Published June 3, 2021 at 5:30 AM EDT
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When we last interviewed our next guest, his company was a brand new start-up achieving some early success helping Clemson football fans who were buying their tickets online to be able to pick their seats based on preferences such as shade, who’s sitting next to them, etc. They have since pivoted, as startups often do, to become a consumer information B2B company for live event organizers such as sports teams, festivals, and conferences. And that shift has attracted investments from the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) and Google’s Startups Black Founders Fund.
End of Year Update: 2020 Life Science Venture Capital Funding Roundup in the BioHealth Capital Region
This has certainly been a year unlike any other for BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) life science companies of all sizes and kinds. Just a few months into 2020, the coronavirus pandemic swept the region, seriously disrupting, albeit temporarily, the best-laid plans of aspiring founders, entrepreneurs, emerging startups, pre-clinical and more established, larger biohealth organizations in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
The regional life science ecosystem was prepared and pivoted rapidly to not only ensure continued operations, but also to redirect resources, talent and technologies to creating testing, developing COVID-19 therapies and progressing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates.