Category Creation & Ultimate Liquidity
Repositioning to Revive and Stimulate Sales
Identifying Brand Value and Expanding
Market Presence
Assessing Market Dynamics and Positioning
for Ultimate Liquidity
 
 
Category Creation & Ultimate Liquidity
Company profile at time of engagement:
Software company whose product suite accelerates clinical trials in the drug development process
Market – biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries
Valuation at time of engagement - $10 million
Unlike other proprietary products, the software suite is developed entirely on the Microsoft platform.
 

Having recently come out of an exclusive agreement with a prominent pharmaceutical company, the Company needed to define its go-forward business model strategy, as well as sales and marketing efforts. The existing sales process resulted in extended sales cycles that adversely affected the company’s revenues.

The Company was considering several business model alternatives for delivering its software. Product offering models in the sector varied from licensing, to ASPs, to outsourcing, and other service models.

 
Develop a focused go-to-market strategy
Generate a growing and profitable reoccurring revenue stream
Lay a strong foundation for a future liquidity event

The 3SIX0 Advisors process was applied to understand the end-to-end business and workflow needs of the clinical trials process, the complex heterogeneous IT environments, disparate combinations of point applications, the clinical trials ecosystem of users, multiple vendors, contract research organizations, other service providers, and the FDA.

Our process uncovered vulnerabilities in the two major clinical software competitors that the Company could exploit with its Microsoft-based software suite.
 
3SIX0 Advisors provided the company with the following deliverables:
 
Formulated and articulated a compelling value proposition
Created and positioned the Company in a new market category
Developed a comprehensive go-to-market strategy designed to accelerate adoption in large and midsize pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies that included:
 
a modular software offering
aggressive partnering programs
an ASP delivery model and a target account strategy
Authored an investor presentation which supported the Company position for an ultimate liquidity event.
 
 
   
   
   
Initial Investment in 3SIX0 Advisors - $176,751
Company valuation at time of engagement - $10 million
Company valuation at conclusion of engagement - $17 million
Rapid $3 million capital raise for post money valuation of $20 million
Sales price to strategic buyer within 14 months of launching new strategy - $68.5 million
Timeframe - 14 months
 
 
Return on initial investment - $58.5 million/$176,751 = 330.97 X
 
Company names and references available upon request.