Application to
KI Incubator
Are you building a science-based company with the potential to improve health, healthcare or patients’ lives? Apply to our incubator!
Karolinska Institutet Innovation´s Incubator is designed for early-stage life science ventures ready to move from promising science to a scalable business.
Welcome
Build your life science venture with the right partner from the start
We work with founders who combine scientific excellence with the ambition to create real-world impact.
Building a successful life science company takes more than groundbreaking research. It requires strategic guidance, commercial insight, investor readiness, access to the right network—and the determination to navigate a challenging but rewarding journey.
You don’t have to do it alone..
As part of Karolinska Institutet Innovation, you gain access to an integrated innovation ecosystem that combines early support, incubation, community and access to capital—built specifically for science-based ventures.
Application process
Application opens August 6
Application closes September 8
Fill in this application form, AND send your slide deck and an up to date cap table to incubator2026@kiinnovation.se by September 8.
Applications are reviewed by Karolinska Institutet Innovation’s business team together with external experts.
Assessment includes:
- Unique assets
- Business potential
- Team
- Execution
Please do not include confidential proprietary information in your application.
Applicants must provide a non-confidential slide deck of 15-20 slides that include:
- Company snapshot
- The problem and unmet need you are addressing
- Your solution and what makes it unique
- The scientific or technical foundation behind the project (show data)
- Market, customers, competitors and positioning
- Intellectual property and other competitive advantages
- The team and its relevant expertise
- Current development status of product/solution
- Key activities and milestones for the next 12–24 months
- Funding needs and financing plan
- Why do you want to join the incubator, and how will it help you accelerate your company’s growth?
- What positive and negative social and environmental impacts might your proposed product, business concept and activities have?
Are you ready to apply?
Fill in this application form, AND send your slide deck and an up to date cap table to incubator2026@kiinnovation.se by September 8.