The following options are available:

• Pre-seed consultation
• Compact consultation (funded through EXI)
• Intensive consultation/start-up coaching (fundable through EXI)
• Business plan check
• Funding consultation
• Tips on capital procurement
• Pitch training
• Marketing support, increasing your visibility
• Cooperation inititiatives

EXI Start-up Voucher: Together with our partner, Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Existenzgründung, we offer a two-tier consultation package for people interested in setting up their own company/company founders in high-tech areas. Compact consultation, which is available free of charge, helps to accurately assess the viability of a project. Founders with promising business ideas will subsequently be offered intensive start-up coaching. Detailed information about the EXI Start-up Voucher is available here.

Capital procurement: If you have successfully mastered the first steps of establishing your own business, we can help you raise capital through our network. Seed-phase funding throughout Germany is available from the High-Tech Gründerfonds. BIOPRO and its partners also organise special consultation days in Baden-Württemberg. We are the life sciences partner of VC-BW, which organises an annual VC pitch for high-tech companies with a capital requirement of 300,000 euros or more. Interested? Please feel free to contact one of our start-up specialists.

Alternatively, you can consult our Gründerhandbuch (available only in German) for information on the following topics:

• What are the first formal steps of company establishment?
• What kind of consulting opportunities are available, including regional ones?
• How do I write a business plan?