# Top 50 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Middle East in October 2023

## Pontifax
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm.The fund focuses on innovative bio-pharma opportunities.

## Trendlines Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Misgav, HaZafon, Israel
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Trendlines Group invents, discovers, invests in, and incubates innovation-based medical and agrifood technologies. Trendlines invests principally through medical and agrifood incubators in Israel and in Singapore, its in-house innovation center, Trendlines Labs, and its Funds - the Trendlines Agrifood Fund and the Bayer Trendlines Ag InnovationFund.The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Misgav, Israel.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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## Israel Innovation Authority
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

## OrbiMed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.

## Docor International Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

Docor International B.V. is a fully-owned subsidiary of Crecor B.V. Both Docor and Crecor were formed as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Van Leer Group Foundation to promote and participate in commercial activities in Israel.

## Arkin Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device

Arkin Holdings is dedicated to empowering companies that create breakthrough pharma, biotech, medical device, and digital health technologies. Our synergistic healthcare investments are focused on creating innovations that benefit humanity and enhance medical care. We offer extensive experience, with a track record of successful healthcareinvestments. Experts in the dynamic world of healthcare development, we provide the know-how and close accompaniment that helps our portfolio investments achieve substantial value and growth. Arkin Holdings currently has a healthcare portfolio of $1.5 billion through its 5 investment arms. Its investors include a substantial amount of Israel’s top-tier institutional investors.

## HBL Hadasit Bio Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. ("HBL") was founded and floated on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE : HDST ) and recently on the OTC (OTCBB : HADSY ) in order to allow public participation in the highly promising field of biotechnology.It serves as a precedent in biotech financing - for the first time, public investment is allowed toparticipate in a holding entity including companies based on IP generated by Israel’s foremost medical research center – Hadassah University Hospital ("HU").In addition to the public holdings (54%) – including major Israeli institutional investors, HBL is held by Hadasit (www.hadasit.co.il) (36%) and Consensus Business Group (http://www.consensusbusiness.com) (10%). The traded stock, as a unique investment vehicle, provides investment exposure to a select cluster of 6 biotech companies - all based on inventions developed and owned by HU.HBL is a publicly traded subsidiary of Hadasit Ltd. – the technology transfer company of the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Hadasit was established for the purpose of promoting and commercializing the intellectual property (IP) and R&D capabilities generated by Hadassah, aimed at finding solutions to problems faced by modern medicine.

## TRANGELS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing

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## aMoon Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

aMoon is a leading healthtech & life sciences venture capital firm.

## ZORA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Internet

Impact investing in Israeli technology. ZORA is an impact investing fund investing in early-stage Israeli companies solving global challenges in health, education, economic inclusion and the environment.

## Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Healthcare innovation wherever it originates.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel.

## Integra Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wallisellen, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series F
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Life Science

Our expert team is the first to examine and evaluate the Hebrew University's biomedical breakthroughs. We then capitalize decades of experience - transforming the inventions into pioneering companies.  
Our golden eggs    
Ayana Pharma
A late stage company with

## Accelmed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aventura, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series D, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Accelmed is a venture capital firm that funds private and public medical device companies with significant market potential and proven clinical data.Concentrating on medical device companies that have already reached the revenue stage enables the firm to assist companies in benefiting from its managerial capabilities and financial resources.Together with the management teams of their portfolio companies, the Accelmed can steer the way from the clinical-stage to a profitable business with a clear commercial plan, thereby accelerating the path to a successful exit.In 2009, Mori Arkin and Uri Geiger, the co-founders of Accelmed, established the firm in Herzliya, Tel Aviv.

## Egypt Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: El Cairo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators.
The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.

## Diffusion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

## Takeda Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Takeda Ventures, Inc. (TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC). TVI was founded in 2001 and invests in current and future areas of interest for TPC. They are based alongside Takeda’s R&D sites in Cambridge, MA, and San Diego, CA. As a strategic investor, TVI aims to provide support and guidance toentrepreneurs and early-stage companies driving concepts through clinical proof of concept. They also strive to forge active, collaborative interactions that result in synergies with Takeda's considerable R&D resources. Their goal is to build a portfolio of strategic investments, with an immediate emphasis on oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

## Clal Biotechnology Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Clal Biotechnology Industries is a leading Israeli life sciences investment company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: CBI)

## ACT Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing

Early stage deep tech investor

## Binder & Partners Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Binder & Partners Ventures is the investments' capital arm of Binder & Partners multi-family office. The ambition of BPV is to connect our investors with the most promising startup companies.

## Office of the Chief Scientist
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Hardware

The Office of the Chief Scientist [OCS] in the Ministry of Economy is charged with execution of government policy for support of industrial R&D. The goal of the OCS is to assist in the development of technology in Israel as a means of fostering economic growth, encouraging technological innovation and entrepreneurship, leveraging Israel’sscientific potential, enhancing the knowledge base of industry in Israel, stimulating high value-added R&D and encouraging R&D collaboration both nationally and internationally. A variety of ongoing support programs developed and offered by the OCS play a major role in enabling Israel to be a key center for high tech entrepreneurship.

## FutuRx
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ness Ziona, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

FutuRx is the Israeli biotechnology accelerator that was established in 2014 by OrbiMed Israel Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and Takeda Ventures Inc. following winning the tender of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), Ministry of Economy, in Israel.The incubator willadvance new biotechnology products by identifying and nurturing early-stage life science innovation.FutuRx is located in the Weizmann Science Park in Ness Ziona (near the Weizmann Institute), Israel.

## Triventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.

## SciSparc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Giv'atayim, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Pharmaceutical, Cannabis, Biopharma

SciSparc Ltd. is a specialty clinical-stage pharmaceutical company led by an experienced team of senior executives and scientists. Our focus is creating and enhancing a portfolio of technologies and assets based on cannabinoid pharmaceuticals. With this focus, the company is currently engaged in the following drug development programs based ontetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and/or non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD): THX-110 for the treatment of Tourette syndrome and for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea; THX-160 for the treatment of pain; and THX-210 for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy.

## S2G Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology

S2G Ventures is is a multi-stage venture fund investing in food and agriculture.  We're harnessing the power of food innovation to create better outcomes for people and the planet.

## Welltech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Health Care, Biotechnology

Welltech Ventures is Israel’s leading fund focused exclusively on investing in the health and wellness space. We seek to partner with entrepreneurs who epitomize the Startup Nation’s ethos and are building paradigm-shattering companies that are making an impact in the wellness space. As thought leaders we work with global investors focused onaccessing and investing in the Israeli tech ecosystem’s most promising entrepreneurs.

## Pitango VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

## Sapir Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning

Early Stage VC

## Ziegler Meditech Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series C, Series E, Series F
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile

ZMEP is a limited partnership focusing on equity and equity-like investments in emerging medical device technologies. ZMEP invests globally drawing on the years of investing experience of its management team. With over 50 years of experience in medical device development and commercialization, the ZMEP management team has the ability to seek outand partner with leading entrepreneurs in the medical device field. With offices in the United States and Israel, ZMEP is positioned globally to partner with middle to late stage medical device companies showing great promise for success through commercialization.

## Neo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

## Millenium Food-Tech
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Agriculture

Millennium Food-Tech is an R&D partnership traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that specializes in investment in and betterment of companies in food-tech sectors,. Millennium seeks to invest in companies that specialize in identifying and developing innovative, and transformative ideas in the food, drinks, and nutrition industry. Millenniumhas experienced management, proven solutions, and a supportive network to develop ideas and start-ups from early-stage to maturity to exit.

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## NFX Bio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Medical

NFX Bio is a fund initiative that seeks to invest in scientist-founders at the seed stage with a technology platform approach.Led by Omri Amirav Drory, a venture partner with NFX, who founded Genome Compiler, it helps scientists learn to be founders and guides biology companies with information technology to be a critical distinction with massiveimplications.

## Ocean Azul Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We are an early stage venture capital fund passionate about helping entrepreneurs bring innovative solutions to market.

## Flerie Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Flerie is an active long-term life science investor, focusing on biotech and pharmaceutical investments globally.

## Elron Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Elron Ventures is an early-stage investor committed to turning promising ideas into global industry leaders, with a proven track record of investments and successful M&As worldwide. Elron invests in cyber security and B2B software. Since its establishment in 1962, Elron stands on the forefront of Israeli innovation both as a founder and earlyinvestor in companies across various industries such as Elbit, Medingo, Given Imaging, Cloudyn, Cyber Secdo, and Alcide.

## M Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.

## Tal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

TAL Ventures (TAL) is an Israel based Venture Capital group with deep ties to the Israel high-tech ecosystem.

## DSM Venturing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Heerlen, Limburg, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

DSM Venturing provides start-up funding, coaching and support for start-up companies that share our purpose of creating brighter lives for all.

## Jerusalem Global Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

Since the firm was founded in 1994, Jerusalem Global's goal has been to support private Israeli technology initiatives and to generate superior returns to investors. Over the last two decades, the partners of Jerusalem Global Ventures have developed strong ties with the top Israeli entrepreneurs and visionaries enabling JGV to invest in thebest of Israel's entrepreneurs and help their portfolio companies build winning management teams.

## Nevateam Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, SaaS, Farming

NevaTeam Partners is an Agri-Food Tech ESG Impact driven Fund with world-class knowledge and expertise that specializes in identifying and investing in cutting-edge companies and technologies, contributing to the streamlining and increase in world food production in a sustainable way.

## HackCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system

## HIMAngel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments.
HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.

## Aurum Ventures MKI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical Device, Information Technology

Morris Kahn bussiness in Aurum Ventures MKI and The Kahn Foundation an independent private philanthropic foundation.

## Cairo Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

## Endure Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.

## fresh.fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, E-Learning

fresh.fund is an Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund investing in early-stage startups across segments and verticals.We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. Our model is refreshingly simple: up to $300,000 in pre-seed funding within <4 weeks and follow-oncapital as necessary.Check out our portfolio here >> https://www.fresh.fund/portfolio.
It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.

## Milk & Honey Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, AgTech

Tel-Aviv based investment firm, focused on the effective acceleration of disruptive New Protein technologies

## Fortissimo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rosh Ha'ayin, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology

Fortissimo Capital is a leading private equity fund in Israel investing primarily in technology and industrial companies. We take a unique, hands-on approach to ...

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