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Panakes Partners

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Panakes Partners is a venture capital firm that backs start-ups and SMEs with innovative products in Life Sciences, providing financial and business support. It manages three funds and reports offices in Milan and Rome, Italy.

Invests inHealthcare & Biotech

In its own wordslife sciencesbiotechmedtechdiagnosticshealthcare

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5portfolio companies
5funding rounds on record1 led
2rounds, last 12 months
$20M to $100Mtypical round it comes in at
Growthmost frequent entry
EuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIAlatest fund

Panakes Partners lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 40% of its companies are based in Switzerland. It invests most often alongside 415 Capital, CDP Venture Capital and Sofinnova Partners.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Panakes Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Entry stage

share of companies by the stage of its first round

Panakes Partners does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed20%
Series A20%
Series B20%
Growth40%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Investor profile

percentile among all firms
Portfolio size: 5 companiesRecent activity: 2 rounds in 12 monthsEarly stage: 20% of entries at pre-seed or seedEvidence: 0% of companies confirmed by a roundSector focus: 100% in its largest sectorReach: 4 countriesPortfolio size4th pctRecent activity69th pctEarly stage58th pctEvidence52th pctSector focus100th pctReach70th pct
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Panakes Partners compared with all firms
MeasurePercentile of all firmsValue
Portfolio size4th5 companies
Recent activity69th2 rounds in 12 months
Early stage58th20% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence52th0% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus100th100% in its largest sector
Reach70th4 countries

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
415 Capital2
CDP Venture Capital2
Sofinnova Partners2
5AM Ventures1
Angelini Ventures1
Broadview Ventures1
Gilde Healthcare1
Indaco Venture Partners SGR1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers5100%
  • 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.

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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Healthcare & Biotech100%15%

Compare Panakes Partners head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Funds

from public registers and its site
PANAKES PURPLE FUND SPV 2 - TRADITIONAL SUB-FUND EUVECAEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES FUND PURPLE EUVECAEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES PURPLE FUND SPV 1 - INNOVATIVE SUB-FUND EUVECAEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES PURPLE –PARALLEL FUND EUVECAEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES FUND – FONDO PARALLELO LOMBARDIA EUVECA - COMPARTO PRIMOEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES FUND – FONDO PARALLELO LOMBARDIA EUVECA - COMPARTO SECONDOEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
BII CATALYST FUND I FOR ITALYEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, ESMA register
PANAKES FUNDEuVECA fund registered with BANCA D'ITALIA, no longer active, ESMA register

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Panakes Partners
DateCompanyStage
19 Oct 2026Nouscomnouscom.comSeries C+
7 Apr 2026endovascularengineering.comendovascularengineering.comSeries C+
5 Oct 2025Nanophoriananophoria.comSeries A
10 Sept 2024CorFlow-Logo.pngcorflow.comSeries B Led
16 Jan 2024Disco Pharmaceuticalsdiscopharma.deSeed

Round details for Panakes Partners

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Panakes Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

5 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
CorFlow-Logo.pngcorflow.com · SwitzerlandCorflow develops solutions for detecting and treating microvascular disease, specifically microvascular obstruction in heart attack patients.
Healthcare & Biotech
Sept 2024Series BFunding round
Disco Pharmaceuticalsdiscopharma.de · GermanyDisco Pharmaceuticals develops targeted cancer therapies using its cell surfaceome discovery technology.
Healthcare & Biotech
Jan 2024SeedFunding round
endovascularengineering.comendovascularengineering.com · United StatesEndovascular Engineering develops medical devices for removing blood clots
Healthcare & Biotech
Apr 2026Series C+Funding round
Nanophoriananophoria.com · ItalyA preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing inhaled nanoparticle-based drug delivery for cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Healthcare & Biotech
Oct 2025Series AFunding round
Nouscomnouscom.com · SwitzerlandNouscom is a next-generation immunotherapy company developing engineered viral vectored vaccines for treatment of cancer.
Healthcare & Biotech
Oct 2026Series C+Funding round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
The homepage of Panakes Partners, as last read
panakes.it as VCinfo last read it
Site
panakes.it
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
5 Nov 2026
Rounds since
16 Jan 2024
Companies checked
5

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