Top 10 Life Science Startup Investors in Norway in April 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 April 2025
Investor | Life Science Norway investments |
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Investinor | 2 |
Dynamk Capital | 1 |
Canica | 1 |
Hadean Ventures | 1 |
Nordic Impact | 1 |
Project Sandwater | 1 |
Birk Venture | 1 |
World Wildlife Fund | 1 |
Bakken & Baeck | 1 |
The Index Project | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Norway, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Eyr — Eyr offers digital tools for medical consulting and doctor's prescription regarding various health issues.
- 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
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Medical, Biotechnology
- Private Equity, Series A, Series D
- Norway, Denmark, Switzerland
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- 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.
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
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Sweden, Norway, Austria
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- SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
- Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
- Alex Therapeutics — The Alex DTx Platform enables partners within pharma and health care to effectively and reliably launch new DTx treatments by leveraging existing insights, modules, processes and data.
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.
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Investment focus
- Chemical, Life Science, Visual Search
- Seed
- Norway
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- 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.
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- Medical, Consulting, Life Science
- Series A
- Norway, The Netherlands
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- 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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Seafood, Food Processing, Farming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Chemical, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Denmark, Chile
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