20 Best Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 20 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $86.5m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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BlueRock Therapeutics logo

BlueRock Therapeutics

A biotechnology company developing engineered cell therapies for treating diseases in neurology, cardiology and autoimmunity.

1

Funding Rounds

$225.0m

Money raised

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EdiGene

A biotechnology company using genetic editing technologies to develop therapies for the treatment of cancer and genetic diseases.

9

Funding Rounds

$262.0m

Money raised

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Semma Therapeutics

Semma Therapeutics is a biotechnology company making regenerative medicine therapies using stem cells.

2

Funding Rounds

$114.0m

Money raised

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Aspen Neuroscience

Aspen Neuroscience develops autologous iPSC-derived cell replacement therapies for Parkinson’s disease and other CNS disorders.

3

Funding Rounds

$224.0m

Money raised

Healios logo

Healios

Healios is a biotechnology company developing stem cell regenerative medicine therapies for the treatment of retinal and age-related macular diseases.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.9m

Money raised

Bone Therapeutics logo

Bone Therapeutics

Bone Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cell therapy treatments for orthopaedics and bone disease.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.4m

Money raised

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TreeFrog Therapeutics

TreeFrog Therapeutics aims at making iPS-derived cell therapies safer, more efficient and more affordable.

3

Funding Rounds

$157.3m

Money raised

I Peace logo

I Peace

I Peace is a technology company that provides research and development services for GMP products, drug discovery, and personal iPSC banking.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.3m

Money raised

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Shoreline Biosciences, Inc.

Shoreline Biosciences, Inc. is a Cell-Based Immunotherapies founded in 2020 by Kleanthis G. Xanthopoulos.

4

Funding Rounds

$229.0m

Money raised

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Stemson Therapeutics

Stemson Therapeutics is an iPSC Hair Loss Treatment founded by Geoff Hamilton.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

Exacis Biotherapeutics Inc. logo

Exacis Biotherapeutics Inc.

mRNA-based technology to develop engineered cell therapies for solid and liquid tumors

2

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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Laverock Therapeutics

Laverock Therapeutics is a skylark Therapeutics is now Laverock Therapeutics founded in 2022.

1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

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Clade Therapeutics

Clade Therapeutics is a stem Cell Therapies founded by Jim Glasheen, Chad Cowan and Leandro Vetcher.

1

Funding Rounds

$87.0m

Money raised

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Heartseed

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

2

Funding Rounds

$63.0m

Money raised

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Vita Therapeutics

Vita Therapeutics is a company founded in 2018.

2

Funding Rounds

$44.0m

Money raised

Neurophth Therapeutics logo

Neurophth Therapeutics

Neurophth Therapeutics is an ophthalmology Gene Therapy.

2

Funding Rounds

$122.0m

Money raised

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Notch Therapeutics

Notch Therapeutics is a gene-modified T cell therapy.

1

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

Greenstone Biosciences, Inc. logo

Greenstone Biosciences, Inc.

Greenstone is a platform computational biology startup company at Stanford Research Park, located at Alexandria Center for Life Sciences.

1

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

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StemSight

Developer of stem cell-based therapies for vision restoration.

1

Funding Rounds

$590.0k

Money raised

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RYNE Biotechnology Inc.

RYNE Biotechnology Inc. is an iPSC dopamine progenitor founded in 2022.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised