Top 10 Life Science VC Funds in Norway
A list of 10 VC 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 VC Funds in Norway
Investor | Life Science Norway investments |
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Investinor | 2 |
Canica | 1 |
Dynamk Capital | 1 |
Hadean Ventures | 1 |
The Index Project | 1 |
SINTEF Venture AS | 1 |
Project Sandwater | 1 |
Nordic Impact | 1 |
Birk Venture | 1 |
Bakken & Baeck | 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, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- 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.
- Nomono — The Next Generation Audio company.
- Calluna Pharma — Join Calluna Pharma on our mission to revolutionize the treatment of inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. With a robust pipeline, seasoned leadership, and strategic alliances, help us reshape the treatment landscape for the better.
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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- 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.
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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- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Norway
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- CellFE — We transform the way gene 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.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Sweden, Norway, Austria
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- Ribbon Biolabs — Ribbon Biolabs revolutionary technology for the fast and efficient automated synthesis of DNA is here to enable the new wave of biotechnological innovation.
- 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.
- TargED Biopharmaceuticals — TargED Biopharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that develops first-in-class biological drugs to improve treatment of thrombosis.TargED stands for Targeted Enzyme Delivery. Their biological drugs are unique by using small antibodies (“VhH”) to deliver enzymes to sites of thrombosis, enabling ‘targeted’ thrombolysis.
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?
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- Artificial Intelligence, Chemical, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Denmark, Chile
SINTEF TTO & Venture invest in spin-off companies from SINTEF, NTNU and other research based institutions in Norway. Our dealflow reflect results from state-of-art research and cover a variety of sectors.
SINTEF Venture seek to co-invest with VC funds with sector expertise at an early stage.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Norway, United States, United Kingdom
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- Nomono — The Next Generation Audio company.
- 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.
- KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
Project Sandwater is a fresh take on venture investments within the Nordics and beyond.
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Investment focus
- 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.
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 — Powerful Tools for Your Research. We have built a world-leading AI engine for scientific text understanding. Applied to literature reviews, data extraction, post-market surveillance or any other task involving thousands of documents like papers or patents, this engine will make your life a whole lot easier.
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
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- 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.
A technology-driven design studio. Building digital products, brands and businesses, we help ambitious companies identify, explore and respond to new opportunities.
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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 — Powerful Tools for Your Research. We have built a world-leading AI engine for scientific text understanding. Applied to literature reviews, data extraction, post-market surveillance or any other task involving thousands of documents like papers or patents, this engine will make your life a whole lot easier.
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