What I Wish I Knew at Series A: Building for What's Next

This event is part of DC Startup & Tech Week and BioBuzz’s Insights to Impact Series, a curated program designed exclusively for life sciences industry leaders and ecosystem builders. Our guest list is intentionally built to foster a high-quality, peer-driven experience. Overview Every company scaling past Series A hits the same wall: the systems, governance, and financial infrastructure that carried it this far stop working — usually before anyone notices. What worked at 15 people breaks at 50. What satisfied a seed investor doesn't survive diligence. Series A is where that shift becomes unavoidable, but it isn't where it starts. The decisions that determine whether a company is ready get made much earlier — and the ones that come back to hurt are rarely the ones founders were worrying about at the time. This session brings CEOs who have been through it into unscripted, peer-to-peer conversation about what they got wrong, what they'd do differently, and what they'd build today to stay ready for whatever comes next — a raise, an acquisition, an IPO, or something they haven't imagined yet. Whether you're approaching that inflection point, well past it, or building the companies and infrastructure around the founders who are, this is the conversation the BioHealth Capital Region rarely gets to have out loud. No moderator. No slides. No panel.