Business support for life sciences and health tech startups
Life sciences and health tech move to a different clock. We help founders plan commercially around regulation, evidence and staged funding, and keep sensitive data handled properly while they do.
Who this is for
For founders of diagnostics, devices, therapeutics, digital health and lab services. You may be clinician led or scientist led, with an advisory board, a patent and a regulatory checklist as long as your arm, and very little spare time to think about customers or cash.
Pressures particular to health and life sciences
Evidence takes years, bills take weeks
Trials, validation and approvals cost money long before revenue. Every delay shortens runway, so each commercial decision has to be weighed against what it does to the timetable.
Selling into the NHS is a maze
Buyers sit in different places, procurement is slow, and a clinical champion alone is not enough. Founders often cannot tell who actually signs, or when.
Patient and sample data everywhere
Special category health data lands in inboxes, spreadsheets and shared drives. One careless share becomes a reportable problem, and partners will ask how you handle it.
Funding in stages, with gaps
Grant, seed, then a larger round, each demanding different proof. Between them sit months where nobody is writing the story and the team is thinly spread.
Commercial help that respects clinical time
Scope &
Strategy
We map who buys, who influences and who approves, and line commercial steps up beside your regulatory and evidence plan. You see where the gaps in money and proof fall before they arrive.
About Scope & StrategySystems &
Solutions
We build tidy records for evidence, advisers, partners and regulatory documents, plus pipelines for hospital and research contacts, so the quality system and the sales effort are not kept in separate worlds.
About Systems & SolutionsSecurity &
Support
We help you handle health related data with care: tight access, separated records, tested backups and clear procedures. Then partners and ethics reviewers get straight, documented answers rather than assurances.
About Security & SupportQuestions people ask
How do I commercialise a medical device or health product in the UK?
In outline: protect the idea, prove it works, meet the regulatory requirements for your product type, then find a buyer willing to pay. The sequence and timing depend heavily on the product. Check with the MHRA and a regulatory specialist for your case.
What funding exists for UK life sciences startups?
Options include grants and competitions through bodies such as Innovate UK and UKRI, research councils, charities, angels and specialist investors. What suits you depends on stage and sector. We help you plan the sequence. Always confirm current eligibility with the funder.
Can you help with regulatory approval itself?
No. Regulatory strategy needs a specialist in your product class, and we would say so rather than guess. What we do is the commercial planning around it, the records and the systems, so your regulatory work and your business plan agree with each other.
How do we start working with NYAS?
Book a call and describe the product, the stage and the sticking point. We will ask about customers and cash as well as science, then tell you straight whether we are the right help. There is no commitment in that first talk.
Talk to us about life sciences and health tech.
You tell us what is going on. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and if we cannot, we will say so.