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Dr. Viktoria Kheifets, a SPARK at Stanford advisor, will present best practices for early start up pitching.

Viktoria Kheifets has 17 years of startup experience, both in the operations and ideation. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President at Alkahest where she led a cross functional team to identify plasma bioactives and their mechanisms of reversing age-dependent decline in the brain and other critical organ systems. Prior to Alkahest, Viktoria focused on new company formation at Third Rock Ventures in the fields of liver regeneration and immunometabolism. She was a Senior Group Leader of Biology at Edison Pharmaceutics where she headed drug discovery efforts in orphan mitochondrial diseases and diseases of aging. Viktoria obtained her scientific training at MIT and Stanford.

Key Takeaways

• Describe how the financial and logistical risk of biotech defines funding strategy

• Give the tools to select stage-appropriate funding sources

• Outline critical fundraising pitch elements

• Increase awareness of VC mindset