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 Genetics 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 Genetics Companies & Startups (California, United States)
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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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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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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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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uBiome
uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Founder(s): Jessica Richman, Zachary Apte
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Genetics, Health Care, Wellness
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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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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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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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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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Sangamo Therapeutics
Sangamo researches, develops and commercializes engineered DNA-binding proteins for the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
Founder(s): Edward Lanphier
Location: Richmond, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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CODA Biotherapeutics
CODA Biotherapeutics develops a chemogenetic platform designed to modulate neuronal activity.
Founder(s): Joseph Glorioso, Kenneth Greenberg, Nicholas Boulis
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Therapeutics
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Codex DNA
Codex DNA is a biology company helping researchers with the tools they need to securely design, code, and create synthetic DNA.
Founder(s): Dan Gibson, Todd Nelson
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Chemical, Genetics, Life Science
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Loop Genomics
Loop Genomics is a platform technology for long-read DNA sequencing.
Founder(s): Tuval Ben Yehezkel
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Information Technology, Medical
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Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia)
Global healthcare platform for genomics-driven precision medicine. Fabric’ proven AI algorithms power genomic insights.
Founder(s): Edward S. Kiruluta, John Stuelpnagel, Martin G. Reese, Paul Billings
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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23andMe
23andMe is a DNA testing technology company that enables its users to access their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits.
Founder(s): Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science
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Kura Oncology
Kura Oncology, a biopharmaceutical company, advances a pipeline of precision medicines for the treatment of solid tumors and blood cancers.
Founder(s): Antonio Gualberto, Pingda Ren, Troy Wilson, Yi Liu
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical
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Tocagen
Tocagen is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy products for the treatment of cancer.
Founder(s): Dennis Berman, Douglas Jolly, Harry Gruber
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics
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Lucence Health
Lucence Health is a liquid biopsy company detecting the hallmarks of cancer for earlier detection and targeted treatment.
Founder(s): Min-Han Tan, Pan Zhao, Yukti Choudhury
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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Genoox
Genoox uses the power of the community to make genomic data actionable with a mission to create the largest RWE genomic and clinical dataset
Founder(s): Amir Trabelsi, Moshe Einhorn
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Personal Health
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Apton Biosystems
Apton Biosystems develops a high-throughput and low-cost sequencing platform that revolutionizes the availability of genetic analysis.
Founder(s): Bryan Staker, Linda Liu
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Market Research, Therapeutics
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CardioDx
CardioDx is a cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company providing clinicians with information to enhance patient care.
Founder(s): David Levison
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical
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Quantgene
Genomics, A.I., Cancer Diagnostics, Liquid Biopsy
Founder(s): Dr. Monika Hagen, Johannes Bhakdi
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Regulus Therapeutics
Regulus Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and discovery of microRNA therapeutics.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Pathway Genomics
Pathway Genomics is a CAP accredited global clinical lab offering genetic tests for cancer risk, drug responses, and other conditions.
Founder(s): James Plante
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical
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Poseida Therapeutics
Poseida Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that utilizes genome engineering capabilities to develop targeted life-saving therapeutics.
Founder(s): Eric Ostertag
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics
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Denali Therapeutics
Denali Therapeutics is dedicated to defeating neurodegenerative diseases to deliver safe and effective medicines to patients and families.
Founder(s): Alexander Schuth, Marc Lavigne, Ryan Watts
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Therapeutics
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Mission Bio
Mission Bio develops only single-cell multi-omics platform integrating genotype and phenotype for cancer research and biomarker development.
Founder(s): Adam Abate, Adam Sciambi, Charlie Silver, Dennis Eastburn
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Verge Genomics
Verge Genomics uses machine learning and human genomics to accelerate drug discovery.
Founder(s): Alice Zhang, Jason Chen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Machine Learning, Neuroscience
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BillionToOne
BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that makes molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all.
Founder(s): David Tsao, Oguzhan Atay, Sukrit Silas
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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Phylagen
Phylagen is digitizing the global microbiome to create a more transparent world
Founder(s): Harrison Dillon, Jessica Green
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science, Machine Learning
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Cofactor Genomics
Cofactor Genomics builds multidimensional models of disease to deliver true precision medicine.
Founder(s): Jarret Glasscock, Ryan Richt
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Synthorx
Synthorx is a biotechnology company using synthetic biology to synthesize solutions.
Founder(s): Floyd Romesberg
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics, Wellness
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Nebula Genomics
Nebula Genomics leverages blockchain technology to eliminate middlemen and empower people to own their personal genomic data.
Founder(s): Dennis Grishin, George Church, Kamal Obbad
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Blockchain, Genetics, Health Care
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Mammoth Biosciences
Mammoth Biosciences develops novel CRISPR applications for disease detection, research, agriculture, biodefense, and more.
Founder(s): Ashley Tehranchi, Janice Chen, Jennifer Doudna, Lucas Harrington, Trevor Martin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Life Science
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MicroByre
MicroByre is a biotechnology company that specializes in microbiology, synthetic biology, molecular biology, and computational biology.
Founder(s): Jeff Anderson, Margaret Brown, Sarah Richardson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics
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Centrillion Technologies
Centrillion Biosciences develops genomics and DNA analyses technology for personalized medicine, life sciences research, and bioinformatics.
Founder(s): Wei Zhou
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science
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ReviR Therapeutics
ReviR Therapeutics is a genomics-based platform that develops novel medicines targeting human RNAs.
Founder(s): Yang Li
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Biotechnology, Genetics
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Raptor Pharmaceuticals
Raptor is a NASDAQ-listed biopharmaceutical company with the mission to develop and commercialize life-altering therapeutics.
Founder(s): Christopher M. Starr, Todd Zankel
Location: Novato, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics
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Emedgene
Emedgene provides data-driven AI solutions for genomic diagnostics and discovery at scale.
Founder(s): Einat Metzer, Niv Mizrahi, Ofir Farchy, Shay Tzur
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Emergency Medicine, Genetics, Health Care, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Medical
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Chameleon Biosciences
Chameleon Biosciences is transforming gene therapy with a re-dosable, AAV based gene therapy.
Founder(s): Casey Maguire, Genine Winslow
Location: San Anselmo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics
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Predictiv
Predictiv is the first DNA-base Digital Twin to predict and prevent over 22,000 diseases and simulate personalized reactions on 750+ drugs
Founder(s): Alex Rochegude, Sajung Yun, Sijung Yun
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical
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Illumina
Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Founder(s): David R. Walt, John Stuelpnagel, Larry Bock, Satnam Alag
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical
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GATC Health
GATC Health is a technology company that develops predictive multi-omics advanced technology.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics
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MiLaboratories
MiLaboratories is a biotech company developing proprietary software to profile a person’s immune picture on a DNA level.
Founder(s): Alexey Nechaev, Dmitriy Bolotin, Dmitriy Chudakov, Stanislav Poslavsky
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Software
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Singlera Genomics
Singlera Genomics is a fast growing company focusing on non-invasive genetic testing.
Founder(s): JOHNY ZHANG, KUN ZHANG, QIANG LIU, RUI LIU, YUAN GAO
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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Dalrada Corporation
Dalrada Corporation provides innovative global solutions through science, health, clean energy, fengineering, and technology.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Apps, Clean Energy, Enterprise Software, Genetics, Green Consumer Goods, Mechanical Design, Mechanical Engineering, Staffing Agency
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Chimera Bioengineering
Chimera solves the challenges of CARs with drug-responsive gene regulators, which allow us to re-program of the immune system.
Founder(s): Benjamin Wang, Christina Smolke, Gusti Zeiner
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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DiaCarta
Improving patient care through novel precision molecular diagnostics: CE/IVD marked tests are available for detection of KRAS
Founder(s): Aiguo Zhang, Paul Okunieff
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical
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Ligandal
Ligandal is creating cell-specific delivery systems for gene editing tools such as CRISPR using automation and peptide-based nanoparticles.
Founder(s): Andre Watson, Christian Foster
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Nanotechnology
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GigaGen
GigaGen specialized in the early discovery and development of recombinant biotherapeutic medicines.
Founder(s): David Johnson, Everett Meyer
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Therapeutics
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Pow.bio
Pow.bio provides a genetically engineered solution for fermentation scientists.
Founder(s): Ouwei Wang, Shannon Hall
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics
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NantOmics
NantOmics develops cloud-based molecular profiling tools that help guide cancer patients.
Founder(s): Patrick Soon-Shiong
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Biotechnology, Cloud Data Services, Genetics, Health Care, Life Science
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Genapsys
Transform the human condition by building a scalable, affordable genomic sequencing ecosystem that will support research and diagnostics
Founder(s): Hesaam Esfandyarpour
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Life Science
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Karius
Karius provides genomic insights for infectious diseases to enable clinicians to make life-saving treatment decisions.
Founder(s): Mickey Kertesz, Steve Quake, Tim Blauwkamp
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Information Technology, Life Science
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Alector
Alector is combining state-of-the-art antibody technology and recent discoveries in neuroimmunology and human genetics to develop novel.
Founder(s): Arnon Rosenthal, Asa Abeliovich, Tillman Gerngross
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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LunaDNA
The first and largest health and DNA research platform owned by its community.
Founder(s): Bob Kain, Dan Lin, David Lewis, Dawn Barry, Kirby Bloom, Michael Witz, Scott Kahn, PhD
Location: Solana Beach, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Database, Genetics
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TeselaGen
TeselaGen Biotechnology develops DNA design and assembly tools for biology.
Founder(s): Eduardo Abeliuk, Michael Fero, Nathan Hillson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Genetics, Information Technology, Life Science, Software
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AltheaDx
AltheaDx offers molecular diagnostics and PCR-based services such as molecular biomarker discovery, assay development and assay validation.
Founder(s): Magda Marquet
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Edico Genome
Edico Genome revolutionizes genome sequencing analysis by providing unprecedented speed, scale, and accuracy.
Founder(s): Pieter van Rooyen
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Applied StemCell
Applied StemCell is a Leading Cell & Gene Therapy CRO/CDMO providing the Gene editing & stem cell technology platforms to advance your immunotherapy, disease modeling, or bioproduction.
Founder(s): Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai (CEO), Ruhong Jiang, Michael Cleary
Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics, Life Science
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Refuge Biotechnologies
Refuge Biotechnologies therapeutic company focused on gene editing and genetic engineering of immune cells for cancer immunotherapy.
Founder(s): Bing C Wang, David Parkinson, Stanley Qi
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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I Peace
I Peace is a biotech company that develops and manufactures induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).
Founder(s): Takeshi Tanabe
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Manufacturing
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Salk Institute for Biological Studies conducts research on molecular biology and genetics, neurosciences, and plant biology.
Founder(s): Jonas Salk
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Education, Genetics, Health Care, Non Profit
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Calimmune
Calimmune is a clinical-stage gene therapy company.
Founder(s): David Baltimore, Louis Breton
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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CombiMatrix
CombiMatrix develops proprietary technologies, products and services for drug development, genetic analysis, molecular diagnostics and more.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical
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Reviva Pharmaceuticals
Reviva Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies.
Founder(s): Laxminarayan Bhat
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Coral Genomics
Coral develops new clinical tests to help providers streamline prior authorization and select the effective medication.
Founder(s): Atray Dixit
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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NuGEN Technologies
NuGEN Technology is a provider of genomics sample preparation solutions enabling scientists to access true biology in all samples.
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Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Perlara
Perlara, PBC is precision drug discovery that leaves no mutation behind.
Founder(s): Ethan Oren Perlstein, Henry Perlstein
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Clear Genetics
Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Founder(s): Guy Snir, Moran Shochat Snir, Prof. Mordechai (Motti) Shohat, MD
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Fitness, Genetics, Health Care, Information Technology, Personal Health
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Indee Labs
Indee Labs is unlocking gene-modified cell therapy for the masses with scalable hardware for gene delivery.
Founder(s): Ryan Pawell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics
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Indee Labs
Indee Labs is unlocking gene-modified cell therapy for the masses with scalable hardware for gene delivery.
Founder(s): Ryan Pawell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics
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Applied BioCode
Applied BioCode commercializes a multiplexing system used in clinical testing, life science research, medicine, and the AgBio field.
Founder(s): Winston Z. Ho
Location: Santa Fe Springs, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Life Science
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NuCicer
NuCicer is a crop genetics company expertise, pioneering ultra-high protein varieties of chickpea.
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Location: Davis, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Genetics
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Serotiny
Serotiny invents multi-domain therapeutic proteins
Founder(s): Colin Farlow, Justin Farlow
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Therapeutics
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DNALite Therapeutics
DNALite Therapeutics, Inc. is an early-stage preclinical biotechnology company.
Founder(s): Mubhij Ahmad, Timothy Day
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Benitec Ltd
Benitec Biopharma is using patented ‘gene-silencing’ technology to develop drugs for chronic and life-threatening human diseases.
Founder(s): Michael Graham
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Therapeutics
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Sequenom
Sequenom develops technologies and tools used in oncology, agricultural genomics, and in diagnosing prenatal and retinal disorders.
Founder(s): Charles Cantor, Hubert Koster
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Genia Technologies
Genia Technologies is a biotechnology company.
Founder(s): Roger Chen
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical
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MedAnswers
A health tech company disrupting how those struggling to conceive access specialty fertility care through the best of science and tech.
Founder(s): Alice Crisci, Santiago Munne
Location: San Pedro, California, United States
Industries: Android, Big Data, Fertility, Genetics, Health Care, iOS, Medical, Wellness
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Renova Therapeutics
Renova Therapeutics is an industry leader in the emerging field of gene therapy, pursuing the development of treatments.
Founder(s): Craig S. Andrews, Kirk Hammond
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Dark Heart Nursery
Dark Heart is California’s leader in cannabis genetics serving consumers and commercial growers with leading genetics in a variety of forms.
Founder(s): Daniel Grace
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Cannabis, Genetics, Life Science
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Algen Biotechnologies
Algen Biotechnologies is a therapeutic discovery company that builds a platform to decode functional gene networks.
Founder(s): Chun-Hao Huang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Personalis
Personalis is a contract research organization and genome-scale diagnostics services company specializing in genome guided medicine.
Founder(s): Atul Butte
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences designs, develops, and manufactures sequencing systems to resolve genetically complex problems.
Founder(s): Joseph Bonventre, Stephen Turner
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Industrial, Life Science, Medical
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Synthego
Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables access to CRISPR to accelerate life science research and development.
Founder(s): Alex Pesch, Michael Dabrowski, Paul Dabrowski
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Industrial Automation, Innovation Management, Life Science, Machine Learning, Software
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Human Longevity
Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.
Founder(s): Elizabeth Hunker, J. Venter, Peter Diamandis, Robert J. Hariri, M.D., Ph.D.
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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Prime Genomics
Prime Genomics is transforming breast cancer screening
Founder(s): Sandy Shaw
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care
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Shield Bio
Shield Bio – using ultra-fast sequencing to prevent antibiotic resistance
Founder(s): Fred Turner, Sam Parlett
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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PathoGene
MedTech startup developing an automated IVD medical device for detecting and identifying all human pathogens & AMR genes on one test panel.
Founder(s): Chris Pham, Dr. Mike Fang, John Mickel, Joseph Mickel, Paul Spiegel Esq.
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology, Medical Device
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Agribody Technologies, Inc.
Agribody Technologies is an ag biotech company that provides solutions for extending produce shelf life while increasing yields.
Founder(s): Jerry Feitelson, John Thompson
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Intellectual Property
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DxTerity
DxTerity focuses on simplifying genomic testing, facilitating quantitative analysis of genomic bio-markers.
Founder(s): Bob Terbrueggen
Location: Rancho Dominguez, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics
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Response Genetics Inc.
Response Genetics is an innovative and rapidly growing life sciences company engaged in the research and development.
Founder(s): David Smith, Kathleen Danenberg
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Innovation Management
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Trethera
Trethera Corporation, a biotechnology company, discovers and develops small molecules that control DNA replication and integrity.
Founder(s): Caius Radu, David Nathanson, Johannes Czernin, Michael Jung, Owen Witte
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical Device
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WaferGen Biosystems
WaferGen Biosystems is a life science company offering genomic tools for targeted resequencing, genotyping and expression analysis.
Founder(s): Alnoor Shivji, Amjad Huda, Victor Joseph
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Station X
Station X develops software products that enable scientists and clinicians to extract maximal biological meaning from complex genomic data.
Founder(s): Andrew MacBride, Richard D. Goold, Tod M. Klingler
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, CRM, Developer Platform, Developer Tools, Genetics, Information Technology, Software
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Fluidigm
Fluidigm is a biotech tools company that creates microfluidic-based chips and instrumentation for biological research.
Founder(s): Gajus Worthington
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science, Manufacturing
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64x Bio
64x Bio builds a platform that increases the speed and scale of mammalian cell line discovery.
Founder(s): Alexis Rovner, David Thompson, George Church, Jeffrey Way, Pamela Silver
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Arcturus Therapeutics
Arcturus Therapeutics focuses on developing novel RNA therapeutics for the treatment of various diseases aiming at Rare Diseases.
Founder(s): Joseph Payne, Pad (Padmanabh) Chivukula
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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Encoded Therapeutics
Encoded Therapeutics is a Harnessing the regulatory genome to create next-generation molecular therapies.
Founder(s): Kartik Ramamoorthi, Stephanie Tagliatela
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Care, Therapeutics
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