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Alicia Yin

Biotech Venture Investing

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Executive Director

    2020

    Venture investment and newco creation across US and Asia, focusing on therapeutics

  • Equity Research Associate

    2018 - 2020

    Supported Senior Biotech Analyst, Andrew Fein, in conducting fundamental analysis, forming investment thesis and authoring research reports with focus on SMid-Cap biotech companies: -- Initiated coverage: KROS, ARVN, ZNTL, CNST, DCPH, BPMC, RUBY, APRE, MEIP, UMRX, SNSS -- Additional coverage (30+ companies) include: SGEN, VRTX, BCRX, KDMN, EPZM, SYRS etc.

  • Business Development and Strategy Intern

    2017 - 2018

    -- Assisted in the construction of venture capital investment portfolio of $100M, which is part of Varian’s long-term strategy to transform from a radiation oncology company to an integrated multi-modality cancer company; -- Performed market segment analysis for investment and partnership opportunities and reported to company executives on recommendations to pursue, with focus on cancer immunotherapies and biomarkers; -- Facilitated equity investment in Omniox ($90M Series D) by leading external and internal meetings (across business development team, translational oncology team, medical affairs team and legal team) and proposing partnership strategies; -- Performed equity investment transaction due diligence including clinical trial data analysis, preclinical data and patent analysis, competitive landscape analysis, financial modeling and valuation; -- Constructed and managed a comprehensive interactive cancer clinical trial database.

  • Research Assistant

    2011 - 2017

    Molecular cellular research to understand cancer immortality using a wide spectrum of human cancer tissues and genome editing technology.

2016 - 2016

  • Insight Healthcare

    2016 - 2016

    Team project developing fundraising strategy for a Phase II biopharmaceutical startup company.