Startup Spotlight at BIO-Europe
This exciting competition offers entrepreneurs an affordable opportunity to engage with top-tier investors and other important players in the biotech industry to take their business to the next level. Who will follow in the footsteps of previous winners like STAb Therapeutics? Join us to find out as we blend Vienna's historic coffee culture with tomorrow's biotech breakthroughs!
The next Startup Spotlight will take place at BIO-Europe Spring in Lisbon, Portugal. Applications are now open, you can learn more here.
Congratulations to our selected finalists!
The Startup Spotlight will be taking place Tuesday, November 4, 2025 15:30 - 17:30 in Room 2
Meet this years Startup Spotlight Finalists
Much like Vienna's renowned coffee houses where ideas have been brewing for centuries, BIO-Europe 2025 creates the perfect atmosphere for innovation to percolate. In a city where Kaffeehauskultur has inspired great minds from Mozart to Freud, our finalists will have their moment to shine while we all enjoy Vienna's legendary hospitality and rich tradition of collaborative thinking over the perfect cup.
Fusix Biotech
Year founded: 2022
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Oncology
Lead product status: Preclinical
Immunokey
Year founded: 2023
State of ownership: Public
Area of focus: Cell and Gene Therapies
Lead product status: Discovery
LigniLabs GmbH
Year founded: 2022
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Immunology
Lead product status: Discovery
MyoPax
Year founded: 2022
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Cell and Gene Therapies
Lead product status: Preclinical
OncoLab Co., Ltd.
Year founded: 2024
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Oncology
Lead product status: Preclinical
Oragen Therapeutics
Year founded: 2025
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Immunology
Lead product status: Preclinical
P3 Therapeutics
Year founded: 2024
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Immunology
Lead product status: Discovery
ReEngage Therapeutics
Year founded: 2023
State of ownership: Private
Area of focus: Oncology
Lead product status: Phase I
2025 Startup Spotlight Supporter
2025 Startup Spotlight Judges

How has the Startup Spotlight impacted previous winners?
Hear from former Startup Spotlight winner Yemi Onakunle, Founder & CEO of Mabswitch, as he talks about what he is up to now since taking home the gold.

Hear from the 2025 BIO-Europe Spring Startup Spotlight winner
Hear from Carolina Pola, CEO of STAb Therapeutics, who took home the winning prize for the Startup Spotlight pitch competition at BIO-Europe Spring in Milan this year. Carolina highlights the benefits and value of pitching to the judges and global life science audience.

Last Years Startup Spotlight Winner
Congratulations to the Startup Spotlight at BIO-Europe 2024 winner, Kadence Bio
Kadence Bio is a clinical stage therapeutics company whose mission is to develop innovative therapeutics to address critical unmet needs in sexual and mental health.
Thank you to Bayer for sponsoring the 2024 competition, and to all our other finalists and entries.