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Biopôle Start-up Fund: Application Form

Ready to apply for the Biopôle Start-up Fund? Everything you need is here, and there’s more information on the fund web page too!

Please read the information below carefully, along with the Terms & Conditions section at the end of this page. If you need any additional information, the Biopôle team is available at info@biopole.ch.

Digital life sciences start-ups

The support provided by Biopôle SA will be capped at CHF 40,000 per company per year, renewable for 3 years maximum. This support may take the following forms.

Up to CHF 10,000 per year to spend on infrastructure rental.
An allowance of up to CHF 10,000 per year to be spent on research and development. This includes research software and professional workspaces, including products such as Amazon Web Services, etc. The company must list the items it needs and give evidence of these in its funding application. The amount requested cannot exceed 50% of the company’s total purchases. The company must provide proof of purchase.
Up to CHF 20,000 per year to be spent on research or administrative services, consultancy, staff salaries or training for key personnel.

Other life sciences start-ups

The support provided by Biopôle SA will be capped at CHF 90,000 per company per year, renewable for 3 years maximum. This support may take the following forms.

Up to CHF 40,000 per year to spend on wet lab infrastructure rental or up to CHF 10,000 per year to spend on non-wet lab infrastructure rental.
An allowance of up to CHF 30,000 per year to be spent on laboratory equipment for research and development. The company must list the items it needs and give evidence of these in its funding application. The amount requested cannot exceed 50% of the company’s total purchases. The company must provide proof of purchase.
Up to CHF 20,000 per year to be spent on research or administrative services, consultancy, staff salaries or training for key personnel.

Eligibility

Any start-up based at Biopôle is eligible to apply to the fund, regardless of the life sciences domain it is operating in. However, the start-up must:

be hosted at Biopôle on a lease of no less than 12 months
have been registered for less than 5 years
be working in the life sciences (companies providing services only are not eligible to apply)
have raised less than CHF 5 million in funding since it was founded.

Process

The application process for the Biopôle Start-up Fund comprises the following steps.

Eligible companies may submit an application to the fund at any time (see ‘Application Documents’ below).
At the end of each calendar quarter, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) reviews the applications received and presents recommendations to the Biopôle SA Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors makes a final decision on which companies will be granted funding.
Candidates are informed of the outcome of their application.

Conditions

The beneficiary company agrees to communicate about the support given by Biopôle SA via all appropriate channels, including its website and in its company description. The beneficiary company must stay at the Biopôle campus for a period of at least 3 years following the decision to provide the funding. Except in cases of force majeure or bankruptcy, if the company terminates its stay at Biopôle before the end of this 3-year period, it must reimburse the amount corresponding to the unfulfilled stay period pro rata.

The beneficiary company must also pay back the funds provided if it raises private financing of CHF 10 million or more after the support is granted. Of course, any beneficiary company not meeting this criterion but wishing to pay back the support received may do so on a voluntary basis. Reimbursement must be made, by agreement with Biopôle SA, in one or several instalments over a period identical to that for which support was granted (that is, between 1 and 3 years). The reimbursed amount will be used to finance the Biopôle Start-up Fund so that other companies can benefit from it.

Biopôle Start-up Fund: Application Form

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