Bionova Capital

Bionova Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage and growth-stage companies within the healthcare, biotechnology, therapeutics, medical technology, and digital health sectors. Bionova Capital focuses primarily on European startups, aiming to support innovative solutions in life sciences. The firm typically invests between €200,000 and €1,000,000 per project, often taking minority stakes in the companies it supports. Founded by shareholders of Hovione, a leading pharmaceutical company, Bionova Capital leverages its industry expertise to identify and nurture groundbreaking ventures in the healthcare landscape.

Gonçalo Rebelo de Andrade

Managing Director

Villax, Peter

Chairman

9 past transactions

Delox

Seed Round in 2022
Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic bio-decontamination robots. Delox developed DeloxHP, a solid formulation that safely stores and easily releases highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide vapor, which enables the development of simple, compact, cost-effective, and easy to set up bio-decontamination devices such as the Delox Box, Delox's ready-to-market solution. DeloxHP cartridges simplify and ensure the safe and convenient handling and transportation of hydrogen peroxide. Delox's target applications are laboratory equipment and environmental test chambers bio-decontamination, sterilization of medical devices, and room bio-decontamination in hospitals, pharma, and food industry.

SolasCure

Series A in 2021
SolasCure is a biotechnology / biopharma company developing a breakthrough in wound bed preparation for patients with chronic wounds

Adapttech

Venture Round in 2021
Adapttech is a biomedical company that creates innovative, smart, and wearable technologies to assist people with physical disabilities in improving their quality of life. It aims to provide clinicians with better socket fitting and monitoring methods in order to improve the quality of life for people who have lost a lower limb.

CellmAbs

Seed Round in 2019
CellmAbs is a NOVA University of Lisbon spin-off company that was founded in 2019 with the funding of two of Portugal's top Life Science Venture Capital firms. CellmAbs is a rapidly expanding biotech firm with an international, experienced team that has developed multiple preclinical candidates targeting solid tumors based on a world-class understanding of cancer-specific glycan targets.v

SolasCure

Seed Round in 2018
SolasCure is a biotechnology / biopharma company developing a breakthrough in wound bed preparation for patients with chronic wounds

Delox

Seed Round in 2018
Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic bio-decontamination robots. Delox developed DeloxHP, a solid formulation that safely stores and easily releases highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide vapor, which enables the development of simple, compact, cost-effective, and easy to set up bio-decontamination devices such as the Delox Box, Delox's ready-to-market solution. DeloxHP cartridges simplify and ensure the safe and convenient handling and transportation of hydrogen peroxide. Delox's target applications are laboratory equipment and environmental test chambers bio-decontamination, sterilization of medical devices, and room bio-decontamination in hospitals, pharma, and food industry.

Adapttech

Seed Round in 2016
Adapttech is a biomedical company that creates innovative, smart, and wearable technologies to assist people with physical disabilities in improving their quality of life. It aims to provide clinicians with better socket fitting and monitoring methods in order to improve the quality of life for people who have lost a lower limb.

Anybrain

Seed Round in 2015
Anybrain is a artificial intelligence and data processing firm.

Performetric

Seed Round in 2015
Performetric is a real-time monitoring system that allows the management of mental fatigue in a non-invasive way that aims to develop leisure and work context-aware environments that may improve the quality of life, wellness, mental health and individual performance. Moreover, it also aims to support a better management of the employees and their work time. This translates into a positive impact in the organization’s productivity and an increased quality of life and better health of the employees.
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