Top 5 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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• Pulpos — Pulpos objective is to provide the greatest product available on the market, complete with an interface that enables retailers to open a store from the cloud in a matter of minutes and with the support they need.
• ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
• Satellites on Fire — Satellites on Fire helps to detect the real time forest fire through satellite imagery.

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• LUCAI BIO — LUCAI designs custom AI algorithms to accelerate biotech R&D. We partner with research teams to build tailored computational solutions — from target identification to lead optimization — turning complex biological data into actionable scientific decisions.Every biotech program has its own data, its own constraints, and its own scientificquestions. Off-the-shelf AI rarely fits. LUCAI works directly with research and discovery teams to design algorithms built around their specific workflows, integrating seamlessly with existing pipelines.We currently collaborate with 35+ biotech and pharma partners across discovery, preclinical, and translational programs, operating at the convergence of AI and biology.
• ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
• Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.

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• Natilus — We are creating a new generation of hyper-efficient blended wing body aircraft designed to make commercial aviation more sustainable and efficient, ensuring a healthier planet for future generations.
• ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
• HEARTio — Heart I/O is a digital diagnostic startup helping emergency providers identify heart abnormalities in Pittsburgh, PA.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• UIN — UIN is the BehaviorOS for banks, fintechs, telcos, and retailers. Its AI-powered platform analyzes user behavior and transaction data to orchestrate personalized triggers, incentives, rewards, and experiences that increase activation, frequency, retention, and lifetime value.
• ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.