Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Germany (October 2026)

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• Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
• Smartblue — Smartblue develops and runs software and processes to monitor and optimize zero emission energy systems. As a hardware independent specialist Smartblue delivers a software service for the maintenance, life-cycle management, production forecasting and remote control of photovoltaic and energy storage systems all together in one centralized “SmartControl” Operations and Control Center web application. We help our customers drive down overall operational cost through automation, smart failure detection and big data analysis on imminent defects.
• OMEICOS Therapeutics — OMEICOS Therapeutics is developing a novel, first-in-class, small molecule utilizing a new Mode of Action. OMEICOS' novel therapeutic strategy is based upon the discovery of natural metabolites of omega-3 fatty acids that mediate a strong anti-arrhythmic effect. In contrast to all other anti-arrhythmic drugs, OMEICOS' substances activatean endogenous cardio-protective signaling pathway that not only stabilizes the heart rhythm but shall provide curative effects to the diseased organ by preventing its electrical and structural remodeling.

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• Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
• eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
• DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.

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• Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
• Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
• Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.

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• xHeron — xHeron uses artificial intelligence to automate guest service for short-term rental businesses.
• Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
• Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.

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• Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
• heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
• Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios

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• Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
• Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
• Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

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• Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
• Xias Bio — Mitigate risk with flexible licensing options. Partner with us to transform your ideas into high-performance innovations optimized for efficacy and differentiation.
• Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.

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• BlueNalu — BlueNalu's mission is to be the global leader in cellular aquaculture, providing consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products that support the sustainability and diversity of our oceans.
• SuperMeat — SuperMeat is an Israeli bio-tech and food-tech company, developing a technology to create clean meat from chicken cells in a safe and controlled environment, external to the animal’s body. SuperMeat is set to revolutionize the meat industry from its core, aspiring to secure a better future for humans and animals alike. Clean meat is grown in acontrolled, sterile environment without the use of antibiotics and without any possibility of fecal contamination, such as salmonella. Clean meat will require significantly less resources for its production (99% less land, 90% less water), making it both a healthy and sustainable food source for the coming century.
• Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet

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• Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
• XO Life — XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications.
• Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare

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• Stand — Full homeowners insurance priced for your home, not your ZIP code. Make it safer and your premium drops. Concierge protection and coverage for high-value homes in California and Florida.
• Type One Energy — Type One Energy is a fusion power system developer whose goal is to provide clean fusion power to cities. Through innovations in high-temp superconducting magnets and additive manufacturing, the company's system connects the compact, cost-effective stellarator fusion power plant to the grid, allowing people to access power when it is needed.
• Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.

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• Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
• Foundational — Foundational is a startup focused on satellite laser ranging (SLR) automation.
• Nordic Air Defence — Nordic Air Defence builds cutting-edge solutions for modern aerial security. Made in Sweden.

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• ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
• Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.

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• Tacalyx — Tacalyx develops therapeutics targeting cancer-specific carbohydrate antigens on the surface of metastatic malignant tumors where no satisfactory treatments exist.The name Tacalyx is derived from TACA (Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen) and ‘lyx’ from the term Glycocalyx, the glycan-containing layer covering cells. Cancer cells differ fromnormal cells by displaying aberrant carbohydrate structures on their surfaces promoting metastasis, angiogenesis or suppression of the immune system. TACAs result from the aberrant glycosylation that is seen with transformation to a tumor cell and represent attractive targets for cancer treatment since they are displayed with high cancer specificity and enhance tumor virulence via the mentioned diverse mechanisms.
• smartbax — We develop novel multi-targeted, antibacterial compounds with extraordinary potency against multi-drug resistant bacteria and difficult-to-treat biofilms.
• Cloverleaf Bio — Cloverleaf Bio | Developing a new class of RNA therapeutics to revolutionize cancer therapy.

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• Naga — NAGA is disrupting the worlds of trading and investment by making them more open and inclusive. It is the single solution that's got it all: Trade, Earn, Invest, Acquire, Connect, Pay; all in one seamless and unified ecosystem that is radically social! Traders and investors from all around the world can use the NAGA technology every day inmany powerful ways: invest in the financial markets (physical stocks, CFDs in stocks, indices, currencies, energies, metals, commodities and cryptocurrencies), make payments in fiat and cryptocurrency, learn about wealth as well as communicate and connect with like-minded people anywhere and anytime. NAGA expands the one-of-a-kind experience with many other unique and innovative services such as the NAGA Mastercard, the AI-driven Portfolio baskets, the world’s first messenger where traders can exchange ideas and opinions in its public channels, Auto-Copying other traders and copying trading signals thanks to the revolutionary NAGA Signals feature.NAGA is really greater than the sum of its parts and powerful when its full spectrum of products and features are used together.
• Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
• Legendairy Foods — Formo is shaping the future of dairy with precision fermentation, creating animal-free recombinant milk proteins with exceptional functionality.

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• PL BioScience — STEM CELL EXPANSION IN SAFE AND REPRODUCIBLE CONDITIONS. We deliver advanced 2D and 3D cell culture solutions based on human Platelet Lysate – for basic research, cellular therapeutics and clinical applications. Choose between different safety grades meeting your needs: Research Grade, GMP Grade or GMP-Clinical Grade.
• Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.
• traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!

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• Kidokit — Kidokit is a child development and parent support application that promotes the growth of infants and kids from one to six years old.
• Varsapp — Varsapp is a data-driven rental and resale platform helping brands gain consumer insights, increase conversions, and reduce waste. Through its B2B2C model, brands can offer products for short-term rentals, allowing users to try before they buy.With over 200,000 users and partnerships. Varsapp enables brands to test demand, build loyalty, andmonetize refurbished or excess inventory via its newly launched Varsapp Market.Consumers rent high-quality items—especially in home appliances, electronics, and lifestyle categories—and decide whether to return or purchase.Currently active in Turkey and expanding into Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Varsapp supports circular consumption while generating measurable impact for both brands and users.
• VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments

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• anvajo — Lab diagnostics for everyone, everywhere. Understanding fluids through light and algorithms
• keleya — Keleya enables women and their partners to have a safe and relaxed pregnancy, birth experience and motherhood by providing them with personalized, expert based information, workouts and nutrition plans and a matching midwife. Founded in 2017, Kelaya is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• Skinuvita — Skinuvita specializes in developing digital home treatment solutions for chronic autoimmune skin diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and vitiligo. Utilizing specific wavelengths of UV light (311nm) that have a calming effect on skin's immune cells responsible for inflammation, Skinuvita's approach to phototherapy aims toimprove the quality of life for patients. The company offers a patient app that guides users through therapy sessions and analyzes responses for dosage optimization, alongside tools for dermatologists to monitor treatment progress. This innovative approach allows for effective management of skin conditions from the comfort of one's home.

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• DNTOX — We are building up a bioanalytical testing laboratory for animal-free screening of chemicals, regarding their potential to disturb brain development and cause developmental neurotoxicity (DNT). Our in vitro testing battery is based on human cell models and enables chemical screening in a high-content and medium-throughput fashion. Furthermore, itis supported by an in-house developed software, using artifical intelligence. We support our customers during the identification of safe lead structures during substance development, as well as the safety assessment during approval and re-approval processes of chemicals. With our innovation, we want to realize our company vision: Safe chemicals without animal experiments!
• wondder — Empowering People through Virtual Reality Use our training in Virtual Reality to create more happy, successful, productive teams. Experience the power of wondder. Contact Us Empowering People through Virtual Reality Use our training in Virtual Reality to create more happy,
• Elona Health — Elona Health develops digital health application to support treatment for patients and therapists alike.

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• Proteologix — Proteologix is a precision immunology company powered by proprietary multi-specific antibody technologies. The company is dedicated to the discovery and development of safe and convenient therapeutics that target multiple disease-driving pathways to potentially deliver high-bar efficacy for patients with immune-mediated diseases.
• Loma Therapeutics — Loma Therapeutics is developing targeted immunotherapy for the effective and safe treatment of HPV infection, dysplasia, and cancer patients.
• Ambrosia Biosciences — Ambrosia Biosciences offers drug development services for small molecule-based therapies for obesity and other metabolic disorders.

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• Octonomy — octonomy: AI-as-a-Service mit der neuen Generation von KI-Agenten. 80 % Zeitersparnis, 24/7-Support in 30+ Sprachen, live in 20 Tagen.
• Wakeline — Wakeline is an AI research lab. We built a new kind of AI that learns while it runs, with no pretraining and no retraining. It was deployed first in energy markets and is now being tested by a select few companies in other industries.
• Eeden — Eeden engages in the manufacture and supply of textiles.

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• SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.

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• MEANT 2B — MeantToBe is an AI-powered matchmaking platform designed to move beyond swipe-based dating apps by using personalized recommendations and behavioral signals to suggest more compatible romantic and social connections. It leverages machine learning to understand user preferences over time, aiming to improve match quality, reduce swipe fatigue, andcreate more meaningful interactions between users in a modern, AI-driven social discovery experience. Focused on next-generation relationship discovery.
• Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
• SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.

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• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Voxela, Inc. — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
• Epoch Biodesign — Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth.

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• EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
• KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
• Freehand — Freehand AI Teams resolve disputes, negotiate credits, and settle enterprise spend autonomously; recover 2-5% margins with 100% audit coverage.

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• Xylo Bio — Psylo is an Australia-based psychedelic biotech business focusing on Psychedelic-inspired medicine to treat mental illness.
• Piramidal — Production-ready EEG foundation models delivering expert-level clinical performance.
• Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.

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• TrueDAO — TrueDAO is a new-generation AI-native decentralized autonomous financial infrastructure. Built on the underlying logic of DAO community co-governance, it leverages smart contracts to construct an on-chain financial system integrating AI algorithm scheduling, staking, and dynamic protection. It optimizes economic parameters and asset strategies inreal time via AI models, delivers low-volatility and sustainable value growth paths for digital assets, and pioneers an innovative paradigm of autonomous finance.
• Cryopets — At the end of their natural lives, we place pets in cryosleep to give them a chance at life again in the future.
• Share — From subsea cables to last-mile networks, Share coordinates fragmented infrastructure into a single ecosystem.

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• AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge Data Centres is one of the fastest growing data centre providers in Europe. Find out more about us!
• Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
• Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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• Mueon — semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing
• iOnctura — Our mission is to develop high impact, low disruption therapies that extend healthspan. We do this by disrupting the dynamic interplay at the heart of the
• Polaris Electro-Optics — Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation.

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• Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
• Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
• Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.

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• anvajo — Lab diagnostics for everyone, everywhere. Understanding fluids through light and algorithms
• Brainjo — Brainjo is a digital health company that develops virtual reality–based applications designed to support mental health and cognitive training through immersive experiences. The company’s platform focuses on evidence-based therapies and uses gamification techniques to improve user engagement and adherence to treatment programs. Its solutions includevirtual reality training tools that combine cognitive exercises with physical activity, enabling users to train memory, coordination, and problem-solving skills within interactive environments. Brainjo is also involved in developing digital therapeutics, including applications for conditions such as ADHD, which are intended to complement traditional therapy and may be integrated into healthcare systems. The company collaborates with healthcare experts, researchers, and industry partners to translate scientific insights into practical therapeutic applications delivered through its virtual reality platform.
• XO Life — XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications.

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• Mabyduck — Mabyduck makes it easy to evaluate AI generated content.
• Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
• Tytan Technologies — TYTAN Technologies builds autonomous interceptors engineered for the realities of modern drone warfare.

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• ViferaXS — ViferaXS is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing peptide-based cancer immunotherapies. Its proprietary T Cell Activator platform targets naturally presented tumor antigens to stimulate anti-cancer immune responses. The company is advancing immunotherapy programs for cancers including CLL, AML, and fibrolamellar carcinoma.
• Aionic Labs — Aionic Labs builds Time Series Language Models: AI that reasons over raw signals in natural language.
• Kāhu SiliconBio — Kāhu SiliconBio builds bioelectronic sensors that embed living bacterial machinery into silicon microchips. This platform converts chemical concentrations in liquids into electronic data, providing point-of-need analysis without requiring laboratory processing. The company delivers automated chemical intelligence to help healthcare,biomanufacturing, and environmental sectors track liquid compositions in real time.

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• Bio.xyz — Bio is building science for the network age, connecting biotech funding, AI research, and distribution across the bio.xyz ecosystem.
• Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Zepta — Zepta emphasizes "digital solutions and sustainability in pest control." Zepta develops a digital approach for protecting humans from pests.
• Replique — Replique is an online first fully encrypted 3D printing platform that makes spare part management more sustainable to large OEMs.
• Spark e-Fuels — We build technologies for affordable, scalable and sustainable e-fuels production, to enable net-zero aviation today.

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• RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• Magic Horizons — Magic Horizons is building a global platform for holistic relaxation and mental health in VR, based on scientific research and a study by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Magic Horizons offers a unique opportunity for relaxation and mental health in VR for every stressed out person worldwide. The result of our work at Magic Horizons are deeprelaxation states at the touch of a button.
• Mädchenflohmarkt — Mädchenflohmarkt (Meaning: Girls Fleamarket) was founded in 2012 by Peter Ambrozy, Maria Spilka and Thorsten Lückemeier. The Stuttgart-based company operates an online marketplace for used women's fashion. The platform offers not only a fashion-focused marketplace for private buyers and sellers, but also a so-called "conciergeservice". Mädchenflohmarkt offers the concierge service to users wanting to sell their goods on the platform, without listing their goods themselves. These sellers send their items to the Mädchenflohmarkt office, where they are photographed, listed and sold on the platform.Already after 4 months of operation the young start-up reached high virality through its facebook group (215k Fans) and German mass-media coverage and will continue its efforts in a social and curated shopping approach to women. A relaunch is planned for December 2012.

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• Calibre — Calibre uses causal AI in conjunction with clinical expertise to help people understand what is truly influencing their health and how to modify it.
• Frontier Computing — Frontier Computing is a biocomputing company growing large-scale neuronal tissue, living hardware with memory baked in at the cellular level.
• Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.

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• hexafarms — This is meta description
• Aitiologic — A precision medicine startup providing multi-modal liquid biopsy solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
• Entelo Bio — Precision Medicine

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• Formo — Formo is Europe’s first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.
• Legendairy Foods — Formo is shaping the future of dairy with precision fermentation, creating animal-free recombinant milk proteins with exceptional functionality.

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• HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
• Tacalyx — Tacalyx develops therapeutics targeting cancer-specific carbohydrate antigens on the surface of metastatic malignant tumors where no satisfactory treatments exist.The name Tacalyx is derived from TACA (Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen) and ‘lyx’ from the term Glycocalyx, the glycan-containing layer covering cells. Cancer cells differ fromnormal cells by displaying aberrant carbohydrate structures on their surfaces promoting metastasis, angiogenesis or suppression of the immune system. TACAs result from the aberrant glycosylation that is seen with transformation to a tumor cell and represent attractive targets for cancer treatment since they are displayed with high cancer specificity and enhance tumor virulence via the mentioned diverse mechanisms.
• Chundsell Medicals — Chundsell Medicals AB was founded in 2007 as a spin off from Karolinska Institutet, Solna, in order to commercialize the research results of Chunde Li and his group on prostate cancer genomics. The first product: The Prostatype® Test System can assess prostate cancer aggressiveness in conjunction with currently used clinical parameters. TheProstatype® Test System measures the expression pattern of three selected and specific prostate cancer embryonic stem cell genes in tumor cell tissue specimens. These expression patterns together with a group of a selected number of known clinical parameters will help the health care professional to predict the disease outcome, the overall survival as well as cancer specific survival of patients.

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• RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

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• Quantune — A new Foundation for Human Health.
• Level Nine — Level Nine specializes in bio-nanotechnology and quantum chemistry, developing next-generation catalysts known as nanozymes.
• muffintech — Generative AI for the insurance industry. Unleash the full potential of your employees and offer your customers an unmatched user experience.

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• RougeTx — RougeTx is a Netherlands-based biotech developing first-in-class small-molecule therapies for vascular diseases caused by pericyte dysfunction. Its lead candidate, RTX-001, targets hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), an inherited disorder involving fragile blood vessels and recurrent bleeding.
• AM Pharma — AM-Pharma B.V., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutics for human use in the Netherlands. It focuses in the pre-clinical and clinical development of novel therapeutics to treat inflammatory and infectious diseases. The company develops products based on endogenous proteins and protein derivedpeptides, as well as molecules that naturally occur in the human body. Its products include alkaline phosphatase for treatment of acute kidney injury and ulcerative colitis; and immune response amplifying peptide hLF1-11 for the treatment of drug resistant hospital acquired infections. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bunnik, the Netherlands.
• Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

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• Adway — Adway is the only mobility based advertising and data platform that uses projection to turn any car-body into a media display.
• Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
• Unstoppable Finance — The leading wallet for trading on decentralized exchanges, DeFi and NFTs. Pro charts. Lightning fast. Zero Fees. Live on Solana and Ethereum on iOS and Android.

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• KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
• BioNTech — BioNTech is a next-generation immunotherapy company pioneering novel therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. It contains several classes of drugs, including mRNA-based drugs to encode antigens, neoantigens, cytokines, and antibodies; cell therapies; bispecific antibodies; and antibody-drug conjugates.

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• Krak — Make more skateboarding happen in the world.
• HashtagNow — HashtagNow is the real-time news platform that uses hashtags to discover and provide context for topics people talk about across platforms.
• Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!

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• RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

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• RLcore — Reimagining intelligent control with reinforcement learning. Shaping the future of industrial control with real-time autonomous optimization.
• StretchDollar — The simplest, most affordable health benefit option for small businesses. More control over your budget and more choice for your people. Get started today!
• ThreeV Technologies, Inc. — End to End Inspection Lifecycle Management Platform using AI

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• Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
• Aleph — Aleph helps top finance teams work with their data in real time. Businesses can automate financial models and streamline budgeting and forecasting with the fastest-to-implement FP&A platform. Aleph eliminates the need to export data from multiple sources by syncing spreadsheet models with data from 150+ integrations, and allows teams tointeract with their data in no-code dashboards.From annual budgeting to ad hoc reporting, scale your financial processes faster with better data without expanding your team. See why over 90% of people who start a trial with Aleph become customers!
• Flawless — Use Flawless to real-time monitor your operational data and quickly identify & resolve incidents. Start in just 5 minutes, no coding required.

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• Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
• SadaPay — Sign up today to get your Mastercard debit card and digital wallet. Easily request funds, top up mobile balance, manage remittances and more through our easy-to-use app!
• Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.

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• Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
• Qura — Qura builds AI to make legal text searchable using natural language.
• Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data