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 Pharmaceutical 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 Pharmaceutical Companies & Startups (California, United States)
GoodRx
GoodRx collects drug prices from pharmacies across the U.S. and helps users find the cheapest option for the medication they’re seeking.
Founder(s): Doug Hirsch, Scott Marlette, Trevor Bezdek
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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NowRx
NowRx is a pharmacy and last-mile logistics company that provides same-day and same-hour prescription medication delivery.
Founder(s): Cary Breese, Sumeet Sheokand
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Delivery Service, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Same Day Delivery
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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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Deep 6 AI
Deep 6 AI is an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people.
Founder(s): Brian Dolan, Wout Brusselaers
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Software
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ValGenesis
Validation Life-cycle Management system
Founder(s): Siva Samy
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Software
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Quartic.ai
Quartic.ai is an industrial AI and IIoT software provider.
Founder(s): Akshaya Aron, Ash Bhardwaj, Pranav Prakash, Rajiv Anand, Xiaozhou Wang
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical
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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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Multiply Labs
Multiply Labs deploys advanced robotics technology to manufacture personalized pharmaceutical capsules.
Founder(s): Alice Melocchi, Fred Parietti, Joe Wilson, Tiffany Kuo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Industrial Automation, Manufacturing, Personal Health, Pharmaceutical, Robotics
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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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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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Genexa Inc.
Genexa is the first clean medicine company.
Founder(s): David Johnson, Max Spielberg
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Wellness
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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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Arine
Arine optimizes medications and improves human health through data-driven clinical services.
Founder(s): David de Vries, Penjit Moorhead, Yoona Kim
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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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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Ashvattha Therapeutics
Ashvattha Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Cleland, Justin Hanes, Kannan Rangaramanujam, Sujatha Kannan
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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The Public Health Company
The Public Health Company is a biotechnology firm that offers a platform for genomic epidemiology scientists to outbreak intelligence.
Founder(s): Brian Levine, Charity Dean
Location: Goleta, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Neurelis
Neurelis is a specialty pharmaceutical company providing a highly differentiated approach to target unmet medical needs.
Founder(s): Craig Chambliss, David F. Hale
Location: Encinitas, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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ORIC Pharmaceuticals
ORIC Pharmaceuticals operates as a biopharmaceutical company.
Founder(s): Charles Sawyers, Scott Lowe
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical focuses on the development of various products for the treatment of rare and ultra-rare diseases.
Founder(s): Emil D. Kakkis
Location: Novato, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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aTyr Pharma
aTyr Pharma is a biotherapeutics company that discovers and develops protein biologics for human therapeutics.
Founder(s): Paul Schimmel
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Eyenuk, Inc.
Eyenuk, Inc. is a global digital health company and leader in real-world AI eye screening for autonomous disease detection
Founder(s): Kaushal Solanki
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Diabetes, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Hospital, Medical, Medical Device, Personal Health, Pharmaceutical
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89bio
89Bio is a biopharmaceutical company building a pipeline of biologic and small molecule treatments for liver and metabolic disorders.
Founder(s): Michael Hayden
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Ensysce Biosciences
Ensysce Biosciences has developed an abuse-deterrent and overdose technology that can be applied to 75% of all marketed drugs
Founder(s): Bob Gower
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Delivery, Health Care, Medical, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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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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Revance Therapeutics
Revance Therapeutics develops and commercializes products and treatments for dermatological diseases.
Founder(s): Dan Browne, Jacob Waugh
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Acadia Pharmaceuticals develops and commercializes small molecule drugs for the treatment of central nervous system disorders.
Founder(s): Mark R. Brann
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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WithMe Health
A medication guidance company personalizing medication experiences for employers, employees and their families
Founder(s): Ash Damle, Chris Price
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Employee Benefits, Health Care, Health Insurance, Hospital, Pharmaceutical
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Sorriso Pharmaceuticals
Sorriso Pharmaceuticals is a biotech firm developing disease-modifying antibodies for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
Founder(s): Ciara Kennedy, Susan Dubé
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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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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ADARx Pharmaceuticals
ADARx Pharmaceuticals is a genetic medicine company focusing on the base editing of mRNA transcripts.
Founder(s): Zhen Li
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Aspen Neuroscience
Aspen Neuroscience is a biotechnology company that uses innovative genomic approaches combined with stem cell biology.
Founder(s): Andres Bratt-Leal, Jeanne Loring
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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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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Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Ligand is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies.
Founder(s): Brook Byers
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Blade Therapeutics
Blade Therapeutics is a discovery stage drug development company.
Founder(s): Harry Dietz
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Teon Therapeutics
Teon Therapeutics is a a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecules that inhibit the immunosuppressive cancer signaling pathways.
Founder(s): Lina Yao, Serge Messerlian
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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MannKind
MannKind focuses on the discovery and development of therapeutic products for patients with diseases such as diabetes.
Founder(s): Alfred E. Mann
Location: Valencia, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Corvus Pharmaceuticals
Corvus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Founder(s): Joseph J Buggy, Richard A Miller
Location: Burlingame, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Reneo Pharmaceuticals
Reneo Pharmaceuticals is an operator of a pharmaceutical company used to develop therapies for patients with orphan metabolic diseases.
Founder(s): Michael Grey, Niall O’Donnell
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Theravance Biopharma
Theravance Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company with one approved product.
Founder(s): George Whitesides
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Corium International
Corium International engages in the development of advanced transdermal drug delivery technologies and products.
Founder(s): Gary W. Cleary
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
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Stemcentrx
Stemcentrx provides pharmaceutical services.
Founder(s): Brian Slingerland, Scott J. Dylla
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Oyster Point Pharmaceuticals
Oyster is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery development & commercialization .
Founder(s): Jeffrey Nau, Mark Murray
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Apollomics
Apollomics is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing mono- and combination- oncology therapies to harness the immune system.
Founder(s): Guo Liang Yu, Sanjeev Redkar
Location: Foster City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Rapt Therapeutics
Rapt is focused on the discovery and development of novel small-molecule agents to activate the immune system to eradicate cancer.
Founder(s): Brian Wong
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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TruTag Technologies
TruTag Technologies, Inc. provides product authentication and brand protection solutions.
Founder(s): Hank C.K. Wuh, Michael O’Neill, Peter Wong
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Advanced Materials, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical
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xCures
xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Founder(s): Jeff Shrager, Marty Tenenbaum
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Machine Learning, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Dermira
Dermira is a development-stage biotech company focused on developing and commercializing innovative new therapies in dermatology.
Founder(s): Chris Griffith, Eugene A. Bauer, Luis Pena, Thomas G. Wiggans
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Spruce Biosciences
Spruce Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing therapies for rare diseases that targets endocrine system.
Founder(s): Alexis Howerton
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Royal Emerald Pharmaceuticals
Royal Emerald Pharmaceuticals produces non-addictive alternate medicines for dilemmas of PTSD and other health consequences.
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Location: Desert Hot Springs, California, United States
Industries: Alternative Medicine, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Cadence Health
Cadence, a pharma startup, aims to switch a birth control pill over-the-counter to create easy and affordable access to contraceptives.
Founder(s): Nap Hosang, Samantha Miller
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical
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858 Therapeutics
858 Therapeutics is a stealth company specializing in the area of healthcare services, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology.
Founder(s): Gretchen Bain, Jeffrey Stafford, Jim Veal
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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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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Eidos Therapeutics
Eidos Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company developing novel, genetically targeted therapies to improve the lives of patients.
Founder(s): Isabella Graef, Mamoun Alhamadsheh
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Adamas Pharmaceuticals
Adamas Pharmaceuticals develops controlled release combination therapeutics for infectious diseases and central nervous system disorders.
Founder(s): Gangadhara Ganapati, Greg Went
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals
Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company, develops protein therapeutics to treat cardiovascular diseases.
Founder(s): Ulrik Nielsen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Aria Pharmaceuticals
Aria Pharmaceuticals is a artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company.
Founder(s): Andrew A. Radin, Andrew M. Radin
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Terns Pharmaceuticals
Terns Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on discovering therapies that will improve the global disease burden.
Founder(s): Weidong Zhong
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical
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Escient Pharmaceuticals
Escient Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biotechnology company.
Founder(s): Alain D. Baron, Marcus F. Boehm
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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CymaBay Therapeutics
CymaBay Therapeutics is focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary new medicines for critical human diseases.
Founder(s): Sujal Shah
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Amplyx Pharmaceuticals
Amplyx focuses on developing innovative therapies for debilitating and life-threatening diseases in patients with compromised immune systems
Founder(s): Andre Marquis, Gerald Crabtree, Mitchell Mutz
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Advanced Cell Diagnostics
Advanced Cell Diagnostics is a molecular pathology company developing cell- and tissue-based diagnostic tests for personalized medicine.
Founder(s): Steve Chen, Yuling Luo
Location: Hayward, California, United States
Industries: Biometrics, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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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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Honeybee Health
Honeybee Health is an online pharmacy selling prescriptions at fair, affordable prices.
Founder(s): Jessica Nouhavandi, Peter Wang
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Intersect ENT
Intersect ENT provides therapy solutions that enable ENT physicians to improve patients’ quality of life.
Founder(s): Don Eaton
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Anacor Pharmaceutical
Anacor Pharmaceutical is a biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform.
Founder(s): Lucy Shapiro, Stephen Benkovic
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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AcelRx Pharmaceuticals
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals focused on the development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of pain and other conditions.
Founder(s): Pamela Pierce Palmer
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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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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Evolus
Evolus medical aesthetics focused on providing physicians and their patients with expanded choices in aesthetic procedures and treatments.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Aizon
Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Founder(s): Pep Gubau, Pere Merino, Toni Manzano
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biotechnology, Information Services, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, SaaS, Software
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Phanes Therapeutics
Phanes Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on discovery and development of therapeutics for solid tumors and eye diseases
Founder(s): Ming Wang
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Rigel Pharmaceuticals
Rigel Pharmaceuticals develops small-molecule drugs for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, cancer and metabolic diseases.
Founder(s): Thomas A. Raffin
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Tricida
Tricida operates in the healthcare industry focusing on pharmaceutical business.
Founder(s): Gerrit Klaerner
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Jaguar Health
Jaguar Health brings naturally derived important health solutions to all animals of the world, as proprietary.
Founder(s): Lisa Conte
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Nutraceutical, Pharmaceutical
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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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VYNE Therapeutics
VYNE Therapeutics developing proprietary, innovative and differentiated therapies in dermatology and beyond.
Founder(s): David Domzalski
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Adcentrx Therapeutics
Adcentrx is a biotechnology company focused on therapeutic development for cancer and other life-threatening diseases
Founder(s): Hui Li
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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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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SyncThink
SyncThink provides neuro-technology with foundational IP in eye-tracking analytics and devices.
Founder(s): Dr. Jamshid Ghajar
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Virtual Reality
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Adagio Medical
Adagio Medical is engaged in the research and development of treatments for cardiovascular diseases.
Founder(s): James Cox, Olav Bergheim
Location: Laguna Hills, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Sientra
Sientra, a medical device company, develops and markets products focusing on the plastic surgery and aesthetics market.
Founder(s): Hani Zeini
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, 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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NantKwest
NantKwest is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on harnessing the immune system to treat disease.
Founder(s): Patrick Soon-Shiong
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Orexigen Therapeutics
Orexigen Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity.
Founder(s): Eckard Weber
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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ARS Pharmaceuticals
ARS Pharmaceuticals is a stealth pharmaceutical company that specializes in developing anti allergy drugs.
Founder(s): Richard Lowenthal, Sarina Tanimoto
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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LENZ Therapeutics
LENZ Therapeutics is a late-stage clinical company developing innovative ophthalmic pharmaceutical products.
Founder(s): Gerald Horn, James McCollum
Location: Coronado, California, United States
Industries: Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Apexigen
Apexigen is a biopharmaceutical product development company developing products to address life-threatening and difficult to treat diseases.
Founder(s): Xiaodong Yang
Location: Burlingame, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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Aristea Therapeutics
Aristea Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapies created for autoimmune diseases.
Founder(s): James Mackay
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Geron
Geron Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company which discovers and develops therapeutic products for cancer. Imetelstat, a novel,
Founder(s): Michael D West
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical
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