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Top 50 Biotechnology VC Funds & Investors in Italy (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Italy Biotechnology startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Biotechnology startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
22 Italy, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $483k–$23M
Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund
19 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $7M–$105M
Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund
11 Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.3M–$89M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
10 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$14M
Vertis
VC Fund
8 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $823k–$25M
LIFTT
VC Fund
7 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $338k–$118M
Claris Ventures
VC Fund
7 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $2.1M–$23M
Innogest Capital
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, Spain Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.1M–$32M
Principia SGR
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.5M–$9.9M
UniCredit
VC Fund
5 Italy, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $197k–$2.1B
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
5 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $197k–$30M
EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund
5 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics $419k–$6.2M
XGEN Venture
VC Fund
5 Italy, Sweden, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $4.6M–$141M
Atlante Ventures
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Hardware, Biotechnology $150k–$3.5M
A11 Venture
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Medical Device $278k–$1.3M
Italian Angels for Biotech
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $545k–$45M
Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Medical, B2B $292–$6.2M
Green Arrow Capital
VC Fund
4 Italy, Sweden, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $300k–$6M
F3F
VC Fund
4 Italy Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical Device, Hardware $232k–$14M
Utopia
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care $1.4M–$2M
CDP Equity
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $177k–$13M
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
4 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $22k–$1.9M
Scientifica Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Italy, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $209k–$2.9M
INGENIUM Emilia Romagna
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Series A, Angel Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care $663k–$2.8M
European Investment Bank
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care $8.7M–$587M
Panakes Partners
VC Fund
3 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $4.5M–$110M
EISMEA
VC Fund
3 Spain, Italy, United Kingdom Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology $53k–$2.6M
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
VC Fund
3 Germany, France, The Netherlands Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, AgTech, Agriculture $5.9M–$45M
Fondazione Cariverona
VC Fund
3 Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands Pre-Seed, Seed Biotechnology, Cosmetics, GreenTech $197k–$197k
Kering Ventures
VC Fund
3 Italy Series A Biotechnology, Interior Design $12M–$47M
Progress Tech Transfer Fund
VC Fund
3 Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Water, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $171k–$15M
Banco BPM
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Product Design, Renewable Energy $7M–$878M
Alecla7
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care $727k–$8.2M
DSM-Firmenich Venturing
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.7M–$27M
StartUp Health
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Wellness $20k–$15M
Rialto Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Information Technology, GPS, Sports $555k–$6.7M
byFounders
VC Fund
2 Denmark, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $750k–$65M
The Techshop
VC Fund
2 Italy, Portugal, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $322k–$120M
ENEA Tech e Biomedical
VC Fund
2 Italy, Finland Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Grant Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $530k–$21M
Angelini Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, France Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.3M–$132M
Maia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $1.2M–$11M
3B Future Health Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Medical $1.5M–$75M
Pariter Partners
VC Fund
2 Italy, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Biotechnology $796k–$1.6M
Evotec
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $8.5M–$139M
3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $71k–$2.5M
GM&C Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $94k–$4.2M
Padda Health
VC Fund
1 Italy, Germany, Luxembourg Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical $244k–$2.6M
Global Payments SpA
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed FinTech, Wearables, Biometrics
Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Index Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 22 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
  • Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
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Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 19 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 353
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$70M; Series B $10M–$105M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $755M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Odoo — From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
  • HighLife — HighLife is driven by a mission to deliver innovative treatment options to patients suffering from heart valve diseases.
  • EnginZyme — Enzymatic chemistry for cleaner ingredients in personal care, food and pharma. Enginzyme's patented EziG platform makes enzymes work at industrial scale.
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Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

VENTURE We invest across all sectors with specific focus on technology and digital The largest independent more About Us Portfolio [...]

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $8.9M–$89M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $302M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
  • Easy Rain — Leading a new automotive era: our modular ecosystem of virtual sensors and active hardware makes cars and autonomous platforms truly safe in every condition.
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $219k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Alomana — Autonomous systems for enterprise
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Capitali e competenze per accelerare l'innovazione. Attraverso fondi di investimento chiusi investiamo in startup, scaleup e PMI innovative

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Clastix — Kubernetes multi-tenancy made easy
  • Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$4.7M; Series A $2.8M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $495k–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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Claris Ventures
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Claris Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in high potential biopharma companies arisen from the Italian R&D ecosystem

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $6.1M–$23M; Series B $7.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Lever Bio — Lever Bio aims to translate groundbreaking discoveries in immuno-oncology into next-generation cancer immunotherapies.
  • Iama Therapeutics — At IAMA Therapeutics, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of neuroscience drug discovery to develop new medicines and make a difference in the lives of children suffering from brain disorders and their families. Our purpose is to provide a therapeutic solution to children suffering from neurological conditions and provide their families withthe support they need.
  • Haptena Therapeutics — Haptena Therapeutics develops next-generation immunotherapies for oncogene-driven cancers, integrating precision oncology and immune engineering. Our research focuses on KRAS-mutant tumors to deliver more effective and durable treatment options.
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Innogest Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $95M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
  • Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.
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Principia SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$7.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.2M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing innovative technology platforms based entirely on natural silk fibroin. The company, headquartered in Milan, Italy, currently has several assets under development, such as vascular graft, bone graft substitutes, rotator cuff repair, drug release, and a first-in-humanstudy on nerve repair that is ongoing at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
  • WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $552k–$913M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ludoil — Ludoil is an energy company that offers production, storage, logistics, and marketing services for oil products
  • Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
  • Encavis — The Encavis AG is listed in the SDAX segment of the German stock exchange and is a producer of electricity from renewable energy sources. As one of the leading independent power producers, They acquire and operate solar and wind parks throughout Europe. Their plants generate stable returns and make an important contribution to safe and clean energysupplies.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $204k–$1.9M; Series A $889k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $419k–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BeNewtral — Il futuro delle costruzioni rispetta l'ambiente
  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • BeDimensional — New Material Solution
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XGEN Venture
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 6 in the past 12 months

XGEN Venture is an Italian alternative investment fund manager (Società di Gestione del Risparmio, or SGR) with over 15 years of experience in the startup process and the development of innovative solutions for high unmet medical needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$98M; Series B $4.6M–$141M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $186M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Dialybrid — Dialybrid provide product that include silkothane arteriovenous graft, SAG biomimetic nanostructure, and situ tissue engineering products. Their proprietary innovative technology, silkothane, is a hybrid material combining silk fibroin and polyurethane. Their aim is to develop a novel semi-degradable vascular access for hemodialysis.
  • EpilepsyGTx — EpilepsyGTx is a late-stage biotech company exploring cutting-edge gene therapies to improve the management of focal refractory epilepsy (FRE).
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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Atlante Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Hardware, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • ADmantX — A NEW ERA OF AUDIENCE TARGETINGADmantX is a contextual analysis and data provider that brings audience targeting to a new level. Awarded patent for semantic advertising technology, the company offers a cookie-less solution that allows publishers, ad networks and exchanges, brand managers and agencies to develop more effective online adcampaigns leveraging semantic understanding, natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Founded in Italy as a spin-off of the leading semantic company Expert System, ADmantX is active in Europe and US. Worldwide customers include NBCUniversal, Integral Ad Science, Networked Insights, Banzai, Cadreon, Amnet, Sojern, Media IQ and ADmantX solutions are integrated in key DSP players such as Turn, Adform and AppNexus.
  • YOGITECH — Notizie e approfondimenti di Tecnologia
  • Expert.ai — Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.
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A11 Venture
VC Fund · Lucca, Toscana, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

A11-Venture investe nel capitale di startup innovative nei settori della robotica, automazione, meccatronica, cleantech, web e IT. Facilita la nascita e lo sviluppo di business innovativi globali per il futuro dell'economia locale. Contribuisce a costruire aziende, lavoro qualificato, brevetti, innovazione capaci di rilanciare e riportareinvestimenti e risorse sul territorio. I soci di A11 Venture credono fermamente nell’innovazione grazie a ciò è possibile crescere per linee esterne diversificando i propri investimenti, grazie ad un portafoglio di imprese, con una forte risk mitigation derivante dalla gestione professionale di tutti processi: scouting, team building, investimenti, management degli investimenti, accelerazione e disinvestimento.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $278k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $734k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reefilla — Reefilla EV charging services: recharge your car anywhere, anytime
  • AdapTronics — AdapTronics is a deep-tech startup that produces adaptive mechatronic devices to make logistics sustainable on Earth and in space. Its adaptive mechatronics technology offers an alternative based on a multifunctional electrostatic membrane that allows the gripping and manipulation of objects of any shape. In addition, it offers a thin-filmtechnology with sensor capabilities that becomes adhesive when electrically activated.
  • Neuron Guard — Neuron Guard, recognized as the best European startup in HEALTH category (Startup Europe Awards - SEUA 2017), is developing a life-saving medical device that aims to become the standard of care for Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) therapy. Every 7 seconds around the world a person suffers of Acute Brain Damage because of CardiovascularDiseases (CVD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). They are the most costly and prevalent killers in the last 15 years (15 million deaths by CVD in 2015), and the leading cause of disability (the global incidence rate of TBI is 200 per 100k people per year). WHO estimated a global expenditure of $ 330 billion in 2015, but it is going to increase sharply: $ 4 trillion in 2025 - including premature death, disability, and health care costs - just for CVD in LMICs. Temperature is a vital body parameter. It regulates all cellular functions so its management is essential for the good outcome of patients in several medical conditions such as cardiac arrest, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neuro and cardiac surgery, epilepsy, migraine and oncology. Regulating body temperature at a desired level makes all other treatments more effective. The most modern medical approach is the target temperature management, where physicians try to maintain the most favourable temperature for the patient for up to 24-36 hours, preventing excessive warming (fever) or cooling.Our device is a targeted temperature management system composed by a THERAPEUTIC COLLAR POWERED BY A SMART CONTROL UNIT (the size of a small briefcase). The collar transforms the neck into a natural heat exchanger exploiting several physiological and anatomical characteristics of the human body. It is quicker to act on brain tissue but can also function as total body temperature adjusting device if required. A disposable protective shield makes cleaning the collar after each use simple while featuring an optimal safety profile both in term of pathogens and allergens. The control unit collects all the data of the treatment and transmits them to the Emergency Response System. Our mission is to improve the safety of patients on the roadside, at home or in the workplace, and to reduce the costs of chronic care. In fact, Neuron Guard aims to be the only device that can be used in every circumstance, inside and outside the hospital, and allow the user to fully manage the temperature of the patient warming and cooling as necessary. Our vision is to have a Neuron Guard kit in every public place just like the Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to empower bystanders to immediately react in case of emergency. Under this perspective our device becomes a connected-intelligent platform that takes care of the patient, connects the scene with the Emergency Response System transmitting vital data to improve the readiness and effectiveness of professional intervention.The device is patented in Italy, USA and China. We have made several prototypes in collaboration with Italian and English companies, such as Tecno Elettra Impianti and TWI, tested it in laboratory and published the experimental results on the NeuroCritical Care Journal. We have also conducted a GAP Analysis with another English consulting firm (CDP) and we are testing the human prototype internally. We are seeking to raise 2.5M€ to complete the pre-industrialization, with design and construction of the human device for the pilot trial, finalized the regulatory clearance and launch it into the market in 2019.
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Italian Angels for Biotech
VC Fund · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Angel group focuses on biotech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $545k–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MgShell — MgShell offers intraocular devices for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and other ocular diseases. Their technology is the only technical solution capable of replicating current clinical practice with a single injection and releasing the same therapeutic drug doses at predetermined periods, autonomously and without surgicalprocedures.
  • CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $292–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — BigProfiles is an Artificial Intelligence Platform designed for Utilities, Telcos, Banks, Insurance companies and Retails.Large companies such as Teleperformance, Eni, Unicef already have already successfully subscribed to our services.BigProfiles is the No-Code Artificial Intelligence Platform for sales and antichurn that predicts thelikelihood to purchase and churn of each customer in a CRM, before proceeding to contact him in a sales or retention campaign.
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
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Green Arrow Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Piattaforma indipendente italiana leader negli investimenti alternativi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$2.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $267M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Pieralisi — Pieralisi is provides revolutionized traditional olive oil extraction systems, conquering domestic and international markets with the first decanter for olive-oil continuous processing.
  • Maticmind S.p.A — Maticmind S.p.A is a company that provides ICT and system integration solutions to telecommunications operators.
  • Green Future Project — B Corp climate tech che supporta le aziende a raggiungere il net zero e diventare un'azienda sostenibile, riducendo l'impatto ambientale.
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F3F
VC Fund · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Device, Hardware
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $232k–$9.2M; Series B $567k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
  • WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
  • BrainDTech — Early detection and monitoring of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases through miRNA profiles from microglial microvesicles.
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Utopia
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Utopia is a venture capital firm that is dedicated to life sciences.Utopia SIS is an investment company specializing in healthcare and biomedical research, promoted and owned by the Golinelli Foundation.Utopia was established with the aim of bridging this gap, through investments in high-potential start-ups operating in the Life Sciencessector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
  • Lighthouse Biotech — Lighthouse Biotech offers a liquid biopsy tool that helps to extract live and intact circulating tumor cells from a simple blood sample, to avoid repetition with altered metabolism, helping medical staff and doctors to trace and treat tumor cells in the very early stages of the disease.
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CDP Equity
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $177k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $230k–$3.6M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gility — Gility is a digital learning platform that collaborates with business schools and training institutions for an effective training offer. Established in 2022, it was supported by CDP Venture Capital and BPER Banca.
  • Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
  • Valvitalia SpA. — VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring,filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.
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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1.9M; Grant $22k–$343k; Pre-Seed $58k–$518k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEU — Draft, sign and store contracts in one place. AI extracts deadlines and clauses, signatures valid in 180+ countries.
  • Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
  • GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come
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Scientifica Venture Capital
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $209k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $209k–$541k
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $209M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
  • OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
  • LOTO Biotech — LOTO Biotech is a biotechnology platform focused on supporting the development of treatments for rare diseases, particularly those caused by dominant negative genetic mutations.
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INGENIUM Emilia Romagna
VC Fund · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

INGENIUM Emilia Romagna was started with EUR 5.30 million by the Emilia Romagna region and EUR 1.7 million from fund managers. Managed by META Investment, the nine-year fund operated through the temporary acquisition of minority stakes in high-opportunity technological companies. It is now fully invested.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $663k–$2.8M; Series A $1.1M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fazland — Smart solutions to daily problems.
  • Passpack — Users can make and store passwords in a single, organized list, then access them from anywhere leaving no traces behind on the computer. Secure collaboration features allow users to make, send, share or provision passwords to colleagues, clients and partners -- a secure alternative to spreadsheets in the workplace. Managed via a central onlinerepository.Passpack is a free, professional tool. Optional premium upgrades are available for the micro-small business sector.
  • GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
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European Investment Bank
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 595
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$587M; Debt Financing $16M–$355M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.7M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VaxThera — VaxThera develops and produces vaccines to prevents and treats diseases.
  • Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.
  • Reactive Technologies — Reactive Technologies we are committed to enabling a more intelligent use of energy, for the largest and most complex business to the smallest household. Our aim is to develop new technologies that will positively assist the energy industry to deliver cleaner, greener and more affordable energy, through more efficient and effective energymanagement and control. Through our innovative, cloud-based solution for Corporate customers – Tradenergy® – we have begun this process and with our pipeline of ground breaking new technologies we intend to continue.
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Panakes Partners
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Panakès Partners is a Venture Capital firm, based in Milan, which invests in the most ambitious companies and teams, developing revolutionary technologies and products, in the field of life sciences, aiming to improve the lives of people around the world. Panakès, founded in 2015 by Fabrizio Landi, Alessio Beverina and Diana Saraceni, has 250million under management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$79M; Series B $10M–$60M; Series C $18M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $187M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Neuromod Devices — Neuromod is the global medical device company that developed Lenire, the FDA Approved tinnitus treatment device.
  • DISCO Pharmaceuticals — DISCO Pharmaceuticals is a firm that specializes in large-scale surfaceome unlocking of cancer cells.
  • Endovascular Engineering — Endovascular Engineering is a medical technology company focused on developing and deploying advanced clot removal solutions for the treatment of venous thromboembolism. It specializes in thrombectomy technologies designed to improve clinical outcomes and procedural efficiency in minimally invasive vascular interventions. The company’s flagshipinnovation is the Hēlo™ Thrombectomy System, a catheter-based device that uses a combination of mechanical agitation and physician-controlled aspiration to remove blood clots. Its technology emphasizes features such as a self-expanding funnel design and dual-action functionality to enhance clot engagement and navigation through complex anatomies. Endovascular Engineering primarily serves healthcare providers, including interventional cardiologists and radiologists, supporting the treatment of conditions such as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.
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EISMEA
VC Fund · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3533
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$800k; Grant $54k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $573k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AGADE — Esoscheletri Agade | Il primo esoscheletro intelligente per lavoratori progettato per ridurre il rischio di disturbi muscolari delle spalle nella movimentazione manuale dei carichi.
  • BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
  • Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
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European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

The specialist VC for a regenerative economy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Agriculture
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, France, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Series A $5.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $339M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wakuli — It's called specialty coffee. Roasted lighter to enhance all the exciting flavours. To really taste them it's important to drink fresh. That's why we send our mailbox-friendly coffee within one week after roasting. And always with a better price for the farmers - thanks to you.
  • Reduced — Reduced develops natural flavor enhancers from upcycled produce.
  • foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.
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Fondazione Cariverona
VC Fund · Verona, Veneto, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Fondazione Cariverona. Da oltre 25 anni per lo sviluppo civile, culturale ed economico di Verona, Vicenza, Belluno, Ancona e Mantova.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Cosmetics, GreenTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kymia — Natural extracts from pistachio hulls for cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and food & beverages. Effective and sustainable ingredients to enhance your products.
  • Noiet — Noiet is a biotechnology firm whose mission is to develop clean, natural, and fermented proteins that serve as multifunctional alternatives.
  • Alma Serum — Alma Serum is a cosmetic and biotech company that turns dairy industry into advanced cosmetic and biomedical materials.
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Kering Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Kering Ventures is the venture investment arm of the Kering Group, acquiring minority holdings in startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Interior Design
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
  • SQIM — SQIM is a biotechnological based agency.
  • Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.
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Progress Tech Transfer Fund
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Investment fund specialized in sustainable technologies from universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Water, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $171k–$2.1M; Series A $9.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WembraneX — WembraneX's goal is to make wastewater treatment facilities more cost-effective by introducing a new class of anti-fouling and anti-biofouling membranes.
  • Naturbeads — Naturbeads creates biodegradable, sustainable and cost competitive cellulose microbeads to replace currently used microplastics.
  • Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
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Banco BPM
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, carte, mutui, prestiti, investimenti, assicurazioni e soluzioni dedicate a privati, famiglie e imprese.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Product Design, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $8.7M–$878M; Debt Financing $7M–$609M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Windrose Holding — Windrose Holding operates as a dedicated special-purpose sub-holding company that manages a clean energy.
  • M-Cube Digital Engagement — M-Cube Digital Engagement engages in the creation of audio-visual solutions for in-store marketing. M-Cube in-store digital engagement helps businesses around the world deploying innovative digital technology and multi-media content to provide a seamless online to offline customer experience.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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Alecla7
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $727k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • Klaris — Klaris reviews medical-device technical documentation clause by clause; every gap cites the standard with a fix. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, GDPR compliant.
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DSM-Firmenich Venturing
VC Fund · Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

DSM-Firmenich Venturing provides venture capital finance for startup firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6M; Series A $5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • P2 Science — Using green chemistry to create high performance, clean ingredient solutions, P2 Science is delivering sustainability to the world of beauty.
  • NOUS Energy — Empowering your business in Nutraceutical and F&B sector with functional solutions designed around your need
  • Cosaic — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence
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StartUp Health
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 361
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $20k–$854k; Venture - Series Unknown $150k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
  • Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs
  • NEXT Life Sciences — NEXT Life Sciences is developing the revolutionary Plan A™ procedure to bring the only scientifically proven technology in the category - Vasalgel® - to market.
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Rialto Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Rialto Ventures fund invests in B2B digital transformation technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, GPS, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $555k–$4.3M; Series A $5.4M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
  • Roboze — Roboze is able to engineer high performance thermoplastic polymers resistant to the most extreme operating conditions for various sectors.
  • Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.
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byFounders
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 17 in the past 12 months

byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Denmark, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$4.3M; Series A $6.1M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $130M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Fluencify — Fluencify is an innovative creator marketing platform that runs end to end user generated content programs for global brands. The software powered solution enforces brand quality guidelines, handles global creator payments, and provides contracted view guarantees to turn influencer marketing into a scalable utility framework.
  • Verda — Verda provides a full-stack AI cloud platform for the development, training, and deployment of AI models.
  • Cota Robotics — Cota Robotics deploys general-purpose robots in retail stores through a Robot-as-a-Service model, integrating with existing environments without requiring changes to store layouts or infrastructure. The company automates shelf replenishment, inbound handling, and order picking using human-in-the-loop teleoperation, with autonomy increasing asdeployment data trains its models.
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The Techshop
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $322k–$37M; Series A $7.7M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Octostar — Octostar is the sovereign, AI-powered investigative intelligence platform for law enforcement, national security and financial institutions.
  • Helix Robotics — We are building the first commercial soft manipulator
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ENEA Tech e Biomedical
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

ENEA Tech e Biomedical is a private foundation. It seeks to encourage the strengthening of research, development, and industrial reconversion of the biomedical sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$7.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $530k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CellPly — Cellply offers an automated platform for functional precision medicine. We provide single-cell drug response profiling to guide oncology treatments...
  • Recornea — Recornea is a developer of a corneal medical device to restore the physiological curvature of the cornea with clear and predictable clinical outcomes.
  • Health Triage — Health Triage, crea nuove tecnologie per offrire modelli innovativi di diagnosi clinica, identificazione e cura delle malattie oncologiche.
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Angelini Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Angelini Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$45M; Series A $11M–$105M; Series B $19M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MMI — The future of Microsurgery: microinstruments that expand the possibilities of surgical interventions. Wristed robotic microinstruments for unprecedented results in microsurgery.
  • Epicrispr Biotechnologies — The Gene Expression Modulation System (GEMS) technology from Epic-Bio combines a DNA-binding protein, a tailored guide RNA, and any of a wide range of modulator proteins to generate a powerful new type of genetic medicine. GEMS medicines have the ability to precisely modify gene expression both in and out of the body. They are mutation-independent,which means that a single GEMS design can address the majority or all genetic subtypes of a disease.
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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Maia Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Seeding change by investing in category-defining agri & foodtech ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.6M; Series A $5.2M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $64M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • Sintropy — Sintropy riduce i consumi energetici di retail, F&B e strutture multisito con sensori wireless made in Italy e automazioni AI, senza opere edili.
  • Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
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3B Future Health Fund
VC Fund · Monaco, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Helsinn Investment Fund S.A. is a Luxembourg fund focused on early-stage investments in areas of high unmet patient need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $2.8M–$41M; Series B $7.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GenEp — GenEp, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company based on intellectual property assets. GenEp creates therapies targeting mutations of sodium and other ion channels that cause rare genetic epilepsies and other treatment-resistant epilepsies.
  • Kainova Therapeutics — Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on GPCR in immuno-oncology. Discover more than you think on our innovative cancer treatments tackling GPCR mediated-immunosuppression
  • Navion Neurosciences — Navion Neurosciences is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation, precision sodium channel therapies for neurological diseases.
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Pariter Partners
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • K3RX — K3RX products for thermal protection systems of the next generation of hypersonic vehicles and rocket motor inserts of satellite launchers demonstrate their performance. K3RX manufactures tiles in uhtcmc material, rocket nozzles, screws, nuts, and support mechanical connectors.
  • Eye2Drive — Eye2Drive designs bio-inspired, AI-ready CMOS image sensors for autonomous navigation, eliminating flickering and ghosting while significantly enhancing safety.
  • Fluid Wire Robotics — A fully electric robotic platform for extreme environments: nuclear, space, cryogenic, ATEX and subsea. Manipulation where conventional robots cannot go.
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Evotec
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Evotec is a global biotechnology company committed to advancing drug discovery & development together with our partners for medicines that matter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Series A $8.5M–$95M; Series B $21M–$139M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
  • Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
  • Aeovian Pharmaceuticals — Aeovian is a San Francisco based biopharmaceutical company developing novel and highly selective therapeutics modulating mTORC1 pathway.
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
  • Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
  • Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
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GM&C Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund · Alderley Edge, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

The GM&C Life Sciences Fund is a seed and early stage venture capital fund targeting life sciences businesses located in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington region. The Fund is managed by Catapult Venture Managers ("Catapult Ventures").The Fund is based at Alderley Park, which is well recognised as a site ofnational importance, being the largest life sciences campus of its kind in the UK with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of top-end laboratory and related space and facilities. Until recently, the Park was the R&D headquarters for AstraZeneca.Since 2002, Catapult Ventures has backed a significant number of companies across a broad range of life sciences, including therapeutics (such as Abzena and Oxford BioTherapeutics), medical devices (such as Monica Healthcare and Probe Scientific), contract research organisations (such as R5 Pharmaceuticals and FDAS), diagnostics developers (such as Lumora and Biofortuna), as well as developers of technology used in healthcare applications (such as Oxford Cryosystems and Accutronics). The Fund is the result of a collaboration between Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council, and Manchester Science Partnerships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $94k–$1.9M; Series A $1.9M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ScubaTx — ScubaTx is a breakthrough organ preservation device organ transplant. The ScubaTx device will leverage world-leading expertise in software design to commercialise a proven but unexploited organ preservation technique, Persufflation. ScubaTx will offer healthcare providers significant net savings, an
  • Infex Therapeutics — Infex Therapeutics acquires, develops and licenses innovative drugs to treat pandemic infections
  • Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.
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Padda Health
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Siamo partner di private equity con una struttura family office. Selezioniamo start-up tech-driven con idee innovative e voglia di emergere.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $244k–$285k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TeiaCare — TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors.
  • VoiceMed — We bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we measure respiratory diseases.
  • Hale — Hale is the digital solution supporting people with genito-pelvic pain, helping them live better with their condition. Download our app now!
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Global Payments SpA
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Global Payments SpA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TAS Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Wearables, Biometrics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flywallet — Flywallet founded by Lorenzo Frollini at the end of 2018 together to Arianna Ludovica Frollini, Matteo Egidi e Alessandro Massimiani, is an innovative startup that connects payment, mobility and health services by enclosing them in a single ecosystem and putting safety first, thanks to biometrics and proprietary wearable and IoT technologies. Ithas created Keyble, a new type of wearable that adapts to the user's lifestyle, created with eco-sustainable materials and inspired by made-in-Italy fashion. It consists in a smart module which can be inserted into fashion accessories such as bracelets or watch straps and is equipped with biometric sensors for user authentication and to monitor their health. Through the fingerprint or heartbeat via ECG, the user enables payments in stores, passwordless access to online services, ticketing for public transport, loyalty cards, access to gyms, offices and homes, car door locks and digital identity. In Q1 2022, the wearable will reach the certification for medical device for performing the analysis of cardiac arrhythmias, blood oxygen saturation and body temperature. Flywallet offers a unique model of "Biometric Wearable Platform as Service" aimed to electronic money and payment institutions, banks, insurance companies and firms. The Flywallet Platform includes the world's 1st wallet for tokenizing payment cards on wearables equipped with biometric authentication and allows Partner companies to deliver new types of services through API connection in a simple and secure way.
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Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups

Angels 4 Impact is a Business Angel investment firm that invests in startups with innovative and technological content and a focus on impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Diamante — Diamante is a company that develops and manufactures autoimmune disease diagnosis devices using nanomaterials. It exploits plants as bioreactors for the sustainable production of nanoparticles based on modified plant viruses that are used in developing new tools. Diamante was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Verona, Italy.
  • Envirly — Envirly is a Polish technology company that offers an innovative platform for managing sustainable development, and the carbon footprint of organizations and products.
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Biotechnology startups, 60 in the past 12 months

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 949
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
  • nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
  • Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
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Biotechnology VC funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 280 deals from 227 investors.

227
investors
in Italy Biotechnology startups
280
deals
in Italy Biotechnology startups
$1.3M
median round
in Italy Biotechnology startups
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lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
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most common funding stage

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