The NOME Startup Competition is a once-a-year opportunity for all Nordic life science startups to gain access to the NOME Mentoring Program and its world-class mentors, which normally has an invite-only policy. Five startups will be selected to pitch during the NOME Annual Meeting on November 9th in Copenhagen.
The Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship (NOME) is an elite Mentoring Program for promising life science startups based in the Nordics. By matching the startups with high-profile life sciences executives and entrepreneurs in the Nordics and the US, the vision is to help them transform into internationally renowned commercial successes.
A unique chance
The Startup Competition is scheduled as a central part of the NOME Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting is, as the name suggests, a yearly event where the leading experts within life science gather to network and to get to know the most promising life science startups before everyone else.
Once again, five startups will be selected to pitch to an audience consisting of serial entrepreneurs, investors, clinical experts, and representatives from larger biotech/pharma and MedTech companies. A jury consisting of NOME mentors will select which startups that secure an exclusive spot in the NOME Mentoring Program. The winner will also receive 50 000 DKK in prize money. This is an opportunity that doesn’t come around often:
“This is a chance very few startups will get. It is the only open call for NOME and attracts a great number of promising startups who use the opportunity to get accepted into the best mentoring network in the Nordics. I know that all the mentors, investors and other representatives of the industry will be very excited to see who is pitching this year” (Peter Birk, NOME)
NOME provides access to a flexible Mentoring Program designed to fit the needs of each startup, world-class industry mentors, and an international network with a yearly boot camp in the US. The US Camp offers intense workshops and one-on-one sessions around topics such as IP, capital, legal, regulatory, and market access from local US mentors.
Applications are open with a October 15th deadline
About NOME:
The Nordic Mentor Network for Entrepreneurship (NOME) is an elite Nordic Mentoring program for promising life science startups, driven by the vision of transforming Nordic life science startups into internationally renowned commercial successes. NOME matches selected startups with high-profile industry mentors in the Nordics and in the US, and arranges a yearly US Camp.
NOME is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and operated by nine Nordic partner organizations: Accelerace (DK), Medicon Village, Uppsala Innovation Center and Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB (SE), Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator and Aleap (NO), Turku Science Park and Vertical (FI) and Life Science Nord (GER).
