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 in the United States
This list has 451 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 34 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
Funding:
$19.8M · Equity · Mar 2026
What they do:
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
What they do:
AI drug discovery platform for neurotherapeutics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Funding:
$2.16M · Options · Feb 2026
What they do:
Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Verge Genomics
Hiring
What they do:
We use human data and AI to develop better drugs faster.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
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
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:
Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Synthio Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Agentic AI platform for Pharma GTM teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Empowering women. Period.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Invert
Hiring
What they do:
Data analytics software for biomanufacturing.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Targeting Cancer with Click Chemistry
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kingdom
Hiring
What they do:
Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Enabling next generation medicines. A comprehensive platform and…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Parallel Bio
Hiring
What they do:
Using the immune system to cure disease
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Tamarind Bio
Hiring
What they do:
AI Inference Platform for Drug Discovery
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Numen
Hiring
What they do:
Engineering a future without cancer deaths.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Next-generation mRNA platform to solve cancer, COVID and climate.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
What they do:
ZBiotics makes genetically engineered probiotics.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Probably Genetic
Hiring
What they do:
Patient Intelligence Platform for Genetic Disease
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Multimodal AI Platform for Modality Agnostic Drug Discovery™
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Arpeggio Bio develops drugs targeting transcription factors using AI…
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HQ: Boulder, CO, United States
General Proximity
Hiring
What they do:
The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Kernal is creating mRNA 2.0 therapies that work in specific cells
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Anthrogen
Hiring
What they do:
We work on generalizable tools for the next era of biotech.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 451 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
34 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).