The IP Driven Start-up

In this episode, Marks & Clerk's Anis Naidu is joined by Dr. Uday Phadke and Sam Dods, co-founders of Triple Chasm. Drawing on research across 7,000 companies globally, Uday and Sam have built a rigorous, data-driven framework for understanding why so many technology ventures fail to make the journey from laboratory to commercial success - and what the successful ten per cent consistently do diffe...

In this episode, Marks & Clerk's Anis Naidu is joined by two of the North West's most experienced voices in early-stage investment and innovation: Dr. Andy Round, Senior Investment Director at Deepbridge Capital, and Andy Roberts, former Head of Innovation at Bruntwood SciTech. Between them, they bring decades of experience backing, advising and accelerating life science start-ups.

In this episode, Marks & Clerk's Anis Naidu sits down with Professor Aline Miller, Associate Vice President for Enterprise at the University of Manchester and founder of Manchester BIOGEL, which raised over £4 million, built a global distribution network, and achieved a successful exit in 2023. Now developing her second venture, Molla Pharm, Aline offers a thoughtful reflection on a decade of comm...