69 Best Biomedical Engineering Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biomedical Engineering Startups in Uk

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There are 192 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $92.2m.

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

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$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.

2

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$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

Funding Rounds

$190.5m

Money raised

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

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

Funding Rounds

$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.

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$4.5m

Money raised

Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.

2

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$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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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

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$160.3m

Money raised

Breathalyzer device maker for the early detection of cancer.

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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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$57.0m

Money raised

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

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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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$40.0m

Money raised

54Gene is healthcare startup company providing a genetics testing platform in Africa. It also offers genetic reports on health, nutrition, fitness and weight loss, carrier status, personal traits and ancestry.

10

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$62.4m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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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1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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

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

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$2.6m

Money raised

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

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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.

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.

5

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$127.6m

Money raised

Omniome is a San Diego-based company.

1

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$84.5k

Money raised

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

1

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$12.5m

Money raised

Clinical Research & Services

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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

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$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.

4

Funding Rounds

$179.4m

Money raised

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

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

4

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$420.2m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$302.6m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

Touchlight is a London-based biotechnology company founded in 2008 which focuses on DNA technology.

1

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$12.7m

Money raised

The company aims to restore autophagy to boost cell rejuvenation and treat currently incurable neurodegenerative and rare genetic diseases.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Diagnostics company that carries out molecular diagnostics tests using a simple optical system.

9

Funding Rounds

$110.7m

Money raised

Congenica clinical decision support software is the world's leading solution for the analysis of genomic data, enabling healthcare professionals globally.

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6

Funding Rounds

$29.6m

Money raised

AI platform to advance precision medicine clinical trials.

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4

Funding Rounds

$76.8m

Money raised

Provider of SITESEEKER platform for discovering new drugs.

5

Funding Rounds

$237.9m

Money raised

A biotechnology company the develops tools for detection of microbial contamination

2

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

C4X Discovery is a company that is developing a virtual reality tool, 4Sight, to help chemists discover new drugs by visualizing the structure of complex molecules.

7

Funding Rounds

$25.9m

Money raised

Oxford BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology company based in Oxford, UK, Morristown, and San Jose, USA. The company develops immuno-oncology (IO) and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) based therapies.

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7

Funding Rounds

$90.2m

Money raised

EnteroBiotix is a fecal microbiota transplantation founded in 2017 by James McIlroy.

2

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Cytovation is a privately-held biotech company, specializing in dermatological diseases, based in Bergen, Norway.

6

Funding Rounds

$203.4m

Money raised

Binx Health Limited is a developer of point-of-care testing platforms.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.3m

Money raised

Developer of immunotherapy for the treatment of infectious diseases.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

AI models developer for medical imaging spanning oncology.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.4m

Money raised

Laboratory robotics and automation company

5

Funding Rounds

$162.0m

Money raised

A clinical cancer genomics company using liquid biopsy in cancer patients

5

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Definigen is a human Cell Models of Rare Diseases founded in 2012 by Marcus Yeo.

5

Funding Rounds

$65.8m

Money raised

Theolytics Ltd is an oncolytic Adenovirus Therapies founded in 2017.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

iVexSol is a newly formed viral vector manufacturing company

1

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$15.0m

Money raised

A clinical research organization that gives services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies

5

Funding Rounds

$55.9m

Money raised

MetaMark Genetics is a medical diagnostics company developing tests and treatment planning for cancer patients.

5

Funding Rounds

$94.3m

Money raised

Glympse Bio is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Conagen is a metabolic engineering and biomanufacturing company founded in 2010 by Oliver Yu.

7

Funding Rounds

$14.1m

Money raised

Cytox Limited is a company founded in 2004 by Zsuzsanna Nagy.

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