At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Biotechnology companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Biotechnology Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Founder(s): Alice Schwartz, David Schwartz
Location: Hercules, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Pivot Bio
Pivot Bio is an agricultural tech company improving the microbiome by taking nitrogen from the air and making it available for plants.
Founder(s): Alvin Tamsir, Karsten Temme
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, CleanTech
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HeartFlow
HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Founder(s): Charles A. Taylor, Christopher K. Zarins, John Stevens
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Software
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Puma Biotechnology
Puma Biotechnology acquires and develops innovative products for the treatment of various forms of cancer.
Founder(s): Alan H. Auerbach
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Guardant Health
Guardant Health is committed to positively and significantly impacting patient health through technology breakthroughs in oncology.
Founder(s): AmirAli Talasaz, Helmy Eltoukhy
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Marrone Bio Innovations
Marrone Bio Innovations is a pesticide company developing natural products for weed, pest, and plant disease management.
Founder(s): Pamela Marrone
Location: Davis, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering, Water Purification
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Perfect Day
Perfect Day produces dairy proteins that are nutritionally identical to proteins from cow’s milk.
Founder(s): Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Sustainability
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Amyris
Amyris Biotechnologies specializes in creating renewable products focusing on fuels and chemicals.
Founder(s): Jack Newman, Kinkead Reiling, Neil Renninger, Vince Martin
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical, CleanTech, Renewable Energy
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Strateos
Strateos is a SaaS-based biotechnology company that provides robotic solutions for biology labs.
Founder(s): Max Hodak
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Industrial Automation, Information Technology, Robotics, Software, Software Engineering
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Ardelyx
Ardelyx develops novel oral therapeutics to treat mineral metabolism and metabolic disorders.
Founder(s): Dominique Charmot, Peter G. Schultz
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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Zymergen
Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Founder(s): Jed Dean, Joshua Hoffman, Zach Serber
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Robotics
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Bolt Threads
Bolt is a materials company that invents and scales materials that put the planet on a path towards a better future.
Founder(s): Dan Widmaier, David Breslauer, Ethan Mirsky
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Fashion, Manufacturing
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Berkeley Lights
Berkeley Lights is a provider of research and development services using micro-droplet technology that change the biological processes.
Founder(s): Bill Davidow, Igor Khandros, Ming Wu
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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CareDx
CareDx is a novel molecular diagnostics company.
Founder(s): Jay Wohlgemuth
Location: Brisbane, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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1859
1859 is a biotechnology company focusing on the discovery and development of next-generation therapeutics.
Founder(s): Andrew MacConnell, Devon Cayer, Ramesh Ramji, Sara Thrall Cortese
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Product Research, Therapeutics
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Hound Labs
Hound Labs is a breath technology company that has developed ultra-sensitive technology for non-invasive breath measurement.
Founder(s): Jenny Lynn, Kuni Oh, Mike Lynn
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
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Dice Therapeutics
Dice Therapeutics develops a transformative platform designed for the discovery of novel small molecules.
Founder(s): Kevin Judice, Phil Patten
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Medical Device
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Annexon Biosciences
Annexon Biosciences is a biotech company, discovering and developing novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders.
Founder(s): Arnon Rosenthal, Ben Barres
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Viracta Therapeutics
Viracta Therapeutics is a precision oncology company focused on new treatment of virus-associated malignancies.
Founder(s): George Hillman, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Ivor Royston, Ronald Berenson
Location: Cardiff By The Sea, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Siolta Therapeutics
Siolta Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on developing therapeutic microbial consortia to prevent and treat inflammatory diseases.
Founder(s): Nikole Kimes, Susan Lynch
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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4D Molecular Therapeutics
4D Molecular Therapeutics designs, develops, and commercializes transformative gene therapeutic products for unmet medical conditions.
Founder(s): David Kirn, David Schaffer, Theresa Janke
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics
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Calysta
Calysta Energy develops a new biological gas-to-liquids™ (BioGTL™) and biological gas-to-chemicals (BioGTC™) technology using natural gas.
Founder(s): Alan Shaw, David McElroy, Josh Silverman
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Energy, Oil and Gas
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Intarcia Therapeutics
Intarcia Therapeutics develops therapies for diseases that require long-term chronic treatment.
Founder(s): David Franklin, James M. Ahlers, Thomas Alessi
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device, Personal Health
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Global Blood Therapeutics
GBT is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing its lead product candidate, voxelotor, as a therapy for sickle cell disease.
Founder(s): Andrej Sali, Charles Homcy, Craig Muir, David Phillips, Jack Taunton, Matthew Jacobson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Therapeutics
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Olema Oncology
Olema Oncology is a preclinical biotechnology company that develops new drugs for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.
Founder(s): Cyrus L. Harmon, Peter Kushner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Exagen
Exagen is a patient focused, discovery-driven life science company serving patients affected by autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
Founder(s): Cole Harris, Waneta Tuttle
Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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A2 Biotherapeutics
A2 Biotherapeutics develops novel medicines for serious illness.
Founder(s): Alexander Kamb
Location: Westlake Village, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Eureka Therapeutics
Eureka Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focusing on immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer.
Founder(s): Cheng Liu
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device, Therapeutics
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Expansion Therapeutics
Expansion Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing transformative oral medicines for severe RNA-mediated diseases.
Founder(s): Kevin Forrest, Matthew D. Disney
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Rani Therapeutics
Rani Therapeutics develops bio-therapeutics technology for the oral delivery of large drug molecules.
Founder(s): Mir Imran
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Gamma Biosciences
Gamma Biosciences is a next-generation bioprocessing for advanced therapies by acquiring or investing in high-potential businesses.
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Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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VitroLabs
We work with nature to create real leather from cells, that’s slaughter-free and better for the environment.
Founder(s): Dusko Ilic, Ingvar Helgason
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Biotechnology, Fashion, Health Care, Manufacturing
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AnaptysBio
AnaptysBio is a biotechnology company that develops antibody therapeutics based on somatic hypermutation.
Founder(s): Andrew B. Cubitt
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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ChromaDex
ChromaDex is a provider of phytochemical standards, botanical materials, and research-grade materials for the natural products industry.
Founder(s): Frank L. Jaksch
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Nutraceutical, Product Research, Wellness
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Catalyst Biosciences
Catalyst Biosciences is a drug R&D company creating catalytic biopharmaceutical products based on engineered human proteases.
Founder(s): Charles S. Craik, Christopher Thanos, Jack Nguyen, Sandra Waugh Ruggles
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Indapta Therapeutics
Indapta Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Medical
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RxSight
RxSight is a medical device company that offers an intraocular lens and cataract surgery solutions.
Founder(s): Daniel Schwartz
Location: Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Eyewear, Health Care, Medical Device
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Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Ionis Pharmaceuticals is a drugmaker company.
Founder(s): Christopher K. Mirabelli, Daniel Ripley
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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LatchBio
Latch Bio builds and disseminates free to use data infrastructure for the the biocomputing revolution.
Founder(s): Alfredo Andere, Kenny Workman, Kyle Giffin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
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Celeris Therapeutics
Harnessing deep learning and lab automation to accelerate drug discovery in targeted protein degradation.
Founder(s): Christopher Trummer
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Yali Biosciences
Yali Biosciences is a food tech company uses synthetic biology and genomics tools to make climate-smart, sustainable foods.
Founder(s): Peng Xu, Yulin Lu
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
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Gossamer Bio
Gossamer Bio is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel and differentiated therapeutic products.
Founder(s): Faheem Hasnain, Sheila Gujrathi
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Delta Leaf Labs
Plant and Cannabis DNA Testing
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Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Cannabis, Genetics
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Ventrix
Ventrix delivers a biomaterial scaffold for cardiac repair as a treatment option for cardiac patients.
Founder(s): Adam Kinsey, Adam Kinsey, Karen Christman
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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Aduro BioTech
Aduro BioTech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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LevitasBio
LevitasBio is advancing science and human health by providing researchers with a new and powerful method of cellular analysis.
Founder(s): Gozde Durmus, Lars Steinmetz, Utkan Demirci
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Therapeutics
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Sonendo
Sonendo is a developing innovative and disruptive technologies to transform endodontic therapy.
Founder(s): Olav Bergheim
Location: Laguna Hills, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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Vaxcyte
Vaxcyte focuses on developing vaccines designed to prevent or treat some of the most common and deadly infectious diseases worldwide.
Founder(s): Ash Khanna, Grant E. Pickering, Jeff Fairman
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Delivery Service, Health Care
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Nkarta Therapeutics
Nkarta Therapeutics is a developer of cell engineering platform created to build the next generation of cell therapies.
Founder(s): Paul Hastings
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology firm specializing in polymer-based pharmaceuticals.
Founder(s): Barry Quart
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Engine Biosciences
Engine Biosciences is a biotech company that applies machine learning to genomics for drug discovery.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Lu, Timothy K. Lu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Machine Learning
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IDbyDNA
IDbyDNA democratizes Precision Metagenomics to uncover the microbial world.
Founder(s): Guochun Liao, Mark Yandell, Martin Reese, Robert Schlaberg
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science
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Aimmune Therapeutics
Aimmune Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that improves the lives of people with food allergies.
Founder(s): Bryan Walser
Location: Brisbane, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Arcutis Biotherapeutics
Arcutis Biotherapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medical dermatology for unmet needs.
Founder(s): Bhaskar Chaudhuri, David Osborne
Location: Westlake Village, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Tenaya Therapeutics
Tenaya Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapies designed to offer treatment for heart disease.
Founder(s): Benoit Bruneau, Bruce Conklin, Deepak Srivastava, Eric Olson, Saptarsi Haldar, Sheng Ding
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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IGM Biosciences
IGM Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company pioneering the development of engineered IgM antibodies.
Founder(s): Nelson Teng
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Otonomy
Otonomy is a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing treatments for diseases of the inner and middle ear.
Founder(s): Jay Lichter, Jeffrey Harris
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care
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Artemys Foods
Artemys Foods works on the next generation of meat alternatives by cultivating meat, instead of harvesting meat from animals.
Founder(s): Jess Krieger, Joshua March
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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LogicBio Therapeutics
LogicBio Therapeutics is a gene therapy startup
Founder(s): Adi Barzel, Frederic Chereau, Leszek Lisowski, Mark Kay, Matthias Jaffé
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics
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Prellis Biologics
Prellis employs holographic tissue printing technology with rapid fully human antibody discovery, in vitro human disease and ADME/Tox models
Founder(s): Melanie Matheu, Noelle Mullin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Printing, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Bolt Biotherapeutics
Bolt Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops a platform for cancer immunotherapy.
Founder(s): Chih-Ping Liu, Edgar Engleman
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Metacrine
Metacrine is a clinical-stage bio pharmaceutical company focused on building an innovative pipeline of best-in-class drugs.
Founder(s): Michael Downes, Richard Heyman, Ronald Evans
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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BCD Bioscience
BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications.
Founder(s): Bruce German, Carlito Lebrilla, David Mills, Matthew Amicucci
Location: Davis, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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ImmPACT Bio USA
ImmPACT Bio USA is developing novel cell therapies for treating cancer.
Founder(s): Gideon Gross, Zelig Eshhar
Location: Camarillo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Capricor Therapeutics
Capricor Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focusing on cell and exosome-based therapeutics.
Founder(s): Linda Marban
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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Locanabio
Locana develops RNA-targeting gene therapies for patients with severe neurodegenerative, neuromuscular, and retinal diseases.
Founder(s): David Nelles, Gene Yeo
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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BioMarin Pharmaceutical
BioMarin develops and commercializes innovative biopharmaceuticals for serious diseases and medical conditions.
Founder(s): Christopher Starr, Grant Denison
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Developer Platform
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Profusa
PROFUSA is a medical devices company creating tissue-integrated sensors for chronic disease management and healthy living.
Founder(s): Bill McMillan, Kristen Helton, Natalie Wisniewski
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Medical Device, Personal Health, Wellness
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Stämm Biotech
Stämm is downsizing a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, plug-n-play desktop unit called The Bioprocessor.
Founder(s): Federico D’Alvia Vegh and Juan Francisco “Yuyo” Llamazares Vegh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Life Science
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Pipeline Therapeutics
Pipeline Therapeutics is a developer of regenerative therapies designed to promote functional recovery of neurological diseases.
Founder(s): Brian Stearns, Daniel Lorrain
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Potrero Medical
Potrero Medical is a predictive health company that is developing the next generation of smart sensors and artificial intelligence.
Founder(s): Dan Burnett, Daniel Burnett
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
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MEI Pharma
MEI Pharma is a San Diego-based oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for cancer.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Medical
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Antheia
A synthetic biology company for next generation plant-inspired medicines
Founder(s): Christina Smolke, Isis Trenchard, Kristy Hawkins
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
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Talis Biomedical
Talis Biomedical is developing a point-of-care, sample-to-answer platform.
Founder(s): Brian Coe, Rustem Ismagilov
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Ambys Medicines
Ambys Medicines is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing regenerative and restorative therapies.
Founder(s): Holger Willenbring, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Markus Grompe, Martin Burke
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Calithera Biosciences
Calithera is a pharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
Founder(s): Susan M. Molineaux
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Aridis Pharmaceuticals
Aridis is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel, differentiated therapies for infectious diseases.
Founder(s): Eric Patzer, Vu L. Truong
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Content Discovery, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Lygos
Lygos provides biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges.
Founder(s): Eric Steen, Jay Keasling, Jeffrey Dietrich
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Clean Energy
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AmbAgon Therapeutics
AmbAgon Therapeutics is a developer of cancer molecule therapeutics.
Founder(s): Christian Ottmann, Lucas Brunsveld, Michelle Arkin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Product Research
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PostEra
PostEra is a biotech company that builds an end-to-end med chem platform to advance drug discovery.
Founder(s): Aaron Morris, Alpha Lee, Matt Robinson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Bionaut Labs
Bionaut Labs revolutionizes the treatment of central nervous system disorders with its precision medicine treatment modality.
Founder(s): Aviad Maizels, Michael Shpigelmacher
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Avita Medical
Avita is a medical company that specializes in regenerative medicine, chronic wounds, and plastic surgery.
Founder(s): Fiona Wood
Location: Valencia, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
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Brii Biosciences
Brii Biosciences is a biotechnology company that commits to bring innovative medicines to China as a way to improve public health.
Founder(s): Zhi Hong
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Innovation Management, Pharmaceutical
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GALY
GALY develops biomaterials through biotechnology and synthetic biology in order to discover new ways to produce natural things.
Founder(s): Luciano Bueno, Paula Elbl
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical, Life Science
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Epic Sciences
Epic Sciences is a diagnostics company improving cancer management by providing real-time biopsy material to guide personalized medicine.
Founder(s): David Nelson, Dena Marrinucci, Peter Kuhn
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Hospital
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NGM Biopharmaceuticals
NGM Biopharmaceuticals is a drug discovery company developing biotherapeutics for the gastrointestinal endocrine system.
Founder(s): Jin-Long Chen
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical
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Omniome
Omniome engages in developing a proprietary DNA sequencing platform capable of delivering unsurpassed sequencing accuracy.
Founder(s): Kandaswamy Vijayan
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Adverum Biotechnologies
Adverum Biotechnologies is a gene therapy company that focuses on developing medicines that can offer therapeutic benefits to patients.
Founder(s): Mark S. Blumenkranz, Mitchell Finer, Steven D. Schwartz, Thomas W. Chalberg
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Ascendis Pharma
Ascendis Pharma built a high-value pipeline that aims to change the clinical treatment paradigms.
Founder(s): Jan Møller Mikkelsen
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Health Care
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Inhibrx
Inhibrx is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a broad pipeline of novel biologic therapeutic candidates.
Founder(s): Brendan Eckelman, Mark Lappe, Quinn Deveraux
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Slope.io
Slope.io is a provider of a healthcare software designed to offer an easy way to prevent inventory outages.
Founder(s): Michael Felix, Rust Felix
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Enterprise Software, Events, Logistics, Software
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Earli
Earli is a developer of cancer treatment devices designed to search for natural biomarkers.
Founder(s): Cyriac Roeding, David Suhy, Sanjiv Gambhir
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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Injectsense
Monitoring therapy effectiveness (glaucoma) through miniaturized, autonomous in-vivo sensing and data uploading to cloud database.
Founder(s): Ariel Cao, Cenk Acar, Enrique Malaret
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device
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Cardea Bio
Cardea is developing a new generation of (bio)technology infrastructure based on proprietary biology-gated transistors.
Founder(s): Brett Goldsmith, Kiana Aran, Ross Bundy
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
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Novome Biotechnologies
Novome Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company focused on engineering defined activities into the human.
Founder(s): Liz Shepherd, Weston Whitaker, Will DeLoache, Zachary Russ
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Encodia
Encodia is a biotech company that develops the next generation of protein analysis tools.
Founder(s): Julie Sunderland, Kevin Gunderson, Mark Chee, Michael Weiner
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical
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Biocept
Biocept employs cell separation technology to develop a class of diagnostic assays for the early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
Founder(s): Soon Kap Hahn
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Biome Makers
Biome Makers develops neural biocomputing applications that enable sustainable and productive farming.
Founder(s): Adrian Ferrero, Alberto Acedo
Location: West Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Data Visualization, Farming, Sustainability
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Fluxergy
Fluxergy is a biotechnology company that offers point-of-care testing, PCR, and medical diagnostics.
Founder(s): Jonathan Tu, Ryan Revilla, Tej Patel
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Medical Device
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Capsida
Capsida is a biotechnology company that specializes in tackling monogenetic and sporadic CNS and non-CNS disorders.
Founder(s): Nicholas Flytzanis, Nick Goeden, Viviana Gradinaru
Location: Newbury Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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BigHat Biosciences
BigHat Biosciences is a protein therapeutics company that develops an antibody design platform guided by artificial intelligence.
Founder(s): Mark DePristo, Peyton Greenside, Theresa Tribble
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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