Bioga

What Bioga does

Bioga (legal name: BIOGA – Cluster Tecnolóxico Empresarial das Ciencias da Vida) is a non-profit business association founded in 2010 and headquartered at the Biopolo Sionlla business park in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It functions as the officially recognized technology cluster for the Galician biotechnology and life sciences ecosystem, representing approximately 140 member companies that collectively account for an estimated 90% of the sector's revenue and employment in the region. The organization delivers shared services across six capability areas: talent management, entrepreneurship and project funding, networking, innovation and intersectoral hybridization, competitive growth, and internationalization. Members operate across pharmaceutical, agri-food, health, marine, cosmetic, and forestry biotechnology subsectors.

Bioga operates as a membership-based cluster rather than a software or product company, and its core "technology" is its coordination role across the regional ecosystem. Service offerings include communication and positioning services, market analysis and strategic alliances, a talent platform (including a job board at bioga.viterbit.site, the MBIO Master's program, and FP Dual LACC vocational training), and the BioFunding project office that helps members access R&D&I subsidies. Revenue is generated primarily through tiered annual membership fees ranging from 400 EUR (Entrepreneurship, under 5 employees) to 4,000 EUR (Strategic Honorary), with intermediate tiers at 600 EUR (Impulse, 5–14 employees), 1,000 EUR (Growth, 15–49 employees), and 1,800 EUR (Cohesion, 50+ employees and Holding Empresarial). Distribution is direct via the Bioga website, with onboarding requiring application submission, fee payment, board approval, and General Assembly ratification.

The cluster's strategic positioning is anchored by its Agrupación Empresarial Innovadora (AEI) recognition, granted in December 2023 by Spain's Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, which provides members exclusive access to annual R&D&I subsidies. Bioga is governed by a board led by President José Manuel López Vilariño, with Loli Pereiro as General Manager (Gerente) and Julio Martínez as Project Director overseeing the AEI program. The organization leads the Interreg IberoBio project for Iberian cross-border biotech collaboration and maintains strategic international agreements with Japan's OIST, the UK's IBioIC, and North Carolina's BioPharma Crescent.

Name

Bioga

Legal name

BIOGA – Cluster Tecnolóxico Empresarial das Ciencias da Vida

Website

https://bioga.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bioga is a non-profit biotechnology cluster association founded in 2010 in Galicia, Spain, representing ~140 member companies that account for 90% of the region's biotech sector. It provides shared services in talent management, project funding, networking, innovation, and internationalization to Galician life sciences firms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Biotechnology Industry Cluster Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (BPAGAGAI)

Keywords

• Biotech industry cluster
• Biotechnology association services
• Life sciences networking
• R&D collaboration platform
• Internationalization facilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago De Compostela

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: Bioga generates revenue through annual membership fees structured by company size: Entrepreneurship quota (under 5 employees) at 400 EUR/year, Impulse quota (5-14 employees) at 600 EUR/year, Growth quota (15-49 employees) at 1,000 EUR/year, Cohesion quota (50+ employees) at 1,800 EUR/year, Strategic Organism/Honorary at 4,000 EUR/year, and Enterprise Holding quota at 1,800 EUR/year based on number of companies. New entities can maintain the old rate of 200 EUR for 2 years before transitioning to 400 EUR.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bioga is a non-profit biotech business cluster that delivers membership-based ecosystem services to biotechnology organizations in Galicia, including talent management, project funding support, networking events, internationalization assistance, communication and positioning services, and collaborative R&D&I project coordination under its AEI recognition. Members gain centralized access to funding, international bio-region partnerships, and collaborative projects that individual companies could not access independently.

Product overview

Bioga is a non-profit technology business cluster (Cluster Tecnolóxico Empresarial das Ciencias da Vida de Galicia) that supports the biotech sector in Galicia, Spain. Rather than offering a unified software product, Bioga provides a range of services to its members including communication and positioning services, market analysis and strategic alliances, talent management, project funding support, and internationalization assistance. The organization facilitates networking, innovation, and intersectoral collaboration among biotechnology companies, research centers, and public institutions operating in Galicia's life sciences ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Membership-based Cluster Services
• Servicios de Comunicación, Dinamización y Posicionamiento
• Servicios de Análisis de Mercados, Alianzas Estratégicas e Internacionalización
• Servicios de Talento
• Oficina de Proyectos (BioFunding)

Quantifiable outcome

• 140 member companies in the biotech sector
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 December 2023Strategic collaboration agreement with OIST from Japan to foster synergies and improve competitiveness within the Galician biotech sector. OIST is notable for its international acceleration and incubation programs for biotech startups and exchange programs for researchers in life sciences.
• Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 November 2023Strategic collaboration agreement signed with IBioIC from the United Kingdom (based in Glasgow). IBioIC supports and creates connections between industry, academia, and public administrations to drive industrial biotechnology.
• Interreg IberoBiocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean Interreg project for creating and boosting the Iberian Cross-border Biotechnology Pole. Bioga leads this project to promote cross-border biotech collaboration.
• Axencia Galega de Innovación (GAIN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the Galician Innovation Agency, part of the regional government (Xunta de Galicia), to support the Biotech Sector Consolidation Strategy and promote the Galician biotechnology ecosystem internationally.
• SIMBA ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative project in which the Galician agro-biotech sector is leading the design of a collaborative intelligence platform to create sustainable business models.
• DATAlifeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEDIH DATAlife project that drove digitalization of strategic sectors in Galicia, attracting over 22 million euros in digitalization investment.
• KeybiologicalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGalician biotech company specializing in ozonized products for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications. Founded in 2016, member of Bioga since inception.
• Innopharma Platform (CiMUS-USC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPharmacogenomic and drug screening platform from the University of Santiago de Compostela, part of the Plan Complementario de Biotecnología. Received 5 million EUR funding from GAIN through REACT-EU to expand capabilities.
• Galicia Biodays ForumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeading event in the European Atlantic Area to be held in Vigo, key attraction for international companies, investors, and bioregions to promote Galician biotech ecosystem.
• BioPharma Crescent (North Carolina)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation agreement signed to strengthen biotechnological ties between the ecosystems of Galicia and North Carolina, expanding international network.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• BioIndustry Association (BIA): BIA is the UK's national trade association for the bioindustry. It is a broad incumbent providing advocacy, networking, and policy influence to a wider membership base than Bioga, and serves as a comparable reference for what a scaled-up cluster-association can become.

Regional players

• Clusaga: Clusaga is the Galician Food Cluster, also based in Santiago de Compostela, and operates alongside Bioga in the same regional innovation ecosystem. While its focus is food industry rather than biotech broadly, it shares the cluster model, GAIN partnership, and member-driven structure with Bioga.
• Medicon Valley Alliance: Medicon Valley Alliance is a cross-border life science cluster organization spanning the Copenhagen region of Denmark and Skåne in Sweden. It offers a regional cluster model with strong international positioning, comparable in mission to Bioga but operating in a more mature Nordic ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC): IBioIC is a Scottish innovation centre supporting industrial biotechnology through industry-academia-government collaboration. Bioga has an active strategic agreement with IBioIC, and its focus on industrial biotech networking, project funding, and acceleration mirrors Bioga's mandate in Galicia.
• ASEBIO: ASEBIO is the Spanish Bioindustry Association, a national-level non-profit that represents biotech companies across Spain. It mirrors Bioga's cluster-model mission but at a national scale, providing advocacy, internationalization, and visibility services to members across pharma, agri-food, and industrial biotech.
• BIOWIN: BIOWIN is the health and biotech competitiveness cluster of Wallonia, Belgium. It is a comparable non-profit cluster organization that drives innovation, funding access, and internationalization for biotech and medtech members in a defined European region.
• Biocat: Biocat is the biotech and healthtech cluster of Catalonia, operating as a non-profit foundation that supports companies, research centers, and hospitals in the Catalan life sciences ecosystem. Like Bioga, it serves as a regional convener, talent platform, and internationalization gateway for biotech members, but operates at a larger scale and with deeper VC linkages.
• BioM: BioM is the biotechnology cluster organization in Bavaria/Munich, Germany. It is a direct peer in terms of cluster mandate: industry-led, membership-funded, focused on biotech networking, project funding access, and internationalization for Bavarian biotech SMEs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BiogaCluster
• Facebookfacebook.com/BiogaGalicia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bioga

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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