Cites
Venture capital · Sunchales, Argentina · Latin America
Cites is a venture capital firm that supports the development of scientific and technological startups. It provides active management, connections to mentor and investor networks, and infrastructure including fab-lab, wet-lab and co-working spaces in Sunchales, CABA and Bariloche.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeeptechbiotechhealthtechagtechfoodtechartificial intelligence
Your fit with Cites
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Or find every investor that fitsCites lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (41%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (9%). 40% of its companies are based in Argentina. It invests most often alongside AIR Capital, Zentynel and Bay City Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cites, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cites' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 16. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 41% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AIR Capital | 3 |
| Zentynel | 2 |
| Bay City Capital | 1 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 1 |
| Casdin Capital | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Draper Cygnus | 1 |
| F-Prime Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cites head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cites| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Cites
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cites' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ab Astra uses cosmic-ray atmospheric muons to safely and non-invasively image large structures | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Amnova Biotech develops an injectable regenerative therapy to repair the heart after myocardial infarction | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ardan delivers technologies that support a more sustainable future through innovative solutions for clean transport and renewable energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| BioSeek provides a reasoning engine for biotechnology that connects public biology data into a structure for AI agents to reason over. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CITES is a Venture Capital that fosters the development of scientific-technological startups | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clover backs startups that build the future of work and education | EducationFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Crinsurance provides cryostorage solutions for embryologists and labs | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Eolo Pharma is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering new approaches to treat obesity and metabolic disease. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Epiliquid builds blood-based epigenetic tests that clinical labs can implement for cancer detection and diagnosis. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Neocrop Technologies develops new crop varieties using genetic editing and biotechnology services | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Peptone is building a Product Engine to generate small-molecule drug candidates against intrinsically disordered proteins | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| SingleStrand Biotech is a biotechnology company developing next-generation synthetic oligonucleotide therapies to modulate the immune system and promote tissue regeneration. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Stradot provides robotic solutions for mobility and logistics with a low environmental impact | Robotics & HardwareMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Teramot connects to a company's systems and delivers finished reports, such as dashboards, videos, or presentations, without requiring anyone to export, clean, or move data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| ViewMind measures brain health by capturing eye movements and pupil responses during validated cognitive tasks. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cites-gss.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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