Growing nature-inspired companies
Your pre-seed partner accelerating nature-inspired technologies into the companies that redefine their industries.
Breakthrough science needs the right conditions to grow
Technical founders build two things at once: the technology and the company. Great technologies rarely fail because the science is weak. They stall when they don't find their market, their customers and their business model. Anima is your pre-seed partner. Our operators join your team from day one. Our capital follows what the company needs.
Breakthrough science needs the right conditions to grow
Technical founders build two things at once: the technology and the company. Great technologies rarely fail because the science is weak. They stall when they don't find their market, their customers and their business model. Anima is your pre-seed partner. Our operators join your team from day one. Our capital follows what the company needs.
What we bring
Battle-tested entrepreneurs work inside your company for 9 to 12 months: strategy, product, brand, go-to-market, hiring and fundraising.
We help you land your first industrial customers, build the right team and sharpen your business model, so that your next round rests on proof, not promises.
We invest when the company needs it, as much as it needs, up to 1M€. Our founding partner Alpha Star, can co-invest in your next rounds up to 3M€.
We commit to 2 to 4 new companies a year. That focus lets us give each one real time, expertise and hands-on execution. It’s also why we read every deck with care, and answer every one. Each partnership is shaped around the company, from operational support to a pre-seed investment alongside our team.
Who we work with
We partner with founders, researchers and industry leaders to build the next generation of nature-inspired companies, by design, not by chance.
Pre-seed startups
You have a team, a proof of concept, maybe first grants. We join you as operators, and our capital follows what you need to reach your next round.
Discover our ventures
Through the leading AI platform for biomimetic R&D, Asteria connects engineers with nature’s unique ingenuity to design tomorrow’s sustainable solutions.
H&B Materials develops a biosourced water-repellent textile treatment derived from rapeseed fatty acids, offering industrial manufacturers a PFAS-free, plug-and-play alternative that preserves the colour, feel and breathability of the fabric.
Renature develops Phyli®, a 100% plant-based flexible material, derived from agricultural by-products, offering luxury manufacturers a solvent-free, plastic-free and fully circular alternative to animal leather and synthetic leather that works directly on existing production lines.
Using nature-inspired strategies to create lower cost and more sustainable solutions for urgent water challenges such as PFAS and heavy metal contamination.
Myc develops the first platform of machinable mycelium-based materials, offering industrial manufacturers a biosourced, scalable alternative to polyurethane foams and MDF that works directly on standard CNC machines.
Each ton of rare earths creates 2,000 tons of toxic waste, and demand will rise 7x by 2040. REEcover extracts rare earths elements from waste with 10x better separation, offering a sovereign, cleaner, circular alternative to mining.
Out of the Lab
50,000€ to get your bioinspired research out of the lab and into the world!
The Out of the Lab Award exists to help researchers and early-stage teams transform bioinspired research into successful ventures. We’re looking for breakthrough ideas that have a positive impact on our planet. If you’re a researcher, a project owner or a pre-seed startup working on something nature-inspired with real-world potential and want to take it beyond the lab, this is for you !
2027 application open: March 2027
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Meet our team
A venture studio is only as strong as the ecosystem it can activate. Anima brings founders, operators, decision-makers, investors and specialists to accelerate your growth, across product, brand, marketing, go-to-market, legal, talent and impact.
