Top 5 Biotechnology VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Estonia in October 2023

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• ÄIO — Innovative food technologies to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives.
• Vok Bikes — E-cargo bicycles perfect for last-mile deliveries and business use cases in the city. Vok Bikes develops and produces electric cargo bikes in Europe.
• RAIKU Packaging — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.

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• ÄIO — Innovative food technologies to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives.
• eniferBio — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
• Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.

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• CVRx — CVRx is a medical device company that develops implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure. Its products include Rheos implantable pulse generator that provides control and delivery of the activation energy; and Rheos carotid sinus leads, which conducts activation energy from the Rheos implantable pulse generator to the left andright carotid arteries. The company also offers a Rheos programmer system that communicates with the Rheos pulse generator. CVRx was founded in 2001 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Binx Health — Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer
• Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.

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• Gelatex Technologies — Gelatex is a Techstars-backed materials technology company that invented the fastest technology for producing bio-based nanofibers on a large scale. It is a platform technology that enables faster and up to 100 cheaper nanofiber production for applications like 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering, cultured meat, bio-based filters, eco-friendlyleather-like textile, energy storage, wound care, and many more. The technology is patent-pending and the machinery fully functional. The company was founded in 2016 and until COVID-19 pandemic developed eco-friendly leather-like textile from gelatin nanofibers, using this nanofiber production technology as part of the process. COVID-19 was a trigger to understand the wider potential of the technology which then led to pivot.The company is based in Estonia and holding incorporated in UK (2019).
• Sigrid Therapeutics — Safe Solution For Normalizing Blood Sugar Levels

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• Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
• Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
• Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation