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Top 50 Biotechnology VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotechnology startups based in Ireland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from Ireland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Biotechnology VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ireland in May 2025

Investor Biotechnology Ireland investments
Enterprise Ireland 28
SOSV 19
Western Development Commission 11
Kernel Capital 7
Fountain Healthcare Partners 6
Seroba Life Sciences 6
Irrus Investments 6
Atlantic Bridge 5
AIB Seed Capital Fund 5
European Investment Bank 4
HBAN 4
Boole Investment Syndicate 3
The Yield Lab Europe 3
Atlantic Bridge University Fund 3
HBAN Medtech Syndicate 3
Act Venture Capital 3
ARCH Venture Partners 2
Elkstone Capital Partners 2
Infinity Capital 2
Ascentifi 2
SVG Ventures 2
Enterprise Equity 2
Lightstone Ventures 2
Furthr VC 2
HealthCap 2
SVG Ventures 2
Cambridge Innovation Capital 1
Bpifrance 1
Kreos Capital 1
Novartis Venture Fund 1
Apicap 1
Blue Wire Capital 1
dlab 1
Medicxi 1
EQT Life Sciences 1
Earlybird Venture Capital 1
ETV Capital SA 1
MML Capital Partners 1
Covidien 1
Alimentos Ventures 1
WxNW 1
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures 1
The Yield Lab 1
New Enterprise Associates 1
Mayo Clinic Ventures 1
Wellcome Trust 1
Fulcrum Global Capital 1
Development Capital 1
Third Swedish National Pension Fund 1
Spark Crowdfunding 1
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Enterprise Ireland VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
  • Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Western Development Commission VC Fund · Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Supporting communities to grow, investing in businesses to scale and planning for the future of the western region.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • Peroptyx — Peroptyx is a platform that provides managed solutions for machine learning. At Peroptyx, they have assembled and pre-screened a qualified network of data evaluators across the globe. They strategically match ideal evaluators with each product to ensure authentic experiences through consistency and appropriate real-world contexts.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.
Kernel Capital VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland
Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
  • Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
Fountain Healthcare Partners VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fountain Healthcare Partners is an Irish based life science venture capital fund. Fountain is exclusively focused on the life science sector. Specific areas of interest to them are: specialty pharma, medical devices, biotechnology and diagnostics. They will deploy the majority of their capital in Europe with a strong focus on Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Ireland, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Mainstay Medical — Mainstay Medical is improving quality of life for patients with chronic low back pain through innovative restorative treatment medical device solutions.
  • Neuromod Devices — Neuromod is a medical device company formed to advance the science of bi-modal neuromodulation.We are committed to delivering treatments that significantly reduce the suffering of underserved patient populations who live with chronic and debilitating conditions globally. Our goal is to design products that empower patients to take control oftheir own treatment, delivering targeted therapies that integrate seamlessly into a modern lifestyle.Neuromod has developed and patented a bi-modal neuromodulation technology that it is evaluating for neurological disorders including chronic tinnitus, a condition affecting 10% of the adult population and commonly known as 'ringing in the ears'.
  • XyloCor Therapeutics — XyloCor Therapeutics is a bio-pharmaceutical company intended to develop gene therapy for people with advanced coronary artery disease. The company's service focuses on developing gene therapy to stimulate the formation of new coronary blood vessels and serve areas of the heart that are not receiving adequate blood supply, enabling patientswith refractory angina who exhausted pharmacologic options to cure their cardiovascular diseases painlessly and cost effectively.
Seroba Life Sciences VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Seroba is a leading European life sciences venture capital firm focused on value creation through backing winning innovations in biotech and medtech.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
  • Perfuze — Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. Perfuze is located within Galway City in the West of Ireland. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations.Perfuze is developing innovative medical technology to treat acute ischemic stroke.Perfuze is developing innovative cathetertechnology to treat acute ischemic stroke. Their technology is intended to provide superior clinical outcomes in shorter procedural times; resulting in safe, cost-effective therapy. Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations. Perfuze is currently located in the Business Innovation Centre on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is in the process of relocating to the IDA Business Park in Dangan, Galway.
  • Azafaros — Azafaros aims at developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of rare metabolic disorders such as lysosomal storage disorders through oral administration of azasugar compounds. These novel, very promising agents were discovered by Professor Hans Aerts at Leiden University and Amsterdam UMC and are exclusively licensed to Azafaros.
Irrus Investments VC Fund · Limerick, Limerick, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Irrus Investments is the leading Irish business angel network with international connections. Fueling Irish innovation in medical devices, software, hardware, digital healthcare and life sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • SymPhysis Medical — SymPhysis Medical's goal is to develop innovative technologies that treat a range of chronic diseases, putting the patient experience at the forefront of our design solutions to improve quality of life.About SymPhysis MedicalSymPhysis Medical's emergent technology, releaze, is a drainage technology to treat a common complication oflate-stage cancers, malignant pleural effusion (MPE). MPE causes significant shortness of breath and chest pain in up to 15% of patients with cancer.
Atlantic Bridge VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity Firm with a Cross Border Value Add strategy. We invest in deep technology companies in Europe and the US. Our team is made up of successful entrepreneurs and senior technology industry executives and we invest in strong ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams that have the passion and drive to scale up andexploit major growth opportunities. We help our portfolio companies expand and grow internationally through our global platform with our team and offices in London, Dublin, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto.Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, experienced managers, finance professionals, and investment experts. The team contains a wealth of international business experience across Europe, the UK and the US. They have worked together in various capacities for the last 30 years, bringing a true partnership approach to their firm and their investments. Its investors include the founders, leading institutional investors, and private investors with a track record of investment in successful technology companies.Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy that focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale-up of technology companies in Europe and the US. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
  • Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
AIB Seed Capital Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
The AIB Seed Capital Fund was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development across a range of sectors throughout the Republic of Ireland. The Fund was established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012.The Fund has a total of €30m under managementwith AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing €15m. It is managed by experienced managers with extensive expertise in making seed and early stage investments, adding value and facilitating business success.The Fund managers are empowered to make seed investments of up to approximately €500,000. Furthermore, the Fund has the capacity to make investments in later rounds to support the continued growth of investee companies.The Fund will be managed by Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre. This unique partnership brings together extensive regional and investment expertise.Enterprise Equity will evaluate and manage all investments outside the city and county of Dublin, as well as investments that require in excess of €250,000 from the fund within the city and county of Dublin.Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) will evaluate and manage all investments within the city and county of Dublin when the initial investment amount required from the Fund does not exceed €250,000.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
  • Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
European Investment Bank VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 35 investments in the past 12 months
The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.
  • Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
  • Heura Foods — Heura is a plant based startup founded by food activists Marc Coloma and Bernat Añaños in April 2017. Its mission is to create solutions that will leave the current food system obsolete and accelerate the transition to a world where animals are out of the equation. Their Mediterranean culinary heritage is reflected on their products: clean label,high nutritional values and taste.
HBAN VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
  • Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
Boole Investment Syndicate VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland
Boole Investment Syndicate invests in new technology start-up's with scalability.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, SaaS, EdTech
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • FeelTect — FeelTect’s technology, Tight Alright, is a pressure sensing, connected-health device for measuring and monitoring sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy, primarily for the millions of people worldwide with venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Compression is a proven therapy for VLUs, however if it’s applied too loose, it’s ineffective, and if it’stoo tight, it’s dangerous.
  • SymPhysis Medical — SymPhysis Medical's goal is to develop innovative technologies that treat a range of chronic diseases, putting the patient experience at the forefront of our design solutions to improve quality of life.About SymPhysis MedicalSymPhysis Medical's emergent technology, releaze, is a drainage technology to treat a common complication oflate-stage cancers, malignant pleural effusion (MPE). MPE causes significant shortness of breath and chest pain in up to 15% of patients with cancer.
The Yield Lab Europe VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Yield Lab Europe is a €55m early stage Agrifood and Ag Tech fund which comprises an accelerator and a larger follow-on fund, investing in high tech companies with the potential to significant disrupt and improve our current systems of global food production, and to improve the environmental sustainability of the industry. The main fund invests€1m each into 10-12 companies over several follow on rounds, with the strongest accelerator companies expected to progress to the main fund. The Yield Lab Europe is also part of a global network of Agrifood Tech funds, with global headquarters in St Louis USA, and sister funds in LATAM and Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kapsera — Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies.Kapsera offers natural and innovative formulations for microbials based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
  • BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Atlantic Bridge University Fund VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Atlantic Bridge University Fund invest in entrepreneurs with the ambition to create world-class companies of scale. A €60m investment fund to accelerate the commercialisation of ground-breaking research and the scaling of global businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Health Care, Big Data
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • ProVerum Medical — The ProVee stent from Proverum Medical uses 3-D geometry which mirrors and engages with the anatomy of the prostate. The system alleviates Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) by opening the prostatic urethra, applying radial force to the prostatic lobes.
  • Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland
HBAN Medtech Syndicate VC Fund
HBAN Medtech Syndicate
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series B
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • FeelTect — FeelTect’s technology, Tight Alright, is a pressure sensing, connected-health device for measuring and monitoring sub-bandage pressure during compression therapy, primarily for the millions of people worldwide with venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Compression is a proven therapy for VLUs, however if it’s applied too loose, it’s ineffective, and if it’stoo tight, it’s dangerous.
  • Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.
  • SymPhysis Medical — SymPhysis Medical's goal is to develop innovative technologies that treat a range of chronic diseases, putting the patient experience at the forefront of our design solutions to improve quality of life.About SymPhysis MedicalSymPhysis Medical's emergent technology, releaze, is a drainage technology to treat a common complication oflate-stage cancers, malignant pleural effusion (MPE). MPE causes significant shortness of breath and chest pain in up to 15% of patients with cancer.
Act Venture Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • Mavarick AI — Mavarick enables manufacturers to become more sustainable and productive.Our technology gives manufacturers precise and accurate information about their operations so they can reduce carbon emissions, increase productivity, and make better decisions across their business.Born on the shop floor and developed by data scientists, manufacturers,and sustainability experts, our easy-to-use tools make powerful AI solutions accessible to all the team.
ARCH Venture Partners VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
ARCH Venture Partners provides seed / early stage venture capital for technology firms in information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rhygaze — RhyGaze is at the forefront of developing a novel first-in-class gene therapy aimed at improving vision in patients suffering from retinal diseases.
  • Kardigan — Kardigan is building the heart health company of the future focused on developing medicines to make cardiovascular disease curable, preventable, and no longer the leading cause of death.
  • Be Biopharma — Be Bio is developing a proprietary class of engineered B cells as medicines that unleash the potential of cell therapies in applications beyond cytotoxicity.
Elkstone Capital Partners VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Elkstone is an investment firm, focusing on entrepreneurs, senior executives, institutional LPs, the venture community, and the Irish diaspora.The objective of the organization is to boost the economic value and overall well-being of the island of Ireland by expanding a network, facilitating deserving investments, and delivering excellentinvestment performance.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • ZeroRisk.io — ZeroRisk.io is a platform for merchant management that provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions. It guarantees regulatory compliance, offers risk evaluation, and aids in risk mitigation. Additionally, it provides data analytics tools for performance optimization and growth opportunity identification. The platform offers real-time insightsand customization options.
  • Output Sports — Discover Output's portable and affordable athlete testing and tracking device. Measure strength, power and speed in minutes giving accurate and reliable data.
Infinity Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
Infinity Capital are hypothesis-driven investors - constantly calibrating ideas through a Silicon Valley/technology network that they've been building for over two decades. Their extensive technology and operating backgrounds, combined with over a dozen years each of successful startup investing, have been essential in buildingcredibility and a reputation that resonates with entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Semiconductor, E-Commerce, Electronics
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series D
  • United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • AltraTech — Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech Next Generation Molecular Detection Discover Altratech At Altratech, our mission is to enable next generation molecular detection.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
  • Core Starters — Core Starters services startups and investors through blockchain-based decentralized services to solve real problems.
Ascentifi VC Fund · Galway, Galway, Ireland
Discover start-up investing made simple. Access VC-led rounds, build your portfolio, and unlock growth at Ascentifi
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • CroíValve — CroíValve is a developed a safe, effective, easy to use, percutaneous solution for treating all patients with severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Vertigenius — Vertigenius designs and deploys customized exercises using an easy-to-use clinician portal and even uses a Vertigenius head sensor to consult and manage patients with dizziness and imbalance.
  • X-BOLT Orthapaedics — X-Bolt Trauma Solutions for osteoporotic bone fixation. FDA 510(k) approved. Clinical studies include the WHITE One (n=100) and WHITE Four (n=1,140) randomized control trials.
SVG Ventures VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
  • Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
  • Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
Enterprise Equity VC Fund · Dundalk, Louth, Ireland
Enterprise Equity (or EEVC) is an excellent for providing capital to early stage and expanding business throughout Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
  • SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
  • Metabolomic Diagnostics — Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory.Thispipeline combines the biomarker multiplexing capabilities of Mass Spectrometry, a powerful analytical technology, with the company’s own informatics and statistics solutions to deliver diagnostic innovation. This is reflected in Metabolomic Diagnostics’ strong and versatile IP portfolio of technical innovations and biomarkers.Our VisionMetabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy,her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.The company’s innovative diagnostic solutions will assist clinicians in re-imagining how these conditions are managed: our novel risk assessment tools are specifically developed in conjunction with prenatal care providers to ensure they make a difference that really matters. This in turn will enable clinicians to improve pregnancy outcomes globally.Our solutions will empower pregnant women: accurate pregnancy risk information will allow a pregnant woman, in partnership with her care provider, to determine what prenatal care is best for her pregnancy.
Lightstone Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Lightstone Ventures is a global venture capital firm that invests in personalized medicines and targeted therapeutics. Lightstone Ventures was founded in 2012 by the General Partners and other key members of the life science teams of Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) and Morgenthaler. The firm was formed to capture the upside of investing inbreakthrough life science companies during a time of unique opportunity in space.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Ireland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
  • Cala Health — Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company's wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. The first indication for Cala Health's wearable therapy is an essential tremor, adisease experienced by more than seven million people and characterized by severe hand tremors. New therapies are under development in neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.
  • Atsena Therapeutics — Atsena is a clinical-stage gene therapy company, focused on bringing the life-changing power of genetic medicine to reverse or prevent blindness.
Furthr VC VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We are a relationship driven early stage VC investor. We invest in and form close partnerships with the founders we back.We make initial investments at Seed to Series A stage in highly ambitious, born global Irish software and medtech companies. We are hands-on and support teams across key strategic areas to accelerate growth.In addition toproviding institutional investment at an early stage, we reserve significant capital for following on in subsequent rounds. We go the journey with founders.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • LaNua Medical — At LaNua Medical it is our mission to develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.
  • STRATxAI — STRATxAI is a WealthTech Company based in Dublin, Ireland. Specialising in AI-driven model portfolios, combining decades of expertise with proprietary AI to serve Advisors and Institutional Investors. STRATxAI Model Portfolios are built to navigate market complexity and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. Through close collaboration withclients, we create bespoke portfolios tailored to their unique needs, preferences and risk profiles. Alana, our proprietary engine leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to streamline the implementation and management of adaptive. multi factor strategies.
HealthCap VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 6 investments in the past 12 months
HealthCap, a life science investor and company creator. Our motivation is to find innovative ideas and invest that could impact healthcare and society.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
  • ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
  • HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
  • Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases.
SVG Ventures VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and advisory firm that partners with public and private organizations on strategy, innovation and global expansion. Formed in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley, SVG Ventures|THRIVE invests in early stage technology companies. The SVG Ventures|THRIVE team consists of accomplished technology leaders from all overthe globe. With its vast network, SVG gets deeply involved with portfolio companies to support their success.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
  • Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
  • Heritable Agriculture — Making plants programmable
Cambridge Innovation Capital VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.
  • Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
  • T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
Bpifrance VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 93 investments in the past 12 months
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
  • Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
  • PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
Kreos Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Kreos Capital is Europe's largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. Since 1998, as the pioneer growth debt provider across the UK, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Israel: Kreos has completed nearly 450 transactions and committed €1.8 billion in 14 different countries. Kreos has aproven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos's international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
  • BiolineRx — BioLineRx is building a best-in-class pipeline designed to deliver meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients with certain cancers and rare diseases.
  • Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
Novartis Venture Fund VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capitalefficiency in the program.We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company:tm:s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 30 to 50 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates. SectorsNew therapeutics & platformsMedical devices/implantsDiagnostics/biomarkersDrug delivery/biopolymersGeographyUSA/CanadaEuropeSwitzerlandAsia/Pacific
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
  • Hepalink — Hepalink is a manufactures ultra-pure pipeline control systems based on semiconductors and pan-semiconductor liquid circuits.
  • Mediar Therapeutics — Mediar Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-based therapeutics to halt fibrosis in a variety of organ systems, including lung, liver, kidney, and skin.
Apicap VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Apicap offers investment and co-investment solutions for managers, wealthy private clients and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • France, United States, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Crowdaa — Crowdaa is a mobile-only music store where producers decide how to distribute and monetise their content.
  • Feelbat — This is the homepage of the websiteMonitor your infrastructure in real-time with Feelbat. Our smart sensors provide precise data to anticipate risks and ensure structural safety.
  • Karma Koma — Karma Koma is specializes in retail and French and international distribution with multi-brand resellers.
Blue Wire Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Investing globally in Frontier & Consumer businesses at pre-seed or seed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advanced Materials, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
  • Praktika — Automated 1-1 tutorship experience with generative AI Avatar tutors
  • River Platform Company — Orchestrate IRL events at massive scale by leveraging volunteer hosts from your community. Monetize community events with our sponsorship marketplace.
dlab VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Early-stage venture capital and resources for startups exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • FleetOperate — FleetOperate is a truck driver marketplace platform that enables drivers to provide on-demand driving services to carriers and shippers. The company's platform offers booking shipment from a particular location with registered truck drivers and permits tracking of their location eliminating the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, andunseated trucks while maintaining low costs, enabling people to transport their essentials with ease. The carriers and shippers avail Driver-as-a-Service to solve the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, and unseated trucks while maintaining low costs.FleetOperate was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Light Protocol — Light allows developers to reduce the cost of on-chain state by orders of magnitude without sacrificing the security and performance of the Solana L1.
  • WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.
Medicxi VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Medicxi is an investment firm that focuses on the life sciences sector. It was established in 2016 by the former Index Ventures life sciences team, who have been active for over 20 years and have significant experience in drug discovery and the development of therapeutics for unmet medical needs.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Curevo — focused on a new generation of adjuvanted subunit vaccines Learn More Our Focus We're dedicated to developing non-mRNA vaccines for unmet medical needs Curevo Vaccine is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing next-generation non-mRNA vaccines. We focus on one need at a time, allowing us to bring effective and better-tolerated vaccines to market quickly
  • Rapt Therapeutics — RAPT Therapeutics is a clinical stage immunology-based biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing oral small molecule therapies for patients with significant unmet needs in oncology and inflammatory diseases. Utilizing its proprietary discovery and development engine, the company is developing highly selectivesmall molecules designed to modulate the critical immune responses underlying these diseases. In its first four years since inception, RAPT has discovered and advanced two unique drug candidates, each targeting C-C motif chemokine receptor 4. The company’s lead oncology drug candidate, FLX475, reached the clinic in just two and a half years with its lead inflammation drug candidate, RPT193, also in the clinic. The company is also pursuing a range of targets, including general control nonderepressible 2 and hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1, that are in the discovery stage of development.
  • Ottimo Pharma — Ottimo Pharma is a private biotechnology company dedicated to enhancing cancer treatment outcomes and minimizing the overall healthcare burden.
EQT Life Sciences VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 12 investments in the past 12 months
EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
  • PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
  • ATB Therapeutics — ATB Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that provides novel therapeutic solutions and treatments for cancer patients.
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • eyva.ai — The decisonOS for beauty and personal care
  • GEMMABio — GEMMABio, a new therapeutics company, will serve as the research and innovation arm to speed the research of and global access to life-changing advanced therapies for those living with rare diseases.
  • peopleIX — peopleIX enables organisations to sustain commercial performance by making data-driven decisions about recruiting, employing, retaining, and utilising their most valuable asset: their people. people
ETV Capital SA VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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Investment focus
  • TV, Auctions, Computer
  • Funding Round
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 123.TV — German television channel, 123TV organizes cross-media auctions (TV and internet) on consumer products, for a public of all generations. The auction is reversed in the sense that the price fixed in advance to steady decreases over time until the amounts passed.
  • Nallatech — Nallatech Ltd. provides FPGA computing solutions for defense and security market. It offers FPGA computing motherboards, FPGA computing modules, software and IP cores, and HPC products. The company offers its products through sales team in the United States and the United Kingdom. Nallatech Ltd. was formerly known as Nallatech Worldwide Limitedand changed its name in May 2008. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Glasgow, United Kingdom with regional offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Boston. As of May 2, 2008, Nallatech Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Interconnect Systems, Inc.
  • Stokes Bio — Stokes Bio develops and distributes microfluidic technology to its clients. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Ireland. It was acquired by Life Technologies in 2010.
MML Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MML Capital Partners is an independent investment firm, with over twenty years of history, focused on providing capital to businesses for expansion/acquisitions, management-led equity deals, recapitalisations and buy-outs.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Packaging Services, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RAVL — Step into the future with RAVL and our revolutionary financial service technology solutions. We're not just building tech; we're crafting the future of financial services. Unleashing potential, one innovative solution at a time. Let's strategize, deliver, and repeat excellence together.
  • SCPACK GROUP — SCPACK GROUP is a packaging and containers manufacturing company for wine, cosmetics and more.
  • Ross-shire Engineering — Trusted water technology solutions and products for purifying drinking water, recycling effluent and cleaning water in industrial processes.
Covidien VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Covidien plc engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of healthcare products for use in clinical and home settings. Segments The company operates its businesses through four segments: Medical Devices includes the development, manufacture and sale of endomechanical instruments, soft tissue repair products, energy devices, oximetry andmonitoring products, airway and ventilation products, vascular devices, SharpSafety products, clinical care products and other medical device products; Imaging Solutions includes the development, manufacture and marketing of radiopharmaceuticals and contrast products; Pharmaceutical Products includes the development, manufacture and distribution of dosage pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients; and Medical Supplies includes the development, manufacture and sale of nursing care products, medical surgical products and original equipment manufacturer products (OEM). The Medical Device segment develops, manufactures and sells an array of products which the company categorizes in the following product groups: - Endomechanical Instrumentsâ includes its laparoscopic instruments and surgical staplers. - Soft Tissue Repair Productsâ includes its sutures, mesh and biosurgery products. - Energy Devicesâ includes its vessel sealing, electrosurgical and ablation products and related capital equipment. Oximetry and Monitoring Productsâ includes its sensors, monitors and temperature management products. Airway and Ventilation Products—includes its airway, ventilator, breathing systems, sleep and inhalation therapy products. Vascular Devicesâ ”includes its compression and vascular therapy products. SharpSafety Productsâ includes its needles, syringes and sharps disposable products. Clinical Care Productsâ includes its urology, enteral feeding and other advanced woundcare products.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
  • Series A
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
Alimentos Ventures VC Fund
Accelerate innovation in aquaculture feed and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Aquaculture, Therapeutics
  • Seed
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • MicroSynbiotiX — Microsynbiotix, an Irish-based Biotechnology company making microalgal oral vaccines for aquaculture
WxNW VC Fund
WxNW operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, Consumer, Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • UrbanFox — Discover cutting-edge AI data processing solutions tailored to your needs. Elevate your business with innovative technology, personalized service, and a commitment to excellence.
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cultivian Sandbox is a venture capital firm focused on building next-generation disruptive agriculture and food technology companies capable of generating superior returns. As early investors and active board members, we employ a hands-on approach to building companies and are often directly involved in setting company strategy, recruiting keyexecutives, and raising additional capital. Much more than simply a financial resource, we are capable of delivering tremendous value though active collaboration with our strategic partners and network, which are unparalleled in the agriculture and food industries.As both experienced operating managers and venture investors we add value to portfolio companies both through our highly skilled team and extensive industry network. Our investment team combines the domain expertise and investment experience from Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Industries. Our expertise in sourcing, evaluating, closing, managing and ultimately exiting successful equity investments positions us not only to build stronger businesses, but reshape industries.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Full Harvest — Waste less, profit more. Source imperfect and surplus fruits and vegetables up to 10-30% off.
  • Debut — Debut Biotech is a biotechnology company that focuses on providing specialty enzyme solutions combined with continuous manufacturing. It combines the power of enzymes with continuous manufacturing to create and modify small and large molecules for a wide range of industries and applications.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in SanDiego, California.
  • Leaf Agriculture — Simplify farm data integration and management with Leaf's unified agriculture API. Connect fields, operations, imagery, weather, and more from multiple providers via a single source.
The Yield Lab VC Fund · St Louis, Missouri, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Proba — Unlock the value of your climate actions with Proba. Transform your efforts into tradable carbon certificates, connect with partners, and create new revenue streams for your business. Schedule a call now.
  • Sundew — Targeting water-borne pests and diseases
  • Kaffe Bueno — Kaffe Bueno upcycles coffee waste into active and functional ingredients for cosmetics, nutraceuticals and functional foods.
New Enterprise Associates VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 53 investments in the past 12 months
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Arkestro — Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com
  • Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
  • Samaya AI — The company specializes in developing AI research agents that streamline knowledge workflows.
Mayo Clinic Ventures VC Fund · Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Mayo Clinic Ventures is dedicated to quickly bringing answers to the people who need them most: the patients living with diseases and conditions that threaten to limit or even end their lives. Our team works closely with Mayo physicians and scientists to mine inventions, ideas and discoveries that will truly transform health care. Their dedicatedefforts bring significant financial support to Mayo's patient care, education and research efforts.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Ireland, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Turtle Health — Turtle Health is a virtual fertility counselling clinic. We provide you with personalized, medically meaningful information to help you plan your fertility journey, early and affordably.
  • The Patient Company — The Patient Company provides clinical staff members with an automated lateral patient transfer device called SimPull. The company was founded in 2019 by Andrew Heuerman and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
  • Tympany Medical — Tympany Medical is a Needs-driven, Innovative MedTech StartUp based in the West of Ireland
Wellcome Trust VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health. It focuses on the fields of public engagement, investments, innovation, humanities, and social science. It was founded in 1936 and headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Grant, Series C, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • RenBio — RenBio develops antibody-based therapeutic solutions for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. RenBio's proprietary MYO technology involves in the development of antibody therapeutic that helps in treating rare diseases, viral infections, autoimmune diseases, and more by using DNA blueprint and antibody factory.
  • Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
  • Feinstein Institute for Medical Research — Feinstein Institute For Medical Research is the research arm of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State. Home to 50 research labs, 3,000 clinical research studies and 5,000 researchers and staff, the Feinstein Institutes raises the standard of medical innovation through its five institutes ofbehavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health innovations and outcomes, and molecular medicine. We make breakthroughs in genetics, oncology, brain research, mental health, autoimmunity, and are the global scientific leader in bioelectronic medicine – a new field of science that has the potential to revolutionize medicine.
Fulcrum Global Capital VC Fund · Mound City, Kansas, United States
Feeding the world one investment at a time
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Rantizo — Fly more acres, deliver better service. The equipment, tools, and expertise you need to be the grower's first call for drone spray services.
  • Vytelle — With Vytelle, cattle producers increase accuracy of feed intake and bodyweight measurement, improve certainty of genetic selection and accelerate progress.
  • Niqo Robotics — TartanSense unlocks value for the farming community by working at the intersection of robotics and AI assisted computer vision. Their solutions provides a compelling solution to reduce input costs by up to 90%.
Development Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
At Development Capital, they are aware of the significant growth opportunities available to mid-sized companies and understand the management teams’ unique requirement for not only finance, but also for a funding partner who will bring experience, expertise and international reach to assist secure and maximise the business growth opportunity.Development Capital provides investee companies with a unique and unprecedented partnership approach which will maximise the growth opportunity in the most prompt and efficient manner. In addition to their experienced Investment Directors, their partners include:High profile and experienced Industry Experts who will provide direction and support to investee companies; andMajor Irish Corporates who have committed not only funding but also their international experience.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Telecommunications, VoIP
  • Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • IP Telecom — Ireland's most competitive SME & Enterprise VoIP provider. We are Ireland's leading VoIP Phone Systems Provider. Connect your business to the technology of today.
  • Nomadic Dairy — Nomadic Dairy is a growing, premium branded yogurt manufacturer. The company supplies multiple products across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
  • Spotlight Oral Care — Spotlight Oral Care aims to create the best oral health products, to educate and promote oral care, empowering people to engage with true customised preventative oral care.
Third Swedish National Pension Fund VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Third Swedish National Pension Fund employs different investment strategies in the interest of spreading risk and protecting pensions for current and future pensioners. The firm was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Battery
  • Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
  • Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Saniona — Improving the lives of rare disease patients around the world through scientific innovation.
  • Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
  • Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
Spark Crowdfunding VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Ireland’s first & only Equity Crowdfunding platform.  Our mission is to provide private investors with access to new and exciting investment opportunities that previously would only have been available to Venture Capital and Private Equity funds.
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Investment focus
  • CRM, Software, Transportation
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
  • ClarityCX1 — ClarityCX1 develops tailored CRM solutions built on the Salesforce Lightning platform.
  • Moby Bikes — MOBY Bikes. e-bike rentals: Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht. Bike sharing, Delivery rider rental, corporate and hotel e-bike fleets
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