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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:

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

Exciting Start-ups from BW

Alpha-Protein GmbH - 27/07/2021
Insect farming for sustainability

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 - 05/09/2025
After EMBL: Umlaut.bio and its potential role in drug development

Alumnus Bastian Linder discusses the origin of this start-up and how a tRNA mechanism is helping scientists understand the importance and use of various RNA modifications as they pertain to disease.
Press release - 21/06/2024
Cyber Valley: World's first ELLIS Institute opens

At the finale of the Cyber Valley Days, and Science Minister Petra Olschowski opened the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, heralding the next phase of the AI Innovation Campus. With the world's first ELLIS Institute, Cyber Valley is gaining further radiance. Olschowski also announced at the ceremony that the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is joining the Cyber Valley Community.