Biotech Equity Crowdfunding Gets A Head Start Overseas
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Can crowdfunding fill the biotech capital gap? In the US, new services are jockeying at the starting gate even though the government’s final rules won’t be ready soon, while in Europe the experiment has begun in earnest.
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