The CDTI Innovation formalizes the first investment of the Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer fund with 30 million euros for pediatric health

The CDTI Innovation, the state innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU), has formalized the first operation of the Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer program of the CDTI, with an investment subscribed together with the European Investment Fund (FEI/EIF) of 30 million euros in the Montana Children’s Health fund, managed by Ship2B Ventures. This operation is the first investment of the instrument Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer, which, together, is endowed with 353 million euros, of which 300 are contributed by the MICIU through the SICC Innvierte of the CDTI and 53 million by the FEI.  

The Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer program of the CDTI Innovation focuses on reinforcing the MICIU strategy for the promotion of Spanish innovation in early stages (TRL 2-4), reinforcing the value chain and the transfer from universities and R&D centers to the market and turning Spanish research into solutions of high added value.

With this first investment, the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the CDTI-Innvierte reinforce their leadership in public policies to promote innovation and technology transfer, consolidating Spain as an attractive destination for funds specialized in deep-tech. The launch of the Montana Children’s Health Fund marks the beginning of a new stage in which scientific research finds the necessary financial and strategic channel to become real solutions that improve the lives of citizens and enhance the competitiveness of the Spanish economy.

The Montana fund focuses on the need to balance funding in the child health sector, which is traditionally less than the demographic weight of the pediatric population. Endowed with 55 million euros, this fund prioritizes projects that apply cutting-edge technologies to prevent diseases, develop new therapies and improve the quality of life of children, putting at the center solutions with long-term clinical, social and economic impact. The fund plans to make some fifteen investments in early-stage European startups, with a strategy based on prevention, the development of therapies and the improvement of the quality of paediatric life.

The relevance of this first action in the field of Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer is a milestone in the consolidation of the innovative Spanish ecosystem that transcends the health field and consolidates the Innvierte program as a key tool for the mobilization of public and private capital in projects of high risk and potential return, placing Spain at the epicentre of investments in deep technologies based on scientific excellence. By focusing on performances at TRL 2–4 maturity levels, the Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer program supports the most critical phase of innovation projects, known as the “valley of death.” This initial push favors the validation of scientific principles, prototyping and proof-of-concept in laboratory environments, facilitating subsequent access to growth rounds and the creation of spin-offs with international scaling potential.

In this scheme of joint indirect co-investment, the CDTI-Innvierte and the FEI act as Limited Partners that endorse the work of professional managers, channeling resources towards funds with a solid track-record in technological, financial compliance and ESG criteria of sustainability. For its part, the collaboration of the CDTI-Innvierte with the FEI and the support of InvestEU, which partially cofinances the operation, adds a European dimension to the initiative, amplifying the visibility of Spanish startups and attracting international co-investments. 
 

CDTI Innovation’s Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer Program

The financial instrument Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer, launched in May 2025, is a venture capital vehicle promoted by the CDTI-Innvierte and the FEI to support the ecosystem of technology transfer and deep-tech in Spain. Both agencies participate as Limited Partners in specialized funds, each acting on its own behalf and according to its investment criteria.

The Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer program of the CDTI Innovation focuses on reinforcing the strategy of the MICIU to promote Spanish innovation in early stages (TRL 2-4), strengthening the value chain and the transfer from universities and R&D centers to the market and turning Spanish research into solutions of high added value. The call for the program remains open permanently and without a deadline, offering venture capital managers based in Spain the opportunity to present their Expression of Interest (EoI) at any time. This open window mechanism ensures speed and agility in the evaluation of proposals, thus promoting the creation of new investment vehicles specialized in early stages of technological maturation (TRL 2-4) and knowledge transfer projects.

In this way, the instrument seeks to identify highly disruptive projects in the deep science ecosystem, which includes universities, research centers, incubators and industry, and which can be transformed into innovations of high impact for society and strategic for the competitiveness of companies and the Spanish economy. Its objective is to reduce the gap between the creation of knowledge and its arrival in the market, channeling European and national resources towards venture capital funds specialized in technologies of very high added value.

Innvierte

Innvierte is an initiative whose objective is to promote business innovation by supporting venture capital investment in technology-based or innovative companies. This program is implemented through the closed-ended collective investment company Innvierte Economía Permanente SICC S.M.E., S.A., self-managed and subject to the supervision of the National Securities Market Commission and of which CDTI Innovation is a single shareholder.

To date, the CDTI Innovation has committed, through Innvierte, 2,885.8 M€ in 54 investment vehicles and, through its co-investment line, has directly committed an amount of 829.4 M€ in 197 companies.

Innvierte is part of the Spanish Strategy of Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2027, approved by Agreement of the Council of Ministers, in September 2020. This Strategy contains the objectives, reforms and measures that must be adopted throughout the field of R+D+I in order to boost its growth and impact, and is one of the pillars on which the design of the Government's R+D+I policy for the coming years is based.

CDTI Innovation

The Center for Technological Development and Innovation, CDTI E.P.E. It is a public company dependent on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, whose objective is the promotion of technological innovation in the business environment. The mission of the CDTI is to ensure that the Spanish business fabric generates and transforms scientific and technical knowledge into globally competitive, sustainable and inclusive growth. In 2024, within the framework of a new strategic plan, the CDTI provided more than 2.3 billion euros of support to Spanish companies and startups.

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