Apr 16, 1:00 – 3:00 AM (UTC)
The Urban Hive, 730 I Street, Sacramento, 95814
Startup Grind + MedStart host Sandy Paige (Seabright Ventures Fund) for a fireside chat on fractional infrastructure and real-world “X-as-a-Service.” Hear how he scaled Explora BioLabs from 7 to 25+ sites and exited to Charles River—and how a family office finds and backs long-term opportunities.
RESCHEDULED To April 15 (originally on March 18).
Startup Grind and MedStart invite you to a fireside chat with Sandy Paige, co-Managing Director of Seabright Ventures Fund, a family office investing in search funds, pharma/biotech services, -aaS conversions, clean tech, and other long-term “curious” opportunities.
Sandy is widely known for helping build fractional infrastructure businesses—think “as-a-service” models outside of software. He led the sourcing, acquisition, scaling, and 2022 exit of Explora BioLabs, expanding from 7 to 25+ de novo locations and growing into a dominant Vivarium-as-a-Service (VaaS) provider before its acquisition by Charles River Laboratories.
In this conversation, we’ll dig into:
How a family office evaluates opportunities (patient capital, concentrated conviction, and what they won’t invest in)
What “fractional infrastructure” actually is—and why it’s exploding now
How to source, acquire, and scale lower-middle-market companies (search fund reality, not fantasy)
Building regulated, physical operations across multiple hubs without losing your mind
Where the next “XaaS” opportunities are hiding (biotech, services, facilities, and beyond)
Come for the insights, stay for the practical takeaways—and bring questions for live Q&A.
Seabright Ventures Fund
Co - Managing Director
Thursday, April 16, 2026
1:00 AM – 3:00 AM (UTC)
| 1:00 AM | Networking |
| 1:30 AM | Presentation |
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