Innovators
Support, Investment and Specialist Space for Your Next Stage
Whether you are forming a company, developing your technology or expanding your operation, Pioneer can help you find relevant support, capital and facilities.
Start with the support your company needs and draw on other capabilities as it grows.
Three Starting Points
Start With What Your Company Needs
Start or Build a Company
Programmes that test commercial potential and shape the business.
Seek Investment for My Company
Pre-seed to Series A in life sciences, deep tech and innovation.
Find Specialist Space
From a single bench in a shared lab to manufacturing.
Start or Build a Company
Our Programmes Test the Value Proposition and Help Shape the Business
Programmes test whether there is a commercial proposition, help shape the business model and connect founders to customers, corporates and capital. They run in partnership with universities, Innovate UK and other venture builders like Science Creates.
Seek Investment for my Company
Pre-Seed to Series A
We invest early, from pre-seed to Series A, often in companies we already know through our programmes, partnerships and campuses. We also invest in companies we have not yet supported.
Tell us about your company and what you need. We will explain the relevant options and next steps.
Find Specialist Space
Space That Develops With the Company
Shared laboratories, dedicated wet lab and write-up, scale-up space with clean rooms and pilot capability, GMP, manufacturing and light industrial requirements. Not every facility exists at every campus.
Companies can expand, contract or move through the network as requirements change, without committing to more space years before they need it. Right space on the right terms at the right time.
Sixteen campuses across the UK and Ireland.
Access Expert Advice
Expert Network
Pioneer’s Expert Network connects science entrepreneurs with experienced life science leaders. Whether you need advice on fundraising, commercial strategy or technology development, our team can introduce you to an expert with relevant experience. Advice is confidential and independent, with no ongoing commitment.
Melio Bio
Melio Bio is a London-based company developing treatments for cardiometabolic disease. Co-created with Molecule to Medicine, it received venture-building support to turn early research into a company positioned to access specialist expertise and the capital needed to test its science. Laboratory space at Victoria House provided a base for its work, while winning the 2025 Golden Ticket Programme gave it a route to Novo Nordisk’s cardiometabolic expertise.