We help ideas become a reality.
Discovery Exchange is the crowdsourcing platform for life-science innovation. Post your project anonymously, then assemble the expertise, funding and lab resources you need — bound together by a shared IP team agreement.
Great ideas die because the team never forms.
Most researchers have more ideas than they can ever resource. Discovery Exchange solves the missing piece: getting the right people, capital and lab access around an idea early enough to matter.
You have the idea
A hypothesis, a method, an unmet clinical need — but no team, budget, or facility to push it forward.
You need people
Specialists, co-investigators, students, agencies — the human power to build something real.
You need enablement
Funding, lab access, compute, regulatory know-how. The enablement factor that turns ideas into outputs.
From idea to team in four steps.
Post your project anonymously
Describe your idea, what you need (expertise, funding, resources), and the IP share you’re offering. Your identity stays hidden from joiners until you choose to reveal it.
Receive applications from joiners
Verified scientists, investors and resource holders apply. You see their identity and credentials; they see only your project.
Shortlist and agree
Select your team and sign a shared IP/patent/rights agreement that recognises every contribution — financial, material or intellectual.
Build the discovery
Run your project with a real team behind it. Share progress, milestones and outcomes through your private workspace.
Whatever you bring, your contribution counts.
Discovery Exchange treats expertise, funding and resources as equal levers of innovation. Our shared IP model recognises each role at the moment the team is formed — not after the fact.
Designed around how research really happens.
Biotech
From assays to platforms — find co-founders and seed capital.
Pharma
Repurposing, novel targets, formulation partners.
MedTech
Devices, diagnostics, clinical validation partners.
AgriTech
Field trials, agronomy expertise, regional partners.
Academia
Cross-institution collaborations and shared grants.
More use cases
See how teams are forming across the platform.