At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Biotechnology companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Biotechnology Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
Dice Therapeutics
Dice Therapeutics develops a transformative platform designed for the discovery of novel small molecules.
Founder(s): Kevin Judice, Phil Patten
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Medical Device
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Annexon Biosciences
Annexon Biosciences is a biotech company, discovering and developing novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders.
Founder(s): Arnon Rosenthal, Ben Barres
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Therapeutics
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Global Blood Therapeutics
GBT is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing its lead product candidate, voxelotor, as a therapy for sickle cell disease.
Founder(s): Andrej Sali, Charles Homcy, Craig Muir, David Phillips, Jack Taunton, Matthew Jacobson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Therapeutics
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Olema Oncology
Olema Oncology is a preclinical biotechnology company that develops new drugs for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.
Founder(s): Cyrus L. Harmon, Peter Kushner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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VitroLabs
We work with nature to create real leather from cells, that’s slaughter-free and better for the environment.
Founder(s): Dusko Ilic, Ingvar Helgason
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Biotechnology, Fashion, Health Care, Manufacturing
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Catalyst Biosciences
Catalyst Biosciences is a drug R&D company creating catalytic biopharmaceutical products based on engineered human proteases.
Founder(s): Charles S. Craik, Christopher Thanos, Jack Nguyen, Sandra Waugh Ruggles
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Indapta Therapeutics
Indapta Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Medical
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LatchBio
Latch Bio builds and disseminates free to use data infrastructure for the the biocomputing revolution.
Founder(s): Alfredo Andere, Kenny Workman, Kyle Giffin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
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Yali Biosciences
Yali Biosciences is a food tech company uses synthetic biology and genomics tools to make climate-smart, sustainable foods.
Founder(s): Peng Xu, Yulin Lu
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
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LevitasBio
LevitasBio is advancing science and human health by providing researchers with a new and powerful method of cellular analysis.
Founder(s): Gozde Durmus, Lars Steinmetz, Utkan Demirci
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Therapeutics
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Nkarta Therapeutics
Nkarta Therapeutics is a developer of cell engineering platform created to build the next generation of cell therapies.
Founder(s): Paul Hastings
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Engine Biosciences
Engine Biosciences is a biotech company that applies machine learning to genomics for drug discovery.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Lu, Timothy K. Lu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Machine Learning
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Tenaya Therapeutics
Tenaya Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapies designed to offer treatment for heart disease.
Founder(s): Benoit Bruneau, Bruce Conklin, Deepak Srivastava, Eric Olson, Saptarsi Haldar, Sheng Ding
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Artemys Foods
Artemys Foods works on the next generation of meat alternatives by cultivating meat, instead of harvesting meat from animals.
Founder(s): Jess Krieger, Joshua March
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Prellis Biologics
Prellis employs holographic tissue printing technology with rapid fully human antibody discovery, in vitro human disease and ADME/Tox models
Founder(s): Melanie Matheu, Noelle Mullin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Printing, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Profusa
PROFUSA is a medical devices company creating tissue-integrated sensors for chronic disease management and healthy living.
Founder(s): Bill McMillan, Kristen Helton, Natalie Wisniewski
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Medical Device, Personal Health, Wellness
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Stämm Biotech
Stämm is downsizing a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, plug-n-play desktop unit called The Bioprocessor.
Founder(s): Federico D’Alvia Vegh and Juan Francisco “Yuyo” Llamazares Vegh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Life Science
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Ambys Medicines
Ambys Medicines is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing regenerative and restorative therapies.
Founder(s): Holger Willenbring, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Markus Grompe, Martin Burke
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Calithera Biosciences
Calithera is a pharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
Founder(s): Susan M. Molineaux
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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AmbAgon Therapeutics
AmbAgon Therapeutics is a developer of cancer molecule therapeutics.
Founder(s): Christian Ottmann, Lucas Brunsveld, Michelle Arkin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Product Research
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PostEra
PostEra is a biotech company that builds an end-to-end med chem platform to advance drug discovery.
Founder(s): Aaron Morris, Alpha Lee, Matt Robinson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Brii Biosciences
Brii Biosciences is a biotechnology company that commits to bring innovative medicines to China as a way to improve public health.
Founder(s): Zhi Hong
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Innovation Management, Pharmaceutical
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GALY
GALY develops biomaterials through biotechnology and synthetic biology in order to discover new ways to produce natural things.
Founder(s): Luciano Bueno, Paula Elbl
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Chemical, Life Science
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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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Slope.io
Slope.io is a provider of a healthcare software designed to offer an easy way to prevent inventory outages.
Founder(s): Michael Felix, Rust Felix
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Enterprise Software, Events, Logistics, Software
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Earli
Earli is a developer of cancer treatment devices designed to search for natural biomarkers.
Founder(s): Cyriac Roeding, David Suhy, Sanjiv Gambhir
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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Novome Biotechnologies
Novome Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company focused on engineering defined activities into the human.
Founder(s): Liz Shepherd, Weston Whitaker, Will DeLoache, Zachary Russ
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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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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Neurona Therapeutics
Neurona Therapeutics is a provider of cell-based medicines dealing with neurological disorders.
Founder(s): Cory R. Nicholas
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, 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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ESCAPE Bio
ESCAPE Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops small molecule drugs intended to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Founder(s): Yadong Huang
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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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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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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Interline Therapeutics
Interline Therapeutics is a drug discovery platform that enables the company to map and correct dysfunctional protein communities.
Founder(s): Zach Sweeney
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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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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Aligos Therapeutics
Aligos Therapeutics is discovering and developing new classes of molecules that interact directly with disease-causing modalities.
Founder(s): Lawrence Blatt, Leonid Beigelman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology
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Felix Biotechnology
Felix Biotechnology is working to accelerate the deployment of novel biotherapeutics to manage infectious diseases.
Founder(s): Natalie Ma, Paul Turner, Robert McBride
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Sutro Biopharma
Sutro Biopharma develops protein therapeutics by using OCFS protein synthesis technology.
Founder(s): James R. Swartz
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Medical
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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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BlackThorn Therapeutics
BlackThorn Therapeutics is a clinical-stage neurobehavioral health company pioneering the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Founder(s): Alex Tkachenko, Bill Martin, Ed Roberts
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Ossium Health
Ossium Health is building the world’s first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers
Founder(s): Dr. Sebastian Eriksson Giwa, Erik Woods, Kevin Caldwell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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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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Xcell Biosciences
Xcell Biosciences is a next-generation development and manufacturing platform for enhanced cell therapy performance.
Founder(s): Brian Feth, Ilya Kupershmidt, James Lim
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Manufacturing, Medical, Therapeutics
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Prothena
Prothena is a clinical-stage neuroscience company focused on the discovery and development of novel therapies.
Founder(s): Dennis Selkoe
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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ZBiotics
ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company that bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications.
Founder(s): Stephen Lamb, Zachary Abbott
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Nutraceutical
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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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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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Second Genome
Second Genome offers a pipeline of microbiome modulators that impact infection, immunity and metabolic diseases.
Founder(s): Janet A. Warrington, Todd DeSantis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical
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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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Surrozen
Surrozen is a biopharmaceutical that focuses on unlocking the body’s regenerative power to treat injury and disease.
Founder(s): Calvin Kuo, Claudia Janda, Hans Clevers, K. Christopher Garcia, Roel Nusse
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Emergency Medicine, Health Care
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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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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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Circle Pharma
Circle Pharma is a provider of a macrocycle development platform intended to provide macrocyclic peptides.
Founder(s): Matthew Jacobson, Scott Lokey
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Therapeutics
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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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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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ViewPoint Therapeutics
ViewPoint Therapeutics is a developer of crystallin stabilizers intended to prevent and treat cataracts and presbyopia.
Founder(s): Jason Gestwicki, Leah Makley
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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Shasqi
Shasqi develops precision activated oncology therapeutics designed to improve efficacy while decreasing systemic toxicity.
Founder(s): José M. Mejía Oneto
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Emergency Medicine, Health Care, Medical
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Attralus
Attralus is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on creating transformative medicines to improve the lives of patients.
Founder(s): Jonathan Wall, Spencer Guthrie
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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System1 Biosciences
System1 Biosciences is a neurotherapeutics company.
Founder(s): Frederic Kerrest, Saul Kato, Sean Escola
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology
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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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Boost Biomes
Boost Biomes develops microbial products to sustainably improve food production and shelf-life.
Founder(s): Jamie Bacher, Robert McBride
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
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Five Prime Therapeutics
FivePrime is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops treatments for cancers.
Founder(s): Lewis Williams
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics
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Vaxart
Vaxart is a biotechnology company that develops vaccine technology for the treatment of infectious diseases.
Founder(s): Sean Tucker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
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Portola Pharmaceuticals
Portola Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutics for acute and chronic cardiovascular, and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Founder(s): Charles Homcy, David Phillips
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, 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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Culture Biosciences
Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactors that help companies optimize their manufacturing processes.
Founder(s): Matthew Ball, Will Patrick
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Cloud Data Services, Industrial Automation, Robotics
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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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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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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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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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OneSkin
OneSkin is a longevity company developing products designed to extend skin and body health by targeting aging at its source.
Founder(s): Alessandra Zonari, Andres Ochoa Cruz, Carolina Reis Oliveira, Juliana Carvalho
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Beauty, Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Health Care, Wellness
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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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Orchid
Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders.
Founder(s): Noor Siddiqui
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, mHealth
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Nura Bio
Nura Bio revolutionizes the treatment of neurological diseases with novel, life-changing neuroprotective medicines.
Founder(s): Andrew Pieper, Marc Freeman, Steven McKnight
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Wellness
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Concentric Analgesics
Concentric Analgesics is a biotechnology company that develops non-opioid therapeutics for the management of acute and chronic pain.
Founder(s): Craig Husfeld, John Donovan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, 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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Swiftscale Biologics
Swiftscale Biologics uses cell-free protein synthesis to enable the next generation of protein therapeutics.
Founder(s): David Mace, Matthew Delisa, Michael Jewett
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biopharma, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Sway
Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics.
Founder(s): Julia Marsh, Leland Maschmeyer, Matt Mayes
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, CleanTech, Packaging Services
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Carmot Therapeutics
Carmot Therapeutics develops drugs to treat inflammatory, metabolic and neurological diseases.
Founder(s): Daniel A. Erlanson, Stig K. Hansen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Fountain Therapeutics
Fountain Therapeutics is discovering and developing treatments for aging-associated diseases.
Founder(s): Joseph Rodgers, Thomas Rando, Tom Cheung
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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Darmiyan
Darmiyan is developing an AI-powered software platform for early detection, monitoring, and stratification of Alzheimer’s disease
Founder(s): Kaveh Vejdani, Padideh Kamali-Zare, Thomas Liebmann
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Machine Learning, Medical, Software
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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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Mirvie
Mirvie is a biotech company that creates precise, actionable, and non-invasive tests for maternal-fetal health.
Founder(s): Maneesh Jain
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
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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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Amphivena Therapeutics
Amphivena Therapeutics is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company that develops a platform of dual-function biologics.
Founder(s): Luke Evnin
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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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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Endogena
Endogena is a biotech company that develops endogenous regenerative medicines to repair and regenerate tissues and organs.
Founder(s): Gisbert Schneider, Matthias Steger
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Swing Therapeutics
Swing Therapeutics provides digital therapeutics for people with chronic conditions.
Founder(s): Mike Rosenbluth, Nelson Mitchell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Kuleana
Kuleana creates plant-based alternatives for people’s seafood favorites.
Founder(s): Jacek Prus, Ron Shigeta, Sonia Hurtado
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Huue
Tinctorium is a provider of indigo dyeing solutions intended to reduce chemical usage in the denim supply chain.
Founder(s): Michelle Zhu, Tammy Hsu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Robotics
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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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Cero Therapeutics
CERo Therapeutics, Inc. is a new cellular immunotherapy company.
Founder(s): Daniel Corey
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Achaogen
Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops broad-spectrum antibiotics to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.
Founder(s): Kevin Judice, Nathaniel David
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
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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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Quanta Therapeutics
Quanta is a biotechnology company uncovering novel cancer therapeutic candidates using allosteric modulation to target driver oncogenes.
Founder(s): Cameron Pitt, Joshua Salafsky
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device, Therapeutics
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University of California, San Francisco
Director of the Lab for Advanced Cytometry (LAC) and the Sony Biotechnology Center at UCSF in the Department of Laboratory Medicine
Founder(s): Hugh Toland
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Association, Biotechnology, Education, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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Glycomine
Glycomine is an early-stage biotech working on replacement therapies for rare diseases.
Founder(s): Agnes Rafalko
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
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Tizona Therapeutics
Tizona develops next-generation immunotherapies
Founder(s): Charles Drake, Dario Vignali, Drew Pardoll, Jedd Wolchok, Vijay Kuchroo
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics
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Virus Geeks Inc.
SaaS, Mobile App, BioHealth, Information Technology
Founder(s): Frank Lee, Neil Kwan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology
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Tempest Therapeutics
Tempest Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on small molecule therapeutics that modulate anti-tumor pathways.
Founder(s): Stephen Brady, Tom Dubensky
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
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