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Deneb Medical
Spanish medtech startup based in San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa) developing IZAR, a robotic surgery station for spine procedures, and related CoBot technology for real-time tissue identification and selective ablation. Founded in 2014/2015 by two former railway-industry engineers, it has raised early-stage capital from Basque public and private investors and has ~11-50 employees.
SectorsMedical Devices, Surgical Robotics, Healthtech
Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Medical devices & surgical hardware
Founders
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Aritz Lazkoz
Co-Founder
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Juan Arregui Altuna
Co-Founder
Global models 5
CCMR Surgical
United Kingdom · cmrsurgical.com ↗
Develops and sells a robotic surgery system (Versius) to hospitals, the same capital-equipment surgical-robot model as IZAR, though it targets soft-tissue rather than spine surgery.
~$1.1BComparable
AAuris Health
United States · www.aurishealth.com ↗
A venture-backed robotic surgery platform (Monarch) sold to hospitals with procedure-linked consumables, acquired by J&J, matching Deneb's robot-plus-instruments hospital sales model.
~$730MComparable
DDistalmotion
Switzerland · www.distalmotion.com ↗
A European surgical-robot maker (Dexter) selling a compact robotic station to hospitals, closely mirroring Deneb's hardware-led B2B hospital model.
~$330MComparable
AAugmedics
Israel · augmedics.com ↗
Sells an augmented-reality navigation system (xvision) for spine surgery to hospitals, the same spine-focused surgical guidance market as IZAR.
~$200MComparable
EeCential Robotics
France · www.ecential-robotics.com ↗
Develops a combined imaging, navigation and robotic platform for spine and orthopaedic surgery sold to hospitals, the closest European match to Deneb's spine robot.
~$130MComparable
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AAnaconda Biomed
Sant Cugat del Vallès
Series C (estimated) · €90.1M
IINBRAIN Neuroelectronics
Barcelona
Series B (estimated) · €84.5M
OOverture Life
Madrid
Venture Debt · €71.2M
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Medlumics
Madrid
No stage disclosed · €57.8M
AAortyx
Barcelona
Series A · €16.9M
NNuubo
Madrid
Series B (estimated) · €16.3M
Notes: Most funded first
Investors 11
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OOrza
www.orza.info
CCentro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación
www.cdti.es
EEaso Ventures
easoventures.es
KKutxa Fundazioa
www.kutxafundazioa.eus
SSETT
sett.gob.es
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SPRI
www.gestioncapitalriesgo.com
EElkargi
www.elkargi.es
NNamarel Ventures
namarelventures.com
MMedtronic
BBioTools Innovator
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Keblar Etools Technologies
Funding rounds 5
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2026-09-08 | Series A (estimated) | €14.7M |
Lead unknown
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| 2025-09-17 | Seed (estimated) | €225K |
Lead not disclosed
+2 more
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| 2024-06-14 | Seed (estimated) | approximately €350K |
Lead not disclosed
+2 more
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| 2022-04-08 | Seed (estimated) | €250K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
Lead not disclosed
+2 more
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| 2019-01 | Seed | — |
Orza Gestión y Tenencia de Patrimonios AIE
+1 more
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News 4
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| 2026-09-14 |
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Dealflow.es Newsletter
2026-09-14 |
| 2026-09-10 |
Deneb Medical obtiene 7'2 M€ de la SETT ↗
El Referente
2026-09-10 |
| 2026-09-08 |
Deneb Medical capta 14,7 millones para impulsar su cirugía robótica de columna ↗
Donostitik
2026-09-08 |
| 2026-09-08 |
Deneb Medical de Donostia obtiene 14,7 millones para avanzar en su cirugía robótica ↗
Noticias de Gipuzkoa
2026-09-08 |