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 Life Science 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 Life Science Companies & Startups (California, United States)
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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Unlearn.AI
Unlearn.AI develops a platform to accelerate clinical trials for Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and other complex diseases.
Founder(s): Charles Fisher
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Biopharma, Clinical Trials, Life Science, Machine Learning, Software
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CytoVale
Categorized is a medical technology company that revolutionizes diagnostics using cell mechanics and machine learning.
Founder(s): Ajay Shah, Dino Di Carlo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Machine Learning
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Athelas
Athelas develops technology to monitor chronically ill patients in their homes.
Founder(s): Deepika Bodapati, Tanay Tandon
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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Demetrix
Demetrix is a biotechnology company that manufactures natural medicines using synthesis biology to make medical drugs.
Founder(s): Jay Keasling, William Haseltine
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical Device
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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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Federation Bio
Federation Bio is a microbial therapeutics company targeting diseases in which the human microbiome can play a curative role.
Founder(s): Dylan Dodd, Michael Fischbach, Racquel Bracken
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Spring Discovery
Spring Discovery accelerates the discovery of therapies for aging by targeting the biological processes of aging itself.
Founder(s): Ben Kamens
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Spotlight Therapeutics
Spotlight Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops biologics targeted to specific cell populations in gene editing.
Founder(s): Alexander Marson, Jacob Corn, Patrick Hsu
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
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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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Riffyn
Riffyn’s cloud software gets scientific R&D products to market faster via intelligent process development and data analytics.
Founder(s): Timothy Gardner
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Life Science, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Software
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Mekonos
Mekonos creates a proprietary cell-engineering platform designed for cell therapies on a chip.
Founder(s): Anil Narasimha, Greg Sitters, Milad Alucozai, Steven Banerjee
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Semiconductor
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Design Therapeutics
Design Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies for serious degenerative disorders.
Founder(s): Aseem Ansari, Pratik Shah
Location: Solana Beach, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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GEM
GEM is a consumer life science company that offers edible nutritional supplements.
Founder(s): Sara Cullen
Location: Venice, California, United States
Industries: Dietary Supplements, Life Science, Nutrition, Organic Food
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Zephyr Health
Zephyr Health operates as an insights-as-a-service solution built specifically for life sciences companies.
Founder(s): William King
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Tyra Biosciences
Tyra Biosciences is a biotechnology company targeting new pathways of acquired resistance in oncology with purpose-built drugs.
Founder(s): Dan Bensen, Todd Harris
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Prealize Health
Prealize Health uses machine learning to transform healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Founder(s): Arnold Milstein, Nigam Shah
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Hospital, Life Science, Machine Learning, Medical, Software
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Artificial
Artificial is a software company that develops a lab automation platform.
Founder(s): David Fuller, Nikhita Singh
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Life Science, Robotics, Software
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Biomea Fusion
Biomea Fusion is a precision oncology company developing novel small molecules that target aggressive forms of cancer.
Founder(s): Ramses Erdtmann, Thomas Butler
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Imago BioSciences
Imago is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company discovering new medicines for the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).
Founder(s): Hugh Rienhoff
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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Univfy
Univfy AI Platform makes fertility costs and success more predictable for women and couples navigating their family-building options.
Founder(s): Mylene Yao, Wing Wong
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Life Science, Machine Learning, PaaS, Personal Health, Predictive Analytics
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Calibre Scientific
Calibre is a diversified global developer, manufacturer and distributor of consumable products in the life sciences and diagnostics markets.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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ALX Oncology
ALX Oncology is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing innovative immuno-oncology therapies for cancer.
Founder(s): Jaume Pons
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Prolacta Bioscience
Prolacta Bioscience provides human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Founder(s): Elena Medo
Location: City Of Industry, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Nutrition
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Trestle Biotherapeutics
Trestle Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company that introduces bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney disease.
Founder(s): Alice Chen, Ben Shepherd
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device
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Mantra Bio
Mantra Bio is the creator of REVEAL, an exosome engineering platform combining computational biology and lab automation.
Founder(s): Alex Mok, Katie Planey, Terry Gaige
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Founder(s): Bobak Azamian
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Ontera
Ontera develops a hand-held point of use diagnostic platform that examines DNA and RNA, and analytes from any life form.
Founder(s): Dan Heller, William Dunbar
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device
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Checkerspot
Checkerspot is a high performance materials company that designs materials at a molecular level.
Founder(s): Charles Dimmler, Scott Franklin
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Glyphic Biotechnologies
Next generation protein sequencing.
Founder(s): Daniel Estandian, Joshua Yang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Bioz
Bioz is a disruptive startup at the intersection of information technology and scientific research.
Founder(s): Daniel Levitt, Dr. Karin Lachmi
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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LakePharma
LakePharma is a biologics CRDMO that provides integrated solutions from discovery to engineering, development and GMP manufacturing.
Founder(s): Hua Tu
Location: Belmont, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
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Tranquis Therapeutics
Tranquis Therapeutics is focused on the discovery and development of therapies to treat neurodegenerative and aging-related diseases.
Founder(s): Chih-Ping Liu, Edgar G. Engleman, Khoa Nguyen
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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XinThera
XinThera is a drug discovery company focused on building small molecule oncology and immunology pipeline.
Founder(s): Gene Hung, Qing Dong, Stephen Kaldor
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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Creyon Bio
Reinventing drug development from the ground up to make safe, effective oligonucleotide-based medicines possible on demand.
Founder(s): Christopher Hart, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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BridgeBio Pharma
BridgeBio Pharma focuses on genetic disease therapies and develops those assets with the right approach in supporting R&D.
Founder(s): Frank McCormick, Neil Kumar
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Biosplice Therapeutics
Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration.
Founder(s): Osman Kibar
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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Benchling
Benchling is a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.
Founder(s): Ashutosh Singhal, Cory Li, Sajith Wickramasekara
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Software
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Rondo Therapeutics
Therapeutic antibody discovery and development
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Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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Nines
Nines is the first-of-its-kind radiology practice. Radiologists + Data Scientists + Engineers. Trusted partner.
Founder(s): Alex Kagen, David Stavens
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Machine Learning
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Equillium
Equillium is a biotechnology company that develops products for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders with an unmet medical need.
Founder(s): Bruce D. Steel, Stephen Connelly
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Principia Biopharma
Principia Biopharma is dedicated to bringing oral therapies to patients with significant unmet medical needs in immunology & oncology.
Founder(s): Bernard Cambou, Jack Taunton
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Appia Bio
Appia Bio is a biotechnology company committed to the research and development of off-the-shelf allogeneic Cell Therapies.
Founder(s): David Baltimore, JJ Kang, Lili Yang, Pin Wang
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Chai
Chai develops products that make the core biological technologies more useful and readily available to all.
Founder(s): Jessie Ho, Josh Perfetto
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Medical Device
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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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Cellworks
Cellworks is a life sciences technology company involved in drug and bio-marker discovery and researches in therapeutic areas.
Founder(s): Pradeep Fernandes, Shireen Vali, Taher Abbasi
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Catena Biosciences
Biotech company focused on protein conjugation.
Founder(s): Gregorio Guillen, Marco Lobba
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Ansa Biotechnologies
Ansa Biotechnologies develops a novel DNA synthesis technology based on enzymes.
Founder(s): Daniel Arlow, Sebastian Palluk
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Dren Bio
Dren Bio focuses on protein engineering technologies for depletion of cells, protein aggregates, and other disease-causing agents.
Founder(s): John Wesley, Nenad Tomasevic
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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Replicate Bioscience
Replicate Bioscience creates novel oncology treatments to prevent and reverse drug resistance through a self-replicating RNA platform.
Founder(s): Andrew Geall, Herbert Kim Lyerly, Nathaniel Wang, Zachary Hartman
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Palette Life Sciences
Palette Life Sciences provides a wide range of products to improve the quality of life for the patients it serves.
Founder(s): Arne Folke Brodin, Berith Karlsson Tingåker, Gunvor Ester Ekman-Ordeberg, Lars Irestedt
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Evommune
Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines.
Founder(s): Eugene Bauer, Hans Hofland, Luis Pena
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Koniku
Koniku merges synthetic biology with silicon to build machines that detect smells. We cyborgs capable of detecting smell.
Founder(s): Osh. Agabi, Salys Christina
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Internet of Things, Life Science, Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Personal Health, Security, Travel
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Numerate
Numerate seeks to overcome major challenges in drug discovery by applying novel machine-learning algorithms, at cloud scale, to drug design.
Founder(s): Brandon Allgood, Guido Lanza, Nigel Duffy
Location: San Bruno, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Life Science, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical
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Versanis Bio
Versanis Bio is to discover and develop first-in-class medicines that address medical conditions prevalent in older adults.
Founder(s): Joe Jimenez, Mark Fishman
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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SOFIE
SOFIE is a molecular imaging company focused on empowering people with new PET technologies.
Founder(s): Johannes Czernin, Michael Phelps, Owen Witte
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical
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Assertio
Assertio is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat pain and other.
Founder(s): John W. Shell
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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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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MapLight Therapeutics
MapLight Therapeutics is a biopharma company that offers a platform designed to discover and develop therapeutics for brain disorders.
Founder(s): Christopher Kroeger, Karl Deisseroth, Karoly Nikolich, Robert Malenka
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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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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X-Therma
X-Therma is a biotechnology firm that develops a convergent biopreservation platform to advance regenerative medicine.
Founder(s): Mark Kline, Xiaoxi Wei
Location: Richmond, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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OncoSec Medical
OncoSec is a biotechnology company pioneering new technologies to stimulate the body’s immune system to target and attack cancer.
Founder(s): Punit Dhillon
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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JADBio
JADBio’s robust AutoML automates the machine learning process, making it easy for life-science professionals to discover knowledge.
Founder(s): Ioannis Tsamardinos, Pavlos Charonyktakis
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Enterprise Software, Life Science, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Predictive Analytics
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Kezar Life Sciences
Kezar Life Sciences company focused on the discovery and development of drugs targeting protein homeostasis for autoimmune disorders
Founder(s): Christopher Kirk, Jack Taunton, John Fowler
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Engrail Therapeutics
Engrail Therapeutics is a developer of medicines to transform the lives of patients with life-limiting diseases of the nervous system.
Founder(s): Stephen Cunningham, Vikram Sudarsan
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Fifty Years
Fifty Years is an early stage VC fund backing entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems.
Founder(s): Ela Madej, Seth Bannon
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Impact Investing, Life Science, Venture Capital
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General Automation Lab Technologies
GALT is a developer of a microbiological technology used to help cultivate and study bacteria and other microbes.
Founder(s): Michael Seely, Paul Blainey PhD, Peter Christey PhD, Roman Stocker PhD
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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Sanguine
Sanguine develops innovative technology solutions for clinical researchers.
Founder(s): Brian Neman, Carlyn Crisostomo, Gerald Lee, Kaley Zeitouni, matthew marple
Location: Sherman Oaks, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Life Science, Medical
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Magnetic Insight
MPI enables best in class cellular imaging to measure the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies.
Founder(s): Anna Christensen, Patrick Goodwill, Steven Conolly
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical Device
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Ocelot Bio
Ocelot Bio brings new treatment options to patients with severe liver disease.
Founder(s): Geoff Harris
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
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NKGen Biotech
NKGen Biotech is restoring immune function through the development of unique natural killer (NK) cell therapies.
Founder(s): Sangwoo Park
Location: Santa Ana, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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Menten AI
Menten AI develops peptide and protein therapeutics using machine learning and quantum computing.
Founder(s): Hans Melo, Tamas Gorbe, Vikram K. Mulligan
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Chemical, Health Care, Life Science, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Quantum Computing, Therapeutics
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Autobahn Therapeutics
Autobahn Therapeutics is a developer of regenerative medicines to restore hope for people affected by CNS disorders.
Founder(s): Keith Lenden
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Vium
Vium is a biotechnology company that develops digital biomarkers to transform preclinical research and animal welfare.
Founder(s): Joe Betts-Lacroix, Timothy L. Robertson
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical Device
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TAE Life Sciences
TAE Life Sciences is an early-stage biotechnology company developing comprehensive biologically-targeted radiation therapy
Founder(s): Bruce Bauer
Location: Foothill Ranch, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Hospital, Life Science
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Naked Biome
Naked Biome is a microbiome-based therapeutics company, launching advanced therapies to treat and prevent skin disease.
Founder(s): Emma Taylor
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical Device
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Via Nova Therapeutics
Via Nova Therapeutics is to discover and develop therapeutics for acute and subacute viral infections.
Founder(s): Don Ganem, Kelly Wong
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., Landlord of Choice to the Life Science Industry, is the largest owner and pre-eminent
Founder(s): Joel Marcus, Lynne Zydowsky
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Asset Management, Commercial Real Estate, Life Science, Real Estate
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SyntheX
SyntheX is a biotechnology firm developing highly specific drugs for previously undruggable targets to treat cancer and rare diseases.
Founder(s): Charly Chahwan, Maria Soloveychik
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Nerio Therapeutics
Nerio Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on the life sciences sector.
Founder(s): Jay Lichter, Sanford Madigan, Tighe M. Reardon
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics
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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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CalciMedica
CalciMedica is engaged in the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
Founder(s): Gonul Velicelebi, Jack Roos, Kenneth A. Stauderman
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Information Technology, Life Science
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Cue
Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep.
Founder(s): Ayub Khattak, Clint Sever
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Medical, Wellness
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Pardes Biosciences
Pardes Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of coronavirus.
Founder(s): Uri Lopatin
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, 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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Walking Fish Therapeutics
Walking Fish Therapeutics is developing a platform to harness B cells’ capability to activate the immune system.
Founder(s): Lewis (Rusty) Williams, Mark Selby
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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InterVenn
InterVenn Biosciences identifies, quantifies, and classifies Glycoproteomic and other PTM signals found in human blood and tissue.
Founder(s): Aldo Carrascoso, Carlito Lebrilla, Carolyn Bertozzi, Lieza Danan
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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Qualio
Qualio is a quality management system helping life sciences companies bring quality products to the market.
Founder(s): Robert Fenton
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Life Science, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Productivity Tools, Quality Assurance, Software
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Eclipse Bioinnovations
Eclipse Bioinnovations is an RNA genomics company that provides products and services to academic and industry customers around the world.
Founder(s): Gene Yeo, Peter Chu
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science
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