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We are looking forward to a new round of courageous startups and innovative solutions – and of course to finding cooperation partners who will support us with well-thought-out solutions for our current challenges. In particular, we are looking for solutions for the following areas of innovation: 

• Recycling processes for packaging, circular economy, material recovery 
• Simulation and optimization potential of continuously operating process plants 
• Intelligent systems for quality assurance in ongoing production 
• Smart/fast residue analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients 
• Management/processing of pharmaceutical wastewater, hot wastewater 
• European Green Deal Implications for Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency 

GROW success stories  

Our cooperation with perto on the subject of energy efficiency, but also the cooperation with mondas for the development of an IoT platform for safe drug production are real success stories that have emerged from the program and now have the opportunity to scale from Freiburg into the global Pfizer organization.

Five exemplary collaborations between startups and Pfizer as part of the GROW program

If you have developed a solution to the above topics that is ready for the market and you also have a valid sales strategy, apply for GROW 2022! Registration is open until April 10.

Deep tech solutions are a great opportunity to change our world and create a more sustainable, safer and better life. If you want to combine the physical and the digital world with your startup idea, the Startup Accelerator is the central point of contact.

Deep-Tech- Startups wanted!

The focus of the program is on teams from technology fields in the field of microsystems technology such as sensors, actuators, 3D printing, robotics, printing and pump technologies, optics, AR/VR, in-vitro diagnostics, nanotechnologies or microfluidics.

In connection with artificial intelligence, radio technologies such as 5G or cloud computing, these technologies are elementary to create digital images of nature, machines, components, cities and traffic or the human body – and to convert digitally developed solutions into physical reality.

Your benefits at a glance:

• Strong industrial network (energy industry, measurement, control and regulation technology, mechanical engineering, medical technology, etc.)
• Individual support with critical feedback and strong peer teams
• Intensive mentoring with more than 10 mentors per workshop
• Extensive access to test municipalities such as Breisach am Rhein, etc.
• Networking with healthcare facilities
• International scaling via friendly accelerators
• Fancy co-working space and access to top-level test infrastructure
• Access to investors and funding including a convertible loan of EUR 200,000 via start-up BW Pre-Seed

Teams in our program create solutions for protecting the climate and water, for resource-saving processes in industry and smart cities or for high-quality medical therapies – together with our network of strong industrial players and innovative municipalities as well as leading international research institutions, investors and experts.

4 weeks, 10 teams, 10 ideas

During the free four-week program, participants learn to think like an entrepreneur, to further develop their idea with new, creative methods and to transfer it into a portable, scalable business model. The participants will also be prepared to pitch this model to inverstors. The teams are accompanied by the hei_INNOVATION team and trained coaches and mentors from the world of entrepreneurship –  Peter Neske, Innovation Lead at Hub Freiburg, will also coach a team of participants in a 1:1 mentoring.

We are looking forward to support this great program!

She was initially responsible for the support and implementation of digital therapy concepts for cross-indication "Beyond the Pill" approaches at Berlin Chemie AG. At Pfizer, Julia was previously Commercial Strategy Manager, responsible for setting up digital solutions in the indication area of metastatic breast cancer and implementing omni-channel projects in the area of biosimilars. 

At Pfizer Healthcare Hub, Julia will be involved in our collaborations in Digital Health and will be a direct point of contact for interested startups to ask questions about working with Pfizer. If you have questions about collaborations between Pfizer and startups, write to Julia!