A ChordexBio subplatform

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.

3 ways to joinExpertise · Funding · Resources
Shared IPEquitable team rights
Anonymous uploadersIdentity protection by default
Researchers, funders and lab partners orbiting a central idea
The problem

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.

How it works

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.

See the full workflow →

Three roles, one team

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.

Discovery Exchange matches uploaders with three kinds of joiners around a shared IP agreement

Your idea deserves a team.

Join the early access programme and post your first project. It’s free to set up an account and explore.