Alta Life Sciences

Alta Life Sciences is a leading multistage venture capital investment firm. Alta LS will invest in companies at all stages of development: from seed financing through commercial growth. Alta LS invests in all areas of life sciences including biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, genomics and digital health.

Jose-Maria Fernandez

Managing Partner

José Antonio Mesa

Partner

Montserrat Vendrell

General Partner

14 past transactions

Peptomyc

Venture Round in 2022
Peptomyc is a company focused on the development of a new generation of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) targeting the Myc oncoprotein for cancer treatment. The company was founded in December 2014 and it is based on Dr. Soucek’s scientific research in Omomyc (the best direct Myc inhibitor known to date) over the last twenty years. Currently, cancer incidence in the world exceeds 14 million cases per year and results in 8 million deaths annually. Moreover, such numbers are forecast to rise by 75% over the next 20 years (World Cancer Report. International Agency for Research on Cancer 2014). At the moment, standard therapies include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and, in a restricted subset of cancers, precision medicine. Unfortunately, very often these therapies fail, due to the development of resistance. Peptomyc has adopted a different strategy based on the inhibition of the oncoprotein Myc, which is found deregulated in the majority of human cancers. Myc holds a non-redundant function in cancer around which tumors cannot evolve, hence targeting Myc is the most promising therapeutic opportunity to date. Although Myc plays a central role in cancer there is currently no Myc inhibitor in the market.

Mediktor

Venture Round in 2021
Mediktor is the most advanced and accurate expert system for pre-diagnoses, triage and decision-making support. The first artificial intelligent system clinically validated that is transforming healthcare for everyone. A technology that finally makes it possible to reduce access barriers to healthcare: - Patients can make better decisions from the first symptoms - And the healthcare system can organize its demand and optimize resources to offer a better medical coverage.

Binx Health

Series E in 2021
Binx Health is committed to broadening convenient and equitable access to healthcare. The company's point-of-care diagnostic solutions empower its partners to overcome traditional barriers to care, extend their outreach, and deliver exceptional patient experiences. The binx io point-of-care molecular platform marks a significant milestone as the first FDA-cleared, CLIA-waived system for detecting chlamydia and gonorrhea in both males (urine) and females (vaginal swabs). It delivers results comparable to those of central lab performance, typically within about thirty minutes.

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics

Series A in 2021
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics is pioneering real time precision neurology with the world’s first graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) therapeutics platform. Our technology combines precise BCI decoding with micrometric modulation to deliver adaptive, personalized treatments for conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and stroke rehabilitation. By providing continuous real-time monitoring and autonomous therapy adjustments, our AI-driven platform maximizes therapeutic outcomes while minimizing side effects. Through strategic collaborations, including with Merck KGAa and our subsidiary INNERVIA Bioelectronics, we are extending our innovative solutions to peripheral nerve and systemic disease applications, unlocking the potential of neurotechnology and bioelectronics. For more information, visit www.inbrain-neuroelectronics.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Inbiomotion

Venture Round in 2021
Inbiomotion is focused on the development and commercialization of a biomarker that predicts metastasis to improve patients' quality of life by personalizing the adjuvant treatment of early stage breast cancer. Founded in 2010 by Dr. Roger Gomis, it is a spin-off of IRB Barcelona and ICREA research institutions. Inbiomotion's unique diagnostic assay is based on a highly selective single gene biomarker. Data generated thus far suggests such biomarker can identify early stage breast cancer patients that will benefit from bisphosphonate adjuvant treatment improving their overall and invasive disease free survival. It can further predict at an early stage a patient's risk of metastases relapse from primary tumors. The selectivity of the lead biomarker has the potential to advance the clinical standard of care using personalized medicine.

Peptomyc

Venture Round in 2020
Peptomyc is a company focused on the development of a new generation of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) targeting the Myc oncoprotein for cancer treatment. The company was founded in December 2014 and it is based on Dr. Soucek’s scientific research in Omomyc (the best direct Myc inhibitor known to date) over the last twenty years. Currently, cancer incidence in the world exceeds 14 million cases per year and results in 8 million deaths annually. Moreover, such numbers are forecast to rise by 75% over the next 20 years (World Cancer Report. International Agency for Research on Cancer 2014). At the moment, standard therapies include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and, in a restricted subset of cancers, precision medicine. Unfortunately, very often these therapies fail, due to the development of resistance. Peptomyc has adopted a different strategy based on the inhibition of the oncoprotein Myc, which is found deregulated in the majority of human cancers. Myc holds a non-redundant function in cancer around which tumors cannot evolve, hence targeting Myc is the most promising therapeutic opportunity to date. Although Myc plays a central role in cancer there is currently no Myc inhibitor in the market.

DeepUll

Series A in 2020
DeepUll is a biotech company that focuses its activity on the development of a new diagnostic system for early-stage sepsis condition. DeepUll’s proposal is based on quickly identifying the pathogens and offering the antibiogram within a few hours on the one hand, and on using the data and learning about the patient’s immunological and functional status on the other. The system allows doctors to predict the future appearance and evolution of sepsis within a short period of time and thus provide a suitable clinical response even before the symptoms arise.

Ona Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Ona Therapeutics is a biotech company that specializes in the discovery and development of therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. Founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Valerie Vanhooren, it was a spin-off from ICREA and Advanced Studies, and the IRB Institute for Research in Biomedicine.

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics

Seed Round in 2020
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics is pioneering real time precision neurology with the world’s first graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) therapeutics platform. Our technology combines precise BCI decoding with micrometric modulation to deliver adaptive, personalized treatments for conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and stroke rehabilitation. By providing continuous real-time monitoring and autonomous therapy adjustments, our AI-driven platform maximizes therapeutic outcomes while minimizing side effects. Through strategic collaborations, including with Merck KGAa and our subsidiary INNERVIA Bioelectronics, we are extending our innovative solutions to peripheral nerve and systemic disease applications, unlocking the potential of neurotechnology and bioelectronics. For more information, visit www.inbrain-neuroelectronics.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Accure Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Accure Therapeutics is a private pharma R&D engine at clinical stage in the CNS field.

SANIFIT

Series D in 2019
SANIFIT is a biotechnology company that develops treatments for patients with calcification disorders.

Mediktor

Series A in 2018
Mediktor is the most advanced and accurate expert system for pre-diagnoses, triage and decision-making support. The first artificial intelligent system clinically validated that is transforming healthcare for everyone. A technology that finally makes it possible to reduce access barriers to healthcare: - Patients can make better decisions from the first symptoms - And the healthcare system can organize its demand and optimize resources to offer a better medical coverage.

Bionure

Series A in 2018
Bionure is a late-preclinical company focused at developing First-in-Class SGK agonists for the treatment of rare ophthalmology diseases.

Peptomyc

Series A in 2017
Peptomyc is a company focused on the development of a new generation of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) targeting the Myc oncoprotein for cancer treatment. The company was founded in December 2014 and it is based on Dr. Soucek’s scientific research in Omomyc (the best direct Myc inhibitor known to date) over the last twenty years. Currently, cancer incidence in the world exceeds 14 million cases per year and results in 8 million deaths annually. Moreover, such numbers are forecast to rise by 75% over the next 20 years (World Cancer Report. International Agency for Research on Cancer 2014). At the moment, standard therapies include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and, in a restricted subset of cancers, precision medicine. Unfortunately, very often these therapies fail, due to the development of resistance. Peptomyc has adopted a different strategy based on the inhibition of the oncoprotein Myc, which is found deregulated in the majority of human cancers. Myc holds a non-redundant function in cancer around which tumors cannot evolve, hence targeting Myc is the most promising therapeutic opportunity to date. Although Myc plays a central role in cancer there is currently no Myc inhibitor in the market.
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