69 Best Drug Discovery Startups to Watch in 2024

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

Total Raised: $117.50M

Last Funding: $75.00M (Series C)

TCR-based immunotherapies developer targeting novel dark antigens for cancer patients.

Total Raised: $32.50M

Last Funding: $32.50M (Series B)

Epitopea is a RNA-based immunotherapies developer to treat cancer patients founded in 2021 by Jon Moore, Claude Perreault and Pierre Thibault.

Total Raised: $13.66M

Last Funding: $0.66M (Unknown)

Heartseed is a biotech company developing iPSC-derived highly purified ventricular cardiomyocytes for heart failure

Total Raised: $63.00M

Last Funding: $37.00M (Series C)

Antibody drug discovery platform.

Total Raised: $4.60M

Last Funding: $4.60M (Seed)

Biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics with a machine learning-driven evolution engine.

Total Raised: $83.17M

Last Funding: $3.70M (Seed)

Healx is a biotechnology therapeutics company for rare diseases founded in 2014 by Tim Guilliams.

Total Raised: $56.00M

Last Funding: $56.00M (Series B)

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

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

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.

Engine Biosciences is a San Francisco-based AI company that is focused on drugs development.

BioNTech is a German company that develops immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

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Merck is a small Molecules, Vaccines, Biologics founded in 1888 by George W. Merck.

Adagene is a biotechnology company using computational biology and artificial intelligence for the development of novel antibody-based cancer immunotherapies.

EditForce is a pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Engineering Technology.

Astellas Pharma is a pharmaceutical company.

Medable's offers a healthcare application that provides patient-generated data for researchers, health startups, pharmaceuticals and universities.

Schrodinger is a New York-based company providing software solutions and services for life sciences and materials research.

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.

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

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

Gracell Biotechnology is a developer of cancer immune therapies designed to treat cancer.

A clinical stage biopharmaceutical company in R & D and the industrialization of innovative drugs and high-end biological similar drugs. Clover Biopharmaceuticals is focused on tumor treatment and autoimmune diseases.

BenevolentAI is a bioinformatics company that develops and applies artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to analyze scientific data in order to create human health and bioscience applications.

A synthetic biology and biotechnology company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

BioAge Labs focuses on developing AI and systems biology-based solutions for slowing the aging process and treating age-related illnesses.

Deep Intelligent Pharma is a drug researching company with focus in artificial intelligence.

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

Arbor Technologies is a company in Cambridge, MA, focusing on biodiscovery using machine learning, genome sequencing, gene synthesis and high-throughput screening.

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.

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

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.

PharmCADD is a company founded in 2019 by Taehyung Kwon.

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