36 Best Microbiology Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Microbiology Startups

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There are 36 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $82.1m.

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$111.4m

Money raised

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

13

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$386.6m

Money raised

A biotechnology company that develops medicines based on live bacterial consortia that can colonize the human intestine.

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$68.7m

Money raised

AOBiome Therapeutics is a therapeutics company, based in Newton, Massachusetts and founded in 2013, that developed strains of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria (AOB) to administer live in treatments that address inflammatory conditions.

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$82.6m

Money raised

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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9

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$411.9m

Money raised

Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.

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6

Funding Rounds

$427.1m

Money raised

DNA Script is a DNA synthesis company founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel, and Xavier Gordon in 2014, and headquartered in Paris, France.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Siolta Therapeutics develops microbiome analyses to test microbial-based therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2016 by Nikole Kimes PhD.

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$100.0m

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Snipr Biome is a synthetic biology company using CRISPR to make products for the microbiome.

9

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$56.6m

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A company based in Farmington, Connecticut, that develops skin disease treatments using microbiome science and technology.

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1

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$2.5m

Money raised

BiomeSense, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing microbiome technologies for the collection, storage, and analysis of gut microbiome profiles.

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Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

Xycrobe Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing microbiome-Based, biotherapeutic delivery systems.

14

Funding Rounds

$332.5m

Money raised

Enterome is a pharmaceutical company founded in 2012 by Pierre Belichard.

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8

Funding Rounds

$59.9m

Money raised

MaaT Pharma (Microbiota as a Therapy) is a French biotech start-up, created at the end of 2014, to treat diseases linked to imbalances in the intestinal microbiome.

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$200.5m

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Emulate is a biotechnology company developing biological products that mimic human biology to study of how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

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$23.4m

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Biome Makers is a biotech start-up specializing in microbiome understanding to provide analysis for agricultural and industrial processes.

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3

Funding Rounds

$20.8m

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Sun Genomics is a company developing personalized probiotics founded in 2016 by Sunny Jain.

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3

Funding Rounds

$67.5m

Money raised

Second Genome is a company that is developing microbiome modulators for infection, immunity and metabolic diseases.

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$1.4m

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Microbiome Insights is a microbiome services and bioinformatics company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

Astarte Medical Partners is a startup company headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania developing microbial health informatics software that helps optimize nutrition and gut health in preterm infants.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

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StrataOncology is a tumor sequencing for therapeutic targeting founded in 2015 by Dan Rhodes, Dan Rhodes and Scott Tomlins.

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2

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$2.6m

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CytoViva technology is focused on providing researchers with advanced nanoscale optical and hyperspectral microscopy systems.

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$15.0m

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Persephone Biosciences is a company focused on microbiome therapeutics and research.

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$18.0m

Money raised

Safetraces, Inc. is a Pleasanton, California-based biotechnology company developing an indoor air quality verification that actively measures pathogen risk.

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Funding Rounds

$33.2m

Money raised

Ritter Pharmaceuticals is a Pharmaceutical company developing drugs for treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.

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3

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

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Rebiotix is a company that is deveoloping microbiota restoration therapy for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.

3

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$48.0m

Money raised

DayTwo provides personalized nutrition and actionable insights for people to maintain normal blood sugar levels based on their microbiome.

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Funding Rounds

$302.4k

Money raised

ArtPred is a Netherlands-based medical technology company in the field of in vitro fertilization.

4

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

LightDeck Diagnostics is a biotechnology research company based in Boulder, Colorado that specializes in diagnostic testing development.

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Funding Rounds

$10.1m

Money raised

AnimalBiome is an Oakland, California-based microbiology company founded in 2016 by Carlton Osborne.

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Funding Rounds

$1.8m

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Scioto Biosciences Inc. focuses on delivery of microbiome therapeutics.

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$3.0m

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Ombre is a San Francisco-based company developing at-home tests to provide a quantified view of an individual's microbiome.

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$3.0m

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ResBiotic is developing first-in-class products that aim to alleviate the neutrophilic inflammation associated with dysbiosis to improve respiratory health.

3

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$142.0m

Money raised

TMRW is a New York-based company in the field of in-vitro fertilization.

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$10.5m

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AMILI is a Singapore-based microbiology company founded by Jeremy Lim.

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3

Funding Rounds

$54.2m

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Axial Biotherapeutics is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based microbiology company.

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Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Pattern is an Austin, Texas-based company.

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