What they do:
Deliver genes to any cell with AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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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Combination therapeutics for the world's toughest diseases
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HQ: Remote
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Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results
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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
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The dynamic single-cell analysis company
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HQ: Houston, TX, United States
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The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Evolutionary intelligence for autoimmune disease
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Growing micro-organs to find new drugs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-native pharma company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Synkrino's AI, SATIS is a powerful, unbiased discovery system for…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Menten AI designs peptide and protein therapeutics using quantum…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Converting biology into digital molecular maps
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HQ: Philadelphia, PA, 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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The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing
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HQ: Boston, MA, 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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Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Coral Genomics
Acquired
What they do:
New clinical tests for managing autoimmune treatments.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
zPREDICTA
Acquired
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Patient-derived 3D tissue reconstruction models for preclinical…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Dropprint Genomics
Acquired
What they do:
The better way to run single cell genomics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Felix Biotechnology
Shut down
What they do:
We’re creating programmable therapies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lavo Life Sciences
Shut down
What they do:
AI for drug formulation
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Trident Bioscience
Shut down
What they do:
Accelerating protein engineering.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States