One Person Biotech
Daniel Branco, MD, PhD, MBA
For Series A–B biotechs · founders & CEOs

The seats you can't fill yet, and the function nobody has.

Between the seed round and the pivotal trial, a biotech needs a chief business officer, a chief medical officer and an intelligence function, and can afford about one of them. I hold the seats fractionally and run the intelligence as a service, so a team of six operates like a team of twenty.

Daniel Branco, MD, PhD, MBA — formerly Artiva Biotherapeutics: corporate development · medical affairs · financial planning through the IPO
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Two offers. One operator.

Take one or both. They are built to work together: the seat makes the decisions, the intelligence tells it what changed.

The seat

Fractional CBO · CMO · Head of Medical Affairs

1–2 days a week · embedded in your team
  • Corporate development, BD & licensing: partner search, term sheets, in- and out-licensing
  • Medical affairs: scientific platform, KOL & investigator engagement, publications
  • Clinical operations by region, including Brazil & Latin America with SambaTrials
  • Financial planning, financing & IPO readiness
  • Board & investor narrative
The function

Medical & competitive intelligence, on retainer

Monthly · priced per module · BioAlma inside
  • Competitor & pipeline atlas for your indication, kept live
  • KOL, investigator & researcher maps
  • Congress tracking, with who-to-meet lists
  • A BD and medical-affairs CRM with the landscape wired in
  • A monthly working session: what changed, and what to do about it
02Why one person can do this
The bottleneck was never ideas. It was headcount.

A modern biotech doesn't need a department for every function. It needs the right senior judgment, applied when it matters, with the tooling to make it fast. I built BioAlma, an AI intelligence platform for biotech, because I needed it in my own seat: a landscape that took a consulting team a quarter now takes a week, and it stays current after the slide is done. Fractional leadership is the model that turns that into a company.

Under a week, one operator.

A two-person neuroscience company asked what its market looked like. Within the week it had a landscape of the 141 companies in its field, tiered by fit, with the 13 to call first; a map of the researchers driving the science; the competitive field and the pricing economics behind its raise; and a CRM loaded with the first targets. That is the intelligence function, delivered before the first hire.

141
Companies mapped and tiered
13
First calls, with the evidence for each
< 1 week
From question to working CRM
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Who it's for.

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How it works.

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A 45-minute call

Where you are, what the next twelve months need, and whether it is a fit. No deck required.

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A one-page proposal

The seat, the modules, days per week, the monthly fee, and a 30-day exit either way.

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Start within two weeks

First deliverables inside the first month: the landscape, the plan, the model.

I take a small number of companies at a time, so I can be in the room when it matters. If the fit isn't there, I say so on the first call.

Building the lean version?

Tell me the company and the next milestone. I'll come back within a day.

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