Hitchhiker’s Guide to Startup Success: Mastering the Art of the Perfect Pitch

Earlier this fall, we launched the first event in our seminar series, Hitchhiker’s Guide to Startup Success, which we are organizing together with Miltenyi Biotec. The inaugural session featured an inspiring workshop led by pitch expert and coach Malcolm Larri. The event gathered innovators and entrepreneurs in the Life Sciences sector, with a particular focus on Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP)—a rapidly growing field with tremendous potential to revolutionize healthcare.

In today’s fast-paced world of innovation, where new drugs and therapies are being developed at an unprecedented rate, standing out has never been more crucial. As the Life Sciences industry continues to advance, the challenge is not only to create groundbreaking therapies but also to effectively communicate their value to investors, stakeholders, and potential collaborators.

“It does not matter how valuable your idea is if you cannot transfer that value from your mind to the mind of your audience. Pitching is an essential skill for everyone who wants to generate ideas, innovate products and services and even lead successful teams”. – Malcolm Larri.

Can games change how we understand mental illness in young people?

What if a game could help young people understand why they feel unwell? That was the idea that sparked something in Lars Klintwall, a child psychologist at BUP and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet. By combining psychology and games, he wants to shift the focus from diagnoses to the individual’s unique network of problems, and give patients tools to recognize how negative spirals emerge.

Neighbors in collaboration: New partnerships emerge at Novum Labs

At Novum Labs, companies developing tomorrow’s solutions for human health come together. Side by side – and sometimes with each other’s help. OptiCell Solutions and Circio are the neighbors who turned proximity into collaboration.

Samplimy wins Money Talks Pitch Competition: aiming to transform the future of sampling

With a technology that enables painless and more accessible sampling, Samplimy took home first prize in the Money Talks Pitch Competition at the second Life Science Fair Flemingsberg of the year.

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