Pardes Biosciences
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What they do:
We break viruses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Drug Discovery and Delivery Startups
This list has 59 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 12 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (32), Boston (5), and New York (5). Largest teams: Numerion Labs, WhiteLab Genomics, and Sequence Bio. Latest round: WhiteLab Genomics raised €23.2M (Oct 6, 2026).
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What they do:
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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Funding:
€23.2M · Series B · Oct 2026
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:
Discovering the true signals of disease to power life-changing drugs.
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HQ: St. John's, Canada
PostEra
Hiring
What they do:
Medicinal Chemistry powered by Machine Learning
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Adaptyv
Hiring
What they do:
We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering
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HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Targeting Cancer with Click Chemistry
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Delivering RNA therapies.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Parallel Bio
Hiring
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Using the immune system to cure disease
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Next-generation mRNA platform to solve cancer, COVID and climate.
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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
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The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Discovering drugs that target the DNA regulome
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
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Using CRISPR to find treatments for cancer and inflammation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a Clinical stage biotechnology company…
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HQ: New York, NY, 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
What they do:
We create activating antibodies to treat diseases others can’t.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pirouette Pharma
Hiring
What they do:
We make injections as easy as pushing a button!
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HQ: Boston, MA, 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
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What they do:
AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
CellType
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The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Skin patches for generic drug delivery.
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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
b12 Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Exonic
Hiring
What they do:
Exonic is an AI-native cell and gene therapeutics company.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Adventris makes cancer vaccines
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HQ: Baltimore, MD, United States
What they do:
Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster
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HQ: Sacramento, CA, United States
What they do:
Creating new protein-based drugs at scale
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What they do:
Enabling T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Your biopharma team, from molecule design to portfolio strategy
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Empowering every doctor and every patient to participate in research
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 59 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
12 of them are hiring right now, including Verge Genomics, PostEra, and Adaptyv.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Numerion Labs (67 employees), WhiteLab Genomics (52 employees), and Sequence Bio (52 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: WhiteLab Genomics — €23.2M Series B (Oct 2026) and Numerion Labs — $19.8M Equity (Mar 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (32), Boston (5), and New York (5).