Top Palo Alto, CA Pharmaceutical Startups (26)

WithMe Health is an innovative pharmacy benefits company that works directly with employers and health benefit vendors to provide you and your family with easy to understand pharmacy benefits. WithMe provides personalized medication guidance, with hands-on support from Medication Guides (expert pharmacists and pharmacy technicians) as well as an easy-to-use mobile app to help you manage your medications and see...

Claritas Rx is a digital health venture that brings clarity to the challenges of specialty biopharmaceutical products in the marketplace. In today’s highly complex specialty networks, our mission is to illuminate the patient experience beyond the clinical trial. Claritas Rx leverages a proprietary technology platform and deep manufacturer expertise to automate and integrate channel, commercial, and clinical data and help...

Pliant Therapeutics is a late-stage clinical company and leader in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of fibrotic diseases We believe that by harnessing the therapeutic potential of integrin biology and TGF-β modulation, there is a potential to create drug candidates aimed at halting or even reversing fibrotic diseases and address the unmet needs of many patients. Pliant’s...

Annexon (Nasdaq: ANNX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of complement medicines for patients with classical complement-mediated autoimmune, neurodegenerative, and ophthalmic disorders of the body, brain, and eye. The company’s pipeline is based on its platform technology addressing a broad spectrum of well-researched classical complement-mediated autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases triggered by aberrant activation of C1q, the initiating...

ACROBiosystems Group, founded in 2010 and listed in 2021, is a biotechnology company aimed at being a cornerstone of the global biopharmaceutical and health industries by providing products and business models innovation. The company spans across the globe and maintains offices, R&D centers, and production bases in 12 different cities within the United States, Switzerland, England, Germany, and China. ACROBiosystems...

Halo Labs is a biotechnology company that specializes in analytical instrumentation and biopharma.

Earli mission is to make cancer a benign experience. Rather than rely on biomarkers that cancer may - or often may not - naturally provide, Earli's technology *forces* cancer cells to make a synthetic, non-human biomarker using gene therapy approaches. It's called a Synthetic Biopsy. It can then localize the cancer in a PET scanner. Earli has been funded by...

Spring Discovery is accelerating the discovery of therapies for aging. By targeting the biological processes of aging itself, we aim to uncover new therapies for the diseases of old age — from cardiovascular to neurodegenerative disease — and increase our healthy lifespans. We've built a machine learning platform to accelerate experimentation for discovering such therapies. We're hiring! https://www.springdisc.com/#careers

We use data to understand what specialty drugs do at the individual, not population level. Our specialty drug management product, VIVIO Precision Care™ fixes big unsolved healthcare problems: expensive drug therapies that don’t work; lack of real-world effectiveness; doctors prescribing based on opinion and experience instead of data; the arbitrary line between pharmacy drug and medical benefit; and, egregious supply...

Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of small-molecule single-agent and combination therapy candidates to address serious diseases such as NASH, obesity and cancer. Terns’ pipeline includes four clinical stage development programs including a THR-β agonist, an allosteric BCR-ABL inhibitor, an FXR agonist, a VAP-1 inhibitor, and a preclinical small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist program. For more...

ReCode Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing precision medicines for pulmonary diseases.

Ashvattha Therapeutics is developing a new class of drugs that identify and treat diseased cells with unprecedented precision. Our proprietary hydroxyl dendrimer (HD) platform, exclusively licensed from Johns Hopkins University, allows for the creation of hydroxyl dendrimer therapeutics (HDTs), which link known small molecule drugs to HDs for selective delivery with sustained effect in diseased tissues. We believe this approach...

We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of oral covalent small molecules to treat patients with metabolic diseases and genetically defined cancers. A covalent small molecule is a synthetic compound that forms a permanent bond to its target protein and offers a number of potential advantages over conventional non-covalent drugs, including greater target selectivity, lower drug...

The Tivic Health team is dedicated to developing advanced bioelectronic solutions that treat disease, increase wellness and improve lives. Our initial focus is delivering sinus pain relief. ClearUP is new alternative for temporary relief of sinus pain. www.tivichealth.com Currently, the most recommended treatment for those experiencing recurring sinus pain is daily flushing of the nose with salt water. We believe people should...

Developing next generation technologies for precision medicine and drug discovery

Structure Therapeutics is a science-driven clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative oral small molecule treatments for chronic metabolic and cardiopulmonary conditions with significant unmet medical needs. Utilizing its next generation structure-based drug discovery platform, Structure Therapeutics has established a robust GPCR-targeted pipeline, featuring multiple wholly-owned proprietary clinical-stage small molecule compounds designed to surpass the scalability limitations of...

A start-up developing novel ophthalmic therapeutics to treat major unmet needs for patients.

At Enable Medicine, we index biological data into highly detailed maps of human disease. This atlas is utilized to guide novel drug target discovery, identify biomarkers of therapeutic response, and develop optimal treatment strategies. Our lab in Menlo Park, California, generates high-parameter biological datasets, and our cloud-based operating system allows researchers to organize, process, query, and analyze this data at...

Kronos Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics that target the dysregulated transcription that causes cancer and other serious diseases. Our pipeline includes two investigational oral SYK inhibitors, entospletinib and lanraplenib, which are being developed to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Together the compounds have the potential to target mutations present in more than two-thirds of patients with AML....

We’re excited to share Alexza’s new corporate identity. It’s a brand that expresses our evolution and brings us closer to Ferrer, our parent company since 2016. We’re moving forward and, at the same time, staying true to our objective of offering high-quality pharmaceutical products for the acute treatment of disease, in order to make a positive impact in society. We...