Spin-Out Step-Ups Reflect Bulk, Not Risk
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
An analysis of a group of Big Pharma and big biotech spin-outs, which tend to raise more private money than their build-from-scratch bretheren, shows that while these firms are certainly heftier--and often considered better equiped to succeed in the public markets--their pre-money step-ups are in the end, nothing special.