It is a pioneering training and mentoring program that helps researchers transition into entrepreneurs, aiming to drive startups originating from universities and research centers.
The spin-off from the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, dedicated to developing technological solutions to optimize nursing work in the surgical area, secured this funding with participation from the FITA Fund and the Catalan Finance Institute via the IFEM Prova de Concepte instrument.
This investment will allow the company to consolidate VIDAA, its virtual simulation platform for surgical planning, and accelerate technological development with the aim of obtaining CE certification to enable its commercialization in the European market.
SHINEPHI, a startup born at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), has closed a seed funding round led by Grow Venture Partners, with participation from four technically and strategically oriented business angels: Norbert Martínez, Demian Martínez, JL Ferrer, and Alex Gerodimos.
The technology-transfer investment vehicle, promoted by the Generalitat, has raised a total of €25 million to date.
The Barcelona-based platform helps medical professionals in their training processes through a virtual and interactive learning experience.
The firm, led by Francisco Badía, specializes in promoting ‘deep tech’ projects and spin-offs arising from the development of innovations and technologies at universities and research centers.
The investment round was led by Grow Venture Partners with the participation of Unconventional Ventures.
The company from Igualada (Barcelona) is developing an electric propulsion system for satellites that allows them to orbit closer to Earth without using fuel.
TeknoCEA, a spin-off from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), aims to help companies accelerate the implementation of technology, projects, and research in power electronics, as well as provide charging points for electric vehicles
The company is a spin-off from the Imdea Materials Institute and has a patented, scalable process for manufacturing silicon anodes. This electrode will play a key role in the next generation of lithium batteries.
Researchers at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona have developed low-cost biochemical sensors that are more compact and efficient.
Grow Venture Partners selects the project by Miguel Palenzuela, CEO of SUSPOL, which stands out among the other finalists of the getIMPULSE acceleration program.
NIMBLE Diagnostics, a spin-off from IGTP, UPC, and UB, has successfully closed a financing round, raising over €1 million, led by Grow Venture Partners together with Namarel Ventures and Inveniam Group.
The firm, based in Barcelona, was founded this year with the goal of fostering the creation of companies emerging from universities and research centers. They will focus on sectors such as quantum computing, photonics, the Internet of Things (IoT), Med Tech, new materials, Clean Tech, circular economy, energy, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
The Spanish venture capital firm Grow Venture Partners, specialized in deep tech projects, has closed its first €5 million fund
The round was led by Grow Venture Partners, the venture capital firm specialized in Deep Tech investments.
The investment firm linked to the accelerator Impulse to Grow is launching a fund to invest in university and research center spin-offs.
It builds on the experience of the accelerator Impulse to Grow, which has advised companies such as Jobandtalent, Cocunat, and Deporvillage.
They expect to complete a first closing in the coming weeks, once they reach a €5 million fund, and to gradually increase its size after investing in about ten companies this year.
