69 Best Life Science Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Life Science 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 178 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $12.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $180.8m.

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

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Hinge Health logo

Hinge Health

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

11

Funding Rounds

$4.1b

Money raised

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Lucigen

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

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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Flatiron Health

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

3

Funding Rounds

$313.0m

Money raised

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Scribe Therapeutics

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

2

Funding Rounds

$120.0m

Money raised

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Bloomfield Robotics

Bloomfield Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based agricultural technology company.

10

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

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Cellink AB (publ)

Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Insitro

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$743.2m

Money raised

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ThoughtSpot

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

6

Funding Rounds

$613.7m

Money raised

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Strateos

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.

8

Funding Rounds

$100.4m

Money raised

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Palvella Therapeutics, Inc.

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

2

Funding Rounds

$55.0m

Money raised

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Translate Bio

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.

6

Funding Rounds

$227.7m

Money raised

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Quartzy

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

3

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

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Teewinot Life Science

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

2

Funding Rounds

$24.6m

Money raised

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Oxehealth Limited

A company developing optical sensor software that measures vital signs including pulse and breathing rate.

5

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Haya Therapeutics

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

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

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ProNAi Therapeutics

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

2

Funding Rounds

$71.5m

Money raised

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MISSION Therapeutics

MISSION Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based biotechnology company offering a platform for the development of small molecule drugs that selectively target deubiquitylating enzymes.

8

Funding Rounds

$209.3m

Money raised

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Verdezyne

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

13

Funding Rounds

$126.5m

Money raised

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AGI Laboratory

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Ozette

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

3

Funding Rounds

$38.1m

Money raised

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Platelet BioGenesis

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

3

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

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Demetrix

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$61.0m

Money raised

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Qualio

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

6

Funding Rounds

$65.9m

Money raised

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Sharp Edge Labs

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

7

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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

4

Funding Rounds

$193.3m

Money raised

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Gnubiotics Sciences SA

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

6

Funding Rounds

$6.3m

Money raised

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ArtiVatic.ai

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

7

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Incline Therapeutics

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

2

Funding Rounds

$64.5m

Money raised

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Aspect Biosystems

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

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Mendeley

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Bioz

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

9

Funding Rounds

$26.5m

Money raised

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Diurnal

Diurnal is a pharmaceutical company developing endocrine therapeutic drugs founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$531.7k

Money raised

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Artios Pharma

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

4

Funding Rounds

$420.2m

Money raised

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Inipharm

Inipharm is a company developing liver disease therapies.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Qualifyze

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

8

Funding Rounds

$93.9m

Money raised

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Pendulum Therapeutics

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

5

Funding Rounds

$111.2m

Money raised

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AbSci, LLC

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

7

Funding Rounds

$222.5m

Money raised

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Pulmocide

Pulmocide is focused on the development of inhaled medicines for the treatment of viral and fungal infections of the respiratory tract.

3

Funding Rounds

$152.8m

Money raised

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Cytovation

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

2

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

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

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Microbiotica Limited

Microbiotica Limited is a gut Bacteria Phenotype to Biomarker/Therapeutics founded in 2016 by Mike Romanos.

5

Funding Rounds

$166.1m

Money raised

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Allelica

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

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Enzyme (company)

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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Invio, Inc.

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

2

Funding Rounds

$660.0k

Money raised

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Trillium Therapeutics

Trillium Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapies.

2

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

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Mammoth Diagnostics

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

8

Funding Rounds

$264.5m

Money raised

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Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience is a clincal-stage biotechnology company.

3

Funding Rounds

$169.0m

Money raised

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Cellarity

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

3

Funding Rounds

$294.0m

Money raised

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Immunitas Therapeutics

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

2

Funding Rounds

$97.0m

Money raised

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BGI Tech Solutions Co., Ltd.

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$210.0m

Money raised

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Avitide

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

7

Funding Rounds

$40.6m

Money raised

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celldom

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

4

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Conagen

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

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Innoplexus

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

2

Funding Rounds

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Inspector Cloud

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

1

Funding Rounds

$130.0k

Money raised

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Seqwell Inc

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

4

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

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Tego

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

6

Funding Rounds

$19.4m

Money raised

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Collegium Pharmaceutical

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

1

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

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Biosplice Therapeutics

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

6

Funding Rounds

$799.0m

Money raised

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ZAGENO

An online marketplace for materials and reagents for research scientists

3

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

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Courtagen Life Sciences

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

3

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Crescendo Biologics

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

4

Funding Rounds

$166.8m

Money raised

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ARMO BioSciences

ARMO BioSciences was a Redwood City, California-based biotechnology company.

4

Funding Rounds

$167.0m

Money raised

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Base4

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

10

Funding Rounds

$27.8m

Money raised

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Techulon

A company developing gene delivery techniques for cell-based therapeutics

5

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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CatalYm

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

2

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

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Polyplus-Transfection S.A.

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

1

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

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Centrillion Technologies

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

7

Funding Rounds

$58.8m

Money raised

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Nicoya Lifesciences

Nicoya Lifesciences is a company founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.6m

Money raised