69 Best Drug Discovery Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Drug Discovery Startups

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There are 293 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $130.8m.

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$72.2m

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Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

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$236.7m

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A genetic medicine company that build data platforms using synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and genetic medicine for the development of medical therapies.

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5

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$5.1m

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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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7

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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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5

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$390.0m

Money raised

PathAI is a Boston-based artificial intelligence company developing therapeutics and healthcare products.

6

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$356.3m

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Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery, artificial intelligence company that looks to treat cancer and age related diseases

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10

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$930.0m

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Tempus, a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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$111.4m

Money raised

UBiome was a biotechnology microbial genomics company based in San Francisco.

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$71.3m

Money raised

Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.

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$14.3m

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Aria Pharmaceuticals is a first-in-class pharmaceutical discovery and development founded in 2014 by Andrew M. Radin.

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$16.8m

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Orbit Discovery offers a DNA-encoded peptide display technology to identify potential peptide drugs for a range of chronic diseases.

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$83.3m

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BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

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4

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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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10

Funding Rounds

$410.0m

Money raised

Paige provides AI-based digital diagnostics and a vendor-neutral platform designed to drive diagnostic confidence and a more productive pathology workflow.

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$28.9m

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Antidote.me closes the gap between clinical trials and patients

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$76.3m

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AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.

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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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$15.8m

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Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.

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$101.4m

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Synthetic biology company that uses AI, DNA synthesis, and robotics to discover biological molecules.

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2

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$98.0m

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OrphAI Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company based in Guilford, Connecticut that develops precision therapeutics technology designed to treat cancer and rare diseases.

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$26.8m

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Envisagenics is a biotechnology company founded by Maria Luisa Pineda and Martin Akerman in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, New York using artificial intelligence and RNA sequencing to develop therapeutics to treat genetic diseases.

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4

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$153.5m

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Sherlock Biosciences is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2019 by David R. Walt, Rahul Dhanda, Feng Zhang, Jim Collins, Deborah Hung, Jonathan Gootenberg, Omar Abudayyeh, Pardis Sabeti and Todd Golub.

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$31.2m

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Deep Lens is an Artificial Intelligence company matching patients with clinical trials.

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3

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$280.0m

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A therapeutics company founded in 2016 working in drug discovery and development using fungi. LifeMine uses genomics approaches to search for biosynthetic genes in eukaryotic microbes for the discovery of naturally inspired drugs to treat previously untreatable and significant chronic diseases.

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5

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$155.6m

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Athelas is a company developing blood testing device that utilizes deep learning and computer vision.

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Clinithink is a Natural Language Processing AI for structuring medical chart notations

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$34.0m

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Deep 6 AI is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Wout Brusselaers.

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$65.0m

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Nutritas is a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to help discover bioactive peptides.

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4

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$44.0m

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GNS Healthcare is a data analytics and healthcare company. It was founded in 2000 and is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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$50.3m

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Lung Therapeutics is a therapeutics for lung injury and disease company founded in 2013 by Andrew Mazar, Steven Idell and Sreerama Shetty.

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$743.2m

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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.

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$613.7m

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ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.

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$11.3m

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Emergex aims to tackle the global threat of infectious disease by providing affordable and practical on-demand vaccine solutions.

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5

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$2.5m

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Ichor Therapeutics is a pre-clinical contract research on aging mechanisms company founded in 2013 by Kelsey Moody.

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6

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$230.6m

Money raised

Leader in delivering real-world evidence (RWE) and outcomes-based analytics solutions to life science companies and payers.

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8

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$100.4m

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A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

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$28.5m

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A company with an explainable artificial intelligence platform that can analyze data for government, financial services, and healthcare. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Mateo, California.

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$52.0m

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3T Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies.

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$65.4m

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Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

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$3.3m

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An enterprise software company developing computer aided design (CAD) tools for designing and testing DNA sequences.

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$7.1m

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Oisin develops anti-aging treatments that target and remove senescent cells, a type of damaged cell that is unable to divide, accumulates during aging and contribute to age-related diseases.

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$3.5m

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Biotechnology company using Artificial Intelligence to discover drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies

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$109.0m

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Dyno Therapeutics is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts applying artificial intelligence to gene therapy, focused on adeno-associated virus capsid engineering.

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2

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$180.0m

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Terray Therapeutics is a Los Angeles-based biotechnology company that combines ultra-high throughput experimentation, generative AI, biology, medicinal chemistry, automation, and nanotechnology to explore molecules and their targets for the purpose of discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics.

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$82.8m

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Peptome is a London-based protein physics intelligence company founded in 2016 by Kamil Tamiola and Matt Heberling. It utilizes artificial intelligence for computers to process all information about protein data in the same efficient way that scientists do.

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5

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$228.0m

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A biopharmaceutical company developing neurobehavioural therapeutic treatments using artificial intelligence and clinical neuroscience.

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$55.0m

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Palvella Therapeutics is committed to developing safe and effective therapies that specifically target the root cause of genetic skin diseases.

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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.

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2

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$11.5m

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An artificial intelligence company with a focus on developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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4

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$46.7m

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Juventas Therapeutics is a biotechnology company founded in 2007 that is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio developing a pipeline of regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases.

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$133.0m

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Nuclera is a provider of eProtein discovery benchtop system founded in 2013 by Jiahao Huang, Gordon McInroy and Michael Chen.

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$443.5m

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Biofourmis is a global health IT start-up in Massachusetts that focuses on personalized care and therapies using digital therapeutics.

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3

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$117.5m

Money raised

A biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for urea cycle disorders and other rare diseases

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6

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$478.8m

Money raised

Reify Health is a company building healthcare system

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$9.0m

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Artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of scientific and technical literature.

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$30.9m

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Horizon Discovery is a company that offers gene editing, CRO, and diagnostics services

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5

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$152.0m

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Synthetic biology company that created novel DNA base pairs and uses them to incorporate novel amino acids into proteins for potential therapeutics in areas of cancer and autoimmune disorders.

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$59.5m

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64x Bio is a biotechnology company developing a platform for improving speed and scalability of mammalian cell line discovery for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

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$185.0k

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Forcyte Biotechnologies is a Los Angeles-based biotechnology company, founded in 2017.

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$69.5m

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AI-powered drug discovery platform.

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$68.0m

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A biotechnology company developing immune-modulation therapies for infectious diseases and cancer leveraging its technology platform and understanding of immune system mechanisms. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Vienna, Austria.

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$13.9m

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Genecentric Diagnostics, Inc. is an oncology diagnostic and treatment center.

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$5.4m

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A bio-data company that uses AI to analyze RNA sequencing data

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$134.1m

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Verge Genomics is a company focused on the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases with the use of machine learning and computational genomics.

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$3.0m

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An artificial Intelligence company with a platform that acts as a search engine and holds summaries of scientific research papers. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2013.

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$3.9m

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Tempo Therapeutics is an interventional biomaterials for regenerative medicine company founded by Westbrook Weaver.

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$25.0m

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Reverie Labs is a drug dicovery company that uses machine learning founded by Jonah Kallenbach.

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$330.6m

Money raised

DNAnexus is a Mountain View, California-based cloud computing and bioinformatics company.

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$31.1m

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Turbine.ai is a Budapest-based drug discovery company founded in 2015 by Daniel Veres, Kristóf Zsolt Szalay and Szabolcs Nagy.

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