Mastering Market Shifts: Funding and Strategies for Biotech Real Estate

What You Will Learn:

• Philadelphia’s “Secret Sauce” for Startups: The city offers a unique blend of assets for life science entrepreneurs – world-class research institutions producing cutting-edge IP and talent, plus a culture of collaboration where academia, industry, and government actively work together. Hear how this has created fertile ground for startups. For instance, the University City Science Center’s expansion with Wexford and Ventas now spans 11 city blocks and houses 200+ companies, providing critical lab space and networking for entrepreneurs. We’ll hear success stories of companies that started in a campus lab or incubator and grew into standalone firms, illustrating the “incubation-to-graduation” pipeline now established in Philly .
• Retaining Homegrown Companies: What does it takes to keep companies in the region through their growth stages. Philadelphia’s “bench-to-market” pathway is increasingly robust, a company can start at a university lab, launch at a BioLabs or B+Labs incubator, then move up to a larger space in the city, and even establish manufacturing at sites like the Navy Yard, all without leaving Greater Philadelphia . This continuum (rare among cities) is a selling point. Hear how to leverage initiatives and how to address any gaps so that Philly’s brightest biotech companies scale up locally rather than relocate.