Mer­ck KGaA kicks off start­up col­lab­o­ra­tion pro­gram in Asia

Ap­pli­ca­tions are now open for Mer­ck KGaA’s newest col­lab­o­ra­tion pro­gram fo­cused on star­tups lo­cat­ed in Asia.

The Ger­man phar­ma an­nounced Thurs­day, spar­ing a few de­tails, that it was launch­ing a new pro­gram in Asia called Up­tune, which “aims to gen­er­ate col­lab­o­ra­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties with ear­ly-stage in­no­v­a­tive com­pa­nies.”

The plan, ac­cord­ing to Mer­ck KGaA, will sup­port and give some fi­nanc­ing to cer­tain com­pa­nies in the health­care and life sci­ence space, plus elec­tron­ics and smart man­u­fac­tur­ing. It did em­pha­size it will look for com­pa­nies with a fo­cus on dig­i­tal health and “in­no­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies/ma­te­ri­als for semi­con­duc­tor and dis­play.”

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