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Software for remote monitoring of cancer patients
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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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Cell-specific genetic medicines
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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A therapeutics platform for curing inflammatory disorders
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Targeting the Tumor Ecosystem to address cancer drug resistance.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Enabling Tissue Targeting of Therapies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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High quality mRNA for therapeutic application
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
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KemNet supplies reformulated drugs for specific groups of patients.
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Dendritic cell-based platform for cancer therapy
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI for Pharma Intelligence
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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"If-then" conditional logic for protein drugs
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Our drugs engage the immune system to fight tumors
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HQ: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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Genetically engineered viruses that teach your immune system to kill…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Converting biology into digital molecular maps
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HQ: Philadelphia, PA, United States
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A Disease Focused Biotech, Building Multiple Billion Dollar Drugs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Scaling Genomic AI for Embryo Selection
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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RWE Generation in minutes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Life sciences reagents and software
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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The continuous oversight engine for clinical trials
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Automating regulatory submissions for life sciences
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The first Agentic platform for Oncology
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Multimodal foundation models to predict uncollected patient biology
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Control lab instruments with natural language.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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The AI Workforce for Biopharma
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Curing cancer. Starting with dogs.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The frontier data platform for aligned health and biological AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Redefining the Standard of Care for Iron Deficiency Anemia
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI platform accelerating therapies for rare & inflammatory diseases.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S19Early stage
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AI Hypothesis Engine for Molecular Discovery
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W24Early stage
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An AI agent for scientific research
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
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The full-stack AI CRO for drug discovery.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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HQ: Basking Ridge, NJ, United States
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$352M · Equity · Oct 2026