49 Best Pharma Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Pharma Startups in Uk

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There are 49 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $35.5m.

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

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15

Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.3m

Money raised

Leo Cancer Care is a company developing upright radiotherapy solutions.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.8m

Money raised

Orbit Discovery offers a DNA-encoded peptide display technology to identify potential peptide drugs for a range of chronic diseases.

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6

Funding Rounds

$190.5m

Money raised

Kuur Therapeutics focuses on the development of CAR-NKT cell therapies platform for applications in cancer treatment.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

Healthera is a provider of a patient experience platform founded in 2015 by Quintus Liu.

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3

Funding Rounds

$143.4m

Money raised

An exosome therapeutics company founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, UK, that uses exosomes to deliver small and large molecule therapeutics. The company has a proprietary technology to modify exosomes to target specific organs such as the brain and central nervous system.

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7

Funding Rounds

$31.4m

Money raised

Oxford Genetics, also known as Oxgene, is a synthetic biology company specializing in DNA design, protein expression optimization and cell line development technologies and services.

2

Funding Rounds

$645.0k

Money raised

CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

Asimov is a startup that programs living cells with genetic circuits.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0m

Money raised

Isomorphic Labs is an AI-driven drug discovery and development platform founded in 2021 by Demis Hassabis.

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1

Funding Rounds

Isomerase is a Cambridge based microbial natural products drug discovery and development CRO and synthetic biology, fermentation and chemistry service provider

3

Funding Rounds

$13.2m

Money raised

Biosceptre is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company developing diagnostic tools and biomarkers.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

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4

Funding Rounds

$179.4m

Money raised

Kymab is a biopharmecutical company developing human antibody based therapies founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

Oxford Cancer Biomarkers is an Oxford-based biomarker company commercializing biomarker tests for colorectal cancer testing.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.4m

Money raised

Cell analysis technology provider.

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7

Funding Rounds

$25.9m

Money raised

Oxford BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology company based in Oxford, UK, Morristown, and San Jose, USA. The company develops immuno-oncology (IO) and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) based therapies.

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1

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Sygnature Discovery Limited is a drug Discovery Contract Research founded in 2004 by Simon Hirst.

1

Funding Rounds

$34.2m

Money raised

Avacta Group PLC is a drug Development Platform, Engineered Antibodies founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

Kinomica is a Cheshire, United Kingdom-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company that specializes in cell-signaling.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

A pharmaceutical company specializing in drug candidates used for in out-patient and hospital-based sedation

1

Funding Rounds

$718.0k

Money raised

A company offering medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry services for drug dicovery

4

Funding Rounds

SiSaf is the first company to create a Bio-Courier platform technology.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

ValiRx PLC. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based healthcare accelerator working to develop new medicines and technologies founded in 2000.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

Online platform for identifying, interacting, and booking e-consultations with medical specialists in private healthcare.

1

Funding Rounds

GenesisCare is a company founded in 2001.

1

Funding Rounds

Oncimmune is a Nottingham-based diagnostic company developing early cancer detection products.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Blue Earth Diagnostics Limited is an Oxford-based developer and supplier of molecular imaging agents.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Mgb Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing anti-infective medicines founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

Enesi Pharma Limited is a solid Dose Vaccine Delivery founded in 2017.

2

Funding Rounds

$40.4m

Money raised

Wren Therapeutics is a small Molecules Targeting Protein Mis-Folding founded in 2016 by Chris Dobson.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

Oxford Vacmedix UK Limited is a cancer Vaccines founded in 2012 by Dr Shisong Jiang.

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2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Scancell is a cancer vaccine founded in 1996 by Professor Lindy Durrant.

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1

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

Axol Bioscience Ltd is a human Cell Culture Products founded in 2012.

3

Funding Rounds

$78.0m

Money raised

Medical device company developing a closure device for vascular access procedures.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

TTS Pharma is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2012 by Mark Tucker.

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3

Funding Rounds

$33.9m

Money raised

Small Molecules

1

Funding Rounds

$15.8m

Money raised

Leucid Bio is a cell Therapy.

2

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Avectas is a Non-Viral Cell Manufacturing Technology.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Chemistdirect is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2007.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

Provider of AI co-pilot solutions for optimizing chemical processes.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

Plasticell is a cell, Gene Therapy, Blood Products.

1

Funding Rounds

StablevaX™ platform provider for fridge-free vaccine and pharmaceutical products.

1

Funding Rounds

$151.5k

Money raised

Perfectus Biomed is a company founded in 2012 by Samantha Perona.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

World Leading Antibody Services. Specialists in Discovery to Clinical Supply.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

Ignota Labs is an AI-driven drug discovery platform founded in 2021 by Sam Windsor, Layla Hosseini Gerami and Jordan Lane.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Diagnostics Services and Development

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Calla Lily is a proprietary callavid platform for intravaginal drug delivery founded in 2021 by Thang Vo-Ta.

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1

Funding Rounds

$21.0

Money raised

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