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Commercialization & fundraising for biotech startups
- — Business plans and capital strategy
- — Fundraising with VCs and CVCs
- — Alliance and licensing deals with pharma
SCIENCE × BUSINESS
HEALTHCARE / LIFE SCIENCES
Science,
into business.
Great research and technology deserve to reach society as sustainable businesses. Sciness builds new ventures in healthcare and life sciences, and partners with drug discovery and biotech startups on business planning, fundraising and strategic alliances.
SERVICE
What we do
From identifying promising science to company formation, fundraising and partnerships. Backed by experience in pharma, consulting and venture management, we can step in at any stage of the path to market.
02
Strategy for new healthcare businesses
- — New business design and market entry
- — Mid-term business planning
- — Proof of concept and business development
03
Building ventures from academic research
- — Gap fund applications
- — Launching and running university spin-outs
- — Industry–academia partnerships
WORKS
Selected work
To respect client confidentiality, engagements are described by industry only.
BIOTECH VENTURES
Drug discovery & biotech startups
Core technologies of startups we have supported on business planning and fundraising
Single-cell transcriptomics
Allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy for cancer
Peptidomimetic compound libraries
Protein degraders
Rapid antibody screening
Hair follicle regeneration
MSC-derived cultured blood cells
Gene therapy
Cell therapy for stroke
CORPORATE & ACADEMIA
Corporates & academia
- New business built on next-generation sequencingJapanese diagnostics company
- Growth strategy in cancer and chronic diseaseGlobal health insurer
- Faster trial recruitment through a clinical data platformNational university & major pharma
- Launching a genetic testing service for cancer genomic medicineMajor Japanese IT company
- Entering regenerative medicine: strategy and partneringMajor Japanese chemical company
- Business strategy for a remote stethoscopeJapanese medical device maker
- Gap fund applicationsAcademic researchers
CEO
Leadership
三品 聡範
Toshinori Mishina
After graduate studies in regenerative medicine and genetic engineering at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, he worked in R&D at a global pharmaceutical company and then at two consulting firms before founding his own practice.
His work centers on creating new businesses in healthcare and life sciences, and on helping drug discovery and biotech startups with business strategy, fundraising and partnerships. He also takes on hands-on leadership roles in ventures as a board director and C-level executive.
- 2008
- M.S., Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University Eli Lilly Japan K.K. — Medical Writing; Medical Liaison
- 2013
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Co., Ltd. (now PwC Consulting LLC) Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
- 2015
- eSolutions Co., Ltd. — Head of Life Sciences Division
- 2019
- Founded Sciness, LLC. (present)
- 2020
- Outside Director, TAUNS Laboratories, Inc. (present) Head of Business Strategy, TOYAMA Kusuri Silicon Valley Consortium (until March 2026)
- 2022
- Director & COO, Tokiwa-Bio Inc. (until March 2024)
- 2024
- Contract CFO, NC Medical Research Inc. (present) Business Development, ASAGI Labs Inc. (present)
- 2026
- Founder & CEO, Orinas Biosciences, Inc. (present)
18years
In life sciences, spanning pharma, consulting and venture leadership
¥800M+
Raised for a startup under his leadership as a board director
3companies
Life science companies he has helped lead as a board member or C-level executive
COMPANY
Company
- Name
- Sciness, LLC.
- Founded
- April 2020
- CEO
- Toshinori Mishina
- Location
- Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Business
- New business development, strategy and execution support in healthcare and life sciences; commercialization and fundraising support for drug discovery and biotech startups; incubation of and investment in early-stage ventures
CONTACT
Contact us
Whether you are exploring commercialization, considering a partnership or would like to learn more about our services, we would be glad to hear from you. We will review your message and get back to you promptly.