69 Best Life Science Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Life Science Startups

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There are 164 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $171.7m.

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

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$4.1b

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The World's First Digital Clinic for Back and Joint Pain

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$5.9m

Money raised

Lucigen is a biotechnology company offering research and testing products and services to life science professionals. The company was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

3

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$313.0m

Money raised

Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.

2

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$120.0m

Money raised

Scribe Therapeutics develops molecular engineering solutions for CRISPR-based genetic medicine.

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$5.7m

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Bloomfield Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based agricultural technology company.

2

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$4.5m

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Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.

4

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$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.

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$613.7m

Money raised

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

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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.

2

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$55.0m

Money raised

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

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6

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$227.7m

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Translate Bio is a clinical-stage mRNA therapeutics company developing medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction and vaccines against infectious disease pathogens.

3

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$11.2m

Money raised

Quartzy is a lab management platform company founded in 2011 by Jayant Kulkarni.

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2

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$24.6m

Money raised

Pharmaceutical company that manufactures and licenses technology to make cannabinoid based therapies.

2

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$1.0b

Money raised

RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics developer for chronic diseases.

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2

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$71.5m

Money raised

Now known as Sierra Oncology, is a clinical stage drug development company in Vancouver that focuses on cancer and hematology treatments.

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$126.5m

Money raised

An industrial biotechnology company that produces chemicals from renewable non-food sources

1

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$1.0m

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AGI Laboratory is an artificial intelligence company founded by Mark Waser.

3

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$38.1m

Money raised

Ozette is a Seattle-based AI immune monitoring company for cancer patients.

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3

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$62.0m

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A biotechnology company in Massachusetts that focuses on developing technology to produce donor-independent human platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

2

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$61.0m

Money raised

Demetrix is a biotechnology company that uses genes found in natural medicines and introduces them to domesticated microbes, for example, the synthetic production of certain chemicals. Demetrix was founded by Dr Haseltine and Jay Keasling.

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$65.9m

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Qualio developed a SaaS quality management platform that provides scalable quality management services for life sciences companies.

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7

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$4.6m

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Sharp Edge Labs is a US-based biotechnology company that develops drugs for protein trafficking disorders.

4

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$193.3m

Money raised

Amunix is an immuno-oncology company focused on developing immune-activating biotherapeutics for patients with solid tumor cancers.

6

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$6.3m

Money raised

A Swiss biotech company active in research and development related to breast milk.

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$2.5m

Money raised

ArtiVatic.ai developed an artificial Intelligence for insurance for on-boarding, fraud, risk profiling, underwriting & claims.

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2

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$64.5m

Money raised

Incline Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company developing treatments for post-operative pain founded in 2009 by David Socks.

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$20.0m

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Aspect Biosystems is a 3D bioprinting founded in 2013 by Tamer Mohamed, Konrad Walus, Sam Wadsworth and Simon Beyer.

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1

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$2.0m

Money raised

Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network to manage research, showcase work, and connect and collaborate with other researchers.

9

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$26.5m

Money raised

Bioz is a Los Altos, California-based software developer in the life sciences field, known for its AI-powered search engine.

4

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$420.2m

Money raised

Artios Pharma develops cancer treatments that target DNA Damage Response (DDR) Pathways to selectively kill cancer cells

1

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$35.0m

Money raised

Inipharm is a company developing liver disease therapies.

8

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$93.9m

Money raised

Provider of supply chain risk management solutions for life sciences industry.

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5

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$111.2m

Money raised

Pendulum Therapeutics is a San Francisco-based medical probiotics company.

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7

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$222.5m

Money raised

AbSci, LLC is an AI-powered synthetic biology company employing their Integrated Drug Creation™ Platform to accelerate discovery of novel biotherapeutic drug candidates.

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2

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$40.0m

Money raised

Cytovation is a privately-held biotech company, specializing in dermatological diseases, based in Bergen, Norway.

3

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$224.0m

Money raised

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

1

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$1.8m

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Developer of a genomic risk prediction platform designed to democratize access to clinical-grade polygenic risk scores (PSRs). The company combines datasets with advanced algorithms to build PRSs with high predictive power for estimating disease risk and translating the potential of genomic data into practical tools.

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$1.9m

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A company developing software for life science and medical device companies with FDA approval and compliance

2

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$660.0k

Money raised

Invio, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 by Cassie Wallender, Dema Poppa, Brian Caruso and Saqib Rokadia.

2

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$26.0m

Money raised

Trillium Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

8

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$264.5m

Money raised

Mammoth Diagnostics is a Brisbane, California-based company founded in 2017 by Jennifer Doudna, Ashley Tehranchi, Trevor Martin, Janice Chen and Lucas Harrington.

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3

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$169.0m

Money raised

Hummingbird Bioscience is a clincal-stage biotechnology company.

3

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$294.0m

Money raised

Cellarity is a company that develops medicines by understanding cell behaviors.

2

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$97.0m

Money raised

Immuitas Therapeutics is a company using immunology for complex cancer treatment.

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1

Funding Rounds

$210.0m

Money raised

BGI Tech Solutions Co., Ltd. is a company that is committed to becoming the preferred technology service provider for the life science research institutions all around the world.

7

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$40.6m

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Avitide discovers, develops, manufactures, and supplies custom and catalog biopharmaceutical affinity purification solutions to the biopharmaceutical industry.

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4

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$2.0m

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celldom is a single cell omics company founded in 2016 by Zach Forbes, Benjamin Yellen and Kris Wood.

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$30.0m

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Conagen is a metabolic engineering and biomanufacturing company founded in 2010 by Oliver Yu.

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Innoplexus is an AI for Drug Discovery founded in 2015 by Gunjan Bhardwaj.

1

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$130.0k

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Inspector Cloud is an AI-powered Saas for retail audits.

4

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$19.0m

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Seqwell Inc is a Beverly, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2014 by Joseph Mellor.

6

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$19.4m

Money raised

Tego is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company founded by Timothy Butler, Bob Hamlin and Suhail Ahmad.

4

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$166.8m

Money raised

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

1

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$22.5m

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Collegium Pharmaceutical is a company developing products for pain management founded in 2002.

6

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$799.0m

Money raised

Small Molecules Acting on Stem Cells. Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration.

3

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$48.0m

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An online marketplace for materials and reagents for research scientists

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$8.0m

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Courtagen Life Sciences is a biotechnology company that provides proteomic and genomic products and services.

10

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$27.8m

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A Cambridge UK based company focused on the development of technologies for single-molecule analysis

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5

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$1.9m

Money raised

A company developing gene delivery techniques for cell-based therapeutics

2

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$160.0m

Money raised

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

1

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$3.2m

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Polyplus-Transfection S.A. is a transfection Supplies founded in 2001 by Anne Monjanel, Joelle Bloch, Patrick Metz and Paul Behr.

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$58.8m

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Centrillion Technologies is a company that develops genomic and bioinformatic tools and services that analyze technology for personalized medicine and life sciences research.

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2

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$11.6m

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Nicoya Lifesciences is a company founded in 2012.

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$3.0m

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Cerenion Oy is a science-based university spin-off that develops technology for the measurement of brain function for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

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$2.7m

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Adaptyv Biosystems is a Lausanne, Switzerland-based biotechnology company developing computation prediction and experimental validation tools with cell-free synthetic biology.

3

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$62.3m

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Scout Bio is a biotechnology company that focuses on transforming pet medicine by providing a pipeline of therapeutics for chronic pet health conditions.

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3

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$14.4m

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Meiogenix is a Île-de-France-based company founded in 2010 by Giacomo Bastianelli.

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$2.0m

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Alithea Genomics backgrounds in bioengineering, molecular biology, genomics and lab operations reflect their complementary expertise.

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$688.7k

Money raised

Orla Protein Technologies Limited is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2001 by Dale Athey.

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