Programmes
From a first idea to a company ready to scale, our programmes and community connect founders to coaching, capital and specialist facilities — and to each other.
Our programmes
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Each programme is designed for a different point in a company’s growth — use whichever fits where you are now.
Golden Ticket Partnership
AbbVie
AbbVie wanted targeted access to the UK’s most promising early-stage biotech companies, on a national scale. Through a Golden Ticket competition run with Pioneer, 52 companies applied and 5 were shortlisted for a pitching event. AbbVie selected Alceus Bio, a University of Cambridge spin-out founded in 2024 and developing synthetic CAR T-cell therapies for solid tumours, as the 2025 winner.
Through the partnership, Alceus Bio receives grant funding from AbbVie, 12 months of rent-free incubation space at a Pioneer site, and direct access to both AbbVie’s scientific and business expertise alongside Pioneer’s venture building and investment teams.
For AbbVie, the Golden Ticket is a structured route into the standout science coming out of UK universities, years before it might otherwise reach them. For the wider ecosystem, it is proof that early, high-risk research can find the capital, space and expertise to grow in the UK rather than elsewhere.
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