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Best Life Sciences Companies in Argentina

The 62 best Life Sciences companies in Argentina in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ISLA Pharamceuticals.

62companies tracked
$30.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
14have raised
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FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · LIFE SCIENCES × ARGENTINA

Our analysis of 576 Life Sciences companies

$91.7b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

576companies analysed
70%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
13unicorns
2016median founding year
72kcombined LinkedIn audience
37%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Life Sciences companies in Argentina

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ISLA Pharamceuticals
Developer of therapies for treating mosquito borne illnesses
$12M75 mo agoSeedDavid Foster
CEO
2017———
2BioHeuris
Developer of crop traits for enhanced weed control and productivity
$7M—Series A—2016WordPressMySQLPHP+24——
3Eolo Pharma
Developer of therapies for treating inflammation-related diseases
$4M40 mo agoSeries AVirginia Lopez
Co-Founder & CCO
2017WordPressMySQLPHP+27——
4OncoPrecision
Developer of personalized assays for oncology precision therapy
$4M50 mo agoSeedTarek Ali Zaki
Co-Founder & CEO
2020—5 patents
Patient-derived tumor organoid triple‑co‑culture platforms for personalized drug screening
1 launch
5BIONIRS
Developer of NIRS based optical mammogram
$2M68 mo agoSeedPamela Pardini
CEO
2019———
6Panarum
Developer of gastroprotectans oral drug delivery device
$640K16 mo agoSeedMilena Batalla
CEO
2016———
7Kresko RNAtech
Developer of nutritional supplements based on RNA
$275K32 mo agoSeedSilvana Spinelli
Co-Founder & CEO
2021Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15—1 award
8ArgenTAG
Provider of long-read DNA sequencing technologies and services
$250K47 mo agoSeed—2018WixSentryBootstrap+22—2 partnerships
9Indear
Plant biotechnology company developing products for use in agriculture
$223K123 mo agoFunding RaisedFederico Trucco
CEO
2004———
10EntelAI
AI-based software provider for medical image analysis
$200K79 mo agoSeedMauricio Farez
Founder
—WordPressMySQLPHP+41—1 job opening

Top 12 Life Sciences companies in Argentina

#1
Seed · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province · founded 2016 · 4 employees
$640Kraised
▾

Developer of gastroprotectans oral drug delivery device. The company's product includes Proteoral a recombinant protein that transports active therapeutic protein in gastro protectants capsules in the bloodstream.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 451 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Seed—
  • Feb 2021Seed$640K
Founders & team
Milena BatallaCEO
Investors
Draper Cygnus, Village Capital, Draper Startup House
#2
Series A · Sunchales, Santa Fe Province · founded 2017 · 8 employees
$4.5Mraised
▾

Eolo Pharma is developing therapies for treating inflammation-related diseases (autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases). Their lead candidate, EOLO3, which is used to treat metabolic syndrome. The candidate is in phase I clinical trial. The other candidates are in the preclinical stage.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Series A$1.8M
  • Dec 2019Series A$2.7M
  • Seed—
Founders & team
Virginia LopezCo-Founder & CCOPia GaratCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
CITES
Tech stack
BootstrapChart.JsCore-JsElementorFont AwesomeGoogle Font Api
#3
Seed · Cordoba, Cordoba · founded 2020 · 29 employees
$4.2Mraised
▾

Developer of personalized assays for oncology precision therapy, The company has drug activity and resistance tests based on flow cytometry and patient-derived cells to test the tumorous cells with drugs and drug combinations.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 6.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. AVS Bio) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Seed$3.3M
  • Mar 2021Seed$250K
Founders & team
Tarek Ali ZakiCo-Founder & CEOCandelaria RiosCo-FounderGerardo GattiCo-Founder
Investors
IndieBio, SOSV, GridX, New York State, Creative Ventures, Fpmlab
#4
Seed · Puerto Rico, Misiones Province · founded 2017
$11.7Mraised
▾

ISLA Pharmaceuticals is developing therapies for treating mosquito-borne illnesses. The lead candidate of the company, ISLA101, which is used for treating dengue infection and other mosquito-borne illnesses. The candidate has completed the preclinical studies and ready for phase I clinical trial.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2020Seed$562.9K
  • Feb 2019Seed$11.1M
Founders & team
David FosterCEO
Investors
KESA Partners
#5
Seed · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province · founded 2021 · 7 employees
$275Kraised
▾

Developer of nutritional supplements based on RNA. It offers a machine learning and bioinformatics technology to identify RNAs in natural sources, such as medicinal herbs and superfoods. It offers RiboLATTE a revitalizing supplement based on regulatory RNAs present in breast milk to stimulate growth and development, regenerate tissue and restore homeostasis.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. NVIDIA Inception Program) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2023Seed$275K
  • May 2023Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Silvana SpinelliCo-Founder & CEOCarla EtichettiCo-Founder
Investors
IndieBio, MassChallenge
Tech stack
AngularCart FunctionalityCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiHostinger
#6
Series A · Rosario, Santa Fe Province · founded 2016 · 1 employees
$7.1Mraised
▾

Developer of crop traits for enhanced weed control and productivity. The company focuses on non-GMO solutions to improve farming practices. It utilizes platforms that integrate biotechnological precision with agronomic relevance. The goal is to support climate-smart agriculture and reduce the emergence of resistant weeds.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 12.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Series A$7.1M
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerFramer SitesGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceHstsHttp/3
#7
Seed · Argentina · founded 2019 · 3 employees
$1.8Mraised
▾

Developer of NIRS based optical mammogram. The company has developed a medical imaging system called MamoRef which is an optical mammogram that uses diffuse reflectance geometry using infrared light. The device is a stretcher with a measuring system placed below the chest region for noncompression of the breast. It offers lasers in the NIR zone, a CCD camera, and a galvanometric scanner that allows the laser beam to be directed over the breasts for diagnosing breast tumors.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Seed$1.8M
Founders & team
Pamela PardiniCEO
Investors
CITES
#8
Seed · Rosario, Santa Fe Province · founded 2018 · 8 employees
$250Kraised
▾

Operator of a digital platform intended to decentralize next-generation genome sequencing. The company's platform makes synthetic DNA barcodes for sequencing thousands of samples simultaneously, enabling customers to set the quality of service for the barcoding problem at hand in terms the admissible crosstalk error.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 7.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Oxford Nanopore Technologies) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Seed$250K
Investors
IndieBio, Next Sequence, Draper Cygnus, SOSV
Tech stack
BootstrapCalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#9
Seed · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province · 10 employees
$200Kraised
▾

EntelAI is a company that provides AI-based software for medical image analysis. The software has features like AI platform, exclusive community, accuracy, and others. The medical analysis helps in the early detection of diseases for better patient care.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Full Stack Developer
Founders & team
Mauricio FarezFounder
Investors
Start-Up Chile, Alaya Capital Partners
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareCore-JsElementorFont Awesome
#10
Funding Raised · Rosario, Santa Fe Province · founded 2004
$222.5Kraised
▾

Plant biotechnology company developing products for use in agriculture. It is engaged in research and development for producing compounds for the agriculture and bioenergy sector using genetically engineered organisms, design and construction of binary vectors for plant transformation, identification of genes of interest and regulatory sequences with the aim of generating new targeted technologies for developing improved plants, engineering plants as bioreactors for producing industrial compounds, developing hybrids of wheat, soybean, maize and alfalfa crops using advanced breeding technology, and production of recombinant enzymes expressed in safflower seeds. It also provides next generation sequencing services for metagenomics and microbial biodiversity analysis, clinical research, molecular markers, transcriptomic, epigenomics, and others .

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$222.5K
Founders & team
Federico TruccoCEO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpCloudflareHttp/3
#11
Funding Raised · Puerto Rico, Misiones Province · founded 2017 · 2 employees
$40Kraised
▾

TextualMind offers a cloud-based platform for pharma and medical device manufacturing companies for checking regulatory compliance. The company can upload the company policies, procedures, work instructions, standard operating procedures, and quality records to the platform to analyze, review and categorize the documents. The platform uses AI to generate a risk rating, regulatory and process report of prioritized findings and actionable recommendations.

Funding rounds
  • 2017Grant (prize money)$40K
Founders & team
Gunther CostasCo-Founder & CEODaisy CiuroCo-Founder
Investors
Parallel18
#12
Funding Raised · Cordoba, Cordoba · founded 2016
$33Kraised
▾

Provider of cephalometric analysis platform. The software is used in the field of orthodontics and helps in creating multiple cephalograms from radiographs. The platform can also provide cephalograms by performing a tracing profile from the printed X-ray.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$33K
Founders & team
Sebastian Salgado CostaCo-Founder & CEOCindea PepinoFounder
Investors
Start-Up Chile, Incutex
Tech stack
AngularjsApache Http ServerAstraBootstrapCdnjsCloudflare

Funding & investor landscape

$30.9Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
14disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
CITES8 rounds
MassChallenge4 rounds
IndieBio3 rounds
Alaya Capital Partners2 rounds
Draper Cygnus2 rounds
SOSV2 rounds
Start-Up Chile2 rounds
Startup OLE2 rounds
Village Capital2 rounds
Berkeley SkyDeck1 rounds

Notable founders

Milena Batalla
CEO · Panarum
Virginia Lopez
Co-Founder & CCO · Eolo Pharma
Pia Garat
Co-Founder & CEO · Eolo Pharma
Tarek Ali Zaki
Co-Founder & CEO · OncoPrecision
Candelaria Rios
Co-Founder · OncoPrecision
David Foster
CEO · ISLA Pharamceuticals
Silvana Spinelli
Co-Founder & CEO · Kresko RNAtech
Carla Etichetti
Co-Founder · Kresko RNAtech
Pamela Pardini
CEO · BIONIRS
Mauricio Farez
Founder · EntelAI
Federico Trucco
CEO · Indear
Gunther Costas
Co-Founder & CEO · TextuaMind
Prism market signals · Argentina · country-scoped Prism corpus, 461,371 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Life Sciences coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Argentina

How research on Biotechnology is moving in Argentina

A read on the academic research around Biotechnology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 198 Argentina-affiliated papers.

top research entities
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas35
  • University of Palermo17
  • Fundación Ciencias Exactas y Naturales16
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires15
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata12
leading researchers
Linlin Huang · Davide Farruggia · Giuseppe Di Miceli · E. Elizabeth Tymczyszyn · Bárbara M. Bravo‐Ferrada · Natalia S. Brizuela · María del Pilar Zarazaga · Augusto Matías Lorenzutti
▲ Breakthroughs27 · 14%
▲ 0%→14% share
0 median citations93% since 2021mostly empirical
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→14% of field), led by Gene.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Gene5
  • Arabidopsis2
  • Ribosome2
  • Gene expression2
  • Polymerase chain reaction2
Newly emergingGene 0→5
Landmark Profiling translatomes of discrete cell populations resolves altered cellular priorities during hypoxia in Arabidopsi · 639 cites
◆ Advancements81 · 41%
▲ 0%→43% share
0 median citations98% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→43% of field), led by Fermentation.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Fermentation7
  • Biomass (ecology)5
  • Antimicrobial5
  • Bacteria5
  • Extraction (chemistry)5
Newly emergingFermentation 0→7 · Biomass (ecology) 0→5 · Antimicrobial 0→5
Landmark Effect of Bioactive Glasses on Angiogenesis: A Review of In Vitro and In Vivo Evidences · 611 cites
▼ Concerns34 · 17%
▲ 0%→17% share
0 median citations91% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→17% of field), led by Livestock.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Livestock4
  • Field (mathematics)3
  • Context (archaeology)3
  • Antimicrobial2
  • Cultivar2
Landmark Laccases: structure, function, and potential application in water bioremediation · 498 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Argentina

Where biotechnology is researched across Argentina

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Buenos Aires60 · +0.33
Hot · Medicinal plantsOpportunity · Traditional knowledge
La Plata24 · +0.38
Opportunity · Food industry
Córdoba19 · +0.25
Hot · Medicinal plantsAdvancing · CropOpportunity · Antimicrobial
Rosario10 · +0.19
Opportunity · Gene
Santa Fe9 · +0.43
Opportunity · Fermentation
San Juan9 · +0.14
Mendoza8 · +0.15
Tucumán7 · +0.51
Mar del Plata6 · +0.30
Opportunity · Zea mays

Common questions

How many Life Sciences companies are there in Argentina?
Radar tracks 62 indexable Life Sciences companies headquartered in Argentina that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Life Sciences companies in Argentina?
The Life Sciences companies in Argentina on this list have raised a combined $30.9M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Life Sciences company in Argentina?
ISLA Pharamceuticals is the highest-funded Life Sciences company in Argentina, with $11.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Life Sciences companies in Argentina are funded?
12 of the 62 Life Sciences companies in Argentina on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Life Sciences unicorns are there in Argentina?
None of the Life Sciences companies in Argentina on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Argentina Life Sciences companies?
The most active investors in Argentina Life Sciences companies on this list include CITES, MassChallenge, IndieBio, Alaya Capital Partners, Draper Cygnus.
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