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Top 10 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Portugal (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Portugal Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Portugal Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Portugal, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $520k–$17M
Caixa Capital
VC Fund
3 Portugal, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $108k–$12M
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Boule Diagnostics
VC Fund
1 Portugal Series A Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Pathena
VC Fund
1 Portugal, Finland, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $1.5M–$30M
Nina Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $529k–$21M
Artesian VC
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, China Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$17M
Shilling VC
VC Fund
1 Portugal, Spain, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$20M
Social Impact Fund
VC Fund
1 Spain, Portugal, United States Debt Financing, Seed Software, Education, Apps $995k–$5.7M
EISMEA
VC Fund
1 Spain, Italy, United Kingdom Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology $53k–$2.6M
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Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 3 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$3.9M; Series A $4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $138M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
  • Usawa Care — Usawa is a free digital pediatrician clinic in Portugal. Talk to pediatricians via WhatsApp and get guidance for your child's health.
  • DOJO AI — The only tool you need to grow your Brand.
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Caixa Capital
VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 3 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$3M; Pre-Seed $108k–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Growappy — Growappy is an EdTech that offers an all-in-one platform for early education that is leading a vision to unlock personalized education since nursery with the power of AI, while providing a revolutionary communication experience between schools and families and drastically simplifying bureaucracy for teachers and school owners.
  • Noxus — At Spot, we're crafting the operating system for tomorrow's workforce, harnessing AI to streamline influencer marketing. Our platform empowers agencies, businesses, and content creators to collaborate effectively and reach audiences with ease.
  • Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Portugal Life Science startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Boule Diagnostics
VC Fund · Spånga, Skane Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Boule develops, manufactures, and markets hematology analyzers for both human and veterinary markets. Read more about us here.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosurfit — At biosurfit they are working to shape the future of in-vitro diagnostic testing. They want health providers to have all the necessary information to make the best possible diagnostic and treatment decision when they are with their patients
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Pathena
VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Pathena is an investment firm engaged on boosting the success of information technology and digital biomedical companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Portugal, Finland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $74M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Promptly — Health Analytics Patient Report Outcomes, Health Care, Value based health
  • Healthplus.ai — Healthplus.ai enables surgical care professionals to be more proactive towardcs patients, care and outcome; predicting infections before they are normally diagnosed.
  • NVision Quantum Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.
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Nina Capital
VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $529k–$2.4M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $52M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Biobase — Biobase is the agentic system for clinical data, closing the gap between clinical data and better healthcare.
  • Ladder Health — Ladder Health offers virtual pediatric therapy and support for early childhood developmental delays, including speech and physical therapy.
  • Woodway Assurance — Woodway Assurance provides EviData, an AI-driven software for automated privacy assurance on de-identified and synthetic datasets.
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Artesian VC
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 640
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $42k–$553k; Venture - Series Unknown $650k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
  • TerraBlaster — TerraBlaster is a cutting-edge agricultural technology firm focused on transforming sustainable agriculture through enhanced automation and precise technologies.
  • Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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Shilling VC
VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories. Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Portugal, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Tucuvi — Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care.
  • Balance — Balance is a private digital health company based in Spain that operates in the clinics and outpatient healthcare services sector. company's core mission is to provide an integrated, medical, and sustainable approach to treating obesity and overweight conditions. Moving away from traditional restrictive diets, the company leverages asubscription-based telehealth model combined with clinical pharmacology.
  • Punto Health — AI-powered digital platform for management of Alzheimer's and other dementias.
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Social Impact Fund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

SIF provides financial support for public charities & acts as a fiscal agent for charities and foundations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Apps
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $995k–$2.5M; Debt Financing $1.4M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Irisbond — Irisbond creates a new way for humans to communicate through precision eye-tracking technology. Irisbond’s advanced software algorithms interpret your eye gaze in order to provide natural, intuitive and hands-free access to information and control over a screen. Developed for use in mobile devices, automotive, smart homes, robotics, scientific,healthcare and manufacturing, eye tracking technology lets you learn, play, work and communicate with your eyes. A pioneer in the assistive technology market, Irisbond’s eye tracking solutions are based on years of R&D in cooperation with Vicomtech, a leader in the field of artificial vision. For more information about the power of the eyes, go to www.irisbond.com/en
  • tuTECHÔ — tuTECHÔ is an innovative social enterprise born with the purpose of contributing to the eradication of homelessness in Spain.
  • Suara Cooperativa — Suara Cooperativa is a non-profit organization that provides education to children and youth and elder care services.
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EISMEA
VC Fund · 1 investments in Portugal Life Science startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3533
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$800k; Grant $54k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $573k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AGADE — Esoscheletri Agade | Il primo esoscheletro intelligente per lavoratori progettato per ridurre il rischio di disturbi muscolari delle spalle nella movimentazione manuale dei carichi.
  • BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
  • Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
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Life Science VC funding in Portugal at a glance

Stats across 19 deals from 25 investors.

25
investors
in Portugal Life Science startups
19
deals
in Portugal Life Science startups
$995k
median round
in Portugal Life Science startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
47%
Seed
most common funding stage

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