Life Sciences Start Up Competition


Event date
December 8, 2025

till

February 27, 2026

Event date

Will you be crowned champion of
The 2026 Life Sciences start up competition?

Are you a promising, up-and-coming entrepreneur with a brilliant Life Sciences idea? Join us for our annual start-up competition and see if your business has what it takes to win up to €10,000

Not a Life-Sciences Business?
You’re eligible to compete in our All Innovation Category, with a chance to score 2,500 for your start-up.

Set Goals

At Gulliver we believe that setting goals is important and therefore participating in the Gulliver competition
begins with setting your personal goals for your enterprise.

Build Your Enterprise

The three most important factors for building your new enterprise are speaking to the right people,
gathering the right feedback and attracting the right amount of funding.
During the second phase of the competition we help you to do exactly that.

Gulliver is not a school where we teach you how to build your company, but a gateway to all the information, network and resources you need.

Win €10.000,-

Money is an important resource often missing in start-ups. Gulliver therefore grants the most promising new Life Sciences enterprise of the year a cash prize of €10.000,-!
We’re committed to helping you make progress.

To foster more innovation in the Netherlands, they will be offering an additional €2,500- cash prize
for the best start-up in our the “All Innovation” category

Interested to Join the Life Sciences Competition in 2026?

Contestants must fulfil certain criteria to be eligible:

  • You have the aspiration to make a successful business, a sound plan of how to deliver results and the work-ethic to drive a real impact in your industry
  • The business must have a sufficiently innovative idea, business model or technology driving it
  • The founding team must have at least one team member aged 35 and under
  • Although not necessary to participate – winners will need a business bank account and a COC-number in order to receive the prize
  • Do You Have An Advisor/Investor Already? Please make sure to declare it in your one-pager to ensure no conflict of interest issues

We wish you all the best in your venture building and hope to see you for this year’s challenge!

Register now!

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