The Golden
Ticket Competiton

We help businesses to launch,
grow and scale

Not just for start-ups and spin-outs, the Golden Ticket Competition gives your business the boost it deserves.

The Prize:

  • 12 months’ free lab bench workspace for one scientist at a Pioneer Group location

  • Access to specialist R&D scientists, business leaders and entrance into our partner network.

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How to apply:

  • Prepare a non-confidential pitch deck, 10-slide limit, including an executive summary (See guidelines for presentation on application instruction form.)

  • Upload the presentation

Selection process

  • All applications will be reviewed by our partners and Pioneer Group selection committee. Five proposals will be selected as finalists.

  • The five finalists will be invited to pitch in front of the selection team.

Disclaimer: The decision to award any golden tickets, and the assessments underlying such decision, are solely within the judgment of our partners and Pioneer Group and are not subject to any objection or appeal.

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Frequently asked questions

In association with Pioneer Group, our partner is looking for emerging companies working at the cutting edges of new and exciting science.

The partner will select a winner who will be granted admission or renewal to lab space at one of Pioneer Group’s five selected locations. In addition, partners will provide support via access to various scientific and business expertise and resources.

Please prepare a non-confidential company slide pitch deck (10 slide limit), using the following guidelines

  • Executive Summary: include a brief history of your company, including:
    • Your company’s mission statement
    • Why and how the company was founded
    • Key differentiators of what makes your company unique compared to your competitors
    • What and why collaborating with a partner is critical to your success
  • The science behind the technology or asset
  • The prioritized and potentially applicable indications
  • Unique scientific value-add: What differentiates your technology or therapeutic from other companies in the competitive landscape?
  • Relevant IP and publications that include data supporting your science
  • Mitigation of risk: What are the potential pitfalls and key challenges?
  • What milestones and achievements do you expect to accomplish in your first year at Pioneer Group
  • The key proof of concept data, and/or experiment that will help you reach your next inflection point
  • Briefly describe your team: their background, expertise, and how you will work together to achieve your near term goals.
  • Your longer-term plans in terms of product development and go to market strategy, including your financing needs to reach these goals?
  • Provide any publications, patents, and/or other data that supports your plans and scientific premise.
  • Your anticipated move-in date to a selected Pioneer Group location

We wish all of you the best of luck and we look forward to meeting you soon.

Entrepreneurial scientists, emerging life science companies and biotechnology startups developing pioneering therapeutic platform technologies, including gene therapy, novel cell therapy, gene editing, or novel drug discovery or platform technologies.

Pioneer Group want to hear from trailblazing science and technology founders, creating platforms for game-changing approaches in selected interest areas in biotechnology.

Winners will receive one year’s free space for an individual bench at the state-of-the-art lab facilities*, along with all resident benefits. They will also gain access to our partners’ R&D capabilities, business leaders and global network of partner academic institutes and biotechnology companies.

*Pioneer Group locations include BioCity Glasgow, Wilton Centre (Redcar), BioCity Nottingham, Colworth Park (Bedfordshire), Kent Science Park.