{"entity":{"id":"leaps-by-bayer","kind":"company","name":"Leaps by Bayer","aka":[],"tldr":"Bayer's impact investing unit, which funds companies tackling ten 'leaps' in health and agriculture, including curing cancer. Its website blocked automated access at the time of research.","summary":"Leaps by Bayer is the impact investment unit of Bayer AG that backs early-stage companies pursuing large 'leaps' in health and agriculture; one of its stated leaps concerns cancer, and it has invested in cell therapy and precision oncology start-ups. Its website (leaps.bayer.com) and the Leaps page on bayer.com both returned HTTP 403 with a 'Site Maintenance' bot-blocking message on every attempt, so the unit's own description, founding year, location and named oncology portfolio companies could not be confirmed from a primary source.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://leaps.bayer.com/"}],"tags":["corporate-venture"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":["bayer"],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Website could not be fetched by the research pass on 2026-09-10 (bot protection, JavaScript-only or parked domain); location and description rest on the firm's public materials and on press releases that name it. leaps.bayer.com and bayer.com returned 403 bot-block pages via curl and WebFetch. Berlin follows the task hint (Bayer's pharmaceuticals division is based in Berlin; the group HQ is Leverkusen)."],"hq":"Berlin","country":"DE","companyType":"investor","website":"https://leaps.bayer.com/","investors":[],"funding":[]},"route":"/companies/leaps-by-bayer/","neighbours":{"company":[{"id":"affini-t-therapeutics","kind":"company","name":"Affini-T Therapeutics","route":"/companies/affini-t-therapeutics/"},{"id":"bayer","kind":"company","name":"Bayer","route":"/companies/bayer/"},{"id":"century-therapeutics","kind":"company","name":"Century Therapeutics","route":"/companies/century-therapeutics/"}]}}