Start-Up Development Partner
Paul Dick and Associates
Website: pauldickassociates.com
Pda is a global consulting company with extensive expertise and experience in the animal health and veterinary sectors. We assist companies in terms of creating corporate value, mitigating their product development risks and, with this, accelerating their technologies into the commercial market place. These products/services include supplements, medical devices, diagnostics, digital technologies, telehealth, big data and AI, and innovations in veterinary medicine.
Our services include developing tailored strategies including conducting detailed market assessments, developing go-to-market and regulatory strategies, securing regulatory approvals, facilitating connections with strategic corporate partners and investors at the right stage. We also provide various levels of mentorship to companies as they further develop and commercialize their products/services. Further, we also create and manage expert Advisor Committees, and participate on Boards.
As Kisaco’s Start-Up Development Partner across all events, we are keen to explore synergies and potential areas of partnership.
Business Focus: deal management, growth consultant, regulatory, supplements, telehealth, therapeutics, vet med, wearables
Senior Event Partner
AskVet
Website: askvet.app
AskVet is the leading AI and data-driven technology company in animal health. We use AI and our proprietary companion animal and livestock data to build highly intelligent veterinary agents that will join the workforce – enhancing engagement, improving efficiency, and supporting revenue growth for animal health organizations.
In 2023, AskVet introduced VERA (Veterinary Engagement & Relationship Agent), the world’s only AI veterinarian. VERA is trained on over 2.5 million recorded conversations between veterinarians and animal owners, curricula from six veterinary colleges, and more than 180 curated medical, nutritional, and behavioral data sets. She currently converses in 50 languages.
As a customizable conversational AI, VERA powers medical triage, operational support, customer acquisition, sales, retention, and back-end automation – making her an invaluable asset across the animal health ecosystem.
Demand in the US for animal health care for both companion animals and food production animals is outpacing supply of qualified veterinarians and technicians. The US animal health industry needs to use data and AI to augment and expand the available supply of human veterinary expertise to close the supply and demand gap. And the problem is much worse if you look at the global growth of companion and food production animals. AskVet has created a suite of data/AI products on the VERA platform where companion and food animal businesses can use their propriety data and VERA’s veterinary expertise to create differentiation and competitive advantage.
Panitch Schwarze Belsario & Nadel
Website: www.panitchlaw.com
Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP is a boutique intellectual property law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, and Alexandria, VA, serving clients internationally. The firm’s intellectual property law practitioners provide strategic litigation, licensing and counseling service relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, domain names and internet issues including online enforcement. We combine big-firm knowledge and experience with the attentiveness of a small firm. Our team approaches intellectual property law with responsiveness and creativity, protecting the intellectual property assets of diverse clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors. Regardless of the intellectual property needs a particular client has, each of our clients can be confident that the team at Panitch Schwarze has the necessary legal experience and the technical background to be a valuable asset to their business.
MWI Animal Health
Website: www.mwiah.com
To support the veterinary practice of the future, we’ve combined the expertise of Centaur Services, St Francis Group, Vetswest buying groups and Vet Space practice management technology to provide a flexible, comprehensive solution. From manufacturer relationships to patients’ visits, we’re working to address practices’ needs and improve animal health in the UK/ We’re turning data into insight and insight into action, giving our customers more time to provide even better care. We are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures.
Syngene International Ltd.
Website: www.syngeneintl.com
Syngene is a leading integrated research, development, and manufacturing partner serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and animal health industries. With world-class infrastructure and compliance with global regulatory standards, we collaborate with animal health innovators to deliver breakthrough solutions that improve the well-being of livestock and companion animals.
Our comprehensive capabilities span small molecules, biologics, and specialty products across the drug lifecycle, from concept to clinic. Syngene’s team of more than 6,000 scientists combines deep expertise with the capacity to deliver exceptional science, robust data security, and world-class manufacturing at speed, helping accelerate time-to-market and reduce the cost of innovation.
Trusted by industry leaders worldwide, Syngene combines scientific excellence with operational agility to accelerate innovation and bring safe, effective products to market faster.
Sterne Kessler
Website: www.sternekessler.com
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is a full-service intellectual property law firm that provides innovative solutions tailored to your business and industry. Since our founding in 1978, we have grown to become one of the largest IP specialty law firms in the United States. We collaborate across the full spectrum of IP to deliver real results for our clients—from patent and trademark prosecution, to patent litigation in federal district and appellate courts, strategic IP counseling, due diligence, and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Our team includes attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists with 100+ advanced degrees, including 60+ Ph.D.s,, in science and engineering disciplines. We work with the world’s leading innovators and brands, ranging from individual inventors and startups to renowned universities and Fortune 500 companies.
We are proud to be one of the most highly regarded IP specialty law firms, and we have cultivated an environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. And we’re honored that our attorneys and staff have voted Sterne Kessler as a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for 10 years running.
Event Partner
Vbiosci
Website: www.vbiosci.com/en
Vbiosci is a Beijing-based biotechnology leader dedicated to revolutionizing animal health through embryo-free and serum-free vaccine development. Our proprietary full-suspension cell culture technology sets a new global standard—delivering higher productivity, lower costs, and reduced contamination risks compared to conventional egg-based or anchorage dependent cell culture methods.
Cutting Edge Process Technologies
- Avian Vaccines
- Serum-free, full-suspension manufacturing in large-scale bioreactors maximizes efficiency while eliminating supply chain and safety limitations of embryonated eggs. Examples include Newcastle Disease (NDV), Infectious Bronchitis (IBV), and Fowl Adenovirus (FAdV) vaccines.
- Livestock Vaccines
- Advanced serum-free suspension cell culture platform slashes production costs and contamination risks for broader animal health applications compared to serum dependent and anchorage-dependent processes. Examples include Pseudo Rabies Virus (PRV), Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2), Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) vaccines.