Top 10 Life Science Angel Investors in Spain in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 in May 2025

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

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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.

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).

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

Investment focus

Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

Ritu Bansal-Mutalik is a Senior Director, Process Research and Development at ZymoChem.

Investment focus

Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
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.

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 — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

Dr. Milad Alucozai specializes in translating scientific and technological breakthroughs into scalable commercial ventures. As an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and global investor, he leverages his expertise in bioengineering, computational biology, and machine learning to identify promising innovations and develop strategies fortheir successful market entry and growth. He focuses on accelerating the process of bringing groundbreaking discoveries from the lab to market, particularly in the life sciences and computationally-driven fields.Dr. Alucozai is a co-founder of Revalia Bio, which aims to create a human-centric infrastructure for drug discovery and development. By utilizing non-transplantable human organs donated for research, Revalia provides the scientific community unparalleled insights into patient biology, ultimately aiding in the development of better treatments and cures. In 2024, he partnered with The Wyss Institute at Harvard University to launch and co-host the popular "Code to Cure" series, exploring the convergence of AI, biology, and healthcare. He also contributes his expertise as a Senior Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center.His background includes leading 70 early-stage investments as Head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, establishing the firm as a key player in North America's VC landscape. He also served as a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a globally recognized talent investor backed by notable figures like Patrick and John Collison of Stripe and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, with a portfolio exceeding $10 billion in value. He mentors entrepreneurs across North America and Europe through channels like the Creative Destruction Lab.Throughout his operating and investing career, he has been instrumental in helping founders secure hundreds of millions in capital and facilitating over $1 billion in startup-pharma partnerships. Often serving as the first investor, he guides companies from concept to successful exit and shapes business development for high-growth, venture-backed startups. His advisory work also extends to established corporations; at Accenture, he led teams advising top pharmaceutical companies on their R&D, innovation, and business development strategies. In 2020, he formally served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca.He was a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Neuroscience degree from Purdue University’s Honors Program, earned a master’s in Immunology and Public Health as a George J. Mitchell Scholar, and holds a doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Additionally, he completed a visiting scholarship at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

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 — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
Kynda — Keen 4 Greens offers a wide range of vegan products. Founded in 2019, Keen 4 Greens is based in Hamburg, Germany.

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 — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

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.