Shkre­li out, Cuban in: Twit­ter proves es­sen­tial for biotech rebel Ethan Perl­stein

Im­age: Ethan Perl­stein

En­tre­pre­neurs in the tech world of­ten tell fundrais­ing founders to look to Twit­ter for mak­ing con­nec­tions with in­vestors. It’s less com­mon to see biotech in­vest­ments arise from wit­ty tweets.

Not true for Ethan Perl­stein, the founder of a small biotech in San Fran­cis­co called Per­lara. To­day, he shared de­tails of a ran­dom Twit­ter en­counter with celebri­ty in­vestor Mark Cuban that led to Cuban’s fund Rad­i­cal In­vest­ments chip­ping in $250,000 to Per­lara’s $7.4 mil­lion Se­ries A round.

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