Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Cambridge based Biotechnology companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Biotechnology industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Cambridge Biotechnology Startups
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AstraZeneca
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AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines.
Mogrify
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Mogrify® will transform the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapies.
Phico Therapeutics
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Phico Therapeutics is a developer of novel platform technology designed to overcome antibacterial resistance.
Healx
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Healx is an AI-powered and patient-inspired technology company, accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments
Transine Therapeutics
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Transine Therapeutics is a developer of biotech platform enhancing therapeutics for the treatment of human disease.
Abcam
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An innovator in life science reagents and tools serving life science researchers globally to achieve their mission, faster.
Congenica
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Congenica is a biotechnology company that provides a diagnostic decision support platform.
Bicycle Therapeutics
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Bicycle Therapeutics is developing a technology for the creation of new generation biotherapeutics.
Nuclera
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Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis.
F-star Therapeutics
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F-star is developing a pipeline of novel bispecific antibodies with a therapeutic focus in immuno-oncology and oncology.
Eagle Genomics
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Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Supplant
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Supplant is a biotechnology platform that makes sugar substitutes.
Kymab
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Kymab is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing fully human monoclonal antibody therapeutics.
Crescendo Biologics
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Crescendo Biologics is engaged in the development of a proprietary drug portfolio based on their VH antibody fragment platform.
Mestag Therapeutics
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Mestag Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops new therapies for diseases using fibroblast technology.
Abzena
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Abzena provides complementary services to organizations involved in the development of bio-pharmaceuticals.
MISSION Therapeutics
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MISSION Therapeutics offers a platform for the development of small molecule drugs that selectively target deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs).
Artios Pharma
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Artios Pharma is a independent DNA Damage Response company with a strong pipeline of novel cancer therapies.
PhoreMost
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PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK.
Horizon Discovery
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Horizon is a gene editing company that designs & engineers genetically-modified cells, applying them to advance human health.
Cambridge Epigenetix
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Cambridge Epigenetix is using epigenetics to reduce several routine & important diagnostic tests for common cancers to a simple blood draw.
Fluidic Analytics
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Fluidic Analytics designs, develops and manufactures tools that seek to revolutionise the way proteins are characterised.
Revolo Biotherapeutics
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Revolo Biotherapeutics has developed therapies that achieve superior long-term disease remission from less frequent chronic dosing.
HexagonFab
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HexagonFab is the biological sensor for rapid and cost-effective detection of biological substances.
Wren Therapeutics
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Wren Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company based, focused on drug discovery and development for protein misfolding diseases.
Acacia Pharma
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Acacia Pharma is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the R&D of supportive care drugs for cancer patients.
Sano Genetics
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Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
CellCentric
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CellCentric is a biotechnology company that targets at deubiquitinase (DUB) enzyme for cancer therapy.
Cambridge Cancer Genomics
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Cambridge Cancer Genomics develops precision oncology solutions to transform the way cancer patients are treated.
Cyted
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Diagnostics, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Early Detection, Prevention
PredictImmune
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Providing tools to physicians in the treatment of patients with immune-mediated disease, through prediction of long term clinical prognosis.
Storm Therapeutics
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Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics
Microbiotica
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Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers.
PetaGene
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PetaGene’s mission is to make genomics data cheaper, faster and better.
Biofidelity
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Biofidelity developed a revolutionary molecular diagnostic assay that enables the rapid detection of target DNA sequences.
Definigen
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Definigen provides human cells to the drug discovery sector for use in lead optimization and toxicity programs.
PharmEnable
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PharmEnable has developed a rapid and cost effective way to identify better chemical starting points to drive the discovery.
Base4
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A multi-disciplinary team, based in Cambridge, working to solve some of the most difficult problems in biotechnology.
PolyProx
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PolyProx Therapeutics is a developer of a novel class of drug intended to provide new therapies for cancer treatment.
Nanna Therapeutics
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Nanna Therapeutics is a drug discovery company addressing age-related diseases for which others are failing to provide effective treatments.
NeoPhore
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NeoPhore is a provider of novel small molecule therapies intended to treat cancer through stimulation of the immune system.
Morphogen-IX
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MORPHOGEN-IX Limited is a drug discovery company founded in 2015 by Index Ventures to develop bone morphogenetic proteins
Qkine
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Spin-out from Cambridge University, we manufacture high purity animal-derived component free growth factors and cytokines for stem cells
Domainex
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A fully integrated drug discovery service company.
Exonate
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Exonate is a biotech company spun out of the University of Nottingham that is focused on alternative splicing of (VEGF) in ophthalmology.
Z Factor
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Z Factor Limited is a drug discovery company to identify and develop therapeutic agents to treat alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
Lightcast Discovery
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Lightcast uses a microfluidic platform to make advances towards unique clinical approaches, new therapies, and innovative products.
Mursla
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Novel integrated platform for the discovery and profiling of exosome phenotypes in diseases.
DIOSynVax
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DIOSynVax is new technology that will significantly accelerate vaccine development and achieve dramatic improvements.
Psyomics
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PsyOmics develops proteomic diagnostics to improve early diagnosis and treatment outcomes for those with neuropsychiatric disorders.
Quartet Medicine
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Quartet Medicine is discovering and developing novel treatments
Sentinel Oncology
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Sentinel Oncology is a drug discovery company specialising in the delivery of candidate drugs to treat diseases.
Isogenica
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Isogenica operates a range of discovery platforms supported by state-of-the-art methodologies for identifying antibody and peptide ligands.
Cell Guidance Systems
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Cell Guidance Systems is a biotechnology company developing research tools for stem cell technology.
CamStent
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CamStent develops an inert polymer coating for medical devices that prevents the colonization of harmful microorganisms on surfaces.
SuperX
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SuperX is a virtual biopharmaceutical company developing products to deliver anticoagulation without bleeding
Sphere Fluidics
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Sphere Fluidics develops products for use in single cell analysis and characterization, and provides associated collaborative R&D services.
Cancer Targeting Systems
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CTS aims to combine the imaging and treatment of cancer, enabling clinicians and patients to make clearer choices.
Ikarovec
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Ikarovek is working on early stage assets intended for the treatment of diabetic macular edama.
Antibodies.com
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Antibodies.com is a leading supplier of protein research tools. Discover more from our range of distinct antibodies, proteins, and assays.
Nemesis Bioscience
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Nemesis Bioscience is a new biopharmaceutical company .
CRiL
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CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions.
PneumaCare
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PneumaCare develops products for diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory diseases using novel 3D imaging technology.
Lab21
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Lab21 is a rapidly growing healthcare diagnostics business. The company’s vision is of providing personalised diagnostic testing for
Ario Pharma
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Ario Pharma is focused on the development of drugs for the treatment of respiratory indications.
Critical Pressure
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Critical Pressure is a virtual bio-pharmaceutical company that develops products to treat vascular dysfunction and shock.
LIFNano Therapeutics
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LIFNano Therapeutics specifically focused on targeted delivery of the biologic, Leukaemia Inhibitory Factor.
Discuva
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Antibacterial discovery research has been driven, medically, commercially
FOLIUM Science
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FOLIUM Science leads the way in bioscience technology for the healthy biotic era.
Bactest
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Bactest offers CYTOMAIA, a microbial contamination testing platform that enables rapid detection.
AptaCam
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Aptacam strives to be the leading producer and supplier of high quality aptamers.
Waterscope
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Waterscope is a not-for-profit impact-defined company based in Cambridge.
Lucida Medical
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SaaS, Cancer Diagnosis, Radiology, MRI, Prostate Cancer
GeneAdviser
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Our mission is to make genetic testing for rare diseases more accessible to clinicians around the world.
Intellegens
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Cambridge spin out using Deep Learning to train on big, incomplete data. Currently working in drug discovery and material design.
Toxibact Ltd
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Toxibact Limited develops antimicrobial therapy for the treatment of all bacteria and fungi.
Astex
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Astex is a UK-based biotechnology company that discovers and develops novel small molecule therapeutics.
AB-PolyBlok
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Revolutionary technology platform which has the potential to treat, and potentially partially reverse, the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Camena Bioscience
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Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications.
Convergence Pharmaceuticals
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Convergence Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel analgesics for the treatment of chronic pain.
Animal Alternative Technologies
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Scalable, complete Cultured Meat production systems to tackle global sustainability challenges
Acambis
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Acambis is a biotechnology company developing vaccines to treat infectious diseases in Europe and North America.
Unicorn Biotechnologies
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Unicorn Biotechnologies is a biotech company that creates a more sustainable, safe, and ethical food system for cell-based manufacturing.
VHSquared
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VHsquared is dedicated to the development of novel antibody domains engineered to be stable in the GI tract.
Broken String Biosciences
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Broken String Biosciences is developing a platform of novel sequencing tools to assess genome stability and to unlock the next generation.
KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd
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KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd discovers and develops drugs based upon the science of DNA damage sensing, signaling.
ImmunoBiology Ltd
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ImmBio is developing next-generation vaccines targeting a number of serious infectious diseases, based on its proprietary technologies.
Start Codon
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Translating disruptive research into successful start-ups, the Cambridge way
Astra Pharmaceuticals
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AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business.
Talisman Therapeutics
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Talisman Tx is a stem cell research and development company committed to revolutionising the discovery of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
Cambio
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Cambio is an excellent reputation for the supply of quality Molecular Biology reagents and consumables to scientific research laboratories.
Cantab Biopharmaceuticals
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Cantab Biopharmaceuticals engages in the discovery and development of innovative drugs and drug formulations.
Intercytex Group
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Intercytex Group is a biotechnology company developing cell-based therapies for the repair and regeneration of skin and hair.
Methuselah Health
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Methuselah Health identifies novel targets for treatment of ageing-related diseases.
Cypralis
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Discovering and developing novel medicines for acute and chronic degenerative diseases
MedCell Bioscience
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MedCell Bioscience is a regenerative medicine technologies for the treatment of tendon and ligament injuries in animal healthcare markets.
Granta Innovation
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Transforming cancer diagnosis with AI and MRI imaging
Asymptote Ltd.
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Asymptote specialists in cryochain technology for sensitive cellular therapies.
Isomerase Therapeutics
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Isomerase Therapeutics is an agile drug discovery and development company.
