What they do:
Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Biotech Startups
This list has 524 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 37 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (134), Boston (35), and New York (27). Largest teams: Benchling, Ginkgo Bioworks, and BillionToOne. Latest round: Renue Life Sciences raised $250K (Oct 14, 2026).
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Ginkgo Bioworks
HiringPublic
What they do:
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Notable Labs
HiringPublic
What they do:
Personalized drug discovery for blood cancer.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pardes Biosciences
Public
What they do:
We break viruses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
BillionToOne
HiringPublic
What they do:
The genetic testing platform detecting and measuring disease.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We make robots for biologists.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Decarbonizing the chemicals industry.
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HQ: Houston, TX, United States
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Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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$19.8M · Equity · Mar 2026
What they do:
Unleash the potential of genomic medicine using AI
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€23.2M · Series B · Oct 2026
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Breye Therapeutics (Breye), a Danish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapeutics for the early treatment of retinal diseases, has closed an oversubscribed €67.5 million Series A financing…
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HQ: Denmark
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€67.5M · Series A · Oct 2026
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Altay develops disease-modifying therapies targeting transcription…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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$15.7M · Equity · Oct 2026
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AMilan-based biotech company developing novel treatments for difficult to treat genetic conditions has raised a $45m seed round, it said today.Theseed round investment in Aptadir Therapeutics is one o...
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$45M · Seed · Sep 2026
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Austin-based Tiny Health has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital to help it meet growing demand for its at-home microbiome tests.
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$33M · Series B · Sep 2026
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An MRI in late 2023 found a mass on Matthew Osman's pancreas. It turned out to be benign, but the months of not knowing made him ask why medicine still cannot predict what happens inside the human body. Today, his…
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$20M · Oct 2026
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Cambridge-based Undecimal Bio, a spin-out from Eleven Therapeutics advancing targeted delivery of siRNA therapeutics, today announced a €16 million ($18 million) Seed financing round to expand DELiveri, its…
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HQ: United Kingdom
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€16M · Seed · Oct 2026
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AI drug discovery platform for neurotherapeutics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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$2.16M · Options · Feb 2026
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Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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As many as 1 in 3 urine cultures come back negative, yet the burning and urgency keep coming. A Cornell Tech spinout says the infection is often still there: in a study of 200+ culture-negative samples, its…
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$9M · Oct 2026
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Cori Clinical, a London-based startup that acts as the intelligence layer to accelerate clinical trials, has closed a €3.8 million Seed round led by Breega, with participation from Enzo, Heartfelt, Together Ventures,…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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€3.8M · Seed · Oct 2026
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Omnio, a Umeå-based BioTech startup, has raised an oversubscribed €2.9 million round from existing investors and shareholders to advance its plasminogen-based therapy for hard-to-heal chronic wounds toward clinical…
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HQ: Sweden
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€2.9M · Oct 2026
Verge Genomics
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What they do:
We use human data and AI to develop better drugs faster.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Lygos (W16) built and commercialized sustainable, high-performance…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Volta Labs, Inc.
Hiring
What they do:
Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Unlocking the next generation of mRNA medicines
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HQ: Oxford, United Kingdom
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Foundation models and autonomous chambers for plant biology
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Discovering the true signals of disease to power life-changing drugs.
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HQ: St. John's, Canada
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RNA medicines for liver diseases
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
PostEra
Hiring
What they do:
Medicinal Chemistry powered by Machine Learning
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Living Carbon
Hiring
What they do:
maximizing biomass on low quality land
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We grow cells for biotech companies.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists.
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HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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We make unmakeable proteins with radical advanced biomanufacturing.
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HQ: Edmonton, Canada
Synthio Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Agentic AI platform for Pharma GTM teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mytos
Hiring
What they do:
Robotic human cell manufacturing
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 524 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
37 of them are hiring right now, including Ginkgo Bioworks, Notable Labs, and BillionToOne.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Benchling (750 employees), Ginkgo Bioworks (641 employees), and BillionToOne (300 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: Renue Life Sciences — $250K (Oct 2026), Myris Therapeutics — $500K Debt (Oct 2026), and Kaigene — $55M Equity (Oct 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (134), Boston (35), and New York (27).