Do you want to take your Life Science Start Up to the next level?
Business incubator
DRIVE
We dedicate focus and time to the teams that have chosen to work with us
DRIVE is a dedicated life science incubator program at KI Innovations AB which supports successful commercial development of businesses within life sciences.
We welcome newly-started companies with a commercial, verified business opportunity with focus on Life Science both applicants from the START program at KI Innovations as well as other applicants.
Membership in DRIVE runs for a maximum of three years with annual evaluations in order to qualify for continued membership.
DRIVE comprises of various resources and activities in the order and to the extent most appropriate for each Start-Up. We accommodate every Start-Up individually.
Who can apply?
We welcome startup companies sprung from ideas validated in KI Innovation’s START program as well as other Start-Ups that are research-based within life science, digital health, e-health and medtech. The membership in DRIVE runs for a maximum of three years with annual evaluations to qualify for continued membership.
What do we offer?
Together with our selected partners, the DRIVE business incubator offers unique business development opportunities and financing support adapted to the company’s specific needs.
- An own business development coach
- Access to IP advice
- Access to expert consulting services
- Access to investor networks Business Development Program – CATALYZER
- Access to theme days and events
The business incubator is funded by Karolinska Institutet and VINNOVA.
The DRIVE offer
DRIVE network
- Global Pharma network
- Investor network
- Strategic partners
- Preferred partners
- Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship (NOME)
- Expert network, comprising 150 experts in various areas
DRIVE development programs
- Build skills
- Catalyzer program
- Pitch training
- Value Creation Forum (VCF)
- One-on-one Coaching to develop strategies for your individual business development (4-12 hours /month based on the need)
DRIVE-community
- DRIVE Health Day
- DRIVE Investment Day
- DRIVE Team Day
- Visibility at various events such as NLS-day and BIO Europe
- Activities within DRIVE-Community
Case
“Everyone will face death, but yet, we rarely talk about it”
Professor Carol Tishelman (Department of Learning, Informatics and Management and Ethics), runs the Döbra project to raise issues about everyday existentialism. Death is something we rarely talk about today. Therefore, many people are not prepared to encounter with death. The DöBra pack of cards can be used as a tool to help people talk about […]
Clinically validated AI-based software that go beyond current routine pathology.
Mattias Rantalainen, CTO for Stratipath and research group leader at institutionen för epidemiologi och biostatistik (MEB) at KI och Johan Hartman, CMO at Stratipath and Pathologist at Karolinska University Hospital and research group leader at institutionen för onkologi/patologi (OnkPat) at KI. Mattias och Johan have received support from KI Innovations START team (and are now […]
Saving lives with a smartphone
In the event of a cardiac arrest, an alert is triggered on the smartphones of volunteer lifesavers located within a radius of around 1,500 metres from the victim. Those who are able to do so, confirm the alarm and make their way as quickly as possible to the victim. Today, the system has been scientifically […]
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Call for new start-ups 2022
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I köket med DRIVE – In the kitchen
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