Top 10 Life Science Angel Investors in Spain

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Life science startups based in Spain. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Spain. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Life Science Angel Investors in Spain

Investor	Life Science Spain investments
Ryan Bethencourt	1
Mariliis Holm	1
John Bethell	1
Arturo Elizondo	1
Arnaldo Marziali	1
Inaki Berenguer	1
Arman Anatürk	1
David Brandes	1
Milad Alucozai	1
Ritu Bansal-Mutalik	1

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Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth and a co-founder and Partner at Sustainable Food Ventures, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder and former Program Directorat IndieBio and has invested in over 130 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation. As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring. His work at the interface of science, food, and business has been covered by many major publications.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Chile, India

Portfolio highlights

WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

I am a food scientist, entrepreneur and investor. Through SFV (sustainablefoodventures.com), I back founders building the future of cell-based, plant-based and recombinant food.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Seafood, Wellness
Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, Iceland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Originally studying medicine in Scotland, John is a pioneer of the Australasian medical recruitment industry and has over 20 years of experience growing his award-winning business, Wavelength International, from two founders to over 100 staff. Moving to Europe in 2012, John worked initially for an equity crowdfunding business focused on raisingseed funds for European life sciences start-ups, before launching the Luka Global Group, including LUKA BIO, with the co-founders in 2019. John provides guidance and mentorship to start-up founders on how to set up their own in-house recruitment capabilities in preparation for growth. His recruitment portfolio includes C-suite, medical and research roles within life sciences.

Investment focus

FinTech, Medical, Life Science
Debt Financing
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Capital Cell — Capital Cell is a pan-European crowdinvesting platform for Biotech & Life Sciences companies. Mixing VC, business angels, accredited investors and the power of the Crowd, the company is building a global meeting point for companies and researchers working, fostering and financing tomorrow’s medical science.

Arturo Elizondo is CEO of Clara Foods, a sustainable ingredients company making the world’s most comprehensive egg white substitute. Clara leverages advances in fermentation technology to bring an egg white to the table that is completely animal-free, far more sustainable, and free of salmonella without compromising the qualities we know and love.Prior to joining Clara Foods, Arturo worked at the investment bank Credit Suisse, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and under Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Investment focus

Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

Arnaldo Marziali

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Life Science
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Seqera — Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io).

Inaki Berenguer is the President and Co-founder at iPronics Programmable Photonics.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
Libera Bio — Libera Bio is a biopharmaceutical company devoted to the development of a new class of therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in cancer
Mable (Neurolytic Healthcare) — Neurolytic Healthcare provides personalized medicine for neurological conditions. Neurolytic Healthcare collects and extracts insights from a combination of genetic and biomarker data to enhance diagnosis and help clinicians decide on optimal treatment strategies for neurological conditions.The company delivers digitally and genomically-drivenmedical devices to improve the current treatment of migraine and other neurological disorders, including a diagnostic support tool, pharmacogenetic test, and a mobile app for migraine event prediction.

Arman Anatürk is Co-Founder @ FoodHack.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bosque Foods — Kinoko Labs develops the next generation of meat substitutes, starting with whole-cut meat items made from fungal mycelium produced organically. Headquartered in New York.
Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Kynda — Keen 4 Greens offers a wide range of vegan products. Founded in 2019, Keen 4 Greens is based in Hamburg, Germany.

David Brandes - Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Peace of Meat

Investment focus

Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Libre Foods — Libre Foods is a biotech startup on a mission to liberate the food system and create a more free future for people, the planet, and animals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.