Are you building a science-based company with the potential to improve health, healthcare or patients’ lives? Apply to Karolinska Institutet Innovation´s Incubator. Karolinska Institutet Innovation´s Incubator is designed for early-stage life science ventures ready to move from promising science to a scalable business.
Application closes September 8! Send your slide deck by September 8, 11:00 pm.
Applications are reviewed by Karolinska Institutet Innovation’s business team together with external experts.
Assessment includes:
- Unique assets
- Business potential
- Team
- Execution
Other eligibility criteria
- Companies must be eligible to receive state aid according to EU-regulation (Article 22 – GBER, or de minimis)
- Companies must be 75% founders owned
- No recurring sales
Applicants must provide a non-confidential slide deck of 15-20 slides that include:
- Company snapshot
- The problem and unmet need you are addressing
- Your solution and what makes it unique
- The scientific or technical foundation behind the project (show data)
- Market, customers, competitors and positioning
- Intellectual property and other competitive advantages
- The team and its relevant expertise
- Current development status of product/solution
- Key activities and milestones for the next 12–24 months
- Funding needs and financing plan
- Why do you want to join the incubator, and how will it help you accelerate your company’s growth?
- What positive and negative social and environmental impacts might your proposed product, business concept and activities have?
Please do not include confidential proprietary information in your application.
Important dates:
- Application closes September 8, 11:00 pm
- Info to SMEs (first cut) approx. October 6
- Interviews for remaining SMEs October 14–15 (30 min/SME)
- Info to SMEs (second cut) approx. October 16
- Business Review meeting for remaining SMEs November 9-27 (3h/SME)
- Info to SMEs (Acceptance to KI Incubator) approx. November 28
- Agreements signed latest December 17, 2026
- Boot Camp January 23-24, 2027 (Overnight stay at Vår Gård)
