More than 30 leading investors and strategic partners from across the country will come to Denver to connect and invest in the region's emerging life science companies at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor & Partnering Conference. Spearheaded by the Colorado BioScience Association in collaboration with associations in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico and Utah — the conference opens with a reception at the Colorado Governor’s Mansion September 18th and follows with a full day of company pitch presentations September 19th at The Ritz-Carlton, Denver.

1. 30+ Life Science Investors & Strategic Partners Convene In Denver This Week
For 2013 Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor & Partnering Conference
More than 30 leading investors and strategic partners from across the country will come to Denver to
connect and invest in the region’s emerging life science companies at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Life Science
Investor & Partnering Conference. Spearheaded by the Colorado BioScience Association in collaboration
with associations in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico and Utah — the conference opens with a reception at
the Colorado Governor’s Mansion September 18th
and follows with a full day of company pitch presentations
September 19th
at The Ritz‐Carlton, Denver.
Denver, CO, September 16, 2013 – More than thirty of the industry’s leading investors and strategic partners will attend
presentations by the region’s most innovative life science companies at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor
and Partnering Conference (RMLIPC), September 18‐19 at the The Ritz‐Carlton, Denver.
The announcement is made by April Giles, President & CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) who says,
“Leading biotech, medical device, diagnostic and pharmaceutical investors from across the country will be coming to
Denver to connect and invest in the regions emerging life science companies. Each company will make a 10‐minute
presentation to an audience of their peers, investors and partners, followed by a 5‐minute period of questions—this
type of high‐pressure pitching is typical in vying for highly coveted VC funding.”
“The RMLIPC really showcases the best companies from the region and provides investors an opportunity to evaluate
these fresh investment opportunities and meet one‐on‐one with their founders and executive team,” said Giles. “It’s
important to note, the Rocky Mountain region is a key player in the life science industry. There has been over $1 billion
in investment in the region over the past five years.”
The following investors and strategic partners will be attending RMLIPC 2013:
Amgen Ventures, Thousand Oaks, CA http://www.amgen.com/partners/amgen_ventures
Aphelion Capital, Mill Valley, CA http://www.aphelioncapital.net
Bay City Capital, San Francisco, CA http://www.baycitycapital.com
BioGenerator, St. Louis, MO http://www.biogenerator.org
Boulder Ventures, Boulder, CO http://www.boulderventures.com
Charter Life Sciences, Santa Clara, CA http://www.charterls.com
Covidien, Mansfield, MA http://www.covidien.com
Epic Ventures, Albuquerque, NM http://www.epicvc.com
GE Healthcare Financial Services, Chicago, IL http://www.gehealthcarefinance.com
Goodworks Ventures, MT http://www.goodworksventures.com
High Country Venture, Boulder, CO http://highcountryventure.com
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation,
New Brunswick, NJ http://www.jjdevcorp.com
KMG Capital Partners, Denver CO
Level 5 Partners, Fort Collins, CO http://l5partners.com
Lightstone Ventures, Boulder, CO http://lightstonevc.com
Mercury Fund, Houston, TX http://www.mercuryfund.com
Mile High Fund, Denver, CO http://www.comilehighfund.com
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Morgenthaler Ventures, Menlo Park, CA http://www.morgenthaler.com
New Enterprise Associates, Menlo Park, CA http://www.nea.com
Novartis Venture Funds, Cambridge, MA http://www.venturefund.novartis.com
Red Script Ventures, New Brunswick, NJ http://www.jjdevcorp.com
Remeditex, Dallas, TX http://remeditex.com
Salt Lake Life Science Angels, Salt Lake City, UT http://www.sllsa.com
Sanderling Ventures, San Mateo, CA http://www.sanderling.com
Signal Peak Ventures, Salt Lake City, UT http://signalpeakvc.com
Silicon Valley Bank, Broomfield, CO http://www.svb.com
Split Rock Partners, Menlo Park, CA http://www.splitrock.com
SR One, Corporate VC Arm of GlaxoSmithKline,
San Francisco, CA http://www.srone.com
Volcano Capital, New York, NY http://www.volcanocap.com
Wayne Brown Institute, Salt Lake City, UT http://www.waynebrowninstitute.org
Wexford Capital LP, Greenwich, CT http://www.wexford.com
About the Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor & Partnering Conference
The 2013 Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor & Partnering Conference – spearheaded by the Colorado BioScience
Association in collaboration with associations in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico and Utah — will open with a reception
at the Colorado Governor’s Mansion September 18th
and follow with a full day of company pitch presentations
September 19th
. The keynote breakfast will include Kyle Lefkoff, founder and General Partner of Boulder Ventures,
leading a conversation with the CEOs of Colorado's two premier publicly‐traded pharmaceutical companies‐Patrick
Mahaffy, Founder and CEO of Clovis Oncology and Ron Squarer, CEO of Array BioPharma. The keynote lunch titled “New
Approaches to Healthcare Innovation” will be a presentation from Jeff Calcagno, M.D., Venture Investments with
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. For more information and registration details, visit
http://www.RockyMtnBioInvest.com.
On Twitter, please use the hashtag #RockyMtnBioInvest for your tweets.
About Colorado BioScience Association
The CBSA is a not‐for‐profit organization providing services and support for Colorado's bioscience industry. With more
than 350 members, CBSA actively works to promote the growth of the industry by advocating for a better business
environment, growing the state's biotech workforce, fighting for policies that support a strong bioscience industry in the
state, and speaking with a single voice on behalf of the industry. For more information, visit
http://www.cobioscience.com.
CBSA also is found on these social media sites:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/COBioscience
LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=98468&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/ColoradoBioScienceAssociation
News Feed: http://coloradobio.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/COBioscience
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/COBioscience
Tumblr: http://cobioscience.tumblr.com
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Contacts:
Mae Desaire, Director of Marketing, Colorado BioScience Association ‐ http://www.cobioscience.com – 720‐382‐5918,
mdesaire@cobioscience.com
Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR, Absolutely PR – http://www.absolutelypr.com – 303‐984‐9801, maggie@absolutelypr.com