# Top 50 Biotechnology 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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)

## 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.

## 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    
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## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

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

Early Stage VC

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Amplifyher Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion

Venture capital fund investing in female founders and women leaders

## Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy.

## Genesis Park
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Natural Resources

Genesis Park is a Houston-based private equity firm focusing on buyouts, partnering strategies with public corporations, and growth financing. We bring capital, commercial execution capabilities and a depth of experience in mergers and acquisitions.We are opportunistic within market sectors where we have depth and exposure. Those sectors includetelecommunications, energy technology and media. Energy technology is a rapidly expanding category, and our Houston base allows us to marry traditional and alternative techniques in upstream and downstream environments. Founded in 2000, Genesis Park has used discipline and patience to build value for our investors, regardless of prevailing market conditions. We are consistently active in our portfolio companies, listening, learning and adding value by working alongside management. While our preference is to partner with an existing management team, we commonly source additional talent to optimize the existing opportunity.

## GlenRock Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Medical Device

A Private Equity Investment Company Founded by Leon Recanati in 2003, GlenRock leverages a unique combination of private equity, multidisciplinary in-house expertise, unmatched access to quality dealflow, and a focused but flexible investment strategy to achieve maximum returns. 

## 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.........

## RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund is an investment Fund

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## OTV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence

OTV focuses on round A+ startups that aim to make a significant impact on people's lives. Our focus is on entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who are advancing the global state of well-being. Come join the digital health revolution, and be a part of transforming the healthcare industry.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

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