STOCKWATCH: Name, Platform; Time of death, December 2013
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
They only come out towards the end of an IPO window. After investors have snapped up all the preclinical or Phase I-stage drug development companies and the venture capitalists are scratching around their portfolios to off-load risk and negative cash flows onto the public markets from investments that weren't formed five minutes ago, then we see the platform companies.
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