2020 at Viromii, what a year!

What a strange year! At Viromii we wanted to share our evolution now that we are facing the end of 2020. Since our first client in 2018, when we created the company, we have been doing what every other young company should do, which is to validate the business model with potential customers. Throughout this validation, we shaped the company into what it is today, a tech-focused consultancy firm that supports business development and technology transfer operations and works mainly with research-intensive institutions and high-tech firms.

Now, we are still working from the Start-UPV ecosystem, but we moved from the coworking space to renting two private office spaces. Another core milestone for us is the team, which has also expanded. Now, we are happy to have Laura Nuñez, an industrial engineer and MBA who recently became a full-time Project Manager at Viromii. Also, we started working on our communication and market reach with the experienced support of Raquel Martínez, which has started working with us recently. Finally, we grew our technical team with Guillermo Lillo and Cristina Catalá, two promising engineers with impressive business capabilities.

This year, one of the most relevant achievements for us has been to surpass the 40 client barrier. Furthermore, many of the projects we have this year are from previous clients, which means that we are on the right track and led us to double our yearly revenue. During this year’s projects, we worked with 41 new technologies, including patented inventions, spin-off and start-ups, and trade secret-protected technologies. Also, we have signed or are currently negotiating a licensing agreement for 36% of the technologies we have in our tech-transfer portfolio.

Last but not least, we kept our team multicultural and multidisciplinary, always learning from each other and trying to create an open and innovative space for new ideas and ways of working. We hope you enjoyed the read, keep tuned for new posts!

Activity update during the COVID-19 lockdown

Finally, after more than 3 months working remotely, we are back at the office! Of course, keeping all the safety measures and only 2 days/week, but it is great to have the team together again. Despite the long time of complete remote working, the activity has not stopped. Here we want to share with you an update on our activity during the lockdown.

Thanks for this amazing 2019!

An entire year has passed, and from Viromii we can say that it has been really exciting and we have had lots of fun. So we want to thank all our clients and partners, and all the people that have contributed to making Viromii something real from its very beginning.

We have been lucky to work with great research institutions nationally and at an international level, and several innovative companies. All this trust has helped Viromii to grow its team and to start a digitalization process, where we are creating some software tools that will boost Viromii’s efficiency and help to deliver even more value in our services.

Finally, and again, thanks to everyone that has trusted or been part of Viromii during 2019. We are looking forward to keeping growing together with you in this and the following years.

Viromii has already been one year around!

More or less one year ago, we came back to Spain from Sweden with the idea of setting up a company, Viromii. One of the reasons to move to Spain was that the Spanish technology and innovation ecosystem was growing and we identified a need for new actors. Viromii was born with the aim of closing the crescent gap between research & development and the market. Since we created Viromii, our business model and value proposition have been changing and adapting to the needs of our growing portfolio of clients. However, our goal and mission always remained the same, to help companies and research-based institutions in the process of bringing innovations to the market.

Since our beginning, Viromii has passed through the difficulties that many young companies have to endure such as finding and validating a business model, lack of proper working space, constant bureaucratic burdens, oversized costs, lack of credibility, etc. But none of these difficulties would get us down. We had a goal in mind aligned with the needs of the market, we just needed to start working on it.

In October we got accepted to join the UPV entrepreneurial ecosystem (Start-UPV) granting us an office in the very center of the Valencian technology innovation hub. Since then, our focus has been to start talking with every actor we could find involved in technological innovations and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Doing so, granted us some projects, and most importantly, it commercially validated our market. At this point, everything was in place, Viromii had a validated market and proposition, a space to work at, and an experienced team with a goal.

Viromii adapted fast to the needs of the clients, and now we offer a variety of services focusing mainly on research-based institutions and high technology companies.

Regarding the research-based institutions, Viromii:

On the other hand, with high-tech companies Viromii offers business development services on-demand like:

As the first projects were coming in, the team was expanding, and our field of work narrowing towards life-sciences, cleantech, and biotechnology. Now, one year after that, we have mapped and contacted the tech-innovation ecosystems of 8 European and latin american Countries and we have clients and partners in half of them. Viromii has been present in a handful of international events, and its co-founders have been invited as panelists, mentors, lecturers, and speakers by five different organizations, business schools, and universities. The team is growing and as of now, it involves people from 5 different countries, including Ecuador, Romania, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Spain. We are setting international collaborations with partners all over the world, and looking for new international talent to enrich Viromii’s team.

It has been a very intense year at Viromii, and we will keep working hard to keep here for many years always with one goal in mind, to help innovations reach society.