COVID RESPONSE
03 APRIL 2020
How BioCity based Sygnature Discovery is working on discovering drugs to battle coronavirus
03 APRIL 2020
BioAscent partner with the Scottish Government and the University of Dundee to establish major new COVID-19 testing facility
From BioCity
20 AUGUST 2020
BioCity and Opportunity North East (one) launches a new life sciences business programme in partnership
06 DECEMBER 2019
BioCity-based businesses triumph up at Medilink East Midlands Business Awards 2019.
11 OCTOBER 2019
BioCity hosts Ada Lovelace day to inspire the next generation of female stem scientists
01 OCTOBER 2019
BioCity Accelerator alumni take top prizes at this year’s Converge Challenge
17 JULY 2019
BioCity & Oxford AHSN partner to accelerate life science businesses in the golden triangle.
From The Collective
29 APRIL 2020
Accelerator alumni Myndr receives £300k investment from Innovate UK to expand its proposition
07 JANUARY 2020
Novosound named in top ten Scottish digital and science start-ups to watch in 2020
10 SEPTEMBER 2019
Worn Again Technologies breaks boundaries, raising £5 million investment, accelerating it to market
09 OCTOBER 2019
Biogelx and 3D Biotechnology Solutions announce collaboration to offer complete, tissue specific bioprinting solutions
09 APRIL 2019
New experimental packaging made out of waste langoustine shells shown to the Prince of Wales
21 FEBRUARY 2019
CuanTec announce Sky Ocean Ventures as major new partner to investor portfolio
14 FEBRUARY 2019
Deep Branch Biotechnology part of Forbes 30 Under 30 manufacturing & industry 2019
OPINIONS
09 DECEMBER 2019
New UKSPA Chairman DR Glenn Crocker MBE on the sector’s rapidly changing landscape
NOVEMBER 2019
Produced biennially, the BioCity UK Life Science Start-up Report delves into the wider landscape of life-science start-ups and business incubators.
02 MAY 2019
The rights and wrongs of life science entrepreneurship. why the BioCity accelerator programme wants to help you get it wrong.
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BOILER PLATE
Home to more than 200 companies, BioCity is a pioneering life science incubator and business collective.
Not the typical business incubator, BioCity takes a holistic approach to business support. Offering entrepreneur coaching, investment, flexible lab and office space and PAYG services within a UK-wide business collective.
Founded in 2002 by the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, BioCity originated in a former BASF Pharma research facility in Nottingham city centre.
In 2012 BioCity acquired the MSD research facility in Newhouse near Glasgow to create Glasgow, BioCity. This was closely followed by a second site in Nottingham, MediCity, which is located on the Boots campus and is a collaboration with Walgreens Boots Alliance. In 2016 the Newhouse site was further expanded to create Glasgow, MediCity. BioCity also operates at Alderley Park, Cheshire, Aberdeen and Newcastle.
The company has made 29 investments in early stage companies and has delivered a healthy growth in portfolio valuation. Funds are deployed from its own cash reserves and from a joint venture vehicle with AstraZeneca which BioCity manages.
In 2017, BioCity was identified as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies in the Financial Times’ FT 1000 report. The BioCity model of ‘support from inception to incorporation’ initially challenged the industry standard but quickly became the industry leader due to the unprecedented survival rates of BioCity based businesses.
ABOUT BIOCITY.
BioCity is a pioneering life science incubator and business collective. Where ideas become reality, investment flows and businesses succeed.
BACK STORY.
BioCity was founded in 2002 when the concept of a business incubator offering 360° support within a self-contained location was unheard of. But a small team of dedicated people fought hard to turn that idea into reality. A reality now replicated throughout the UK.
Never limited to the standard business ‘incubator’ model, BioCity has grown alongside the businesses who call us home.
Our community has become a UK-wide business collective. From our locations we now provide entrepreneur coaching and investment alongside rentable lab and office space and PAYG services.
But we’re not finished yet. We work tirelessly for the pioneers who call us “home”, “coach” and “investor”, helping ideas out of the lab and into the world.
Even more than this, to our companies, we are a cheerleader, a critical friend & a collaborator.
THE BIOCITY BUSINESS COLLECTIVE
Entrepreneurs, investors, experts, academics, industries and associations come together at BioCity. Creating a UK-wide business collective.
We surround businesses with people who share a common goal with us and with each other – to help science entrepreneurs tackle global challenges. Individuals with diverse expertise, experience and resources who can open the doors, make the introductions and identify the opportunities; that help businesses grow.
Allowing even the smallest of ventures to be part of, and do something, big.
Because there’s more to life (sciences) than labs, BioCity takes a holistic approach.
ENTREPRENEUR COACHING
Not just for start-ups and spin-offs, we coach entrepreneurialism at every stage from idea to exit. Advocates of the Lean Start-Up method, we help businesses get off the ground and continue to grow, entrepreneurially.
INVESTMENT
Our panel of investment experts is adept at spotting the ‘ones to watch’, investing in promising entrepreneurs and early stage ventures with real potential.
Seed capital
Convertible loans for very early-stage ventures to help get them off the ground.
Co-investment
We identify opportunities and invite High Net Worth Individuals and sophisticated investors to co-invest in growing businesses, alongside us.
EXPERT NETWORK
Part of the BioCity Collective, the Expert Network are altruistic individuals our entrepreneurs can call upon for help.
They are leaders of industry, working at the highest levels in the areas of commercial science (regulatory, safety and toxicology, finance, legal, acquisition etc.) that life science entrepreneurs will tackle at some point.
LAB & OFFICE SPACES
Easy-in easy-out leases allow businesses to scale-up and down for new projects and new people; without the risk.
To support the science: uninterruptible power supplies, access card security systems, air handling systems and cryostorage. Class1 and class2 labs, GCP and GMP suites alongside office and co-working spaces.
To support the people: coffee houses, yoga classes, work perks and socials.
PAYG SERVICES
To lessen operational costs and capital expenditure, we provide services, resources and equipment on a pay-as-you-go basis.
- Laboratory services
- Equipment rental
- Business services
- Engineering
- Meeting rooms & event spaces
BRAND ASSETS
