

Creating a second generation of antibody-based medicines.

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Who is this for?

Background

You are a scientist (PI, postdoc, industry) who is a founder, or about to become one

Ambition

Your company aims to solve a global problem using a scientific breakthrough

Stage

You are gearing up to raise funding

What is Wilbe?

We are venture operators and investors who have built a global community of ambitious scientists and developed a playbook to launch and scale high performance science-based companies. We are behind the development of some of the most exciting scientist-led companies and offer the most supportive infrastructure to the ecosystem across 4 different levels:

Kick-starting the founder journey

We operate Wilbe Sandbox – a hub where scientists connect and build outside of academia

Helping founders secure lab space

We provide scientists with the core infrastructure of where to build their venture

Boosting scientist founders

We run BSF to help the existing scientist founders make fast and smart decisions in their journey

Partnering with select founders

We help select founders with the spinout process, IP, talent and other operations needed to succeed 

"Honestly I can't imagine the company without them. Their devotion and energy kept me going when all seemed overly frustrating!"

Kart Tomberg, Co-founder & CEO of ExpressionEdits

"Wilbe believed in our project from day 1. It accelerated us enormously in the early days, helping us get on track to develop a first-class team"

Francesco Sciortino, Co-founder & CEO of Proxima Fusion

"Wilbe have always backed our biggest ambitions. And we get advice that is geared towards 'how can you be just completely true to yourself and to the reason you built the company'"

Shamit and Anshika Shrivastava Co-founders of Apoha

"Ale and Dee have followed me throughout my whole entrepreneurial journey with the same constant and relentless support. They are the people whom I trust the most in the entrepreneurial world and definitely the most human."

Assia Kasdi, Co-founder & CEO of Milvus Advanced

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