
10 Essential External Partners to Build Early
At Sky Valley Advisors, we work with biotech / life sciences founders from inception to IPO and beyond—and if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s this:
You don’t just build a biotech / life sciences company. You build an ecosystem.
Before your science ever reaches patients, it will go through licensing offices, law firms, patent filings, regulatory bodies, consultants, capital markets, etc. Every external partner you bring on can either accelerate your path—or become a bottleneck.
Here’s our founder-friendly checklist of the critical external partners we recommend our clients to assemble early: