According to Geffrey Moore “Death Valley” theory, every hi-tech startup must, at a certain time of its life, go across a period in which greatest part of startups die, the death valley, even after a very good beginning.
This is not the case of Gelesis. After selling the patent for a biodegradable and super-absorbent molecule, result of a PhD, Alessandro Sannino created the society, and after working on many other project, he finally get to the formula of the “diet pill”, thus becoming one of the 15 most promising startups according to Fierce Biotech, a specialized magazine.