Diane Stokes, Founder and Angel - Iron Woman 2

Click to Learn About Opportunities in Angel-Scale Biotech Diane Stokes, founder and angel investor, is back to update us on her startups. This inspiring triathlete has great ideas for startups who want to scale. Highlights: Sal Daher Welcomes Back Iron Woman Diane Stokes, Founder & Angel This Interview Picks Up Where the Prior Interview Left Off – Back to Wyebot How Wyebot Weathered COVID Diane Stokes and Colleagues Formed a Firm to Help Startups Grow Squadle – Promising Startup in Which Diane Stokes and Sal Daher Invested Dermal Photonics – Diane Stokes Is Trying Their Product Dermal Photonics Is Championed by Super Angel Jeff Arnold Who Has Been on the Podcast Sal Daher's Standing Question: How to Get More Angels to Do Biotech "He discovered that VCs are not doing the small-scale biotech anymore. By small scale is a company that could sell for $200 million." "They all want to have the next Moderna." "One of the things is, is it manufacturable? How do you get to scale on your manufacturing, if it's not even at that stage yet?" Diane Stokes Believes Angels Have to Be Shown the Possibilities of the Biotechnology Beyond the First use Case "The resource we have an abundance of, are brilliant academics with no business experience, but with tremendous motivation." "If you get a physician that is open to having somebody work with them and know what they don't know in that, it can be very successful and I think this is similar." "Being able to understand the state of where your organization is, what help you need, where to spend that newly acquired funding that you received." Diane Stokes Plans to Do a 2000-mile Bike Ride to Fight ALS Topics: management, angel investing strategies, biotech, pivot