Naheed Kurji

We've done the friends family, we've gone through the angel networks, we've raised capital from early stage venture capital funds to get through that death valley — and all aligned with our overall scientific and commercial vision as a company. That, supported by government grants and non-diluted financing, was about 14 and a half million dollars.

My one piece of advice would be to have tenacity and to have conviction to your story and the relationship that you have with the other side. It's not across a table, it's side by side.

Some companies start to tell too many stories early on without the fundamentals — too much sizzle, not enough steak. For us, we've invested very heavily in the science, rigorously validated our platform and applied it in a number of contexts. It hasn't always worked — there's no silver bullet to drug discovery.

forget the pot of gold it does not exist focus on developing innovative products that solve real needs and constantly looking to solve those problems

don't ever let anybody join your company that's going to disrupt let them enhance

create an environment where people are happy coming to work and we're sociable before if they're happy is the Google approach in the monotonic avenues their meaning productive they put out a bit of salt complex problems