Best Life Sciences Tech Companies in Italy
The 46 best Life Sciences Tech companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Genespire.
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$9.6b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Life Sciences Tech companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genespire Developer of transformative gene therapies for people affected by genetic diseases | $69M | 22 mo ago | Series B | — | 2019 | WordPressPleskMySQL+11 | 13 patents Lentiviral vector design and manufacturing for gene therapy applications | — |
| 2 | Sibylla Biotech AI-powered platform for drug discovery | $25M | 46 mo ago | Series A | Lidia Pieri Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+16 | 3 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Arsenale BioYards Provider of platform for bio manufacturing with integrated hardware and software from lab to manufacturing | $10M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Niels Agerbaek Co-Founder | 2023 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | — | 1 award |
| 4 | Patch Provider of software solution for clinical trial management | $3M | 67 mo ago | Acquired | Kumara Palanivel Co-Founder & CMO | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Naicons Developer of bioactive compounds for drug-resistant bacterial infections | $3M | 63 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ermenegildo Beghe Director & CFO | Founder | 2013 | — | 23 patents Discovery, synthesis, and analytical methods for novel lantibiotic antibiotic compounds | — |
| 6 | enGenome Bioinformatics products and software for personalized medicine | $2M | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ivan Limongelli Co-Founder & CTO | 2016 | PleskNode.jsElement UI+22 | 10 patents Computational prediction of pathogenicity for digenic and oligogenic genomic variants | — |
| 7 | Polo Genomica Genetica e Biologia Provider of products and services in the field of genomics, genetics , bioinformatics, and biology | $2M | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | Greta Immobile Molaro CEO | 2010 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryElementor+32 | 8 patents Genetic variant diagnostics and anti‑CRISPR gene‑drive control for arthropod populations | — |
| 8 | Omzey Provider of diagnostics solutions to manage, and optimize genetics laboratory workflows | $2M | 44 mo ago | Seed | Giovanni Stracquadaneo Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Kode Data analysis services and software for different industries | $472K | 44 mo ago | Funding Raised | Marco Calderisi Co-Founder & Director | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+27 | — | 1 launch |
| 10 | S.A.F.A.N Bioinformatics Provider of chemoinformatic and structural bioinformatics services | $281K | 125 mo ago | Seed | — | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 11 | SoftMining Provides multiple services for computationally aided drug discovery and data mining | $199K | 45 mo ago | Funding Raised | Stefano Piotto Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | 4 patents Antimicrobial peptide therapeutics and mobile device proximity estimation/interface technologies. | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences Tech companies in Italy
#1
Series B · Milano, Umbria · founded 2019 · 10 employees$69.3Mraised▾
Developer of transformative gene therapies for people affected by genetic diseases. The company's lead product includes GENE 101 for X-linked HIGM syndrome. Other candidates include GENE 102, 201, and 202 for inherited metabolic diseases.
- Sep 2024Series B$52M
- Apr 2020Series A$17.3M
#2
Seed · Venice, Veneto · founded 2023$10Mraised▾
Provider of platform for bio manufacturing with integrated hardware and software from lab to manufacturing. It focused on building the industrial backbone of the bio economy, supporting the development of the biotechnology industry. It combines both hardware and software solutions, streamlining the process from laboratory research to scale manufacturing
- Feb 2025Seed$10M
#3
Series A · Trento, Trentino South Tyrol · founded 2017 · 14 employees$25.2Mraised▾
AI-powered platform for drug discovery. The company's approach, named "Pharmacological protein Inactivation by Folding Intermediates Targeting" (PPI-FIT), allows them to identify and develop small molecules acting on targets involved in different types of diseases. It's pipeline currently focuses on Cyclin D1 and KRAS as the main targets for oncology and inflammatory diseases.
- Oct 2022Series A$22.5M
- Oct 2019Seed$2.6M
#4
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
#5
Funding Raised · Milano, Umbria · founded 2013$2.9Mraised▾
Developer of bioactive compounds for drug-resistant bacterial infections. Thee company has proprietary platform called "micro4all," which serves as a search-and-order molecules engine accessible via an online subscription. It consists mainly of actinomycetes, the source of structurally diverse compounds with applications in human and veterinary medicine.
- May 2021Grant (prize money)$521.6K
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$314.9K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$320.7K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$310K
#6
Funding Raised · Perugia, Umbria · founded 2010$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of products and services in the field of genomics, genetics, bioinformatics, and biology. Technology platforms include Illumina HiSeq1500, AB3500 genetic Analyser, Illumina MiSeq, Illumina MiSeqDx, Protein Microarray Platform which make Polo GGB a good facility for activities of Next-Gen Sequencing, bioinformatics analysis, and immunology. It offers sequencing, bioinformatics, and immunology services including SNPs and mutation discovery, genome assembly, transcriptome profiling, short read mapping, proteomics, etc.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$12.1K
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$769.8K
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$876.3K
- Feb 2015Grant (prize money)$178.1K
#7
Funding Raised · Pavia, Lombardy · founded 2016 · 18 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Engenome offers services and software productsto molecular laboratories fully automated bioinformatics workflows and variant interpretation.
- Apr 2022Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$60.6K
#8
Acquired · Trento, Trentino South Tyrol · founded 2019 · 39 employees$3.1Mraised▾
PATCH provides an artificial intelligence-based platform for a clinical trial. It provides a virtual assistant, therapies, and visit reminders. It helps with patient adherence. It also gives a web-based platform to monitor patients' engagement with live updates. Its tools enable researchers to discover newer trial methods. The app-based platform enables data collection, patient retention, and patient engagement solutions for the clinical trial process. The virtual assistant allows users to monitor participants' data, therapy, symptoms, and other clinical information on a real-time basis.
- Jan 2021Seed$2.1M
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$28.1K
#9
Funding Raised · Pisa, Tuscany · founded 2012$471.6Kraised▾
Kode is a data analysis service provider specializing in chemoinformatics, and domain agnostic statistical analysis of data. The company leverages its expertise in mathematics, statistics and computer science to support their clients in each step of data analysis, from initial data collection to results representation, with skill sets focused on applications related to industrial process and product optimization and control and data mining. The company also develops chemoinformatics tools and software customized for clients use-case and application area, particularly QSAR/QSPR tools that can be used to predict properties of chemical compounds, using information obtained from their structure.
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$113.1K
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$240K
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$118.5K
#10
Funding Raised · Avellino, Campania · founded 2019 · 6 employees$199.3Kraised▾
SoftMining provides multiple services for computationally aided drug discovery and data mining. Its computationally aided drug discovery services help in research and drug design and development. Its application use in computational toxicology, drug design, data mining, and process optimization among others.
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$199.3K
#11
Seed · Sant Ambrogio di Torino, Piedmont · founded 2004 · 1 employees$280.6Kraised▾
Provider of chemoinformatic and structural bioinformatics services. The company offers services in In Silico Profiling, High Throughput Screening of GPCR antagonists, Small molecule binding to Zinc-binding proteins, Homology modeling of proteins, and Predictive studies of protein behavior based on protein modeling.
- Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$280.6K
- Dec 2007Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany · founded 2009$10.3Kraised▾
IT solutions and consulting services to pharmaceutical industry
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$10.3K
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How research on Biotechnology is moving in Italy
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 1,095 Italy-affiliated papers.
- University of Milan77
- University of Naples Federico II54
- University of Padua51
- University of Bologna49
- University of Bari Aldo Moro48
- Gene3→16
- Transcription (linguistics)1→7
- DNA damage3→8
- Mitochondrion1→5
- Phosphorylation1→4
- Antimicrobial1→15
- Quality (philosophy)1→15
- Antioxidant1→13
- Crop2→14
- Fermentation1→13
- Agriculture2→15
- Antibiotic resistance1→14
- Food safety2→12
- Sustainability1→8
- Livestock1→6
Where biotechnology is researched across Italy
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
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