Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools Companies in Catalonia, Spain
The 37 best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Catalonia, Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SOM Biotech.
Our analysis of 50 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 68% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Catalonia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOM Biotech Developer of platform for screening compounds to treat rare diseases | $29M | 33 mo ago | Series B | Raul Insa Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | 117 patents Pharmaceutical compounds and formulations for treating dystrophinopathies, movement disorders, and PKU | — |
| 2 | Sequentia biotech Bioinformatics technologies and sevices | $11M | 23 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | WordPressPleskMySQL+24 | — | — |
| 3 | Transplant Biomedicals Organ transport devices | $4M | 116 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Flomics Provider of liquid biopsy-based diagnostics services | $2M | 30 mo ago | Seed | Joao Curado CEO | 2018 | WordPressPleskMySQL+19 | — | — |
| 5 | ZYMVOL Provider of enzyme engineering services using computational and AI-driven molecular modeling | $1M | 18 mo ago | Seed | Maria Lucas Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | Sepmag Developer of bio-magnetic separation systems | $1M | 210 mo ago | Seed | Lluis M Martinez Founder & CSO | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Genomcore Provider of a platform for personal genomic analysis | $985K | 21 mo ago | Series A | Miquel Angel Bru Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | 4 patents Secure data access and encryption protocols for sensitive information handling | — |
| 8 | Pangaea Biotech Provider of drug development and molecular diagnostics services on cancer treatment | $298K | 104 mo ago | Public | — | 2007 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 104 patents Molecular diagnostics and targeted oncology therapeutics using nucleic acids and luminescent assays | — |
| 9 | Qgenomics Provider of genomic research and diagnostics services for research purposes | $297K | 62 mo ago | Funding Raised | Lluis Armengol CEO and Scientific Director | 2008 | WordPressAwesompleteMySQL+18 | — | — |
| 10 | Paperdrop Diagnostics Provider of rapid diagnostics tests for ageing issue based on lateral flow immunoassays | $210K | 70 mo ago | Funding Raised | Angel Alonso Co-Founder & CFO | 2014 | — | 4 patents Multiplexed nucleic‑acid diagnostics and nanoparticle‑enhanced lateral‑flow assay platforms | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Catalonia
#1
Series A · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2013 · 23 employees$11.2Mraised▾
Sequentia Biotech offers services and technologies in the field of bioinformatics. Work is organised into four specialised divisions: Sequentia Green, Sequentia Health, Sequentia Research, and Sequentia Training. The offerings include bioinformatics services, NGS services along with software for data analysis. It also has custom databses such as database for Plant resistance gene database PRGdb, Variation DB etc.
- Sep 2024Series A$11.2M
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$2.1M
- 2021Grant (prize money)$61.3K
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$86.6K
#2
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2017 · 28 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of enzyme engineering services using computational and AI-driven molecular modeling. The company offers enzyme optimization and discovery to help industries implement sustainable chemistry. They utilize an AI-Physics Hybrid approach to provide molecular-level insight, reduce development time, and accelerate enzyme evolution. The company supports research and development across diverse industries.
- Feb 2025Seed$3.1M
- Jan 2024Conventional Debt$762.6K
- Feb 2023Seed$1.4M
- Mar 2022Grant (prize money)$55.7K
#3
Series A · Esplugues De Llobregat, Catalonia · founded 2015$984.7Kraised▾
Provider of a platform for personal genomic analysis. The company provides DNA sequencing services and computing services for genomic analysis. Users can obtain, analyze and manage their complete genomic sequence from the company's cloud platform.
- Dec 2024Series A$5.3M
- Oct 2022Seed$984.7K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$58.2K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$60.1K
#4
Series B · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2009 · 15 employees$28.5Mraised▾
SOM Biotech is developing therapies for rare diseases. The company has developed a proprietary ligand-based in-silico platform for virtual compound screening. The company has developed a drug pipeline that includes SOM0226 for the treatment of TTR amyloidosis (phase II) and SOM3355 for the treatment of Huntington's disease (phase II). The other products in the pipeline include compounds for the treatments for cystic fibrosis, glioblastoma, and Alzheimer's disease.
- Dec 2023Series B$18.5M
- Mar 2019Series A$7.9M
- Jan 2017Seed$2.1M
#5
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2018 · 19 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of liquid biopsy-based diagnostics services. The company offers a tailored sequencing workflow for RNA-based diagnostics using RNA liquid biopsy tests. It uses the Blood sample to obtain sequencing data to create liquid biopsies to enable the diagnosis of the patients.
- Mar 2024Seed$1.2M
- Mar 2022Seed$1.1M
#6
Series A · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2014$4.2Mraised▾
Transplant Biomedicals develops devices that help transport organs and tissues. The proprietary technology claims to reduce risk of delayed graft function, improve graft survival and use part of marginal organs that are currently discarded.
- Jan 2017Series A$2.6M
- Nov 2015Seed$1.6M
#7
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2007 · 6 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Sepmag is a developer of bio-magnetic separation systems. It provides solutions for both production-scale separations such as Sepmag Q and Sepmag N, as well as laboratory-scale separations (Sepmag LAB and Sepmag A). The systems speed up purification and separation processes by reducing the time and steps needed.
- Mar 2009Seed$1.1M
#8
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2008$297.4Kraised▾
Provider of genomics medicine and consulting services based in Barcelona, Spain. The company offers genomics research, customized gene studies, genomic medicine and genetic counseling services to clients.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$297.4K
#9
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2014$210.1Kraised▾
Paperdrop Diagnostics develops rapid diagnostics tests for diseases related to the adult age, elderly or to the aging of patients. The test is based on paper microfluidics and lateral flow immunoassays. The test is carried out by placing the single drop of patient fluid on the paper sensor and helps in the detection of the molecular and genetic biomarkers.
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$210.1K
#10
Public · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2007 · 55 employees$297.7Kraised▾
Pangaea Biotech is focussed on drug development and molecular diagnostics for cancer indications. They have their internal pipeline and they also provide services for biomarker discovery, molecular diagnostics (assays), in vitro testing, diagnostics platform validation, and central lab services for clinical trials and observational studies.
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$297.7K
#11
Acquired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2011 · 10 employees—raised▾
Developer of ready-to-use kits for in vitro ADME-Tox market segment for research services. It provides cell-based in vitro kits that have patented gel-like cell culture medium, and shipping medium, which preserves cell functionality and viability at room temperature.
#12
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2012—raised▾
Developer of technologies related to skincare purpose
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How research on Bioinformatics is moving in Spain
A read on the academic research around Bioinformatics — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,742 Spain-affiliated papers.
- Universidad Internacional De La Rioja177
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory87
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III70
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra52
- Universitat de Barcelona51
- Genome8→51
- Transcriptome2→44
- Gene10→51
- Epigenetics2→18
- Chromatin1→16
- Gene2→46
- Clinical trial1→18
- Cancer2→17
- Genome4→17
- Breast cancer1→14
- Disease1→36
- Precision medicine1→11
- Gene1→7
- Phenotype1→7
- Metagenomics1→5
Where bioinformatics is researched across Spain
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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.