Fluent in lab and market
The founder is a biotech engineer with a marketing MBA. Lab to Lucre understands your science and turns it into a story a customer and an investor will both buy.
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Funding strategy, investor readiness and go-to-market for early-stage biotech and technology startups.
About Lab to Lucre
Your science,made fundable.
Lab to Lucre is a Bengaluru consultancy for early-stage technology and life-science startups. The person who reads your science is the same person who shapes your funding route, your investor story and your first sales.
Most science-led startups stall between a working prototype and a paying customer. You get one written plan for that stretch, and a clear view of the proof investors will ask for.
By the numbers
Startups studied to build the funding playbook10,000
Founder events run at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre30+
Investor and grant introductions made20+
The route
Every stage,planned with intent.
Six stages from idea to commercialisation. Lab to Lucre works across all of them.
- IdeationIs the problem real, and who pays?
- Product validationPilots and proof a buyer can see
- IncubationProgrammes, labs and mentors that fit
- FundingGrants, angels or seed, in the right order
- Scale-upTeam, supply and unit economics
- CommercialisationRepeatable sales and the next raise
Our services
Four services.One partner.
Funding strategy
The right kind of capital for your stage, sized and sequenced so you raise with a plan.
Investor readiness
Story, deck, numbers and answers ready before you meet an investor.
Go-to-market
Positioning, pilots and first customers, so traction shows up before the term sheet.
1:1 advisory
Working sessions on your specific round, market and next 90 days.
After a 1:1
What you get, in writing
Every 1:1 ends with these five, in writing.
- Readiness scorecard. Where you stand on team, story, unit economics, market and traction, scored out of 20 each.
- Funding route. Which kind of money fits your stage, in what order, and what proof unlocks each step.
- Go-to-market plan. Your first buyer, entry offer, pricing test and the pilots that make investors listen.
- Pitch feedback. Slide by slide: what to keep, what to fix.
- A 90-day plan. Actions with owners and outputs, reviewed at week 6.
Lab to Lucre in 20 seconds
The gap every science founder knows
A working prototype, a stack of papers, and an investor asking who will buy it. Turn the sound on: the film shows how Lab to Lucre closes that gap.
Why Lab to Lucre
Less guesswork.More proof.
What makes Lab to Lucre different from a typical fundraising advisor.
Built for the early stage
Lab to Lucre covers prototype, first customer and first cheque, the stretch where most founders are left alone.
Unlike advisors who start at Series AA plan, not a pitch list
You leave with written next steps, owners and deadlines, not a list of names to cold-email.
Unlike sellers of investor listsReadiness check
Are you investor-ready?Check in 2 minutes.
Six questions investors ask in the first meeting. Your answers stay in your browser: nothing is sent unless you choose to share your result in the form below.
About the founder
A biotech engineerwho speaks investor.
Lab to Lucre was founded by Megha Telkar, a biotech engineer with a marketing MBA, to help early-stage technology and life-science startups get from a working prototype to their first customer and first cheque.
Megha spent more than two years in the Bengaluru startup and biotechnology ecosystem as Officer for Innovation and Ecosystem Development at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre. There she supported life sciences, MedTech and agri-biotech startups through incubation, mentorship, business development and access to grants, angel investors and venture capital.
At BIRAC she analysed about 10,000 startups and independently built a strategic funding playbook that helps investors and grant providers judge startup potential faster and more consistently. Lab to Lucre uses that research and those contacts with every founder it takes on.
Connect with Megha on LinkedIn
Send a connection request and mention that you came from the Lab to Lucre website.
Add Megha on LinkedInAt a glance
- Company
- Lab to Lucre, Bengaluru
- Sectors
- Biotechnology, life sciences, MedTech, agri-biotech
- Founder background
- Biotech engineer with a marketing MBA
- Credential
- Harvard Business School Online certificate in alternative investments
Know more about the founder
Experience
BIRAC
- Studied the business systems and trade rules that shape young biotech and life-science companies in India.
- Conducted structured research on a dataset of about 10,000 startups to identify the variables linked to venture performance, funding readiness and business success.
- Mapped the funding and commercialisation barriers that stop research-led ventures from reaching the market.
- Built, on her own, a funding playbook that gives investors and government grant providers one standard way to judge a startup, so their decisions are faster and more consistent.
- Turned the findings into practical guidance for founders stuck in the gap between research and revenue.
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- Ran the incubator's deal flow: found promising startups and advised them on go-to-market and market entry.
- Ran 30+ founder events and made 20+ introductions to investors and grant bodies.
- Worked with founders, investors, government bodies, mentors and industry partners to build the centre's network.
- Matched startups with grants, angel investors and venture capital suited to their stage.
- Connected founders with industry partners and with buyers in India and abroad.
- Brought startups to biotech, technology and investment events where they could meet buyers and investors.
- Gave life-science, MedTech and agri-biotech startups mentoring, technical help and access to the centre's laboratories.
- Helped startups at every stage from idea to commercialisation, including scale-up plans and regulatory routes.
Certifications
Projects
Strategic funding playbook
BIRAC, 2025
A standard framework that lets investors and government grant providers evaluate startup potential, built independently to make funding decisions faster and more consistent.
Startup performance research
BIRAC, 2025
Structured analysis of about 10,000 startups to find the variables linked to venture performance, funding readiness and business success, and the barriers between research and market entry.
Deal-flow and founder programming
Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre, 2022 to 2024
Ran the startup deal flow, advised founders on go-to-market, and ran 30+ events connecting startups with investors, mentors and industry.
Skills
Startup scouting and innovation
Research and business analysis
Funding and commercialisation
Programme and stakeholder management
Strategy and business development
Industry knowledge and tools
Recognition
Achievements
Best Incubator in Tier-1 Cities
Global Bio India 2023
Contributed to Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre's recognition.
Best Managed and Interactive Incubator
Bengaluru Tech Summit 2023
Supported the centre in earning this award.
Best Incubator Exhibit Award
Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022
Contributed to the centre's award.
Special Recognition Certificate
BIRAC
Given by BIRAC's Managing Director for the startup research.
Best Summer Internship Project Award
2025
Best project among about 1,500 BIRAC interns.
Charcha 2.0 Debate Championship
Winner, 2024
First place in the debate championship.
Questions
Questionsfounders ask
Quick answers to what founders ask most. Anything else, ask in the form below.
01Who is Lab to Lucre for?
Early-stage founders in biotech, life sciences, MedTech, agri-biotech and other technology startups, from a working prototype to the first raise.
02What do I get from a 1:1?
A written readiness report within 5 working days and a 90-day plan covering your funding route, investor story and go-to-market.
03Do you guarantee funding?
No. Investors make their own decisions, and anyone who guarantees funding should be a red flag. Lab to Lucre gets you ready and shows you the right route.
04Do you sell investor lists or charge to pitch?
No. What you get is the written report and the 90-day plan.
05How do I start?
Fill in the form below with your stage and question. Megha reads every query and replies by email.
Work with us
Let's get your startupinvestor-ready.
Tell me about your startup and pick the help you need. I read every query and reply by email.
- Emailtelkar.megha24@gmail.com
- Phone+91 70196 54059
- LocationBengaluru, Karnataka