Wednesday
Nov
18
2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Contact Info
Location
Virtual - see description

Bench2Market Talks

"Spend to De-Risk: Putting Your First Dollars Where Investors Look” - Justin Burns, Georgia Research Alliance

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Justin Burns
Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President | Innovation & Entrepreneurship 
Georgia Research Alliance

Join Justin Burns, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Georgia Research Alliance, from noon to 1:00 PM via Zoom. Drawing on tech transfer, venture investing, and running GRA’s commercialization funding, Burns will walk through how funders size technical, market, and regulatory risk, which milestones change a valuation, and what to stop spending on before your next raise or license.

The Bench2Market Talks series is created to provide commercialization guidance to the university research community. For more details on the series, visit our website.