Best Life Sciences Companies in Rome, Italy
The 31 best Life Sciences companies in Rome, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ador Diagnostics.
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.
Ranked: Best Life Sciences companies in Rome
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aenduo Smart device which enables physician to offer remote monitoring services to their patients | — | — | Unfunded | Michelangelo Smeriglio Co Founder - VP Insurance | 18 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Alba Developer of oncological hyperthermia system | — | — | Unfunded | Giuseppe Notarangelo CEO | — | — | 11 patents Air purification, sanitization, and high‑pressure water‑jet coupling systems for cleaning equipment | — |
| 3 | Cieffe Derma Provider of dermatological and specialist medicine products for various skin conditions | — | — | Acquired | — | 22 | Cart FunctionalityPrestaShopMySQL+19 | — | — |
| 4 | CrestOptics Manufacturer of microscopy devices for multiple diagnostic applications | — | — | Acquired | Franco Fazioli Founder | 42 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 33 patents Advanced super-resolution and confocal optical microscopy technologies for biomedical imaging | — |
| 5 | Crisel Instruments Portfolio of custom made optical and electro-optical equipment | — | — | Unfunded | Giancarlo Penco CEO | 12 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 6 | cryolab CryoLab is a biotechnology and cryobiology development center that offers transport and maintenance services… | — | — | Acquired | — | 4 | PlonePythonMicrosoft Advertising+6 | — | — |
| 7 | D-Tails Company that specializes in researching disruptive technologies for early diagnosis of alzheimer's disease… | — | — | Funding Raised | Vincenzo Ricco Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | EVVIVAX Developer of nucleic-acid-based immunotherapies | — | — | Unfunded | Luigi Aurisicchio CEO | — | — | 8 patents Telomerase-based cancer vaccines and amplicon vector vaccine platforms for immunotherapy | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences companies in Rome
#1
Series A · Rome, Lazio · founded 2015$3.5Mraised▾
Ador Diagnostics develops and manufactures IVD solutions for point of care deployments such as physician's offices, remote or low resource settings, and small to medium-sized labs. The company is developing rapid, nucleic acid-based tests for hospital-infections, infectious disease panels such as meningitis, tuberculosis, etc. and for screening of international travellers at ports of entry all based on their proprietary NAT platform - NATLab.
- Oct 2023Series A$3.5M
#2
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2019$549.1Kraised▾
Developer of smart sensors for various biomedical and environmental applications. The company offer a range of products including sensors prototypes, polyester-based SPE, bare SPE, carbon black modified SPE, gold SPE, SPE for chlorides in milk, and office paper-based SPE. It has applications for biomedical, materials, environmental, and defense fields.
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$351.3K
- Feb 2024Seed$549.1K
#3
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2017$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of diagnostics solutions to manage, and optimize genetics laboratory workflows. The company's product, JuliaOmix, cloud solution to support the complexity of genetics laboratory process that spans the genomic analysis cycle, from request to report, and clinical decision support.
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$121.7K
- Feb 2022Seed$1.2M
- Jul 2018Seed$337K
- Jun 2018Seed$90K
#4
Funding Raised · Rome, Rome · founded 2010$1.9Mraised▾
Developer of medical device for analyzing brain bio signals. The company offers Mindtooth EEG headset based on water-based technology for the evaluation of neurometrics, analysis of brain and other bio signals.
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$900.6K
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$126.5K
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$393.9K
#5
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2017 · 13 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of genomic DNA tests for assessing predisposition to diseases & personalized nutrition. It offers a DNA test kit that is based on swab-based saliva sampling & provides online reports & nutritional plans. It has developed the platform for the COVID-19 HG Initiative to collect clinical data from hospitalized patients. It allows the computation of polygenic risk scores based on genetic variants.
- Mar 2021Seed$1.8M
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Mar 2018Seed$61.7K
#6
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2017 · 9 employees$696Kraised▾
Manufacturer of sports and nutritional supplements. The company develops sports and herbal supplements for health & wellness and pet care. The brand portfolio of the company includes T-Rex Integratori, Nutracle, and Suprapet.
- Oct 2021Seed$696K
#7
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2010$619.2Kraised▾
Developer of therapeutic agents for the treatment of oncology indications. The company focuses on the development of antibody and drug conjugate technologies, including a cancer stem cell platform, drug conjugate technology, and antibody ID technology for cancer indications.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$307.3K
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$312K
#8
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2002$577.6Kraised▾
Developer of products for skin reconstruction, tissue repair, and veterinary care. The products are designed to promote wound healing, reduce inflammation, and stimulate the body's natural healing processes. It performs a mechanical anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and antibacterial action, for the progress of the repair processes.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$577.6K
#9
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2009$348Kraised▾
Provider of preclinical research services, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and recombinant proteins. The company offers research and development services in biotechnology and biomedicine. It manufactures customized plasmid DNA and mRNA. The company provides preclinical models to support therapeutic development. It produces high-affinity monoclonal antibodies and offers protein production services. The company operates specialized modules for handling pathogens and a facility for producing nucleic acids.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$292.6K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.4K
#10
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2017 · 6 employees$110.5Kraised▾
Mr. Doc has developed an app is used for the detection of disease conditions and coordinate with a physician. The user has to hold the finger on the smartphone camera to trace the PPG to detect several heart conditions, glycemia, and Parkinson's disease.
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$55.1K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.4K
#11
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2014$60Kraised▾
ICan Robotics develops robotic rehabilitation units for people with reduced limb movements or control of the limbs. The upper limb and lower limb rehab units are named Motus and Lenar respectively. The robot is similar to an exoskeleton and replicate the structure of the limbs. The robot is unique, in the sense, it has no joints that have to be accurately aligned with the joints of the patient. This significantly reduces the down time needed for set up of the robot.
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$60K
#12
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2009—raised▾
Developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines against tumor antigens
Funding & investor landscape
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How research on Biotechnology in Rome is moving
A read on the academic research around Biotechnology in Rome — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 58 papers.
- Sapienza University of Rome36
- University of Rome Tor Vergata12
- San Raffaele University of Rome9
- Promega4
- Agricultural Research Institute Kromeriz1
- Chromatin2
- Histone2
- cccDNA2
- Minichromosome2
- Cytotoxic T cell1
- Cell3
- Polyphenol3
- Apoptosis2
- Crop2
- Novel food2
- Gene2
- Tigecycline1
- Context (archaeology)1
- Antibiotic resistance1
- Resistance (ecology)1
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