Are you an early stage start-up based in West Africa? Are you working at the cutting edge of innovation and would like to run a collaboration project with Merck to solve real-life problems? Is your startup innovation related to Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Performance Materials and our innovation focus areas?
If you have answered yes to any of the questions above. Then Merck is looking for you! In partnership with MEST Incubator in Lagos, Merck Accelerator’s satellite program in Lagos is your gateway to quickly explore and validate the potential for co-creating and collaborating with Merck.
Apply to get a chance to work on a collaboration project with existing Merck’s innovation projects.
Merck’s Businesses
Healthcare
From prescription medicines to treat conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and infertility to over-the-counter products developed to help protect every member of your family: our goal is to make a difference to millions of people around the world.
Life Science
Providing scientists and engineers with best-in-class lab materials, technologies and services, Merck is dedicated to making research and biotech production simpler, faster and safer.
Performance Materials
Developing specialty chemicals for particularly demanding applications, Merck provides groundbreaking liquid crystals as well as OLED materials for displays and lighting, effect pigments for coatings and colour cosmetics, as well as high-tech materials for the production of integrated circuits.
Areas of Interest
Healthcare Access Solutions
Born out of the Merck innovation spirit for healthier people worldwide, currently, a pilot consisting of 5 Points of Care facilities at high standards of quality are being set up in Kenya. The platform concept will provide for medication (Dx/OTC) and nurse services enhanced through mobile and digital health solutions.
To augment the digital access solution services, Merck is looking for innovative and ambitious startups with a sustainable business model idea in the following areas: delivery of healthcare, financing therapies, healthcare connected logistics, community self-service enablement and affordable, faster diagnosis.
Biosensing and Interfaces
Merck is looking at generating novel insights and building new business models around the integration of electronics and biology. This will enable us to develop groundbreaking medical treatment solutions, based on a unique mix of sensor data retrieval, machine learning, and curation expertise.
Precision Farming
Merck is looking at creating combinations of materials, analytics, and services that will help create a new kind of farming that is no longer dependent on the blanket application of agrochemicals to fields to feed an expanding global population in a more sustainable and ethical way.
Who should apply?
Merck is looking for startups that fulfil the following criteria:
- Early stage startups that are not more than 4 years old
- Startups in the fields of healthcare, Life Sciences, Performance Materials and other search fields such as Bio-sensing & Interfaces, and Precision Farming.
- Startups with at least 2 cofounders
Application deadline
For startups based in West Africa, our Lagos Applications are open from June 17th to August 20th, 2018.
