Friday, August 15, 2014

New Engagement - Revolutionsry Big Data Clinical Decision Support Analysis Engine and Database



Big Data Analysis Engine Optimizes Disease Treatment & Speeds Drug Discovery      


  • Initial "Freemium" version has 15,336 registered users with the highest concentration coming from (in order) The US National Institute of Health, Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Research Center, Stanford Medical School, Johns Hopkins, The Mayo Clinic, M.D. Anderson, and Mt. Sinai

  • Super computational AI systems biology machine has read the entire US National Library of Medicine Medline Archive, extracted all key clinical outcome data from over 200 years of research and integrated it into real time treatment optimization and new cure discovery solutions.

  • Database tracks: 11,600 diseases and rates247,600 drugs and biological agents1,224 therapeutic techniques and 1,416 pharma companies for achieved successful clinical outcomes
  • Commercialized Products and Services: Company solutions are productized as 1. evidence-based publications of best treatment options for patients,  2. Outcome-centric on line real time Clinical Decision Support Systems for physicians, and 3. Contract Services for new drug discovery real time drug repurposing for pharma manufacturers.
The Company's Systems Biology Machine was designed to meet the NIH "Bench to Bedside Program" goal for rapid translation of pure research into an Evidence-Based Medicine System usable in real time at the point of clinical care, and the FDA "Critical Path Initiative" goal for rapid discovery of new cures using built in CA-DDD: Computer Aided Drug Discovery and Development models.

Operationally, Company products are  web browser-accessible applications easily integrated  into all software as service solutions from leading health information/EMR Cloud providers seeking to improve patient outcomes through Personalized Medicine, evidence-targeted therapies, and side by side cost  to efficacy comparative data.  The company’s clinical outcome database is the largest in the world based solely on proven clinical efficacy and is directly integrated with Network Graph Theory algorithms for new cure discovery. Its use preempts futile path investments in the hundreds of millions of R&D dollars.  The ability of the Company's Machine to autonomously discover new cures for human disease—in 3-4 minutes of computation--has been formally demonstrated to the NSF, NIH, and FDA.  Early adopter sales have been made for each product line segment.

Our Client has engaged MidMarket Capital to locate a Strategic Buyer / Investor that could capitalize on their world class technology solution, leverage their intellectual property and scale into a very large and receptive market space.

We are exclusively representing this Company to your firm as part of an offering to a select group of qualified investors.

Dropbox Link for Profile and NDA

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12507505/%23%20140811%20%20PROFILE%20and%20NDA.pdf
 

 

Dave Kauppi is a Merger and Acquisition Advisor and Managing Director of MidMarket Capital, providing business broker and investment banking services to owners in the sale of information technology companies. To view our lists of buyers and sellers click to visit our Web Site MidMarket Capital

Thursday, August 7, 2014

When You Sell Your Software Company Can Have a Big Impact on Your Sale Price


When a large software company makes an acquisition in a particular niche, several other comparable acquisitions soon follow. This article discusses this market dynamic and the importance for owners of similar software companies to reevaluate their exit plans.

Our firm was engaged as a merger and acquisition advisor in 2010 to sell a Content / Document Management Software Firm. We put together a database of likely buyers in that software category and began our contact process. Fast Forward to early 2014. We have been engaged by a second Content / Document Management Firm to sell their software company. From our earlier engagement, we dusted off our database of mid-market software companies in that space and began making our phone calls.

A very interesting thing happened. 40% of these middle market software companies had been acquired by one of the large software companies. We would call one document management software company expecting the receptionist to answer by the company name in our database. Instead, we got, "Thank you for calling OpenText." Next call, instead of the expected company name, we got an EMC Company. Another call and this time, "thank you for calling Oracle." Two calls later, we reach an IBM Company.

Wow. Between mid 2010 and early 2014, there was a buying spree by the enterprise software vendors shoring up their product offering to become a much more comprehensive offering, now called ECM or enterprise content management. It was almost like a heavyweight fight - IBM punches, EMC counters, and Oracle lands a blow while OpenText dodges a punch.

For the midsized software companies in this space, these were exciting times. This rapid consolidation and active buying caused the transaction values to increase rapidly. Once the enterprise companies have added what they needed, however, the buying stops, the market returns to normal and sellers no longer command a premium price. Now the bad news. If you were a mid-sized competitor of the acquired companies, you are now competing with very large, powerful competitors. They will dwarf your company in terms of sales force size, marketing resources, brand awareness and pricing power. Their product now becomes the safe choice in a head-to -head competition with yours.

To now compete effectively will require even more skill. Your firm can continue to provide outstanding service and responsiveness. You can provide the small company customer attention that many customers require. You can be nimble and innovate with new products and features as another way to successfully compete. You often hear the stock market pundits say, "the trend is your friend" or "don't fight the trend." There is a certain wisdom to this sentiment. If you are in a software category that suddenly has become the target for the big software vendors, you may do best to exit according to the market conditions rather than your original retirement schedule.

Actually, the buying company will most likely want you to stay on board for a period of time to transfer customer relationships and intellectual property. So you can take your chips off the table today at an opportune time for rich valuation multiples and then retire a few years later. If you are younger, you can secure your family's financial future, work for the new company for a few years, gain valuable experience and then exit. Now you are ready to launch your next great idea. This time it will be far easier. You will have a large base of resources and influential contacts. Also the venture capital guys might even give you money under reasonable terms. Home Run, touch em all!


Dave Kauppi is a Merger and Acquisition Advisor and Managing Director of MidMarket Capital, providing business broker and investment banking services to owners in the sale of information technology companies. To view our lists of buyers and sellers click to visit our Web Site MidMarket Capital