Set up and build your start-up

We identify and build commercially viable start-up propositions and help them secure investment.

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79

start-ups formed to date

23

exits to date

£3bn

raised by our portfolio to date

We support you every step of the journey

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1

Identify and evaluate the opportunity

We help evaluate your idea and give you advice and support on the best way to progress it. 

2

Build a business case

We help shape the business proposition by securing IP, identifying key value propositions, and accessing advice from our expert and investor networks.

3

Secure funding

We help founders to access funds through the Cancer Research Horizons Seed Fund and a wide network of partner investors on a global scale. 

4

Form a company

Once all pre-formation stages are complete, we'll help you set up your company, advising on all parts of the incorporation process. 

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Our entrepreneurial programmes

We're inspiring a generation of scientific entrepreneurs to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world impact. Our entrepreneurial programmes include training, accelerator programmes and events. These programmes are targeted at early-career researchers, but they're open to all, regardless of career stage.

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Access investment

You can access pre-seed and seed investment for your start-up through the Cancer Research Horizons Seed Fund. 

So far we've been able provide early stage funding to 22 exciting new ventures and we have an ongoing commitment to investing in world-class academic research that has the potential to transform how we prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

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Ed Tate

Ed's story

A founder's perspective

Read how Ed Tate turned his research into start-up Myricx Bio to create completely new class payloads for ADCs.

"I was running a separate project in my lab on ADCs and realised after we founded Myricx that delivery through an antibody conjugate could potentially be a great way to go for NMT inhibitors."

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Let's go further, faster, together

We're here with support and advice for all stages of building your business. 

Get in touch today