Nucleate Bio- A collaborative student-led organization that facilitates the formation of pioneering life sciences companies

Anjali Ramaswami, Tobias Schmid and Miroslov Gasparek, are leaders at Nucleate Bio, a nonprofit educational organization that empowers the next generation of bio-entrepreneurs to launch successful life sciences ventures. Their program connects early-career scientists with business students and provides a structured educational framework with one-on-one mentorship that leverages their world-class network & resources. In this episode of lab to startup, we talk about the pain points this group is addressing; understand how they match co-founders, their application process; guidelines and challenges for others considering launching a chapter of this organization at their universities; and subjects like diversity, cross pollination between campuses and many others. Shownotes - https://nucleate.xyz - Problems that Nucleate is addressing and back story to build this organization - Matching co-founders - Lessons learnt from team formations - Genesis: Developing a venture thesis based on an idea - Application process - Clinical track program - Speech language program to teach scientists how to talk about their research without revealing any key technology - Challenges initiating local chapters - Pairing MBAs with PhDs- what works? Cross pollination between campus - Addressing diversity -  Mentorship: From faculty, VCs, operators - Nucleate 2023 Activator application: https://nucleate.typeform.com/activator2023?typeform-source=nucleate.xyz - General Inquiry: [email protected]