Healthcare company-building profile
Grass Roots Innovation Program
Boehringer Ingelheim
AcceleratorPharma acceleratorCorporateActive
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Pharma accelerator
- Organization
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Organization type
- Corporate
- Location
- Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage to Early stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Rolling and prize-based intake rather than fixed cohorts
- Investment or funding offered
- Yes
- Published investment terms
- Research funding, in-kind scientific support and prize awards; specific terms not published
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
Boehringer Ingelheim's Grass Roots Innovation Program supports academic scientists and very early-stage biotech founders with research funding, scientific guidance and access to Boehringer expertise before a company has raised institutional capital. It includes the Grass Roots Innovation Prize and the Boehringer Ingelheim Academy, and operates globally with a US arm. The company also runs the BI X digital lab as a separate internal digital venture unit.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Early-stage biotechAcademic spinoutsDrug discoveryTranslational research
- Category: Pharma accelerator
- Program structure: Rolling and prize-based intake rather than fixed cohorts
- Published terms: Research funding, in-kind scientific support and prize awards; specific terms not published
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- a:head bio AG
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