Supporting Start-up Festival will allow you to:
- Increase brand visibility among biotech start-ups
- Engage directly with emerging talent and future business leaders
- Demonstrate thought leadership and sector commitment
Discover our range of supporter opportunities available and discover how your organisation can get involved and raise its profile within the biotech start-up community.
BioStart is a quarterly newsletter explicitly designed for innovative, early-stage, entrepreneurs from the life sciences and biotech industry, where we'll be sharing everything money, space and people! Sign up to the newsletter here. You can also join the linkedin group here.
BIA Innovation Map
While there are many organisations and initiatives aimed at supporting early-stage companies, identifying the right one for where your business is right now can be difficult. The Innovation Map is a directory of accelerators, incubators and other support organisations that enables you to start narrowing down which offers are right for you, and help your company develop to its full potential.
Questions? Contact the team.
Heloise McCulla
What does your role at BIA involve?
Heloise oversees the planning, coordination, and delivery of a wide range of events, ensuring every event is well-planned, seamlessly executed, and valuable for attendees. Heloise manages all logistics, collaborates closely with partners and speakers, and focuses on crafting engaging experiences that support networking, learning, and industry connection.
Previous experience & achievements
Heloise brings extensive experience in planning and delivering events, having managed high-profile launches such as Goodwood Festival of Speed to major conferences and large-scale award shows. Heloise’s achievements include developing impactful event concepts, enhancing attendee experience, building strong relationships with media, partners, and stakeholders, and delivering seamless onsite management – consistently ensuring high-quality, well-executed events.
Sam Cruickshank
What does your role at BIA involve?
As Programme Manager, Sam oversees the agenda for events that the BIA runs, coordinating with speakers and ensuring that we deliver interesting events that meet the needs of our members and the wider sector. He also oversees BIA's start-up activities to support early-stage companies in the UK ecosystem.
Previous experience & achievements
Sam previously worked in scientific publishing, coordinating peer review and strategic planning and development of scientific journals. Prior to this, he studied for Masters in Biology at the University of Sheffield.
If you could invite any scientist or entrepreneur to dinner, who would it be and why?
Probably Darwin – as well as being a fascinating person, given the other strange things he ate, he’s unlikely to complain about my cooking!
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