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Top 20 Life Science Startup Investors in Italy (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $6M–$102M
Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Italy, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $1.5M–$52M
Claris Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2.2M–$25M
Principia SGR
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $329k–$7.7M
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $488k–$17M
AbbVie Biotech Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Italy Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $6M–$115M
LIFTT
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $329k–$21M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
1 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology $197k–$19M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$11M
Gaiae International
VC Fund
1 Italy Venture - Series Unknown Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
Deep Blue Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy Venture - Series Unknown Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
Blue Ocean Finance
VC Fund
1 Italy Venture - Series Unknown Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
MCF Holding
VC Fund
1 Italy Venture - Series Unknown Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
ReItaly21
VC Fund
1 Italy Venture - Series Unknown Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
ENEA Tech e Biomedical
VC Fund
1 Italy, Finland Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $3.3M–$21M
Sparta Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, Germany Series A, Series B Solar, Life Science, Biotechnology $11M–$16M
Roche Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $5M–$105M
Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Medical, Internet $658k–$6.2M
Barbara Castellano
Angel
1 Italy, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical Device, Medical $7.7M–$16M
JDRF T1D Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $7M–$130M
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Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Italy Life Science 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: 298
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$65M; Series B $10M–$102M; Series C $11M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • protera — Protera is advancing the science of protein engineering to address some of the most critical problems and opportunities in food, agriculture, the environment and human health. We streamline protein design and development with MADI, our proprietary deep learning algorithm, to predict high value protein products and enzymes with unprecedented speed.Our in-house lab generates small quantities of the new predicted structures to validate their desired performance. Upon lab validation, we collaborate with our clients on next steps to move from pilot to industrial scale production.
  • Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
  • T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
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Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Life Science 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, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$31M; Series B $8.8M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CamGraPhIC — Our platform supports the ever-increasing data traffic demand with high-performing and low-power consumption electro-optical engines.
  • 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.
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Claris Ventures
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Claris Ventures is a venture capital firm supporting the best scientists in building successful life sciences companies that will impact people's lives

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$11M; Series A $6.1M–$25M; Series B $7.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio is a biotech startup developing next-generation T cell therapies that target ALK-positive cancers. By reprogramming the immune system, the company aims to overcome resistance and deliver more effective, lasting treatments for solid tumors.
  • 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.
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Principia SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Life Science 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, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$3.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
  • 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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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Life Science 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Seed $488k–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
  • Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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AbbVie Biotech Ventures
VC Fund · North Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

AbbVie is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. Togetherwith its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pharmacyclics, AbbVie employs ~29,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 175 countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$53M; Series B $12M–$85M; Series C $39M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mozart Therapeutics — The company intended to focus on developing novel immune engagers.
  • Quanta Therapeutics — Quanta is a biotechnology company uncovering novel cancer therapeutic candidates using allosteric modulation to target driver oncogenes. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, CA.
  • DISCO Pharmaceuticals — DISCO Pharmaceuticals is a firm that specializes in large-scale surfaceome unlocking of cancer cells.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science 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: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.7M; Series A $2.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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!
  • Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

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: Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$7.6M; Series A $889k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
  • Spacest.com By Roomless — Rent directly online with Roomless, the safe and simple platform for those looking for a house for rent.
  • Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science 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: 100
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.6M; Angel $219k–$1.2M; Series A $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
  • Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
  • Alomana
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Gaiae International
VC Fund · Gaia, Porto, Portugal · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Gaiae International is a leading importer and exporter of fruits and vegetables.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
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Deep Blue Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Deep Blue Ventures is an international holding company that acquires, manages, and scales the next generation of online brands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
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Blue Ocean Finance
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Blue Ocean Finance S.p.A is a financial consulting firm focusing on Italian startups and innovative SMEs. The company’s aim is to assist enterprises in achieving their objectives of growth by developing a tailored financial strategy, obtaining new capital and advising them during extraordinary business operations. Funded in Rome in 2018, BlueOcean Finance is well known for its expertise in Corporate Finance, Banking and Financial Advisory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
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MCF Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

MCF Holding is a holding company of financial investments that engages in the management of events, retail, and real estate business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
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ReItaly21
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

ReItaly21 is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
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ENEA Tech e Biomedical
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science 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:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$7.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.4M–$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.
  • 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.
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Sparta Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Sparta Capital Ltd. focuses on product development, manufacturing, distribution, sales and service across a range of technologies. The Company's offering includes four different market verticals: transportation, mining, construction and energy (through biomass conversion). These offerings include optimization of energy consumption in thecommercial and manufacturing sectors, construction and energy through biomass conversion, energy conservation in mining, and energy savings in transportation. It is focused on the expansion of a range of divisions, including photoluminescent safety products division, energy audit (EMD) division, biomass division and mining division.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • B-ON
  • Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
  • GFBiochemicals — GFBiochemicals is the only company to produce levulinic acid at commercial scale directly from biomass.In 2008, a group of biobased chemical experts saw the significant potential of levulinic acid to replace petroleum-based products across a range of market sectors. GFBiochemicals was founded to develop the production technology needed for thisrevolution in chemicals and biofuels.GFBiochemicals demonstrated these breakthrough technologies in the Caserta plant, in partnership with the University of Pisa and the Polytechnic University of Milan. This commercial-scale plant was retrofitted with new conversion, recovery and purification technology.
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Roche Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

We are the corporate venture fund of Roche, a global leader in bringing medicines and in vitro diagnostics to the benefit of patients.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$59M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $5M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DiogenX — Welcome to DiogenX. Explore our pioneering research and innovative therapies aimed at transforming diabetes treatment
  • Mironid — Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.mironid.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
  • MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science 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, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $89M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — A deep understanding of customers let a company tailor marketing campaigns and CRM strategies, but companies have only basic data about customers (e.g. gender or age). External data sources like Social Networks, Public Registries and Socio-Demographic data contain rich information about billions of people, like job titles, levels of education,interests and habits.BigProfiles is a Customer Intelligence SAAS that leverages external information about persons to enrich customer profiling: it can profile a company's customers with previously unknown information about them. Thanks to its Identity Resolution algorithm (the result of a PHD), it identifies a person’s information scattered among external sources.Through this technology, BigProfiles provides customer base analytics and behavior predictions: using Artificial Intelligence on enriched profiles allows to predict churn, fraud and willingness to buy.
  • 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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Barbara Castellano
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

Barbara Castellano of Panakes Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $7.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% 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.
  • Bio4Dreams — Il primo incubatore italiano certificato di startup innovative in fase very early stage, a capitale totalmente privato, dedicato alle Scienze della Vita.
  • InnovHeart — InnovHeart s.r.l develops Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement systems (TMVR) to treat patients suffering from mitral valve disease. The company is conducting clinical trials of its novel Saturn TMVR system.
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JDRF T1D Fund
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Italy Life Science startups

The JDRF T1D Fund (www.t1dfund.org) is a venture philanthropy fund exclusively devoted to finding and funding the best early-stage T1D commercial opportunities to accelerate the delivery of treatments, preventions, and cures to patients. It was created to solve a critical funding gap in the T1D drug and device development pipeline. Throughpartnerships with private capital, including venture capital, pharma and foundations, the T1D Fund anticipates that it will be able to attract substantially more private investment to the T1D field than occurs today. The T1D Fund will initially focus on artificial pancreas systems, metabolic control, beta cell replacement, prevention, and beta cell restoration therapies, with an exclusive priority on the best commercial opportunities. The T1D Fund will reinvest any realized gains into new investments to further its mission.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$105M; Series B $18M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • i2o Therapeutics — GLP-1 Combinations for Obesity & Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Diseases
  • Kriya Therapeutics — Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy to address common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. Learn more.
  • Veralox Therapeutics — Veralox Therapeutics develops small molecule therapeutics that treat the underlying pathologies of thrombosis and type one diabetes. Based on an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these diseases, these efforts will lead to new treatment paradigms and better outcomes for patients.
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Life Science Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 23 deals from 34 investors.

34
investors
in Italy Life Science startups
23
deals
in Italy Life Science startups
$4.4M
median round
in Italy Life Science startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Grant
most common funding stage
97/3
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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