INEYE THERAPEUTICS secured a €600,000 investment round, including €250,000 from Portugal Ventures and an investment from Insight Venture. Portugal Ventures had previously invested €100,000 in 2023 through the INNOV-ID Call program.
Members of Ineye Therapeutics’ R&D team co-authored an article on eco-friendly synthesis of PCL-co-PEG copolymers, published in Discover Materials in 2025.
João Correia Neves, Secretary of State for the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, and Nuno Mangas, president of IAPMEI, visited the company’s laboratories.
INEYE THERAPEUTICS was founded on September 5, 2017, by biochemists Marcos Mariz and Paula Ferreira, its CEO and CSO. The founders had worked on biomaterials projects for more than two decades.
The company’s mission is to develop medical devices and pharmaceutical products to improve quality of life. InEye combines drugs and polymers to tune drug release for different diseases and treatments.