2017 Biotech Startups

21MedTech	OH - Akron	Resins for implants
3Dispense	NH - Greenfield	Liquid handling technologies
3T Biosciences	CA - Palo Alto	TCR Therapies
A-Alpha Bio	WA - Seattle	Yeast-based Drug Assay
A2 Biotherapeutics	CA - Agoura Hills	Immunotherapy
Aadi Bioscience	CA - Los Angeles	Nanoparticle albumin-bound sirolimus
Ab Studio	CA - Hayward	Antibody humanization and optimization service
AblaCare	France - Paris	Ovarian Rebalancing Procedure
AC Bioscience	Switzerland - Ecublens	Improved access to tumors
Accent Therapeutics	MA - Lexington	RNA-modifying protein inhibitors
Actualize Therapy	IL - Chicago	Mobile Tech for Depression and Mental Illness
AdoRx Therapeutics	UK - Edinburgh	Oncology Treatments
Advaite	IL - Chicago	Repurposed Small Molecule
Aeonian Pharmaceuticals	CA - Bay Area	Therapeutics modulating the mTORC1 pathway
AgenTus Therapeutics	MA - Lexington	Cell Therapy, CAR-T
AgeX Therapeutics	CA - Alameda	Pluripotent stem cell-derived progenitor cell lines
Agulos Biotech	WI - Lake Mills	Replacement for Fetal Bovine Serum
AJ Vaccines	Denmark - Copenhagen	Vaccines
Akero Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	NASH therapy
Akouos	MA - Boston	Gene Therapy for Hearing Disorders
Alleviant Medical	TX - Houston	Medical Device for Heart Failure
Allogene Therapeutics	CA - South SF	CAR-T
Alpine Biotherapeutics	CA - San Diego	Stem-cell based ophthalmology treatment
Altheia Science	Italy - Milano	Cell & Gene Therapy for Autoimmune Disorders
AltiBio	CA - San Francisco	Drugs
Ampac Analytical	CA - El Dorado Hills	Analytical development of cGMP Intermediates, APIs, and Drug Products
Amylon Therapeutics	Netherlands - Leiden	RNA-based therapies
Analytical Lab Group	CA - Concord	Cell Banking, Research Services
Analytical Lab Group	MA - Acton	Microbiology Services
Analytical Lab Group	MN - Eagan	Analytical Services
Anaveon	Switzerland - Basel	Immunotherapy
Anivive Lifesciences	CA - Long Beach	Vet medicine
Apic Bio	MA - Cambridge	Gene Therapy
Apostle Inc	CA - Menlo Park	Cancer Diagnostics
Aratinga Bio	France - Villejuif	Immunotherapies for Cancer
Ares Genetics	Austria - Vienna	AI-based DNA testing for diagnosis
Aro Biotherapeutics	PA - Philadelphia	Protein Scaffolds
Arpeggio Biosciences	CO - Boulder	AI Drug Screening Platform
Arrakis Therapeutics	MA - Waltham	RNA-targeted small molecules
Asimov	MA - Cambridge	Synthetic Biology
Atelerix	UK - Newcastle upon Tyne	Room Temp Storage of Cell Therapy
Atro Medical	Netherlands - Nijmegen	Meniscus Prosthesis
Autonomous Therapeutics	NY - Brooklyn	Evolving Therapeutics for Lifelong Protection
Autonomous Therapeutics	NY - New York	Evolving Therapeutics for Lifelong Protection
Auxulin Pharmaceuticals	OH -	505(b)(2)
Avaliv Therapeutics	FL - Naples	Small Molecule for NASH
Avammune Therapeutics	PA - Levittown	Immunotherapy
Avisi Technologies	PA - Philadelphia	Nanotechnology-enabled implant that controls intraocular pressure in the eye to treat open-angle glaucoma
Ayala Pharmaceuticals	Israel - Rehovot	Therapies for Genomically-defined cancers
Azeria Therapeutics	UK - Cambridge	Pioneer Factor Drug Discovery
Aztech Sciences	NY - Hauppauge	Analytical and formulation development
Baymatob Operations	Australia - New South Wales	Non-invasive device to monitor pregnancy and labor progression
BioAmp Diagnostics	CA - San Francisco	Diagnostics to counteract antibiotic resistance
Bioinformatics Consultants	Sweden - Stockholm	Consulting
BioXcel Therapeutics	CT - New Haven	AI Drug Discovery
Bluejay Diagnostics	MA - Acton	POC Diagnostics
Breath Therapeutics	Germany - Munich	Drug-aerosol therapeutics
BRG Regulatory Consulting	FL - Tampa	Regulatory and product development consulting firm
BryoLogyx	CA - Palo Alto	Bryostatins for drug life extension
Cabaletta Bio	PA - Radnor	Chimeric Auto Antibody Receptors
Cadent Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Small Molecules for neurological Indications
Cadrock	Australia - Sydney	Antibiotic for heart treatment
Caelum Biosciences	NY - New York	Antibody Therapy
Cage Pharma	MD - Baltimore	Cancer Treatment
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals	MA - Boston	Cardiovascular treatments
Carisma Therapeutics	PA - Philadelphia	CAR Macrophage Immunotherapy
Casma Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Autophagy-focused Treatments
CasZyme	Lithuania - Vilnius	CRISPR tools
CBM Biopharma	WA - Kirkland	Small Molecules
CC-Pharming	China -	Plant-derived Biologics
Cellarcus Biosciences	CA - San Diego	Extracellular Vesicle Analysis Assays
Cellino Biotech	MA - Cambridge	Cell therapies
Cellular Therapeutics Ltd	UK - Machester	Cell therapies
Celsius Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	RNA sequencing for drug discovery, Antibody-drug conjugates
Celularity	NJ - Warren	Placenta-derived stem cells
Certa Therapeutics	Australia - Melbourne	Kidney Fibrosis treatment
certus molecular diagnostics	Switzerland - Zollikofen	Diagnostics
Chordia Therapeutics	Japan - Fujisawa	Oncology Treatments
Clinical Metadata	UK - London	Web-based Data Management Solution
CMAB Biopharma	China - Suzhou	Contract Development & Manufacturing
CNS Pharmaceuticals	TX - Houston	CNS drugs
Coda Biotherapeutics	CA - South SF	Gene Therapy
Consegna Pharma	PA - Pittsburgh	Reformulation of Approved Therapies - 505(b)(2), Generic
Consortia Therapeutics	CA - La Jolla	Microbial therapies to prevent and treat human disease and allergies
Constant Therapeutics	MA - Boston	Peptide Treatments
Convert Pharmaceuticals	Belgium - Liege	Hypoxia-Activated Prodrugs
Cumulus Oncology	UK - Edinburgh	In-licensing oncology assets
Curevo Vaccine	WA - Seattle	Vaccines
Curium Pharma	France - Paris	Nuclear Diagnostics & Medicine
CurVe Consultants	NY - Amsterdam	Product development, process optimization, and project management services, as well as business management services
Demetrix	CA - Emeryville	High Value Ingredients
Dermavant Sciences	NC - Durham	Small Molecules for Dermatology Indications
Dianomi Therapeutics	WI - Madison	Mineral Coated Microparticle technology
Disarm Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Small Molecules for Neurology Indications
DNALite Therapeutics	CA - San Francisco	Gene Therapy
Drawbridge Health	CA - Menlo Park	Blood Draw Technology
DTx Pharma	CA - San Diego	siRNA Delivery
Dyne Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Antibody-Oligonucleotide Treatments for Muscle Diseases
Eidos Therapeutics	CA - San Francisco	Small Molecule
Element Biosciences	CA - San Diego	Genetic analysis tools
Elevian	MA - Allston	Blood components to fight aging
Elpis Biopharmaceuticals	MA - Lexington	Cellular & Biologic Therapies
Elpiscience	China - Jiangsu	Cancer Immunotherapies
Elpiscience	China - Shanghai	Cancer Immunotherapies
eLum Technologies	CA - Fremont	Medical Devices
Elypta	Sweden - Stockholm	Liquid Biopsy
Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals	CA - San Diego	Cannabinoids
Enesi Pharma	UK - Abingdon	Solid Dose Vaccine Delivery
EnteroBiotix	UK - Aberdeen	Fecal microbiota transplantation
Entrada Therapeutics	MA - Boston	Biologics delivered to cytosol
EpiVax Oncology	NY - New York	Mutanome-directed, neo-epitope personalized therapeutic vaccines
EpiVax Oncology	RI - Providence	Mutanome-directed, neo-epitope personalized therapeutic vaccines
Equillium	CA - La Jolla	Monoclonal Antibody Therapies
Escient Pharmaceuticals	CA - San Diego	GPCR-targeted Drugs
Ethismos Research	MA - Cambridge	Smoking cessation
Eton Pharmaceuticals	IL - Deer Park	505(b)(2) drugs
ExonanoRNA	OH - Columbus	RNA nanoparticles, therapies
Expansion Therapeutics	CA - San Diego	RNA Targeted Small Molecules
Expansion Therapeutics	FL - Jupiter	Small Molecules for RNA-mediated Diseases
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals	TX - Fort Worth	Ophthalmology Treatments
Fibrocor Therapeutics	ON - Toronto	Small Molecule for Fibrosis
Firma Clinical Research	IL - Chicago	Clinical Research
Firma Clinical Research	MD - Hunt Valley	Clinical Research
Flosonics	ON - Sudbury	Wireless wearable hemodynamic monitoring device using non-invasive ultrasound
Flux Biosciences	CA - Palo Alto	Diagnostics
Freeox Biotech	Spain - Barcelona	Small Molecules
G3 Pharmaceuticals	MA - Lexington	Galectin-3 Targeting
Gaeta Therapeutics	UK - Cheshire	IL-12 patent portfolio
Gain Therapeutics	Switzerland - Lugano	Site-directed Enzyme Enhancement Therapy
Generation Bio	MA - Cambridge	Gene Therapy
GenEvolution	France - Porcheville	In-Vitro Toxicology Services
Genomic Prediction	NJ - North Brunswick	Genomic Testing
Geocann	CO - Fort Collins	Bioavailable Cannabis
Gesynta Pharma	Sweden - Solna	mPGES-1 inhibition in cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
Gossamer Bio	CA - San Diego	Looking to in-license products
Greenwich Biosciences	CA - Carlsbad	Cannabinoid-based therapy
Grey Wolf Therapeutics	UK - Oxford	Modulating ERAP1 and ERAP2 in immuno-oncology
Harmony Biosciences	PA - Plymouth Meeting	Sleep & CNS disorders
Hoth Therapeutics	NY - New York	505(b)(2) antimicrobial
HotSpot Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Small Molecules designed for Distinct Protein Domains
I-Mab Biopharma	China - Shanghai	Biologics
Idorsia	Switzerland - Allschwil	Small Molecules
IFM Therapeutics (2)	MA - Boston	Innate Immunity Therapeutics
IFOWON	BC - Vancouver	In-silico Drug Discovery
Illustris Pharmaceuticals	CA - Irvine	Large molecule delivery technology
ImmunoForge	Korea - Seoul	Kinase Inhibitor
Indee Labs	CA - Berkeley	Gene Delivery Technology
Innogenix	NY - Amityville	Generics
Inoviv	UK - London	Bespoke Biomarker Tests
Instylla	MA - Waltham	Hydrogel Technology for Radiological Purposes
InterVenn BioSciences	CA - Redwood City	Cancer Diagnostic
iOnctura	Switzerland - Geneva	Immuno-oncology
iota Biosciences	CA - Berkeley	Implantable Bioelectronic Devices
Izana Bioscience	UK - Oxford	Monoclonal Antibody
Janpix	ON - Mississauga	Inhibitors of STAT proteins
Just Biotherapeutics	WA - Seattle	Biologics
Juvenescence	BVI - Road Town	AI for drug development
Juvenescence	UK - London	AI for Drug Discovery`
KaNDy Therapeutics	UK - Stevenage	Small Molecules
Katexco Pharmaceuticals	CA - Palo Alto	Cannabinoids
Katexco Pharmaceuticals	ON - Toronto	Cannabinoids
Kaydence Pharma	NJ - North Brunswick	Vitamin-K2 derivative
Kephera Diagnostics	MA - Framingham	Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Koutif Therapeutics	OH - Cleveland	Inflammatory Disease Treatments
Kronos Bio	MA - Cambridge	First-in-class therapies against historically intractable targets
Kymera Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Small Molecules acting to degrade proteins
Lacerta Therapeutics	FL - Alachua	AAV Gene Therapy
Landos Biopharma	VA - Blacksburg	Autoimmune Treatments
Levo Therapeutics	IL - Skokie	Intranasal Therapy for Prader-Willi
LifeHealth	MN - Roseville	Blood Analysis System
LifeMine Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Fungi-derived therapeutics
Lumen Bioscience	WA - Seattle	Biologics
LunaDNA	CA - San Diego	Crowd-sourced DNA database
Lymphobank	France - Besançon	Research Blood Products
Mavupharma	WA - Kirkland	Small Molecules Targeting STING pathway
Maxygen	CA - Sunnyvale	Directed evolution services for protein engineering
MIAS Pharma	Ireland - Dublin	Pharmaceutical Consulting
MicrobiomeDx	TX - Houston	Microbiome Analysis
Myonexus Therapeutics	OH - Columbus	Gene Therapy
NAVAN Technologies	CA - South SF	Cellular Transfection Technology
Navire Pharma	CA - San Francisco	Small Molecules Targeting SHP2
Ncardia	Belgium - Gosselies	Stem Cell-related Services & Products
Ncardia	Netherlands - Leiden	Stem Cell-related Services & Products
Ncardia	PA - Wayne	Stem Cell-related Services & Products
NeoPhore	UK - Cambridge	Small Molecules
NervGen Pharma	BC - Vancouver	Peptide inhibitor of protein tyrosine phosphatase sigma
Neumentum	CA - Palo Alto	Non-opioid analgesic and neurology specialty pharmaceutical company
NeuroCycle Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	GABA Receptor-targeting therapies
Nexus Discovery Advisors	MD - Frederick	Drug Discovery Consulting
NorthSea Therapeutics	Netherlands - Naarden	Small Molecule
Novostia	Switzerland - Neuchâtel	Artificial Heart Valves
Obsidian Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Cell & Gene Therapies
Octave Bioscience	CA - Menlo Park	Care management platform for neurodegenerative diseases
Olympic Protein Technologies	WA - Seattle	Custom Recombinant Proteins
OncoDiag	France - Miserey	Cancer Diagnostics
Onspira Therapeutics	PA - Wayne	inhaled interleukin-1 alpha & beta receptor antagonist protein
Orphidia	CA - San Francisco	Blood Analysis Device
OrphoMed	CA - San Francisco	Dimer conjugates
Osivax	France - Lyon	Universal Flu Vaccine
OT4B	France - Toulouse	Prader-Willi Therapies
OtiTopic	CA - Westlake Village	Injection for Heart Attack
Oyster Point Pharmaceuticals	NJ - Princeton	Ophthalmology Indications
Pandion Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Bispecific Antibodies
Partner Therapeutics	MA - Lexington	Biologics
Partner Therapeutics	WA - Lynnwood	Biologics
PhagoMed	Austria - Vienna	Phage Therapy
Phenomix Sciences	MN - Rochester	Genomics and additional 'omics' to determine treatment
Phortas	Germany - Aachen	Regulatory Affairs and Drug Development Consultancy
Polares Medical	CA - Palo Alto	Device for mitral valve regurgitation
Polares Medical	Switzerland - Ecublens	Device for mitral valve regurgitation
PredictImmune	UK - Cambridge	IBD Diagnostic
Presto Therapeutics	CA - San Francisco	stem cell based therapeutics for orphan diseases
Prevail Therapeutics	NY - New York	AAV-based gene therapies
Prokaryotics	NJ - Union	Antibacterials
Proniras	WA - Seattle	Orphan Neurological Disease Treatments
Pylum Biosciences	CA - South SF	Biologic antibacterials
Quench Medical	MN - St. Paul	Respiratory Drug Delivery
R2M Pharma	CA - South SF	Drug Development Services
Rain Therapeutics	CA - Newark	Small Molecules
RareMoon Consulting	MD - Baltimore	US based rare disease regulatory affairs firm focused on EU & US regulations specifically for orphan product development.
RareMoon Consulting	UK - London	US based rare disease regulatory affairs firm focused on EU & US regulations specifically for orphan product development.
Recida Therapeutics	CA - Menlo Park	Novel therapeutics for serious antibiotic-resistant infections
Rejuvenate Bio	CA - San Diego	Age-extension
Renerva	PA - Pittsburgh	Implantable technologies to improve the outcome of peripheral nerve repair procedures
Renew Biopharma	Virtual -	Cannabinoids
resTORbio	MA - Boston	Small Molecule
Revive Solutions	CA - San Mateo	Automated External Defibrillator
Rewind Therapeutics	Belgium - Leuven	Re-myelinating therapies
Rheos Medicines	MA - Cambridge	Drug target discovery
Ridgeline Therapeutics	TX - Houston	Small Molecules
Rodeo Therapeutics	WA - Seattle	Small Molecules
RootPath Genomics	MA - Cambridge	Personalized T Cell Therapy Platform
Scailyte	Switzerland - Sursee	AI interpretation of Single Cell Data
SciCann Therapeutics	Israel -	Cannabinoid Therapies
SciCann Therapeutics	ON - Toronto	Cannabinoid Therapies
Scintillant Bioscience	UT - Salt Lake City	Drug Discovery Services
Scioto Biosciences	IN - Indianapolis	Delivery of microbiome therapeutics
Sema4 Genomics	CT - Stamford	Genetic Data
Seraphina Therapeutics	CA - San Diego	Therapeutics for Longevity
Signia Therapeutics	France - Villeurbanne	Repurposed Antivirals
Siolta Therapeutics	CA - San Francisco	Gut Microbiome Modification
Skyran Biologics	PA - Philadelphia	Ophthalmological Small Molecule
SmartPharm Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Production of biologics within patients via gene therapy
Socium Therapeutics	NJ - Parsippany	Orally administered immunotherapy platform based on recombinant Salmonella typhi
Sollis Therapeutics	OH - Columbus	Non-steroidal, Non-opioid analgesics
Spotlight Therapeutics	CA - Hayward	In vivo Gene Editing
SpringWorks Therapeutics	CT - Stamford	Small Molecules
SpringWorks Therapeutics	NC - Durham	Small Molecules
Stalicla	Switzerland - Genève	Autism Treatments, Diagnostics
Stelexis Therapeutics	NY - Bronx	Drugs targeting pre-cancerous stem cells
Strategikon Pharma	CA - San Rafael	Clinical Business tools
StrideBio	NC - Durham	Antibody-Evading Gene Therapy
SuraMedical	MN - Minneapolis	Wearables to Monitor Wound Care
Surface Pharmaceuticals	CA - San Diego	505(b)(2) drugs
SwanBio Therapeutics	PA - Bala-Cynwyd	Gene Therapy
Synspira	MA - Cambridge	Inhaled glycopolymer-based therapeutics for the treatment of pulmonary disease
Tactiva Therapeutics	NY - Buffalo	Adoptive Cell Therapy
TAE Life Sciences	CA - Foothills Ranch	Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
Telix Pharmaceuticals	Australia - North Melboune	Radio immunotherapy
Terns Pharmaceuticals	CA - San Mateo	Small Molecules - Liver focus
The Cytokine Core	IN - Indianapolis	Cytokine Analysis
Theolytics	UK - Oxford	Oncolytic Adenovirus Therapies
Tiaki Therapeutics	MA - Cambridge	Alzheimer's Treatments
Tradewind Bioscience	CA - Daly City	Antibody Therapy
Travecta Therapeutics	PA - Philadelphia	Brain Drugs
Tremeau Pharmaceuticals	MA - Concord	Non-opioid pain therapies
Trialtus Bioscience	AL - Birmingham	Protein Purification Products & Services
TruCode Gene Repair	CA - South SF	Gene Editing Technology
Tvardi Therapeutics	TX - Houston	STAT3 inhibitors
TYG Oncology	UK - Mansfield	Cancer Immunotherapy
Unicus Pharmaceuticals	MA - Taunton	Contract R&D services; Topical and Oral Semisolids, Solutions & Suspensions; Drug Delivery
Urovant Sciences	CA - Irvine	Small Molecule, Gene Therapy
Urovant Sciences	Switzerland - Basel	Small Molecule, Gene Therapy
UTILITY therapeutics	UK - Twickenham	Antibiotics
Valerius Biopharma	Switzerland - Basel	Biosimilars
Vascugen	IN - Indianapolis	Regenerative Therapies
Vast Therapeutics	NC - Durham	Nitric Oxide
VelosBio	CA - San Diego	Antibody-drug Conjugates
Veravas	MN - Oakdale	Diagnostics
Verogen	CA - San Diego	Forensic Sequencing
Versatope	MA - Lowell	Exosomes derived from probiotics
Verseau Therapeutics	MA - Lexington	Macrophage checkpoint modulators
Vicarius Pharma	Switzerland - Kuessnacht	Assisting companies to commercialize in Europe
Vineti	CA - San Francisco	Cloud-based cell-therapy management system
Virion Biotherapeutics	UK - London	Biologics to interfere with viral replication
Viscient Biosciences	CA - San Diego	3D tissue technology to discover and develop drugs
Vistara Bioscience	CT - Woodbridge	Drug Discovery Platform
WojTek Mechanical Design Engineering & Machine	MO - Oerman	Medical & BioMedical, R&D, Automating Processes with the newest technology, and Tooling Design.
Wren Therapeutics	UK - Cambridge	Small Molecules Targeting Protein Mis-Folding
X-Biotix Therapeutics	MA - Waltham	Small Molecule for MDR gram negative pathogens
X-Cor Therapeutics	MA - Allston	Extracorporeal CO2 removal device
Xyphos	CA - South SF	Cell-based cancer therapies