69 Best Biotechnology Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biotechnology Startups in Uk

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 490 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $89.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

3

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$2.9m

Money raised

Chronomics is an AI-driven platform company that tracks epigenetics for personalized healthcare based in the United Kingdom.

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2

Funding Rounds

$16.8m

Money raised

Orbit Discovery offers a DNA-encoded peptide display technology to identify potential peptide drugs for a range of chronic diseases.

6

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$190.5m

Money raised

Kuur Therapeutics focuses on the development of CAR-NKT cell therapies platform for applications in cancer treatment.

3

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$60.0m

Money raised

Uncommon, formerly known as Higher Steaks, is a cellular agriculture company based in London, England founded in 2017 by Benjamina Bollag, Stephanie Wallis and David Hay working to develop pork and other meat products using cellular agriculture.

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8

Funding Rounds

$101.4m

Money raised

Synthetic biology company that uses AI, DNA synthesis, and robotics to discover biological molecules.

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6

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$86.6m

Money raised

Prokarium is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vaccination and cancer immunotherapy solutions based on synthetic biology.

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3

Funding Rounds

$143.4m

Money raised

An exosome therapeutics company founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, UK, that uses exosomes to deliver small and large molecule therapeutics. The company has a proprietary technology to modify exosomes to target specific organs such as the brain and central nervous system.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.

4

Funding Rounds

$49.3m

Money raised

Sphere Fluidics is a company commercializing single cell analysis systems founded in 2010 by Wilhelm Huck.

5

Funding Rounds

$10.1m

Money raised

A full-stack neural interface company. BIOS is creating a hardware and software interface between the human nervous system and AI with the aim of developing AI-based neural treatments that recreate neural signal patterns capable of affecting the health of a person.

8

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

Procarta Biosystems is a company that is developing antibacterial therapeutics for drug-resistant bacterial infections.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.3m

Money raised

Emergex aims to tackle the global threat of infectious disease by providing affordable and practical on-demand vaccine solutions.

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10

Funding Rounds

$187.8m

Money raised

Causaly is a biomedical research discovery tool founded in 2018 by Yiannis Kiachopoulos.

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Dharmacon, Inc. is a Lafayette, Colorado-based company founded in 1995.

3

Funding Rounds

$183.9m

Money raised

Bit.bio is a biotechnology company that aims to operate within human cells through means of coding and biology.

8

Funding Rounds

$160.3m

Money raised

Breathalyzer device maker for the early detection of cancer.

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5

Funding Rounds

$82.8m

Money raised

Peptome is a London-based protein physics intelligence company founded in 2016 by Kamil Tamiola and Matt Heberling. It utilizes artificial intelligence for computers to process all information about protein data in the same efficient way that scientists do.

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5

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$9.1m

Money raised

Puraffinity is a company using customized granular media (CGM) to remove pollutants and contaminants from water supplies.

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7

Funding Rounds

$31.4m

Money raised

Oxford Genetics, also known as Oxgene, is a synthetic biology company specializing in DNA design, protein expression optimization and cell line development technologies and services.

1

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$100.0m

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A biotechnology company using mass spectrometry platforms for drug discovery and the development of therapeutics.

2

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$645.0k

Money raised

CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

2

Funding Rounds

$57.0m

Money raised

Mytos is a company making an automated cell culture machine founded in 2016 by Ignacio Willats.

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3

Funding Rounds

$133.0m

Money raised

Nuclera is a provider of eProtein discovery benchtop system founded in 2013 by Jiahao Huang, Gordon McInroy and Michael Chen.

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5

Funding Rounds

$30.9m

Money raised

Horizon Discovery is a company that offers gene editing, CRO, and diagnostics services

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3

Funding Rounds

$29.7m

Money raised

3F BIO is a biotechnology company developing and commercializing sustainable proteins, bioethanol and animal food production technologies. Jim Laird founded 3F Bio at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland in 2015.

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2

Funding Rounds

$37.5m

Money raised

A biomedical company in United Kingdom that develops vaccines and vaccine development technology

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5

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$225.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company that specialized in the renewable energy sector. It was located in Bedford, Massachusetts and is no longer in operation.

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10

Funding Rounds

$62.4m

Money raised

A software solutions company providing bioinformatics solutions to life science and other sector

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

A company building a portable molecular tracker that offers instant feedback about physical performance and is starting with, but is not limited to, reporting individual cortisol and testosterone levels. It was founded in 2016 and is located in London, England.

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6

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

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A company that has developed software for easier access to genomic data. It is located in Cambridge, England and was founded in 2015.

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1

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Biotechnology company founded in 2015 that develops and commercializes synthetic lipid compounds and cancer immunotherapy agents. iOx Therapeutics is an OSI spinout.

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1

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$12.0m

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An artificial intelligence company with a platform to be used the drug discovery process. It was founded in 2017 and is located in New York City.

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5

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

An agricultural biotechnology company producing renewable, biomass-based fuels and raw materials

1

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$1.4m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company using quantum computing to create molecular design solutions.

1

Funding Rounds

$275.0k

Money raised

Desktop Genetics is a company that helps researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease.

9

Funding Rounds

$59.1m

Money raised

Locate Bio is a biotechnology developing cell and gene therapies for treating damaged tissues and organs.

4

Funding Rounds

$124.1m

Money raised

Healx is a biotechnology therapeutics company for rare diseases founded in 2014 by Tim Guilliams.

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6

Funding Rounds

$133.6m

Money raised

Intelligent, distributed & reproducible big data & genomics analysis at scale. Zero onboarding. Zero config.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

CMR Surgical is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based medical device company developing surgical robotics and founded in 2014.

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11

Funding Rounds

$35.7m

Money raised

Lightpoint Medical is a solutions developer and provider for the health care industry, specializing in the development of intra-operative, robot-guided systems.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

Asimov is a startup that programs living cells with genetic circuits.

6

Funding Rounds

$62.1m

Money raised

Crown bioscience is a company that is focused on research, drug discovery and development for the treatment of cancer and diabetes.

1

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$3.9m

Money raised

Company developing rapid diagnostic technologies, products and services in human healthcare, agriculture and aquaculture

2

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

Precision therapeutics company developing epigenetic therapies that target arginine methylation in cancer.

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3

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

Standigm is a drug development AI company founded by Jinhan Kim, Sang Ok Song, and So Jeong Yun.

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5

Funding Rounds

$187.0m

Money raised

Iterative Health is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools to aid in the prevention of colon cancer and improve patient outcomes.

4

Funding Rounds

$68.1m

Money raised

Evonetix is a synthetic biology company

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8

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

Money raised

Mogrify is developing tailored cellular conversions that power future cell therapies.

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Isomerase is a Cambridge based microbial natural products drug discovery and development CRO and synthetic biology, fermentation and chemistry service provider

3

Funding Rounds

$13.2m

Money raised

Biosceptre is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company developing diagnostic tools and biomarkers.

2

Funding Rounds

$155.0m

Money raised

Digital health platform for predictive care and research.

5

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

A diagnostics company focused on the discovery and development of diagnostic products for clinical laboratories for the management of oncology and genetic disorder.

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5

Funding Rounds

$127.6m

Money raised

Omniome is a San Diego-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$84.5k

Money raised

Serosep is a Limerick-based manufacturer and supplier of laboratory diagnostic solutions and products.

5

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Molecular Warehouse Ltd. is a Guildford-based molecular diagnostics company founded in 2015 by Kirill Alexandrov, Nikita Alexandrov and Siro Perez.

1

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$12.5m

Money raised

Clinical Research & Services

1

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

A biotechnology company using microbiology and chemistry to produce consumer goods and industrial products.

13

Funding Rounds

$123.5m

Money raised

CellCentric is a clinical stage biotechnology company that focuses on developing first of its kind.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

2

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$10.5m

Money raised

Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Limited is an Edinburgh-based developer of optical molecular imaging technology.

4

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$241.9m

Money raised

Asklepios Biopharmaceutical is a company in North Carolina.

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6

Funding Rounds

$52.4m

Money raised

Endomag is an Austin, Texas-based medical diagnostics company developing detection technology for lymphatic cancers.

2

Funding Rounds

$155.0m

Money raised

Purespring Therapeutics is a gene therapy provider for kidney diseases founded in 2020.

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4

Funding Rounds

$179.4m

Money raised

Kymab is a biopharmecutical company developing human antibody based therapies founded in 2010.

1

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$28.0m

Money raised

Colorifix is developing a revolutionary dyeing process to help the textile industry dramatically reduce its environmental impact.

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Oxford Cancer Biomarkers is an Oxford-based biomarker company commercializing biomarker tests for colorectal cancer testing.

4

Funding Rounds

$420.2m

Money raised

Artios Pharma develops cancer treatments that target DNA Damage Response (DDR) Pathways to selectively kill cancer cells

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Funding Rounds

$302.6m

Money raised

Oral antifungal therapy developer to treat life-threatening rare fungal infections

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