On the afternoon of October 16th, BIO will present the first BIO Seed-Stage Spotlight on Tech Transfer, featuring more than two dozen exciting early-stage companies giving brief pitches and getting investor feedback in front of our audience. All these companies will then participate in the BIO One-on-One Partnering™ system during the BIO Investor Forum. To identify this set of start-ups, BIO worked with the following organizations with experience supporting and incubating such innovative entrepreneurs, especially those with ties to academic biomedical research: California Life Sciences FAST advisory program, SPARK at Stanford, NYU Endless Frontier Labs, Tulane University School of Medicine, UCSF Innovation Ventures, WARF, MBC BioLabs, IndieBio, and Breakout Ventures.