# Top 20 Life Science Startup Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Sofinnova Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical 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. ## Indaco Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science VENTURE We invest across all sectors with specific focus on technology and digital The largest independent more About Us Portfolio [...] ## Claris Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Claris Ventures is a venture capital firm supporting the best scientists in building successful life sciences companies that will impact people's lives ## Principia SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software 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. ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## AbbVie Biotech Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: North Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics 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. ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## Club degli Investitori - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Gaiae International - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gaia, Porto, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology Gaiae International is a leading importer and exporter of fruits and vegetables. ## Deep Blue Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology Deep Blue Ventures is an international holding company that acquires, manages, and scales the next generation of online brands. ## Blue Ocean Finance - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology 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. ## MCF Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology MCF Holding is a holding company of financial investments that engages in the management of events, retail, and real estate business. ## ReItaly21 - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology ReItaly21 is an investment firm. ## ENEA Tech e Biomedical - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device ENEA Tech e Biomedical is a private foundation. It seeks to encourage the strengthening of research, development, and industrial reconversion of the biomedical sector. ## Sparta Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Solar, Life Science, Biotechnology 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. ## Roche Venture Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics We are the corporate venture fund of Roche, a global leader in bringing medicines and in vitro diagnostics to the benefit of patients. ## Invitalia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Medical, Internet 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 ## Barbara Castellano - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Barbara Castellano of Panakes Partners. ## JDRF T1D Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical 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.