What they do:
Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Funding:
$19.8M · Equity · Mar 2026
Top AI-powered Drug Discovery Startups
This list has 39 startups and was last updated on Oct 16, 2026. 9 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (20), Boston (4), and New York (2). Largest teams: Numerion Labs, PostEra, and Qvin. Latest round: Altay Therapeutics raised $15.7M (Oct 2, 2026).
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What they do:
Altay develops disease-modifying therapies targeting transcription…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Funding:
$15.7M · Equity · Oct 2026
PostEra
Hiring
What they do:
Medicinal Chemistry powered by Machine Learning
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
What they do:
Empowering women. Period.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Adaptyv
Hiring
What they do:
We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering
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HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
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
What they do:
Multimodal AI Platform for Modality Agnostic Drug Discovery™
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Diffuse Bio
Hiring
What they do:
Generative AI for protein design
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Computational antibody design
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States
Output Labs
Hiring
What they do:
The foundation for the next era of science
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Origin
Hiring
What they do:
AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We use AI to design antibodies for intractable diseases
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
What they do:
Multi-targeted therapeutics to treat complex diseases
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
GloGlo
Hiring
What they do:
Curing and preventing type 1 diabetes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
b12 Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We are using the gut microbiome to end cancer.
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
What they do:
Deliver genes to any cell with AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
What they do:
Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Shiru leverages ML to create proteins to feed the world sustainably.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Developing milk-inspired therapeutics for infectious diseases
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HQ: Davis, CA, United States
What they do:
The dynamic single-cell analysis company
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HQ: Houston, TX, United States
What they do:
Regulating the immune system to block cancer & autoimmune diseases
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HQ: Philadelphia, PA, United States
What they do:
The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Growing micro-organs to find new drugs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Making Next-Generation Antibiotics that Outpace Bacterial Evolution
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HQ: Oxford, United Kingdom
What they do:
Biospecimen logistics & operations layer to accelerate drug dev
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HQ: Boulder, CO, United States
What they do:
Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
AI-native pharma company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion
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HQ: Lund, Sweden
What they do:
Synkrino's AI, SATIS is a powerful, unbiased discovery system for…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Menten AI designs peptide and protein therapeutics using quantum…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Redefining the Standard of Care for Iron Deficiency Anemia
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Known Medicine
Acquired
What they do:
Combining 3D cell culture & AI to translate drugs to clinical success
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HQ: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
PipeBio
Acquired
What they do:
PipeBio is a SaaS bioinformatics platform to develop antibody drugs.
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HQ: Aarhus, Denmark
Reverie Labs
Shut down
What they do:
Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 39 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 16, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
9 of them are hiring right now, including PostEra, Adaptyv, and Parallel Bio.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Numerion Labs (67 employees), PostEra (40 employees), and Qvin (30 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: Altay Therapeutics — $15.7M Equity (Oct 2026) and Numerion Labs — $19.8M Equity (Mar 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (20), Boston (4), and New York (2).