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Top 15 Life Science Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Life science startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Life Science Startup Investors in Norway in January 2026

Investor	Life Science Norway investments
Investinor	3
Canica	2
Sandwater	2
Qomel	1
Wa’ed Ventures	1
Sofinnova Partners	1
Project Sandwater	1
Birk Venture	1
Bakken & Baeck	1
SINTEF Venture AS	1
World Wildlife Fund	1
Lekh Corp AS	1
The Index Project	1
Nordic Impact	1
H2O Holding AS	1

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Investinor invests in Norwegian based, high potential companies that are internationally oriented and in the phases ranging from early growth to expansion. The company has BNOK 4.2 ($500 m) under management and focus on companies within the internet, software, semiconductors, energy, cleantech, marine and life sciences sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Norway, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Actithera — Actithera is a molecular radiotherapeutic company that develops radioligand therapies. It translates medicinal chemistry insights into new radioligand therapies (RLTs) and applies various molecular design strategies, including covalent targeting and an isotope-agnostic philosophy, to invent RLTs with significant differentiation and largertherapeutic windows.
Kongsberg Ferrotech — Kongsberg Ferrotech offers game-changing robotic services for inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) of underwater installations

Canica is one of the largest privately owned investment companies in Norway. Our operations are focused on active, long-term ownership, primarily within sectors covering retail, fast moving consumer goods and real estate. Canica can offer core expertise within the fields of business development and finance, as well as capital and network in orderto create value and employment in a long-term perspective.

Investment focus

Beauty, Medical, Biotechnology
Private Equity, Series A, Series D
Norway, Denmark, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Cytovation — Cytovation AS is a privately-held biotech company, specialising in dermatological diseases, based in Bergen, Norway.
Porterbuddy — They are the gang that delivers to your door the same day you order in the online store.Porterbuddy' is a logistics platform that provides efficient and customer-centric, last-mile delivery of products.
Galecto — Galecto develops small molecules for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. The company lead product candidate, GB0139, is an inhaled inhibitor of galectin-3. GB0139 is being developed for the treatment of severe fibrotic lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, in which there is high unmet medicalneed. Galecto was founded in 2011, builds on more than 10 years of research centering on the role of galectin-3 and LOXL-2, and the use of modulators of these proteins to treat fibrosis-related diseases and cancer. Combined with a strong patent estate, these assets give Galecto a unique therapeutic platform.

We are Sandwater. Regeneration of our resources. Vitalizing healthcare & education. Improving life through technology.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Agriculture
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Norway, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Filics — A scalable transport solution for standardized load carriers with a minimum energy footprint
Cytovation — Cytovation AS is a privately-held biotech company, specialising in dermatological diseases, based in Bergen, Norway.
Enduro Genetics — Bioproduction can be difficult to scale to large cultivation volumes while keeping titers high. By applying game-changing synthetic biology technology, Enduro Genetics empowers our partner companies to maximize performance of all cells cultivated from their production strains.

Qomel Company is a healthcare and pharmaceutical services company that offers medical, diagnostic, and product distribution services. It operates ophthalmology, dental, wound care, and general medical services, while distributing pharmaceuticals and medical devices through warehouses and sales offices.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kure Cells — Kure Cells is a biotechnology company developing rapid-manufacturing platforms for CAR-T and gene-modified cell therapies.

Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
FalconViz — FalconViz is a Saudi registered company focused on 3D surveying and mapping by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with autonomous integration of planes, copters and 3D software solutions.
UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DNA Script — DNA Script is a disruptive DNA synthesis company engineering biology to accelerate breakthroughs in life science and human health. Their revolutionary enzymatic technology powers the world's first benchtop DNA printer, SYNTAX, enabling labs to print their own synthetic oligos for greater workflow control and faster access to results.
AAVantgarde Bio — AAVantgarde Bio is developing gene therapies for inherited retinal disorders.
Excelsior Sciences — Rebuilding the World, From the Bottom Up

Project Sandwater is a fresh take on venture investments within the Nordics and beyond.

Investment focus

Medical, Consulting, Life Science
Series A
Norway, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Delft IMP — Delft IMP (Intensified Materials Production) commercializes nanostructuring of particles using atomic and molecular layer deposition (ALD and MLD), based on the patented and publicized IP and know-how developed within the Product & Process Engineering (PPE) group at Delft University of Technology. Following various feasibility projects betweenindustry and university, Delft IMP was initiated end 2014 to truly commercialize the technology.
Cytovation — Cytovation AS is a privately-held biotech company, specialising in dermatological diseases, based in Bergen, Norway.

Birk Venture is a Scandinavian venture company exclusively focusing on the life science industry.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

APIM Therapeutics — APIM Therapeutics is based on an original discovery by Prof. Marit Otterlei and co-inventors at the Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway). The company is currently developing proprietary peptide drugs targeting PCNA (Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen), a key DNA repair protein regulating cellularresponses to DNA damage and stress.
Zelluna Immunotherapy — Zelluna Immunotherapy AS is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of TCR based immunotherapies.
Accession Therapeutics — Accession Therapeutics’ elegant Trocept platform has potential to treat some of the most intractable and widespread forms of cancer. Based in Oxford, UK, it is developing a pipeline of products to the early clinical trial stage. Led by Bent Jakobsen, PhD FMedSci, a pioneer of T cell receptor therapy for cancer, the team is highly experienced intaking immuno-oncology products to the clinic. Accession Therapeutics’ Trocept technology is based on over a decade’s work and has generated exceptional preclinical data.Accession Therapeutics’ proprietary technology incorporates cancer-tropic viruses, the first time that viruses have been genetically modified to exclusively target cancer cells. As non-cancerous cells are not targeted by Trocept, systemic toxicity is eliminated meaning the drugs can be delivered intravenously and traffic to the tumour. Trocept’s highly potent and local activity gives it potential in some of the hardest to treat and most widespread forms of cancer. This includes breast, cervical, colorectal, gastric, head and neck, lung, oral, ovarian and pancreatic cancer.

Since 2011, we have built products with some of the most ambitious companies out there. From defining the future of conversational AI with Sierra to building decentralised platforms with Coinbase.

Investment focus

Chemical, Software, Life Science
Seed, Angel
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Versor — Versor develops software necessary for true autonomous drone flight both indoors and outdoors, enabling complete automation of industrial drone operations. They believe this level of automation requires superior localization, which is particularly difficult to achieve indoors and in GPS-denied areas. By removing the need for pilots, entire fleetsof drones may be supervised remotely, enabling true scalability of drone operations across various applications.
Iris.ai — helps enterprises deploy secure, high-quality Agentic AI. Simplify data ingestion, orchestration, retrieval and evaluation with tailored workflows at scale.

We commercialize technology created by SINTEF's research environments

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Norway, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nomono — Nomono delivers studio-grade spoken audio with next-gen wireless tools. Record anywhere, auto-enhance with AI, and edit in the cloud - trusted by storytellers
Hystar — Hystar develops polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers designed for large-scale green hydrogen production. Founded in 2020, Hystar's technology uses a unique cell design and process architecture that provides the ability to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, enabling professionals to tackle various criticalenergy challenges and having the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hydrogen Mem-Tech — Hydrogen Mem-Tech aim is to make the green shift happen through our state-of-the-art hydrogen separation technology with carbon capture.

World Wildlife Fund - The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species. Learn how you can help WWF make a difference.

Investment focus

Seafood, Food Processing, Farming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Norway, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SeaForester — Restoring the forgotten forests in our ocean.
Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.
Seaweed Solutions — Seaweed Solutions AS is one of Europe's largest seaweed farmers based in Norway. Our experience in seaweed farming dates back to 1978.

Investment Company

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Life Science
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Aurora Analytica — Founded in February 2023 and incorporated in January 2024, Aurora Analytica is a pioneering health technology company dedicated to optimizing the clinical trial lifecycle and accelerating the development of new treatment options. Our AI-powered platform provides strategic insights, site intelligence, and data-driven tools that enable biotech andpharmaceutical companies to design faster, smarter trials. A single platform that brings together essential assessments, the Aurora Suite™ consists of eleven interconnected modules that function collaboratively within a comprehensive analytics environment. Built on over 30 years of industry expertise, Aurora Analytica bridges the gap between innovation and execution—reducing costs, improving accuracy, and ultimately helping bring better therapies to patients, faster.

Design to improve life is about solving real problems, small and large, simple and complex, systemic and emerging and is a life-long pursuit. The Index Project is a call to action. Are you in?

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Chemical, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Agribuddy — Management of agricultural support application "AGRIBUDDY".
CanopyLAB — CanopyLAB is an educational technology company located in Hvidovre, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. We have built an AI-powered social learning platform for corporate training. Through personalization our platform enables all learners to realize their potential in a way that is fast, fun and future-proof. We call it "The Future of Learning-Delivered Today".We work on two verticals:1. The Canopy A social learning platform powered by AI A research-based social learning platform for developing competencies through individualized and adaptive learning experiences. It is designed with an integrated social network structure to enhance collaborative learning and built on strong Nordic learning principles.2. The LAB A learning community with provocative content Join our global learning community for youth. Take free courses, exchange ideas, gain new knowledge and practice competencies offered by 100 + pioneering NGOs in controversial and often neglected topics such as sexuality, sexual & reproductive rights, climate action, health, and the SDGs.CanopyLAB acquired Peruvian publishing startup Yopublico in April 2020.
Destácame — Destacame is the first behavior-based credit score in Latin America.

Nordic Impact invests in, supports, and builds businesses and funds based around technology. The company's goal is to make impact investing mainstream and mobilize all business and capital towards solving the big problems in the world while making great financial returns.

Investment focus

Chemical, Life Science, Visual Search
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Iris.ai — helps enterprises deploy secure, high-quality Agentic AI. Simplify data ingestion, orchestration, retrieval and evaluation with tailored workflows at scale.

Investment

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Life Science
Pre-Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Aurora Analytica — Founded in February 2023 and incorporated in January 2024, Aurora Analytica is a pioneering health technology company dedicated to optimizing the clinical trial lifecycle and accelerating the development of new treatment options. Our AI-powered platform provides strategic insights, site intelligence, and data-driven tools that enable biotech andpharmaceutical companies to design faster, smarter trials. A single platform that brings together essential assessments, the Aurora Suite™ consists of eleven interconnected modules that function collaboratively within a comprehensive analytics environment. Built on over 30 years of industry expertise, Aurora Analytica bridges the gap between innovation and execution—reducing costs, improving accuracy, and ultimately helping bring better therapies to patients, faster.

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