69 Best Pharmaceutical Industry Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Pharmaceutical Industry 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 787 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $165.4m.

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

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Pembient

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

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Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

8

Funding Rounds

$406.4m

Money raised

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Owkin

Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.

7

Funding Rounds

$254.1m

Money raised

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Insilico Medicine

Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery, artificial intelligence company that looks to treat cancer and age related diseases

6

Funding Rounds

$356.3m

Money raised

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Grail

Grail is a biotechnology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California that was founded as a spinoff of Illumina Inc and initially headed by Jeffrey Huber in 2016, focused on making a medical device that can detect early stage cancer.

4

Funding Rounds

$1.8b

Money raised

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Genomatica

Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.

10

Funding Rounds

$635.4m

Money raised

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Orbit Discovery

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

2

Funding Rounds

$16.8m

Money raised

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BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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Inato

Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.

4

Funding Rounds

$49.6m

Money raised

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Histosonics, Inc.

HistoSonics is a venture-backed medical device start-up company developing a non-invasive sonic beam therapy platform and procedure using the science of histotripsy. Histotripsy utilizes the pressure created by focused sound energy to liquify and destroy targeted tissue, including diseased tissue and tumors, at sub-cellular levels.

5

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

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Lygos

An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.

11

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Prellis Biologics

Prellis Biologics is developing technology to build transplantable human organs and tissues.

6

Funding Rounds

$88.0m

Money raised

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Neos Therapeutics

Neos Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical company developing ADHD medications founded in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$24.1m

Money raised

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Cala Health

Cala Health offers bioelectronic medicines, medical devices, and neurotherapeutics for managing chronic health conditions.

3

Funding Rounds

$145.0m

Money raised

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Locus Biosciences

Locus Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing CRISPR-Cas3-engineered precision antibacterial products.

8

Funding Rounds

$117.5m

Money raised

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ApexQubit

ApexQubit is a biotechnology company that is harnessing a proprietary technology for discovery of new medicines to treat patients with undruggable diseases.

3

Funding Rounds

$54.1k

Money raised

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Vaxess Technologies

A medical company in Massachusetts focusing on lowering the cost of vaccine distribution.

14

Funding Rounds

$87.2m

Money raised

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Metabolon

Metabolon is a company developing metabolomics analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery

5

Funding Rounds

$57.1m

Money raised

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LanzaTech

A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.

6

Funding Rounds

$265.4m

Money raised

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Alzheon

Develops medicines for patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders.

8

Funding Rounds

$92.7m

Money raised

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Sanofi Pasteur

Sanofi Pasteur is a manufacturer of vaccines and related products founded in 1914 by Marcel Mérieux.

1

Funding Rounds

$43.2m

Money raised

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LifeMine Therapeutics

A therapeutics company founded in 2016 working in drug discovery and development using fungi. LifeMine uses genomics approaches to search for biosynthetic genes in eukaryotic microbes for the discovery of naturally inspired drugs to treat previously untreatable and significant chronic diseases.

3

Funding Rounds

$280.0m

Money raised

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Oxford Nanopore Technologies

DNA sequencing company specializing in rapid long-read sequencing through nanopores.

15

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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Antheia

Antheia is an American biotechnology company founded in 2013, and is located in Menlo Park, California. Antheia uses synthetic biology, informatics, and fermentation technologies to produce plant based medicines; most notably opioids using yeast.

1

Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

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Causaly

Causaly is a biomedical research discovery tool founded in 2018 by Yiannis Kiachopoulos.

10

Funding Rounds

$187.8m

Money raised

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MDLIVE

MDLIVE is a telemedicine company headquartered in Sunrise, Florida offering access to board-certified doctors and pediatricians.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Rodin Therapeutics

Rodin Therapeutics was a biotechnology company that developed treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Founded in 2013, it was acquired in 2019 by Alkermes.

3

Funding Rounds

$39.9m

Money raised

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Roquette

Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.

1

Funding Rounds

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Intarcia Therapeutics

Formerly BioMedicines, Intarcia Therapeutics is an American biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for diseases with long-term treatment requirements.

4

Funding Rounds

$479.5m

Money raised

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Peptone

Peptome is a London-based protein physics intelligence company founded in 2016 by Kamil Tamiola and Matt Heberling. It utilizes artificial intelligence for computers to process all information about protein data in the same efficient way that scientists do.

5

Funding Rounds

$82.8m

Money raised

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Oxford Drug Design Limited

Oxford Drug Design Limited is a company that focuses on developing and delivering services and technologies for computer-aided drug discovery

5

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Bond Pet Foods

Bond Pet Foods is a biotechnology company located in Nederland, Colorado, founded in 2015 by Rich Kelleman. Bond Pet Foods is making "cruelty free" real animal protein pet foods using cellular agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Circle Pharma

Biotechnology company developing cell permeable macrocyclic peptide therapeutics using an automated chemistry synthesis.

4

Funding Rounds

$205.5m

Money raised

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Inscripta

A gene editing technology company founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, CO, USA.

13

Funding Rounds

$677.0m

Money raised

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CHAIN Biotechnology

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$645.0k

Money raised

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64x Bio

64x Bio is a biotechnology company developing a platform for improving speed and scalability of mammalian cell line discovery for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

3

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

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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Elysium Health

Elysium Health is a health product manufacturing company founded in 2014 by Leonard Pershing Guarente.

3

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Alto Pharmacy (company)

An online pharmacy company that has created technology that can be utilized to expedite the process of getting medication. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015.

7

Funding Rounds

$566.0m

Money raised

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Aqemia

AI-powered drug discovery platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$69.5m

Money raised

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Mosaic Biosciences

Biotechnology company developing synthetic materials for native tissue regeneration and tissue engineering platforms

2

Funding Rounds

$12.4m

Money raised

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Novo Biosciences

A pharmaceutical company that uses a zebrafish drug-screening platform to find drug candidate molecules that have the capacity to promote regeneration of tissues. Their drug candidate MSI-1436 is being developed and tested for the treatment of heart disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and diabetic nephropathy.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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Capsule

Capsule is a healthcare platform transforming the pharmacy experience founded in 2016 by Eric Kinariwala.

8

Funding Rounds

$572.6m

Money raised

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TechEagle Innovations

TechEagle Innovations is an India-based drone delivery company.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Turbine.ai

Turbine.ai is a Budapest-based drug discovery company founded in 2015 by Daniel Veres, Kristóf Zsolt Szalay and Szabolcs Nagy.

3

Funding Rounds

$31.1m

Money raised

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Scioderm

A pharmaceutical company that develops topical products to treat rare diseases

1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

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Neurelis Inc

Neurelis Inc. is a private specialty pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, US, providing treatment options for epilepsy and central nervous system disorders.

1

Funding Rounds

$114.0m

Money raised

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PostEra

PostEra is a biotechnology company that uses machine learning for medicinal chemistry services.

3

Funding Rounds

$26.5m

Money raised

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Redesign Science Inc

Redesign Science Inc is a computational chemistry company that is interested in small molecule drug discovery

2

Funding Rounds

$7.4m

Money raised

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Alex Therapeutics

AI-powered CBT therapeutic platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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NetraMark

NetraMark is a Toronto-based machine learning software company founded by Joseph Geraci in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

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PlushCare

PlushCare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 by James Wantuck.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Mediquo

mediQuo is changing the way patients interact with health professionals, improving their lives.

5

Funding Rounds

$10.4m

Money raised

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Anjarium Biosciences

Anjarium is an early-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation, non-viral gene therapy therapeutics.

3

Funding Rounds

$121.0m

Money raised

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Enterome

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

14

Funding Rounds

$332.5m

Money raised

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Kernal Biologics

Cambridge, MA-based company developing targeted mRNA therapeutics for cancer and other diseases.

3

Funding Rounds

$50.6m

Money raised

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Oshi Health

A technology company making a mobile application for tracking inflammatory irritable bowel disease.

2

Funding Rounds

$83.0m

Money raised

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Epocrates

Epocrates is a company founded in 1998 by Richard Fiedotin.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Healx

Healx is a biotechnology therapeutics company for rare diseases founded in 2014 by Tim Guilliams.

4

Funding Rounds

$124.1m

Money raised

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Lifebit

Intelligent, distributed & reproducible big data & genomics analysis at scale. Zero onboarding. Zero config.

6

Funding Rounds

$133.6m

Money raised

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GC Therapeutics

GC Therapeutics uses synthetic biology to program patient-derived stem cells into various cell types in an efficient and scalable manner.

1

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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DOMAIN Therapeutics

A biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing small molecules that target G protein-coupled receptors

5

Funding Rounds

$98.6m

Money raised

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Manifold Biotechnologies

Company developing a protein barcoding platform to employ powerful multiplexed measurement.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.4m

Money raised

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1mg.com

1mg.com is a company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

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Juno Therapeutics

Juno Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing medicines for the treatment of serious diseases.

6

Funding Rounds

$382.1m

Money raised

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Genome Medical

Genome Medical is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016.

6

Funding Rounds

$172.6m

Money raised

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Menlo Therapeutics

A clinical late-stage biopharmaceutical company in California that focuses on treatments of dermatologic conditions such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and prurigo nodularis.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Southern Research

A non-profit organization with a focus on scientific and engineering research. It was founded in 1941 and is located in Birmingham, Alabama.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.7m

Money raised

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Motricity

Motricity is a company founded by Andrzej Leraczyk.

1

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised