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Start-up support

Setting up an independent company is an excellent opportunity to turn innovative ideas into marketable products and services. As a professional partner and expert in life sciences company foundations, we offer a comprehensive support service.

The following options are available:

  • Initial consultation (funded through EXI Start-up Voucher)
  • Basic package consultation/special start-up coaching (fundable through EXI Start-up Voucher)
  • Business plan check
  • Funding consultation
  • Pitch training and tips on capital procurement
  • Specific support in capital procurement for academic drug discovery projects as part of BWCADD
  • Marketing support, increasing your visibility
  • Cooperation inititiatives
  • Guide 'Wegweiser Regulatorik Gesundheitswirtschaft' (only available in German)
  • General information on location, infrastructure and the healthcare industry sector

EXI Start-up Voucher: Together with our partner, Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Existenzgründung, we offer a multistage consultation package for people interested in setting up their own company/company founders in high-tech areas. Initial 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 basis package consultation and special start-up coaching. Detailed information about the EXI Start-up Voucher is available here.

Exciting Start-ups from BW

  • Company profile: medicalvalues GmbH - 05/05/2022

    The Karlsruhe-based start-up medicalvalues GmbH wants to use its platform to bring together different clinical data sets and thus enable comprehensive medical diagnostics. Artificial intelligence featuring innovative diagnostic algorithms is used to evaluate the data and generate new insights for laboratories and hospitals.

  • Alpha-Protein GmbH - 27/07/2021

    Mealworms instead of fish meal and soybean meal - this is what the sustainable future of feed production looks like as Alpha-Protein GmbH see it. The company has built a highly efficient automated production plant in which residual materials from local food production are used to breed mealworms.

Selected press releases

  • Press release - 16/08/2021

    As a dominant part of southern Germany’s life-science industry hub, Heidelberg will soon have a life-science startup incubator of its own. BioLabs, the premier US network of managed co-working lab space, will open its first German branch in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (hip). On August 16, representatives of city and state governments, BioLabs and the life-science industry celebrated the Heidelberg BioLabs groundbreaking.

Website address: https://www.bio-pro.de/en/activities/start-up-support