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 International Ltd. is an innovation focused global discovery, development and manufacturing organisation providing integrated scientific services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nutrition, animal health, consumer goods and specialty chemical industries around the world. Syngene’s clientele include world leaders such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Baxter, Amgen, GSK, Merck KGaA and Herbalife. Its innovative culture is driven by the passion of its 5000+ strong team of scientists who work with clients from around the world to solve their scientific problems, improve R&D productivity, speedup time to market and lower the cost of innovation. For more details, visit www.syngeneintl.com.
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.