63 Best Pharma Startups in France to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Pharma Startups in France

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There are 63 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $73.7m.

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

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$254.1m

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Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.

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$49.6m

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Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.

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$82.6m

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Biotherapeautics company founded in 2014 and based in Paris that uses proprietary methods in synthetic biology, protein and genome engineering to produce Eligobiotics, products which intervene with the microbiome as diagnostics, antimicrobials and modulators of host-microbiome interactions.

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Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.

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$69.5m

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AI-powered drug discovery platform.

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$62.4m

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

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$572.6m

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Capsule is a healthcare platform transforming the pharmacy experience founded in 2016 by Eric Kinariwala.

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$16.0m

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A pharmaceutical company that develops topical products to treat rare diseases

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$332.5m

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Enterome is a pharmaceutical company founded in 2012 by Pierre Belichard.

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$59.9m

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MaaT Pharma (Microbiota as a Therapy) is a French biotech start-up, created at the end of 2014, to treat diseases linked to imbalances in the intestinal microbiome.

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$98.6m

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A biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing small molecules that target G protein-coupled receptors

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9

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$40.9m

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Pili is a biotechnology company using microorganisms fed sugar to synthesize commercial quality dyes.

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4

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$241.9m

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Asklepios Biopharmaceutical is a company in North Carolina.

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3

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$191.8m

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Diabeloop is a Grenoble-based company founded in 2015.

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$74.0m

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Depixus is an company of bioscientists based in Paris focusing in DNA research.

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$1.2m

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Brainvectis is a biotechnology company developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases through restoring cholesterol metabolism in the brain.

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$179.5m

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Hifibio - High Fidelity Biology is a single cell technologies for drug discovery founded in 2013 by Liang Schweizer, Jeff He and Robert Nicol.

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$4.0m

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Flash Therapeutics is a Toulouse-based biotechnology company founded in 2018.

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$97.5m

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Develops small molecules drug candidates in infectious & metabolic diseases and oncology

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$97.5m

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SparingVision is a retinal Gene Therapy Treatments founded by Jose alain sahel.

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$7.7m

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LNC Therapeutics is the 1st company to harness the therapeutic potential of Christensenella. We have been focused on the fundamental causes of illnesses

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$157.3m

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TreeFrog Therapeutics aims at making iPS-derived cell therapies safer, more efficient and more affordable.

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$4.2m

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Research company focused on developing cancer treatments with STING agonists.

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$767.0m

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Vivet Therapeutics is a gene Therapy for Orphan Diseases founded in 2016 by Jean-Philippe Combal.

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$19.9m

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Pharnext is a very well advanced clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company

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$8.3m

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Exeliom is a gut microbiome modifiers founded by Benjamin Hadida, Harry Sokol, Patrick Gervais and Philippe Langella.

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3

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$61.0m

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AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance and preserves useful immune responses in inflammatory, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

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$44.0m

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InnoSkel is a therapies for Rare Skeletal Diseases founded in 2020 by Elvire Gouze.

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$14.2m

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Core Biogenesis is a biotechnology company building next-generation recombinant protein production technologies.

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$35.1m

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DiogenX is a regenerative diabetes treatment founded in 2019 by Jean-Pascal Tranié, Benjamin Charles and Patrick Collombat.

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$1.1m

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MAbSilico is a Tours-based company founded by Anne Poupon, Thomas Bourquard, Astrid Musnier and Vincent Puard.

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$16.0m

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Iktos is an AI for New Drug Design founded in 2016 by Yann Gaston-Mathe, Quentin Perron and Nicolas Do Huu.

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$16.5m

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Lysogene is a company by Karen Aiach.

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$10.7m

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Kayentis is a data capture for clinical trials founded in 2003 by Philippe Berna.

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$24.1m

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MedicAnimal is a Willesden-based company founded in 2007.

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$13.0m

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Ermium Therapeutics is a biotech company developing innovative therapies for auto-immune diseases.

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$831.6k

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Xenothera SAS is an antibody for infection/oncology founded by Odile Duvaux.

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$5.7m

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EverImmune is a microbial Immunotherapy founded in 2016.

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$179.6m

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Mnemo Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing immune-based therapies.

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$7.7m

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Biopharmaceutical company focused on developing Rapid Transfer Systems (RTS) solutions.

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$6.5m

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Lucine has the ambition to transform and improve patient's health.

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$2.6m

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Nosopharm is an anti-infectives, Peptide founded in 2009 by Philippe VILLAIN-GUILLOT.

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$29.5m

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Brenus Pharma is a cancer vaccine developer founded in 2021 by Benoit Pinteur.

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$17.7k

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LXRepair is a Grenoble-based medical diagnostics company developing personalized medicine and diagnostics through DNA enzyme signature analysis.

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$4.7m

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Oncodesign is a preclinical services founded in 1995.

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$20.3m

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Poxel is a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for metabolic diseases founded in 2009.

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$39.6m

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Mablink Bioscience is an antibody-drug Conjugates founded in 2018.

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$191.3m

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Emergence is a biopharmaceutical company working on novel ADC immunotherapies for cancers with a high unmet need.

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$22.6m

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Diagnostic tests in oncology utilizing the immune contexture of cancers.

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$62.7m

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Abivax is a viral diseases founded in 2013.

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$9.9m

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Advanced Biodesign is a contract Research & Development founded in 2010.

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$2.3m

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Phagos Biotech is a company founded in 2021.

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$2.3m

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Syndivia is a Strasbourg-based company.

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$2.1m

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Provider of 3D printing systems for the pharmaceutical sector.

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$3.7m

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Le Comptoir Des Pharmacies is an inventory management platform for pharmacists founded in 2016.

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$6.5m

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Vaxinano is a prophylactic and therapeutic nasal vaccines developer founded in 2016 by Didier Betbeder.

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$10.5m

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MedDay is a Paris-based company founded in 2011.

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$1.3m

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Biotech company providing large-scale GMP manufacturing of extracellular vesicles for nanomedicine.

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$13.5m

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Superbranche is a manufacture of superparamagnetic nanoparticles for cancer treatment founded in 2019 by Delphine Felder Flesch.

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$9.9m

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BioDesign is a Lyon-based company.

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$2.2m

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Wellium is a France-based company.

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$1.6m

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CVasThera is a France-based company in the pharmaceutical industry.

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