[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0 (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]
Interesting article in the Fiscal Times about stock picks for the aging population. A number of expected targets such as medical devices (Stryker, Zimmer) and pharma companies (Johnson & Johnson, Teva). I thought Petsmart was an interesting add. I was interviewed for the article and tried to add in a few random ones to the [...]
I gave this presentation as part of my panel session on “raising angel and VC funding for your startup” to an audience of mainly entrepreneurs at the Boomer Venture Summit in Santa Clara, CA this week (conference recap here). Raising Angel and VC Money for Aging-Related Startups[slideshare id=8349720&w=425&h=355&sc=no] View more presentations from Stephen Johnston The summary [...]
The MaxLife Accelerator Fund. MaxLife addresses the needs in the financing marketplace by: Having Fund Management comprised of Managing Directors with ca. 100 person-years of venture capital experience in “finding and minding” successful opportunities that achieve prominence in their marketplaces, as well as healthy financial returns to investors via Funding Aging Research for Life Extension and [...]
