Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Nadav Kidron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We're working on leptin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Leptin is something that when you take it, it sends a message to the brain that basically you're full, so you don't want to eat more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And if you eat less, maybe we shouldn't say it out loud in the United States of America, but if you eat less, you actually lose weight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Is that how that works?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Yeah, but let's keep it between us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We do have a big market to address.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We're also using the insulin to treat something that's called NASH, which is fatty liver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So we have our own pipeline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Our scientists have probably unmatched experience when it comes to delivering insulin orally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So it made sense for us to start with insulin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

But if you're going to read through our filing, you're going to see like we have a big pharma that came to us and said, listen, we have our own drug.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Can we use your technology to deliver it orally?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We've been working with them on their drugs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So we have been doing some other stuff besides our own pipeline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Well, first of all, if you look at the actual deal, we deal with our Chinese partner, which is a very well-established company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And you look at the valuation they gave us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So they're paying us $50 million and 10% royalties.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And they've been investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the facility, the building in China.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And China is 5% of the global market of diabetes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So the value that they gave us, this $50 million, is based on $1 billion upfront value.