45 Best Cancer Immunotherapy Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Cancer Immunotherapy Startups

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There are 45 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $87.4m.

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Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

Indee Labs focuses on the development of microfluidic vortex shedding for rapidly and efficiently transfecting human primary immune cells with negligible perturbation. The team is focused on developing its core technology for short turnaround chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) development and manufacturing.

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2

Funding Rounds

$158.0m

Money raised

Senti Biosciences is a synthetic biology company.

2

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$13.8m

Money raised

A biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to attack cancer stem cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$164.5m

Money raised

Develops novel cell and gene therapies with pharmacologic operating systems.

2

Funding Rounds

$67.5m

Money raised

A company developing immunotherapy treatments for cancers, infectious and autoimmune diseases

2

Funding Rounds

$18.1m

Money raised

A biotechnology company that develops treatments for cancer and hematologic conditions

4

Funding Rounds

$743.2m

Money raised

A bioinformatics company in San Francisco building data collection methods and databases that will enable machine learning algorithms in healthcare. It was founded in 2018.

2

Funding Rounds

$386.0m

Money raised

Focused on transforming lives of patients with immune dysfunctions and cancer

5

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

DCPrime is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

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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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2

Funding Rounds

$105.0m

Money raised

Eureka Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Gadeta is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies for treating cancer.

1

Funding Rounds

$42.2m

Money raised

Soteria Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

A company developing immune therapies for cancer and related diseases

2

Funding Rounds

$173.0k

Money raised

XEME Biopharma is a biotechnology company developing therapeutic cancer vaccines and cancer immunotherapy products.

1

Funding Rounds

$71.5m

Money raised

A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology research company developing T-cell therapies designed to attack solid tumors while sparing normal cells

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1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Tactiva Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Targazyme is a biotechnology company focused on improving survival and quality of life for cancer patients using stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy, regenerative medicine, and gene therapy.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Taiga Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company developing blood stem cell therapies for treating infectious diseases and cancer.

4

Funding Rounds

$37.4m

Money raised

NewLink Genetics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of immuno-oncology products.

2

Funding Rounds

$163.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company offering precision immunotherapy cancer treatments.

1

Funding Rounds

$104.4m

Money raised

Unum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cell therapy products for cancer immunotherapy applications.

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3

Funding Rounds

$171.2m

Money raised

Triumvira Immunologics is an adoptive Immunotherapy founded by Jonathan Bramson.

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$5.0m

Money raised

WindMIL Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cell therapy products for treating cancer.

2

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

Trillium Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

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SpecificiT Pharma is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies using stem cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.5m

Money raised

ImaginAb is an immune and oncology imaging company developing a pipeline of novel products that give physicians unprecedented insights into the patient's health--enabling better patient selection and treatment monitoring for immuno-oncology therapies and other drugs.

4

Funding Rounds

$166.8m

Money raised

Crescendo Biologics is an immuno-oncology company developing novel, targeted T cell enhancing Humabody® therapeutics.

2

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

CatalYm is an innovative immunotherapies developer for cancer patients founded in 2016.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

OncoImmunity is a personalized cancer immunotherapy using machine learning company founded in 2014 by Trevor Clancy, Richard Stratford and Trevor Clancy.

3

Funding Rounds

$260.0m

Money raised

Antibody Therapies

2

Funding Rounds

$121.4m

Money raised

Turnstone Biologics is an oncolytic viral immunotherapy founded in 2015.

4

Funding Rounds

$129.5m

Money raised

OncoResponse is a company providing cancer research into immunotherapies and the newest technologies for oncologists.

3

Funding Rounds

$29.5m

Money raised

Aivita Biomedical is a stem Cell Therapy founded in 2016.

1

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$22.0m

Money raised

Inimmue is a new biotechnology company founded by pharmaceutical industry veterans focused on developing next-generation immunotherapeutics.

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1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

F1 Oncology is a biotechnology company developing CAR-T therapies for the treatment of cancer.

1

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

Catamaran uses NK cells, synthetic biology, and non-viral cell engineering to create novel CAR-NK cell therapies.

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1

Funding Rounds

$166.0m

Money raised

Rakuten Medical is an antibody conjugates for cancer founded by Hiroshi Mikitani.

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2

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

Oncolytic Immunotherapy

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Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Leman Biotech is an AI-enabled metabolic cancer immunotherapy founded in 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$175.0m

Money raised

Affini-T Therapeutics, Inc is a TCR Cell Therapy.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Novasenta Inc. is a startup biotechnology company focused on the discovery and validation of novel targets to develop cancer therapies.

1

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

Monoclonal Antibodies

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Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Vaximm is developing oral T-cell immunotherapies to treat cancer patients.

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