Top 40 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (August 2026)

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• AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
• Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
• Logical Safety — IoT safety for a safer, more productive workforce

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• BIZAY — Bizay enables the world’s largest catalogue of customizable products. Its technology platform operates across Europe, South and North America, and digitalizes the booming and huge industry of product customization by empowering brands, people and societies to self-express. It enables local manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers to offercustomization on any product in the world and reduces the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies. Our platform/technology is aimed at three customer targets:(i) B2B2C provides a platform for businesses to design and sell customized products from Bizay’s existing product catalogue, with the four main customer segments: Resellers, Content Creators (Independent artists, influencers or event or managers that want to sell customized merchandise with their branding, designs or artwork), e-Commerce entrepreneurs (Small entrepreneurs that aim to expand their catalogue and upgrade their business by adding customized products to their online stores), as well as big household brands & enterprises (well-established business in need of a partner that is capable of handling large volume of customized products orders or to expand their existing offer)(ii) B2B, which is focused on SMBs, provides an extensive product catalogue for customized products to be used in several industries (ex: uniforms for restaurants and bags for retail shops) (iii) Customization-as-a-Service (CaaS), where clients (typically major brands) capitalize on Bizay’s technology, expertise, customization options, techniques and offline suppliers to customize their own products
• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace

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• FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
• Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
• Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

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• DoJob.ai — Hybrid Intelligence Innovation Project
• OSCAR — OSCAR offers a variety of fixed-price home services, including maintenance, cleaning, laundry, and beauty services, all accessible through a user-friendly app. Customers can easily schedule appointments for these services, with options available for immediate bookings. Additionally, OSCAR provides repair services for household appliances likewashing machines and boilers, ensuring convenience for users. The platform streamlines the process of finding and scheduling necessary home services, catering to the needs of busy individuals and families. Through its comprehensive service offerings, OSCAR simplifies home management for its users.
• Fluxe Insurance Software — FLUXE develops AI software based to build digital tools for claim automation aligned with the challenges of the insurance industry!

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• Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Primetag — AI-native influencer & creator marketing platform for brands & agencies. Find the best creators, analyse the market and competitors, and measure campaign performance.

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• Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
• Growappy — Growappy is an EdTech that offers an all-in-one platform for early education that is leading a vision to unlock personalized education since nursery with the power of AI, while providing a revolutionary communication experience between schools and families and drastically simplifying bureaucracy for teachers and school owners.
• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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• VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
• Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
• Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.

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• pleez — Pleez offers Restaurant's an optimisation of their menu within Delivery Platforms, so that they can have a revenue increase up to 25%.
• Volup — Volup is a premium food delivery app that partners exclusively with top-tier chefs and restaurants.
• MindProber — Not all impressions are created equal. Understand the emotional impact of your content. Learn about Mediaprobe - Next-gen media measurement.

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• Backblaze — Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services. Personal online backup to enterprise scale data storage solutions.
• Rhino — First-class armored rides
• Global Work — Explore 500k+ verified remote, hybrid, and local jobs worldwide. Find your ideal role, compare opportunities, and apply on globalwork.ai!

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• Tucuvi — Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care.
• Balance — Balance is a private digital health company based in Spain that operates in the clinics and outpatient healthcare services sector. company's core mission is to provide an integrated, medical, and sustainable approach to treating obesity and overweight conditions. Moving away from traditional restrictive diets, the company leverages asubscription-based telehealth model combined with clinical pharmacology.
• Punto Health — AI-powered digital platform for management of Alzheimer's and other dementias.

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• Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
• Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
• Win-Win — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• EatTasty — Eattasty combina hechos y perspectiva para una cobertura completa y comprensible.
• Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
• Mesh Security — Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise.

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• REFIX — REFIX manufactures and supplies bottled alkaline seawater.
• Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
• FMR Brands — FMR Brands is a beverage development brand company that creates lifestyle brands through drinks.

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• Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
• Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
• Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.

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• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• PayNest — PayNest is a payments amalgamator, which was created with the core mission of digitizing cash collection in the Middle East.
• sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.

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• Bighub — The All-in-One Platform for european marketplace growth. Integration, Catalog SEO, Pricing, Financing, Logistics, Helpdesk, and Resale.
• Bling Energy — Bling Energy is a startup that focuses on providing more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, mostly through solar panels.
• TWEVO Technologies — Solutions for i4.0 | Detection + Supervision + Control State-of-the-art AI video processing and encoding, ultra-fast Edge-AI electronics implementations complement and strengthen real-time factory worker responses, optimised video processing and transmission to provide full video information on the factory floor.

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• Reckon.ai — Whether you're building an unattended store or supplying the equipment behind it, Reckon's patented AI technology transforms existing infrastructure into smart, autonomous assets.
• Jscrambler — Jscrambler is the leading client-side security solution for JavaScript in-app protection and real-time webpage monitoring. Start your free trial today!
• CorPower Ocean — CorPower Ocean AB was founded in 2009 to develop high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs).CorPower's Wave Energy Converters deliver five times higher annual energy output per ton of device compared to previously known wave power solutions. The step-change improvement in performance and efficiency allows a Cost-of-Energy that cancompete with offshore wind. The products are currently in pilot with Iberdrola. CorPower has assembled a team with extensive experience in energy generation, design and manufacturing of production equipment, system engineering as well as the market expertise to allow us to continue transforming the technology of tomorrow into renewable energy applications of today.

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• Wall-i — Wall-i is a programmatic outdoor advertising network, that displays ads on screens for segmented audiences, by age, gender, location, and market. Wall-i aims to be the Google Ads of the outdoor advertising. By combining plug-and-play screen incorporation and audience recognition technology (age, gender and mood), with a CPV /CPM businessmodel, it enables real-estate owners to monetize LCD screens and tablets with ads.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• UpLink — Tellent Recruitee helps you hire faster, work better together, and win top talent without the bottleneck; powered by AI-driven features.

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• Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
• Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
• Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

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• 99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
• Peech — text to speech
• Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!

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• Ace Aquatec — Ace Aquatec is specialises in acoustic marine mammal deterrents and humane electrical fish stunning equipment. Our markets are aquaculture, off-shore construction / demolition and fishermen.The US3 is the latest model of acoustic deterrent for the fish farming industry offering data logging, high and low frequency transducers, and sonartriggering. The MMD is offered to the long line fishermen, to offshore platforms engaged in pile driving and government organisations engaged in post oil spillage response. The sophisticated electronics drives marine wildlife to a zone of safety.
• Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
• Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.

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• Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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• Zen8 — Explore Connected Swim Training at zwim.com. Smart Swim Trainer + data + immersive game = real swim power. Train at home, get faster in the water. Join the waitlist now.
• Purrmi — Purrmi is a human-grade natural cat food brand, founded by two brothers, João & Francisco. The two started the company after seeing the benefits of fresh, human-grade food on Dux’s (Adopted cat) health. Purrmi’s mission is to contribute to cats' physical and psychological well-being through innovative products and help their human familygive them the best all over Europe. For more information, visit www.purrmi.com
• Cleanwatts Digital — Cleanwatts Digital is an independent technology business that specializes in AI-powered digital energy solutions.

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• Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
• Agoprene — Agoprene develops a seaweed-based rubber material with properties similar to rubber foam (skumgummi).
• Boomerangme — Digital loyalty cards for your business - give bonuses to regular customers, send personal offers by free push-notifications. App for iOS / Android.

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• ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
• Mercury — Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• Plan Metro — Plan Metro, S.A. is a private leasing company established as a special purpose vehicle to finance and manage rolling stock for public transit. The firm owns 60 trains and 302 cars that service five lines of the Metro de Madrid network under long term lease agreements with purchase options. It is privately owned by its corporate shareholders, CAFand FlexRail.
• Merus Capital — Merus Capital is an independent asset manager focused on renewable energy and technology investments. The firm manages funds that invest in renewable energy, energy storage, and growth-stage technology companies across Spain, Portugal, and Southern Europe.
• Catalonia Hotels & Resorts — Catalonia Hotels & Resorts is a hotel chain that offers loyalty program to take care of the customer's stay.

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• Curiouz — Curiouz is a tech-enabled platform dedicated to source, authenticate and deliver iconic vintage furniture pieces for interior designers, collectors, and design lovers. We bring together a unique selection of items combining sustainability, craftsmanship, and technology. Discover unique items that elevate interiors.
• Coalex.ai — AI governance platform with human-in-the-loop to make deployments auditable, compliant, and self-improving. Book a demo.
• Hands On — Discover hands on workshops in Portugal! From cooking and crafts to music and photography, explore unique classes with talented local teachers.

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• Bairro Direct — Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time.
• Udacity — Learn online and advance your career with courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Gain in-demand technical skills. Join today!
• Xway (FRIPPERWAY) — Сервис для продажи товаров на крупных маркетплейсах

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• Growlink — Growlink offers advanced software and hardware solutions to streamline your grow operations. Automate climate, irrigation, and nutrient delivery while gaining valuable insights to boost yields, reduce waste, and ensure consistent quality. Discover how our tools can transform your cultivation process.
• Mamedica — MAMEDICA is a private clinic with a pharmacy attached that specializes in prescribing cannabis-based drugs to patients whose current meds have not produced sufficient outcomes for their ailments.
• Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.

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• BRAINR — BRAINR is an intuitive next gen cloud MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that enables smarter processes and integrated production operations in real-time.
• Eat Just — Plant protein with clean ingredients. Better for the people & the planet.

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• Naturr — Nature, which seeks to connect small-scale artisanal food producers from rural areas with urban consumers. Nature platform could serve as an important bridge for promoting local and sustainable food systems, benefiting both rural producers and urban consumers i
• Biotasmart — Plataforma que convierte datos de la microbiota intestinal en recomendaciones nutricionales personalizadas.
• DARWIN Biomed — Biomedical Engineering

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• Zen8 — Explore Connected Swim Training at zwim.com. Smart Swim Trainer + data + immersive game = real swim power. Train at home, get faster in the water. Join the waitlist now.
• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• PFx Biotech — PFx Biotech transforms food through bioinnovation by creating sustainable and nutritional alternative protein solutions.

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• Nim — Generate videos with state-of-the-art models, templates, and inspiration feed. Text-to-image, image-to-video, restyle, lip sync, upscale, and more
• RedTrack.io — RedTrack.io offers real-time access to your media buying KPIs/data: ad tracking, impressions, clicks, conversions across multiple channels & 30 data points.
• HuLoop Automation, Inc. — HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code, unified automation platform that helps clients drive transformation, and achieve revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities.

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• Tilect — The AI pricing platform that joins forecasting, pricing & promotion optimization, and competitive intelligence in one decision layer. 94.6% forecast accuracy, 10K+ competitor signals daily, productive in week one.
• Weiver — Weiver helps businesses professionally manage, improve, and analyze reviews with a centralized AI platform.
• GOVA — GOVA is a food-biotech startup that uses creativity and delicious flavor to create the healthiest sugar on the planet.

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• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.

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• Pawer — Pawer is a digital platform that provides health and wellness services for pets, specifically designed for dogs and cats. The platform offers a range of services through its mobile application, including remote veterinary consultations, reimbursement for veterinary expenses, and discounts on pet products. It focuses on delivering accessible andcomprehensive pet care solutions, offering coverage for emergencies, regular check-ups, vaccinations, and preventive services.
• hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
• Ex Nunc Intelligence — Ex Nunc Intelligence provides professionals with thorough summaries of legal information, credible responses to legal issues, and automated legal document preparation features.

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• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• Kling AI — Kling AI is an AI-powered creative studio for creating imaginative images and videos, based on state-of-the-art generative AI methods.
• VAST — VAST is an artificial intelligence business that develops and manufactures general-purpose 3D big models. Its goal is to develop a popular 3D content production tool, a 3D user-generated content platform, and utilize 3D space to enhance user experience.

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• Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 230+ centers worldwide.
• Xoople — Xoople operates as an earth intelligence company. Xoople powers the next generation of Earth data intelligence to achieve a systematic understanding of physical changes on the Earth’s surface.
• Highlight Therapeutics — Highlight Therapeutics is a private, clinical-stage company dedicated to unlocking the full potential of immuno-oncology.

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• Nutrium — Nutrium is the most up-to-date nutrition software for dietitians and nutritionists to manage their nutrition business with nutritional assessment, meal planning and progress tracking.
• ENYO Pharma — ENYO Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company incorporated in Jan, 2014, by four scientists of the Infectiology Research Center in Lyon, France, and three seeding partners (2 privates and 1 public).The company is based in the Infectiology Center of Lyonbiopôle in Lyon, France and maintains tight collaborations with the seminal Inserm team and theBSL4 laboratory Inserm-Jean Mérieux.ENYO Pharma has licensed several Inserm patents issued from the discoveries of the founding scientists and developed a unique platform for the identification of intracellular therapeutic targets and molecules.The company is developing treatments against the most important viruses and is thriving to become a global leader in anti-virals. Research and Development is currently focused on human infecting viruses, with the first two programs being dedicated to the treatment of severe and seasonal flu and chronic hepatitis B. The company plans to conduct its molecules to Phase II clinical trials.
• Inflammatix — Inflammatix develops rapid point of care diagnostic tests by reading the immune system, and resolves major clinical health challenges.

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• Juo — Dev-first toolkit for non-digital product subscriptions
• Optiak — Optiak is an AI-based platform that develops a modular operating system designed to streamline operations.
• Rizon —