Aggie Square – located amidst UC Davis’ Sacramento campus – exists at the convergence of a world-class university, academic medical center, and diverse, dynamic neighborhoods. Our Knowledge Community is where talent, industry, and top-tier institutions connect, amplify, and accelerate new discoveries.
Aggie Square is a multi-phased Knowledge Community where companies, talent, institutions, and the community can pursue their mission, collaborate with peers, enjoy space to relax and belong, and access best-in-class amenities.
Like other impactful Knowledge Communities, Aggie Square incorporates lab, office, academic, housing, and retail spaces paired with popular amenities and collaborative and community programming.
This talk, led by Kirsten Leute, Senior Vice President for University Relations at the venture fund Osage University Partners (OUP), will be structured around the firm’s many years of experience in hearing pitches and reviewing pitch decks to provide insight on creating and presenting an initial startup pitch to funders. The talk will delve into the venture capitalist mentality and will discuss the following areas:
· Pitching guidelines and suggestions
· Who pitches?
· Essential elements of the deck – and how much of each element to present
· Example slides
· What next?
Sacramento, CA 95817
Wang Lab
One of the research groups from UC Davis moving to Aggie Square is the Wang Lab, a prime research hub in stem cell therapy and gene editing for early treatments of birth defects such as spina bifida and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The lab develops tools and technologies, as well as therapeutics that integrate molecular, cellular, tissue and biomaterial engineering to promote regeneration and restore function.
“Our lab specializes in bringing therapeutics from bench to bedside, through innovative discovery, translational and investigational new drug-enabling studies, current Good Manufacturing Practice manufacturing, and conducting clinical trials in both human and companion animal patients.”
– Aijun Wang, professor of surgery and biomedical engineering
