Top California Biotech Startups (578)

Probius, is a deep-tech company bridging the data gap between biology and AI, thereby illuminating new opportunities for the way biomedical research and healthcare are practiced. By combining physics, mathematics, and biological data, the company will usher in a new age of AI-enabled biological research and decentralized predictive healthcare. Built on ten years of R&D, with over $15M of financial...

Alamar Biosciences is powering precision proteomics with automated, high throughput solutions for ultra-high sensitivity protein analysis across a range of multiplex levels. Our proprietary NULISA™ Chemistry utilizes a novel sequential capture and release method that significantly reduces background signal and increases the sensitivity and dynamic range compared with standard approaches and allows both qPCR and NGS readouts. The NULISAseq Inflammation...

BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company with the mission to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible for all. Our patent-pending molecular counter platform is the only technology platform that can accurately count the DNA molecules at the single-count level.

A new ecosystem for scientific progress. Arcadia Science is pushing the boundaries of open science and innovating at every step in the research, development, and commercialization process.

ClearNote Health – Cancer detection company enabling people at risk for high-mortality cancers to live longer, healthier lives. We focus on developing non-invasive tests to detect cancer through a standard blood draw earlier than existing methods by harnessing the power of epigenomics. We apply our proprietary epigenomic platform, combining biology and artificial intelligence, to identify DNA-based changes in biology as cancer...

TwoStep Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a pipeline built around a versatile targeting peptide “PIP” that binds selectively to multiple tumor-associated integrins, a unique feature that enables it to deliver various payloads to virtually any solid tumor. The company leverages this technology to create targeted cancer therapies for drug delivery and radioligand therapy. TwoStep Therapeutics was co-founded by CEO,...

Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a new way to make DNA that will be faster, cleaner, and more accurate than existing methods. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained mostly unchanged for 35 years. Our enzyme-based approach promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics and biomanufacturing.

Born from the founders’ recognition that their diverse but complementary skills and experiences would enable them to successfully address challenges that others had not, Nautilus (Nasdaq: NAUT) set about solving a vexing problem: how to bring true proteomics to the world in a way that accelerates therapeutic development, dramatically improves medical diagnostics, and makes personalized and predictive medicine a reality. The...

Orchestra helps life sciences companies plan, manage, and execute their drug development programs.

Profluent is an AI-first protein design company. Founded in 2022, we develop deep generative models to design and validate novel, functional proteins to revolutionize biomedicine. Based in Berkeley, CA, we are backed by leading investors including Spark Capital, Insight Partners, Air Street Capital, AIX Ventures, and Convergent Ventures. To learn more about our mission to decode the language of life...

Maze Therapeutics is translating novel genetic insights into lifesaving medicines, through an approach that integrates human genetics and functional genomics. Advances in these areas have enabled us to decode the mysteries of genetic modifiers in a range of severe diseases, which we aim to turn into medicines that mimic protective mutations. We have assembled a world-class team that we need...

Kyverna is a cell therapy company engineering and developing a new class of curative living medicines for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Using its SmarTcell™ approach which includes synReg-T cell and synNotch CAR-T technology platforms, Kyverna reprograms T cells to target and selectively suppress or eliminate autoreactive immune cells. The company’s goal is to develop therapies that are selective, potent and...

Invert builds software for bioprocessing. With Invert, your team has full transparency into all your bioprocess data from lab to production, including full process traceability from upstream to formulation. Your team will save time juggling manual data, get to insights faster, and collaborate seamlessly across teams and partners. Made for biopharma, synthetic biology, and CDMO's.

Helping the brain work better with focused ultrasound. Treating neurological disorders today and enhancing human experience tomorrow.

Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company’s wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. The first indication for Cala Health’s wearable therapy is essential tremor, a disease experienced by more than seven million people and characterized by severe hand tremors. New therapies...

We sequence whole plasmids, amplicons, whole bacterial genomes, and colonies overnight, without the need for primers and minipreps. Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking new levels of productivity in scientists using DNA tools to bring their ideas to life. The company’s DNA sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators,...

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...

The architectures that power modern AI were designed for language, not for science. They were never built to understand DNA, interpret experiments, or learn the rules that govern living systems. Closing this gap represents one of the defining opportunities of our time. Our team has pioneered advances across frontier AI, including the first models trained with one-million-token context windows, and now...

Pulse Biosciences is the inventor and sole proprietor of Nanosecond Pulsed Field Ablation™ (nsPFA™) technology. We are committed to health innovation that has the potential to improve and extend the lives of patients. Our proprietary Nanosecond Pulsed Field Ablation technology delivers nanosecond pulses of electrical energy to non-thermally clear cells while sparing adjacent non-cellular tissue. The people at Pulse Biosciences are...

Cellares is revolutionizing cell therapy manufacturing. We are developing a one-of-a-kind solution, The Cell Shuttle, to overcome the challenges associated with manufacturing so these life-saving therapies are affordable and widely available to patients who can benefit. The clinical impact of cell therapy in treating cancer has been proven, but this therapeutic approach has several limitations, especially in manufacturing, leaving extremely sick...