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Incubate your company

Here’s how the SmiLe Incubator program works in 4 simple phases. Evaluate, Verify, Develop, Grow. Join us now and get the process started.

  • EVALUATE

    We start with an evaluation process to assess your business model, team and Sustainable Competitive Advantages.
  • VERIFY

    Verifying your business model, product and idea is the first phase of the incubation and normally lasts up to 12 months, depending on the type of product/solution you are launching.
  • DEVELOP

    Once you have validated the market for your product/solution, built a team and have a financing strategy, you start the development phase of the incubation program, which lasts up to 4 years, depending on the type of product.
  • GROW

    Once you’ve graduated from the incubator you can be part of our scale-up program which gives you continued access to labs, events and investment opportunities, community and our innovation network.

Individual Coaching

Get individual support and guidance

Life science startups face unique business challenges and solutions, which is why we offer support and guidance based on your specific needs.

Benefit from bi-weekly meetings with a dedicated coach who follows your journey. Together we tailor solutions to your challenges to guide your business forward.

Meet our team

Business Forum

Expert resources to help you resolve key startup issues

Business Forum gathers all the expertise you need in one place to focus on your company’s specific challenges.

Business Forum is:

  • A condensed business coaching forum where expert coaches meet to assess the problems of a specific company. The company presents its challenges/current situation at that forum.
  • All experts have deep knowledge and experience from different aspects of life science and give valuable feedback by assessing the situation and suggesting solutions/action points.
  • Regular Business Forum meetings have several outcomes including helping companies facing a particular challenge, checking on how things are going for each startup, and attempting to foresee and prevent any future problems.
  • Our experts share their network as well as their expertise.

Business School

A complete program to help you prepare your strategies

Our Business Strategy Program teaches you how to think strategically and prepare to become the expert you need to be in your market to build a successful business.

We use traditional models like NABC /https://c84.io/nabc/ and real-world industry requirements. Most investors looking at life science companies will have due diligence criteria similar to NABC.

Market access

Connect with our wide market network of investors, international partnerships and market leaders.

We facilitate access and exposure to key local and international market players. We help you validate your business model, scale your operations and build the right partnerships. All to help sell your innovation/solution.

Make use of 300 m² core facility of 11 specialized laboratories and 1,700 m² of private laboratories so you can start working on your idea from day one – without having to invest in advanced instrumentation. It’s all there for you.

Work in the best facilities

Core facility and your own lab

Private laboratories with office and a Core facility with 10 shared labs

Core facility (shared)

You can access 11 specialized, well-equipped labs in our core facility.

Private laboratories

Private laboratories with office space – office space “attached” to the laboratory.

Pricing example:

  • 8 sqm office – from 3,500 SEK per month
  • 17 sqm laboratory with 6 sqm office – from 8,300 SEK per month
  • Access to core facility and lab services from 2,000 SEK per month
  • Per-use fee for advanced instruments

Included in the monthly fee:

  • Lab coat laundry, low temperature storage (one rack per company), ice and ultra-pure water.
  • Access to (pay-per-use): autoclaving service, dish washing service, dry ice, hazardous waste disposal.
  • Access to our Lab Knowledge Base

List of labs & equipment

Our 11 specialized laboratories

  1. Cell lab for cell lines
  2. Cell lab for primary cells
  3. Cell lab for virus
  4. Noise lab
  5. Balances lab
  6. Histology lab
  7. Protein lab
  8. Mass spectrometry & Biological analysis lab
  9. Molecular biology lab
  10. Microscopy lab
  11. Wet lab

Plus a Lab data work station

Advanced Instrumentation including

  • Bioreactor – myControl & AppliFlexST
  • High content imaging – ImageXpress Pico
  • Live cell imaging – HoloMonitor M4
  • Imager – iBright
  • Mass Spectrometry – Agilent 6546 LC/Q-TOF, UPLC-PDA-Ion trap MS/MS and GC-MS
  • Spectroscopy – FT-IR and Nanophotometer UV
  • Microplate reader Spectramax i3- absorption, fluorescence and luminescence
  • Flow Cytometry – CytoFLEX, B-R-V with 13 fluorescence channels
  • Liquid chromatography – UPLC-PDA
  • Automated tissue dehydration and embedding station
  • Tissue sectioning – Microtome and Cryostat
  • Liquid handling and automation- TECAN, 8 channel
  • Fluorescent Microscopy- upright + inverted
  • Automated cell counter-Nucleocounter
  • Ultracentrifuge – Optima XPN 80,
  • Precision balances including Microbalance
  • RT-PCR and PCR
Download full laboratories description

SmiLe Lab Knowledge Base

Once you have settled in your new office and ready to start using the labs, you’ll need more information and guidance on how to:

  • Find your way around the labs and equipment
  • Learn the rules of the labs
  • Get to know the instruments and how to use them
  • Book an instrument
  • Stay updated on the special offer form our suppliers

To facilitate your introduction to your new environment, and ensure continuous easy access to information, we created an online knowledge base tool that covers all your needs.

Go to our Lab Knowledge Base

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Martina Schneider

Senior Application Scientist

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Per Brunmark

Director Core Facilities

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SmiLe is located at Medicon Village – a vibrant life science cluster where the university, public sector and industry gather under one roof.

The village is a factory for the future, housing the complete chain from research through innovation to commercialisation.

At SmiLe, entrepreneurs build their ideas into companies and bring solutions for better health to the market.

Convenient office space

At SmiLe you can choose between shared and private office space with all services included.

There are shared conference and meeting rooms that you can book, and you can eat lunch and share experiences with other entrepreneurs in the common dining area & kitchen.

All the services you need

As a member of SmiLe Incubator you get access to all services & amenities at Medicon Village. These include:

  • Labs & office spaces for scale-ups
  • Meeting service
  • Postal service
  • Phone & IT service & support
  • Car rental service
  • Meeting rooms
  • Restaurant & Bistro
  • Gym & sports hall
  • Sauna

Read more about Medicon Village

Benefits of being part of the CEO group

  • Access to our quarterly CEO lunches where you meet with other startup CEOs facing similar challenges, share news and discuss opportunities
  • Access to an exclusive coaching group in collaboration with ALMI
  • Receive regular business updates by our coaches to stay ahead of the game
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Free publicity & pr advice

Build marketing traction and get the publicity you need by publishing free press releases through SmiLe Incubator. Spread your news directly to the right channels using our online press release publishing tools – the easy way to getting noticed.

In addition, we help you with the whole process of writing news and press releases, everything from understanding what news is, to a journalist who can write your news and press releases, and advice and practical help on where, and who to send it to.

Conference discount
Through SmiLe Incubators partner network, we frequently receive discount on International as well as national congresses and partnering conferences.
Pitching & presentation

Pitching & presentation

Financial management course by styrelseakademien

(in Swedish only)
Ekonomi för beslutsfattare – eLearning i 4 moduler.
SmiLe Incubator members receive a substantial fee discount.
Ett digitalt kurspaket till dig som upplever att du behöver mer erfarenhet, genomslagskraft och tyngd i ekonomiska diskussioner – inte minst när du skall utvärdera de finansiella rapporterna du presenteras för i din styrelse.

Bike rentals

Need a bike to commute in Medicon Village or wider Lund area during business days? Book one of two SmiLe bikes for free! Come by the SmiLe office to book your bicycle.

Recruit students from Lund University School of Economics & Management

SmiLe members have the opportunity to recruit students from Lund University School of Economics & Management (LUSEM) with knowledge in statistics, IT and business analytics to finance, accounting and marketing.

Here’s how it works:

Step 1: Create employer account. Contact us at info@smileincubator.life to receive the step-by-step instructions manual on how to create an account and post a job on Lund’s platform.

Step 2: Post an assignment/internship/job ad to MyCareer.lu.se for free. The ad remains live for 30 days. The description should include the scope, duration, weekly hours (recommended 5-10 max hours per week), salary/compensation (if any), job/assignment/task description, motivation/what’s in it for the student (experience gained).

Step 3: Contact LU Student Ambassador, Sophie Urban at sophie.urban@ehl.lu.se. Alice provides advice on how to make your ad text as attractive for students as possible

Step 4: Hire student staff

Step 5: Inform Sophie

Medicon village – in residence companies

SmiLe Incubator members in residence will also benefit from Medicon Village offerings and services.
Medicon Village offers meetings and collaborations in an innovative life science environment as well as a unique growth environment for over 150 organizations in life science. Members benefits from seminars and events, as well as work out classes, a gym and restaurants.

Medicon valley alliance free membership*

SmiLe members enrolled in the incubation program, are eligible to a free-of-charge membership in the organization Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) and can benefit from the various events, offerings and networks arranged by MVA.

*the value of the membership is 10.000 SEK (7.300 DKK) plus 470 SEK (340 DKK) per employee
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Mentor program by astra zeneca exchange

SmiLe Incubator members will benefit from Astra Zenecas Exchange program: Business mentoring − supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in life science. By leveraging its industrial expertise in a business-to-business advisory model, AstraZeneca supports Nordic incubators and their start-ups via the AstraZeneca mentoring program.

Supplier network by manufacturing guide

Get access to a niche network of innovation support suppliers! SmiLe Incubator members have access to the Manufacturing Guide, a tool that connects product ideas with the Swedish industry. It provides better conditions to match your product ideas with Swedish developers and manufacturers.
Find out more

Media benefits by life science Sweden

The leading Nordic life science media and event organizer, Life Science Sweden offers to SmiLe Incubator members:

  • 25% discount on all print advertising and native articles in the Life Science Sweden magazine
  • 15% discount on all of our event partner-packages (exhibiting and speaking slots).

Click here to see the list of events.

For more information contact Business Development Manager, Maria Eriksson at maria.eriksson@nordiskemedier.se.

Handelskammaren (Chamber of Commerce)

SmiLe Incubator and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry have entered into a strategic partnership that gives SmiLe member companies access to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry member offers while they also gain a valuable gateway to the large Chamber of Commerce and Industry network in the Southern Swedish business community. Among the benefits our members will have free access to education programs, some advisory services and most importantly, a large network of entrepreneurs. A broad network of contacts at an early stage is crucial for the development of these companies.

Invono One - Free Digital stock book & 30% discount for 36 months

INVONO One is built to facilitate administration and simplify communication – especially between management and owners of unlisted companies. Running a start-up company is often a tough challenge, and therefore it is important to have effective tools that facilitate your journey. Digital share book trust and transparency between the company’s various stakeholders can be directly decisive for, e.g., capital raising.

Offer for SmiLe companies.

Invono One – Free Digital stock book
Create your digital share register, invite your investors and upload your first company documents for free.

30% discount for 36 months
In collaboration with Smile Incubator, Invono One offer a 30% discount for 36 months to all companies connected to Smile’s incubator program. Please get in touch with Invono or your contact person at Smile Incubator for your personal code.

Technical specification: SIS-CEN ISO/TS 82304-2:2021

SiS Svenska Instituter för Standarder

Health software – Part 2: Health and wellness apps –
Quality and reliability (ISO/TS 82304-2:2021)

Teknisk specifikation SIS-CEN ISO/TS 82304-2:2021

Programvara för hälsoappar –
Del 2: Kvalitet och tillförlitlighet (ISO/TS 82304-2:2021)

Health software –
Part 2: Health and wellness apps – Quality and reliability
(ISO/TS 82304-2:2021)

Download here: SIS-CEN ISO/TS 82304-2:2021

Board management platform by invono one

Improve corporate governance. Invono One is a digital platform for the company’s owners, management, teams and external stakeholders that simplifies, streamlines, structures, quality assures and improves information sharing.
SmiLe Incubator member companies receive a favorable offer.

Market evaluation & analysis by truly labs

Understanding your market is key for success. SmiLe Incubator members receive a special deal and support from Truly Labs to conduct market analysis and research related to market situation, healthcare players, competitors and business activities and deals within the targeted area. Assessing the marketplace realities and monitoring disease area, treatments, market access and trends among others.

CONTACT US

info@smileincubator.life

SmiLe Incubator
Medicon Village
Scheeletorget 1
223 63 Lund
Sweden

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