Celling Biosciences United States

Regeneration Through Innovation

Celling Biosciences is dedicated to researching and developing the future of healing through regenerative medicine and the clinical use of autologous regenerative cells to facilitate the body’s capacity to heal itself. Through our patented Celling therapies and our Institutes of Regenerative Medicine, Celling Biosciences is moving the science of healing forward and redefining the global medical landscape.

Year Founded
2006
Biotech Subsector
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Technology Overview
Regeneration Through Innovation

Celling Biosciences is dedicated to researching and developing the future of healing through regenerative medicine and the clinical use of autologous regenerative cells to facilitate the body’s capacity to heal itself. Through our patented Celling therapies and our Institutes of Regenerative Medicine, Celling Biosciences is moving the science of healing forward and redefining the global medical landscape.

Current Financing Needs

$3-10 million growth capital with opportunity for partial founder buy-out.

Management Team Highlights
Kevin Dunworth

Founder / CEO

Kevin Dunworth, Founder of Celling Biosciences, has spent more than 26 years in the orthopedic industry and brings a wealth of expertise in all aspects of the business. Dunworth has run medical companies in the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, and the United States.

He excelled in various executive positions before founding VCD Medical, in Austin, Texas.
For the past eight years, Dunworth has successfully built a world-class distribution business, which provides a variety of orthopedic and biologic products.

Dunworth's leadership roles within the orthopedic industry have included, Director of Emerging Markets and Director of European Sales for Smith & Nephew; Director of International Sales, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Vice President for FlouroScan International and Vice President of Sales for TransLeasing and Vice President for TransLeasing GE.


Steve Melchiode

President
Steve Melchiode has extensive experience guiding businesses from start-up to profitability. After earning an undergraduate marketing degree followed by a law degree, Melchiode joined a start-up technology firm in Silicon Valley as the West Coast business development director. Melchiode's ability to build and lead successful companies, combined with his experience in medical device sales, provides him with the vision and expertise to lead the Celling Biosciences team. He brings a wide range of experience in sales, business development, marketing, finance, legal and operations management.

Melchiode began his medical device career as a sales representative with VCD Medical, learning the spinal implant industry selling Depuy Spine. After two years spent growing several new territories, Melchiode established himself in a leadership role as sales manager and by running operations for the State of Texas. For the past two years, he has worked with Kevin Dunworth to take the Celling Biosciences model from concept to market, working on business, product and partnership development as well as marketing and operations.

Mr Blair Duncan
Mr Blair Duncan
LinkedIn logo Chief Financial Officer 
BIO

Blair Duncan, Chief Financial Officer, Celling Biosciences

 

Mr. Duncan has over 20 years experience in venture-backed growth companies, as well as Fortune 500 and service firms. Before joining Celling Biosciences, Mr. Duncan was Chief Financial Officer at Emergent Technologies, an early stage life sciences commercialization operator and venture capital firm.  Previously, Mr. Duncan was Chief Financial Officer and Controller at SiteStuff, a leading provider of online procurement services for the commercial real estate industry.  Prior to SiteStuff, Mr. Duncan was Chief Financial Officer for Trillion, a facilities-based provider of wireless broadband telecommunications services to K-12 school districts.  Mr. Duncan also served as Vice President and Controller for ClearSource, a facilities-based provider of broadband telecommunications services.  Mr. Duncan held positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers as Manager of Entrepreneurial Advisory Services, where he launched a new division providing fundraising and business planning consulting services to high-tech companies in Texas, as well as Manager in the Business Assurance practice, where he participated in numerous public offerings and private company audits.  Mr. Duncan started his career with Aetna as a manager of property and casualty underwriting and business development. 

 

Mr. Duncan is a CPA and holds a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.  He has a BA in Economics and Psychology from Duke University. Mr. Duncan enjoys travel, music, tennis and golf.  He is Career Services Chair of the Financial Executives International – Austin Chapter, as well as Treasurer of the Maya Exploration Center.  He is married with three children and resides in Austin, Texas.

Chempetitive Group

Chempetitive Group is an integrated marketing communications agency focused exclusively on the life sciences. We work with biotech, medical device, pharmaceutical, chemical and tools/instrumentation companies of all sizes that around the globe. We develop winning strategies and campaigns that build brands and generate revenues. We love science. We understand science. And, we know how to effectively reach the scientific, clinical, medical and business communities that matter. 

Long live science. 

Visit us in San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston or Cambridge UK. 

Find out about us at http://www.chempetitive.com 

Erik Clausen
Erik Clausen
LinkedIn logo Managing Partner 
BIO

Erik Clausen is a managing partner at Chempetitive Group (http://www.chempetitive.com), a marketing communications firm that develops and implements strategies and drives results for life science and healthcare companies. Erik brings two decades of international experience helping life science, medical technology and healthcare organizations to reach and engage the right audiences.

Chiesi Ventures

Chiesi Ventures is a Venture Capital firm formed by a partnership between the Italian Pharmaceutical company Chiesi and US based VC firm Pappas Ventures. The firm is currently looking to make seed and venture stage investments into companies ranging anywhere from $2K to $5 million initially and up to $8 million over the life of the investment. The firm is actively seeking investment opportunities throughout the United States and Europe and could make as many as 2-4 new investments over the next year.
Art Pappas
Partner 

Clayton Biotechnologies United States

Clayton Biotechnologies commercializes technologies that are developed and owned by the Clayton Foundation for Research and its supporting entities through research programs at leading research hospitals and institutions in the US and Switzerland.

We have several projects in various stages of development from discovery to advanced pre-clinical that are available for licensing, collaboration, and the creation of new start-up ventures.

Clayton Biotechnologies has a significant portfolio of technologies to offer for licensing and collaboration. 

 

Some of our featured technologies:

- Urocortins and analogues for Diabetes

- Fc engineering of aglycosylated antibodies

- Granzyme B - a potent payload for antibody drug conjugates (ADC)

- Alk4-Fc, a Cripto antagonist for Cancer

- TEAD gene and peptide therapies for ocular neovascular disease

- Stem cell therapy program for Parkinson's Disease

- Vaccines and Diagnostics for Ehrlichioses

- Biomarker for personalized breast cancer therapy

- YESS - engineering of proteases

- OCT Image Guided Smart Laser Knife Diagnosis and Therapy in Small Spaces

 

To date, 9 products based on Clayton Foundation discoveries have been have been successfully commercialized through the creation of start-up companies and out-licensing

Alexandra Richardson
Head of Business Development 

Correlation Ventures United States

Correlation Ventures is a venture capital firm that founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California with an additional office in Palo Alto, California. The firm currently has approximately $165 million in total assets under management. The firm typically makes investments ranging from $0.25 million to $5 million over the life of the company, and the first investment will be not larger than $2.5 million. The firm’s preferred capital structure is convertible preferred equity or convertible loan. Correlation Ventures will consider invest in any industry segment at any stage, but there must be at least one other venture capital firm making their first investment in the company in this round. The firm only invests in US-based companies. 

Correlation is extremely opportunistic when it comes to investments in the life sciences space; with that being said the firm's specified sectors and sub sectors of interest may or may not be an area in which Correlation Ventures is currently looking to allocate capital to. The firm has made a number of investments in companies in the life sciences space, and has mainly invested in companies in the biotech therapeutics and diagnostics space. The firm's current portfolio includes biotech therapeutics and diagnostics firms developing products targeting endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional diseases, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue, neoplasms, cancer, and oncology, genitourinary system, and infectious and parasitic diseases.

Year Founded
2010
Investor Type
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
David Coats
Managing Director 

Deep Knowledge Ventures Hong Kong SAR China

We are a Hong Kong-based venture fund management company focusing on mid- to long-term advanced technology investments at early stage. Through our partnership with the top analytical companies utilizing machine learning and large panel of experts, we can construct complex decision trees showing risk and return at every stage of company evolution. We routinely invest in both private and public companies specializing in biotechnology, drug discovery, personalized medicine, Big Data analysis, industrial expert systems and artificial intelligence. 

Mr Charles Groome
Mr Charles Groome
LinkedIn logo Venture Partner 
Mr Dmitry Kaminskiy
Mr Dmitry Kaminskiy
LinkedIn logo Senior Partner 

Diamond BioFund Taiwan

Diamond BioFund is an evergreen fund that was established in 2013 and is based in Taipei City, Taiwan. The fund is operating from a committed capital of USD 300 million. The fund makes equity investments in early- to late-stage private businesses. Typical allocations range from USD 1.5 million to north of USD 10 million. The fund likes to lead investments in Taiwan-based businesses and co-invest in businesses overseas. The fund is currently seeking new opportunities in Taiwan, Greater China, Southeast Asia, US, Canada, and EU.

Diamond BioFund takes a generalist approach when considering life science opportunities, including therapeutics (small molecule and biologics), medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare services, and nutraceuticals. The fund is seeking cutting edge, innovative, and platform technology. In therapeutics, the fund considers all stages from preclinical through pre-IPO. In medical devices, the fund prefers later stage projects with proof of concept. The fund is open to all disease indications.

Investor Type
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Winston Town
Vice President 
Haolin Sung
LinkedIn logo Director 

Easton Capital United States

Easton Capital Investment Group is a venture capital firm based in New York. Easton Capital invests broadly in the life science sector, and considers investment opportunities globally. The firm is likely to make 4-6 allocations in the next 6 months. Allocations typically vary from $250,000 to $5 million, in the form of equity or convertible debt. Allocations are typically made at the venture stage of development, but may be made in seed rounds if a company already has proof of their product's efficacy.

Investor Type
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Lisa Rhoads
Managing Director 

Enso Ventures United States

Enso Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that was founded in 2010 and based in London with an additional office in New York. The firm is looking to provide equity capital to high growth companies in the life science space. The firm is currently interested in companies located in Europe, Russia and the US and is looking to make approximately 2-3 investments over the next 6-9 months.

Sergei Petukhov
Partner 

Excel Venture Management United States

Excel Venture Management is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm has managed one fund with committed capital of $125 million, and the firm is currently raising the second fund. Excel Venture Management seeks to make equity investments into life science companies from early to late stages. The typical investment size ranges from $3 million to $ 5million. The firm plans to invest in 4-5 companies over the next 6-9 months and prefers to invest in companies based in US.

Year Founded
2008
Investor Type
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Eric Zimmerman
Kevin Liang