69 Best Biology Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biology Startups in Uk

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There are 85 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $32.8m.

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

Funding Rounds

$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.

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6

Funding Rounds

$190.5m

Money raised

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

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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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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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

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$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

$37.5m

Money raised

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

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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.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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

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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1

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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

$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.

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2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

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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

Funding Rounds

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

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$12.7m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$18.4m

Money raised

Cell analysis technology provider.

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4

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Inventia Life Science is a 3D bioprinting company.

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.

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

$65.8m

Money raised

Theolytics Ltd is an oncolytic Adenovirus Therapies founded in 2017.

3

Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Deep Branch is a carbon dioxide recycling company that is using microorganisms to convert clean CO2 into quality products.

1

Funding Rounds

$626.0k

Money raised

Sime is a company founded in 2018.

7

Funding Rounds

$14.1m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$10.9m

Money raised

Medical device compnay focused on improving outcomes for mothers and babies during childbirth and delivery.

5

Funding Rounds

$146.6m

Money raised

Oxford Immunotec is a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based medical diagnostics company manufacturing tests for various diseases based on T cell measurement technology.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Mevion Medical Systems is a company developing radiation therapies for cancer treatment founded in 2004 by Tina Tianning Yu.

1

Funding Rounds

Sygnature Discovery Limited is a drug Discovery Contract Research founded in 2004 by Simon Hirst.

1

Funding Rounds

$34.2m

Money raised

Avacta Group PLC is a drug Development Platform, Engineered Antibodies founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

Kinomica is a Cheshire, United Kingdom-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company that specializes in cell-signaling.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

A pharmaceutical company specializing in drug candidates used for in out-patient and hospital-based sedation

1

Funding Rounds

$718.0k

Money raised

A company offering medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry services for drug dicovery

1

Funding Rounds

$688.7k

Money raised

Orla Protein Technologies Limited is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2001 by Dale Athey.

4

Funding Rounds

SiSaf is the first company to create a Bio-Courier platform technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$34.9m

Money raised

Sense Biodetection Limited is an Abingdon-on-Thames-based molecular diagnostics company developing handheld tests in the fields of infections and oncology.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

ValiRx PLC. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based healthcare accelerator working to develop new medicines and technologies founded in 2000.

2

Funding Rounds

Akrivis Technologies is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based medical diagnostics company developing solutions for infectious diseases founded in 2009 by Dr. Ban–An Khaw.

2

Funding Rounds

$41.3k

Money raised

A company that builds biosensors for HPV and other infectious disease detection.

1

Funding Rounds

Oncimmune is a Nottingham-based diagnostic company developing early cancer detection products.

7

Funding Rounds

$74.7m

Money raised

Mobidiag UK Ltd is an Espoo-based molecular diagnostic company developing solutions for the detection of infectious diseases.

1

Funding Rounds

ATUM is a formerly DNA2.0 founded in 2003 by Sridhar Govindarajan.

3

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

Puridify is a biotechnology company that uses nanofibre technology to develop purification solutions for biotherapeutic manufacturing.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Blue Earth Diagnostics Limited is an Oxford-based developer and supplier of molecular imaging agents.

1

Funding Rounds

$29.0m

Money raised

Renalytix is a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled clinical diagnostic solutions for kidney disease.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Mgb Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing anti-infective medicines founded in 2010.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

Flow Bio is a company that develops real-time hydration sensor that are designed to understand human bodies at molecular level.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Treos Bio is a cancer Vaccine Technology founded in 2013 by John Hautman.

Key people:

1

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Enesi Pharma Limited is a solid Dose Vaccine Delivery founded in 2017.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

Oxford Vacmedix UK Limited is a cancer Vaccines founded in 2012 by Dr Shisong Jiang.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Small Pharma is a London-based pharmaceutical company researching applications of DMT and ketamine in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help treat conditions like clinical depression.

1

Funding Rounds

$59.9k

Money raised

Is-Instruments Limited designs and develops remote sensing instrumentation.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

XR (Concept Life Sciences) is a knowledge-based, science-led contract research company.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Scancell is a cancer vaccine founded in 1996 by Professor Lindy Durrant.

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1

Funding Rounds

Multiomic Health is building a precision therapeutics discovery platform for metabolic syndrome diseases

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

Atlas Biomed Group is a company founded in 2014 by Andrey Perfilyev.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Transition Bio is a condensate technology, liquid-liquid phase separation founded by Peter St George-Hyslop.

1

Funding Rounds

OSSIANIX is a biotherapeutics company developing single domain antibodies founded by Frank S. Walsh.

1

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised

ADCs

1

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

Sonrai Analytics Ltd is an AI for scientific data analysis founded in 2018 by Darragh McArt.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

Platform developing safe, effective, and affordable breakthrough technology for weight loss.

1

Funding Rounds

$41.0m

Money raised

Enterprise Therapeutics is a respiratory Treatments founded in 2014.

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