In this episode, we sat down with Jamil Beg, Partner at 5AM Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on building next-generation life science companies. We discuss Jamil's career journey, the challenges in scaling early-stage biotech companies, the current life science investing landscape, and much more.

Founded in 2002, 5AM has invested in 100 companies and raised over $2.0 billion since inception. Through its 4:59 Initiative, 5AM discovers, incubates, and funds breakthrough science by partnering with academics and entrepreneurs to establish proof-of-concept data that will enable a Series A financing. 5AM has offices in Boston and San Francisco.

Welcome to our introductory episode of the LifeSci Beat.

Here, we briefly cover our goals and motivation for the podcast and introduce our hosts: Shubham Chatterjee, Jaclyn Kawwas, and Kevin Nguyen. Stay tuned for our first interview, coming soon!