Global Bio Xcellerator:
Nurturing and scaling women led bio ventures

GBX Women's Entrepreneurship Day

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day is celebrated globally across 144 countries around November 19th. The purpose is to not only to highlight the challenges that women entrepreneurs uniquely face, however more importantly mobilise the ecosystem to build further women led companies from founders, business leaders, investors, changemakers and supporters who empower this community.

We are hosting a closed roundtable with not more than 50 participants to join from US, UK, NZ and AU. The panelists will be sharing their unique perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs especially in health-tech:

– Tara Croft, CEO of Baymatob
– Sarah Park, Co-founder and Managing Partner Even Capital
– Sibylle Hauser, Executive Director California Life Sciences

The discussion will be chaired by Ipshita Mandal-Johnson, Founding Partner & CEO Global Bio Fund and moderated by Laura Brightman, GBF Ambassador. The 1-hour session would have brief introductions (10 mins), panel discussion (20 mins), and Q&A (30 mins).

Global Bio Xcellerator has built a virtual community of >1900 members from 15+ countries across health and life sciences innovation . In the past we have had discussion themes of leadership development and speech modulation, frugal innovation and imposter syndrome with some awesome GBX speakers from former world champion rower to a TED speaker.

GBF Talk on Leadership and Capital

On International Women’s Day, the GBF Team held a GBX roundtable discussion on “Reimagining Leadership and Capital in the Post-Pandemic World”

Panelists include Dr Andrew Kelly (pioneered Australasia’s specialist life sciences fund, Executive Director of BioPacific Partners, also in our Global Advisors Network), Dr. Claire Thompson (CEO of Agility Life Sciences, award-winning pharmaceutical scientist, strategist, and storyteller), and Monique Aiken (Co-founder of Make Justice Normal, ReStarter Fund and the past host of the podcast ‘The Reconstruction’, at ImpactAlpha where she is a Contributing Editor)

GBX Roundtable on Imposter Syndrome

Global Bio Fund are proud to present our third Global Bio Xcellerator virtual session: Imposter Syndrome (Event recording from 12th of May)

“I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out” – Maya Angelou; Even Albert Einstein described himself as an “Involuntary Swindler” whose work didn’t deserve at much attention as it did.

In this diverse panel discussion with an investor, entrepreneur, executive coach and even a former international sporting champion we will discuss both their individual experiences, the broader environment impact and their strategies on how to deal/combat the feelings of being an imposter.

“Imposter syndrome,” can often be simply defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud at work. Imposter Syndrome is experienced universally, regardless of gender experience or ethnicity. Most high performing leaders either consciously or unconsciously seem to have doubts on their own credibility for a position or challenging task they are undertaking.

There have been negative connotations associated with those experiencing Imposter Syndrome as not being confident about themselves, especially targeted towards women who need to fix themselves. A recently published HBR study on this topic describes the solution not in individual fixes but on creating an environment that fosters a number of different leadership styles and where diversity of racial, ethnic, and gender identities is viewed as just as professional as the current model.

This session was focused on women bio leaders and entrepreneurs.

GBX Talk on Frugal Innovation: How to do Better With Less

Global Bio Fund are proud to present our second Global Bio Xcellerator virtual session: Frugal Innovation: How to do Better with Less with Prof Jaideep Prabhu (Event recording from 30th of March)

Jaideep is the Jawaharlal Nehru professor of business and enterprise at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and he is also the director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB). He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book” on the subject of frugal innovation.

Frugal, Fast and Fun innovation Jaideep says, “When people think of innovation, they often think of technology, of something that is expensive, and that has been developed through structured processes in labs over a long period of time.
In fact, I have learned that around the world the best innovation is often frugal, fast and fun. In the developing world, where most of the world lives, something like 3 billion people live on less than $9 a day in purchasing parity terms. Many of these people face unmet needs in core areas like education, health, energy and financial services. Increasingly, however, large and small companies have begun developing market-based solutions to meet the needs of this large untapped market.”