"AstraZeneca's A.Catalyst Network is a proud partner to the EIT Health Catapult Program and we are impressed by the width, breadth and quality of the start-ups in the program. We have chosen to be Industry Partners to the program because we believe life science and healthcare innovation needs the diversity and ingenuity of start-ups, and because the EIT Health Catapult Program is exceptionally strong in finding, evaluating and supporting early stage start-ups with unique value propositions.”

Madeleine Thun, Astrazeneca, Senior Director A. Catalys Health Innovation

“The virtual coffees with our Catapult Supermentor were an excellent brainstorm exercise about how Gate2Brain could achieve a broader impact and approach pharma companies to use our technology with their own candidates of different modalities.”

Meritxell Teixidó, CEO/CSO, Gate2Brain​

“Exposing the project to top European partners and industry profiles, who test every critical aspect of the company, has certainly been an experience that has helped us to strengthen processes, adapt our development plan and reduce the risks associated with the project. The programme exposure has also helped us to build an international advisory board that has played a key role in the European Commission’s decision to grant this funding to our company.”

Rubén Molina, CEO, Innitius

“We entered the Catapult Programme at exactly the right time. Brilliant mentors and coaches helped us flesh out our core messages and the finals massively increased our visibility across Europe.“​

Kei Müller, Ebenbuild​, CEO & Co-Founder​

“The EIT Catapult program was a fantastic experience and a major contribution to our recent success in fundraising. In particular, the work on our storytelling and the excellent mentoring were helpful in taking the company to a new level.”

Guido Gualdoni, G.ST Antivirals CEO & Co-Founder​

“Securing support from our new investor, InnovationQuarter, was critical to the successful closing of this latest financing round, which now enables us to advance our lead product toward the clinic, offering new hope for patients with triple negative breast cancer. Participating in the Catapult programme helped to prepare me for this process. My Super Mentor, Roland Kozlowski, provided a lot of useful advice regarding both my pitch and our company strategy more generally. Then, during the pitch training sessions, each of the five trainers provided different insights that I was able to pull together to further improve my pitch.”

Rachel Abbott, Pan Cancer T, CEO

“The Super Mentor programme provides top management of candidate companies with a great opportunity for one-to-one mentoring in areas where they need support, not only in honing the pitch.”

Roland Kozlowski, Executive Chariman of OncoTherics Limited