69 Best Biotech Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biotech Startups in Uk

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There are 159 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $43.1m.

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.3m

Money raised

Leo Cancer Care is a company developing upright radiotherapy solutions.

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

Funding Rounds

$600.0m

Money raised

Isomorphic Labs is an AI-driven drug discovery and development platform founded in 2021 by Demis Hassabis.

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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

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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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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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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.

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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.

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1

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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.

3

Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

Biofidelity Ltd is a genetic Testing Technology founded in 2019 by Barnaby Balmforth.

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1

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Chronos is an Oxford-based biotechnology company operating a semi-virtual R&D model to develop a portfolio of therapies in degenerative and behavioral brain diseases.

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.

1

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GenesisCare is a company founded in 2001.

1

Funding Rounds

$36.0m

Money raised

Perspectum Diagnostics Ltd is an Oxford-based developer of diagnostic technologies for diagnosing patients with liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.

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2

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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.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

DYSIS Medical is focused on developing imaging systems for the non-invasive, in-vivo detection of cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions.

1

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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.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Snoring Prevention Device

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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4

Funding Rounds

$23.2m

Money raised

Platform for increasing protein production in the body using specialized translation enhancers.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.3m

Money raised

Nano syringe delivery platform.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

Cerus Endovascular is a neurovascular products founded in 2011.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

Aptamer Group Limited is a York-based developer of nucleic acid aptamers for use in research and development, biomarker discovery, diagnostics and therapeutic applications.

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2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Biosensors that create 3-Dimensional electrical fields to gather biological signals inside the human body.

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.

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