Well this year will live long in the memory...
Covid19 has transformed every aspect of our lives and our ideas about work, our neighbours, the value of health and the sustainability of the planet. There's too much to absorb and we are still deep in the teeth of a pandemic.
However, QE has driven record stock prices as economies falter worldwide. Biopharma and Operation Warp Speed has developed two new approved vaccines already against Covid19.
Numerous businesses have gone bust, many people have died. Most of us have had time and opportunity to reflect on how we live, work, earn and interact with others. Some of these reflections are sobering.
As the US seeks to welcome a new President and the UK and EU consider a sundering of relationships, we can but as usual focus on those things we can control.
For Adagio Ventures - 2020 will be remembered for:
LongBoat Clinical Trial Software was acquired by Adverra.
SHIP Ventures became TREO Ventures (Treo being the Irish translation of Direction).
Medinutrix was acquired by Neuraxpharm.
HealthBeacon raised an additional €6MM in funding.
PatientMpower broke through to be a leading solution provider in respiratory health.
Educate4Health is now delivering global applications in education for major Pharma.
Povidien established the case and developed a product for use against C19 in 3 months.
I have had my first Covid19 test and result. I'm very glad to say its negative.
At time of writing, there is at least one strain of Covid19 causing increased infection in UK and possibly in Europe. As vaccines roll out, it's clear we are now in a race to accelerate immunity via vaccination as we suffer attrition from infection. Let's hope for all our sakes that the vaccination efforts win hands down...until then its watch out...here comes 2021.
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