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Sponsorship/Partnership Request for the Crowdfunding Campaign:
We Raise Funds to Support
Revolutionary and Innovative Medical R&D Projects!
We Reward our Benefactors with
Amazing Branded Products and Goodies!
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The Fun For The Good of The Human Being
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing you to request the sponsorship/partnership of your Company.
Presentation:
My name is Ari Massoudi, based in France, I am a former Academic researcher in biomedical sciences
turned consultant for biotechnology, pharmaceutical or medical technology research institutes or
companies developing innovative therapies for healthcare.
I am also the cofounderPresident of the NonProfit Organization Fun For Medicine, dedicated to
support the medical progress.
The problem
Startup companies in biotech, pharma or medtech need to raise funds to finance their research &
development, but the capital is limited and R&D in healthcare is very very expensive due to cuttingedge
technologies, devices and reagents needed for the experimentations, and also due to the regulatory
pressure on this industry (ex. to bring a new molecule from an academic lab to the pharmacy/patient's bed,
it takes 10 years and it costs billions US dollars!).
Therefore, inventions in healthcare take much more time to spread in the society compared to tech and
inventions in consumer electronics, ITweb and other fastmoving tech fields.
The regular manner for tech startup to raise funds is to ask investors (Angels investors wealthy persons,
or Venture Capital investment firms) used to deal with techbased companies, and for healthcare startups
the way is to address to investors used with the healthcare industry, therefore this reduces the capital offer
to a tiny pocket with numerous startups in demand.
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A solution
Why not finding another way to finance innovation in medicine? A way totally unrelated to medicine and
healthcare.
The idea is to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to ask the Indiegogo's crowd to fund our
NonProfit Oganization, Fun For Medicine, dedicated to support revolutionary Research & Development
projects in healthcare.
Indiegogo is one of the world's largest crowdfunding platform for creative projects
https://www.indiegogo.com/
To stimulate the generosity of the Indiegogo’s crowd toward our cause, we would like to offer them
amazing rewards!
Indeed, it is impossible to reward our donators with the end products from the medical R&D projects
because:
1) it takes 10 years to bring a new therapy in the market!
2) it is not conceivable from an ethical point of view, to reward our benefactors with end products from
medical R&D … we cannot and will not offer an antimalaria or anticancer drug to our benefactors!
And that’s why we need your help. Would you accept to join us as Official Sponsor?
We would love to reward our donators with your branded products or services.
Based on the massive audience of Indiegogo and the nature of this audience (young creative
people, techlovers concerned by making the Earth a better place), your partnership with Fun For
Medicine will be an awesome opportunity of promotional communication for your products and services,
your brands and your Company. Our sponsors can of course use this Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign
for their own communication as they want.
"Our product will contribute to save the life of million people from cancer, infectious diseases,
brain diseases (Alzheimer, Parkinson …), traumatic pathologies ... !"
We will also thank and cite your company name/logo and your products in our Indiegogo’s page, website,
Facebook page, Twitter account … .
And when Fun For Medicine chooses to reward with a grant (a big check), a promising medical R&D
project, we will thank and show all our sponsors in press conference.
We are open to any discussion to imagine together the best partnership that will serve your Company and
your brands.
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Our goal is to have a continuous source of funding for medical research & development. Indeed, the worst
thing that happens to medical R&D is a gap in the funding.
For an earlystage pharmaceutical drug development project (ex. an Academic lab has designed and
synthesized a new molecule to target cancer cells), if we could offer to the lab $US 100,000500,000, they
can already launch what we call preclinical tests (testing the molecule for its capacity to kill cancer cells
cultured in dishes out of the body, and also see if the molecule is or is not toxic for normal cells also
cultured out of the body).
If preclinical tests give a green light, then we could ask bigger source of funding (from governments, big
philanthropy foundations, global pharmaceutical companies and venture capital investment firms). The
bigger money will be used to test the molecule in clinical tests (on healthy volunteers first, then on on sic