Top 10 Life Science Startup Investors in Norway in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 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 10 Life Science Startup Investors in Norway in May 2025

Investor	Life Science Norway investments
Investinor	2
World Wildlife Fund	1
The Index Project	1
Dynamk Capital	1
Canica	1
Nordic Impact	1
Project Sandwater	1
Birk Venture	1
Bakken & Baeck	1
Hadean Ventures	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, Seed, Series A
Norway, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Calluna Pharma — Join Calluna Pharma to transform therapeutics for inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, we can revolutionize patient care.
Ignite — A powerful & easy spend management tool to accelerate your procurement success by bringing clarity, clean data & sophisticated analytics to your fingertips
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases.

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

OCEANIUM — OCEANIUM is a world-leading developer of innovative, functional seaweed ingredients to catalyse the seaweed industry for People Health and Ocean Health.
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.

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 — The Future of Learning. Delivered Today.
Destácame — Destacame is the first behavior-based credit score in Latin America.

Dynamk Capital is a New York headquartered growth equity and venture capital firm investing in life science industrials: tools, technologies and services that are critical for the discovery, development and production of life-saving therapies. Venture capital for Life Science tools.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

CellFE — We transform the way cell therapies are manufactured to enable affordable advanced treatments for all.
Lucid Scientific — Lucid Scientific is the maker of Resipher - the world's first handheld cell culture monitor to measure real-time oxygen consumption from inside an incubator.
Vernal Biosciences — Vernal Biosciences is an mRNA manufacturing company that provides high purity mRNA, from concept to clinical trials, on a transactional basis.

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.

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 — AI for scientific text understanding - Smart search, reading list analysis, auto-generated summaries, data extraction, chatbot with references.

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 future homes with IKEA 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 — AI for scientific text understanding - Smart search, reading list analysis, auto-generated summaries, data extraction, chatbot with references.

Hadean Ventures is a life science fund manager that invests in life science companies across europe with a particular focus on the nordic region. The funds are backed by leading private and institutional investors. Hadean Ventures has offices in oslo and stockholm and collaborates with world-class academic institutions and start-up hubs across theregion