Top California Biotech Startups (568)

Niagen Bioscience (NASDAQ:NAGE), founded in 1999 and formerly known as ChromaDex, is the global authority on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), dedicated to advancing healthy-aging science. Our world-renowned scientists collaborate with independent investigators from leading universities and research institutions worldwide to explore the full potential of NAD+, a vital coenzyme found in every cell that declines with age and everyday stressors. Setting...

Atomic AI is a well-funded, early-stage biotech company transforming the rational design of molecules and medicines through the cutting-edge fusion of artificial intelligence and structural biology. Atomic’s unique R&D platform, based on research featured on the cover of Science (doi.org/10.1126/science.abe5650), provides new strategies to treat or cure previously-undruggable diseases by targeting RNA structure. We are an interdisciplinary team working across...

Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the treatment of rare diseases. Mirum’s approved medication is LIVMARLI® (maralixibat) oral solution which is approved in the U.S. for the treatment of cholestatic pruritus in patients with Alagille syndrome one year of age and older. Mirum’s late-stage pipeline includes two investigational treatments for debilitating liver diseases affecting children and...

Orca Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of high precision allogeneic cell therapy products that are designed to safely replace patients’ diseased blood and immune system with a healthy one. Our manufacturing platform sorts donor blood with single-cell precision and a high level of purity and speed, enabling us to create proprietary, optimal therapeutic mixtures of immune...

iota Biosciences, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astellas Pharma US, is a medical device company working to develop pioneering bioelectronics to advance the treatment and management of disease. Founded in 2017 to build on the award-winning ultrasound technology invented at the University of California, Berkeley, iota Biosciences is committed to improving human life and bringing our groundbreaking approaches to the patients...

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...

Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.

We remove atmospheric carbon for a fraction of the cost while increasing crop yields. Our process is highly efficient, increases soil health, and repurposes post-industrial waste. Then we sell the carbon credits to companies and split revenue with our regenerative growers. With a world-class team leveraging expertise in soil chemistry, agronomy, geochemistry, machine learning, and logistics, we are engineering the...

Emerald Cloud Lab is a remote controlled life science laboratory that allows scientists to conduct their experiments without being anchored to a physical lab. In our cloud lab, experiments are driven by issuing commands over the internet, which are then run in a vast, highly automated central facility which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days...

OneSkin is a longevity company on a mission to transform the way we think about skin and aging. Founded by a team of four female PhDs, OneSkin’s products aim to extend skinspan, the period of time skin is healthy and functional. OneSkin’s proprietary peptide, OS-01, is the first ingredient designed to reduce skin's biological age by improving skin barrier, supporting...

Tahoe Therapeutics (formerly Vevo Therapeutics) is a biotechnology company using its in vivo drug discovery platform and next generation AI models to uncover better drugs for more patients. The company’s Mosaic platform is the first to make in vivo data generation scalable, with single-cell precision, to capture in vivo context of disease at the first step of drug discovery and...

Axiom helps scientists eliminate molecular toxicity by providing the most accurate and affordable predictive models. Our proprietary dataset includes more than 100,000 molecules tested in pooled primary human liver cells, tens of thousands of molecules with pharmacokinetic measurements, and thousands of molecules with curated clinical outcome data. Axiom's AI models offer higher accuracy than advanced in vitro systems like 3d...

NewLimit is a biotechnology company working to radically extend human healthspan. We’re developing medicines to treat age-related diseases by reprogramming the epigenome, a new therapeutic mechanism to restore regenerative potential in aged and diseased cells. We leverage functional genomics, pooled perturbation screening, and machine learning models to unravel the biology of epigenetic aging and disease using experiments of unprecedented scale.

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...

Pendulum is committed to developing novel interventions that target the human microbiome to improve the lives of patients suffering from a variety of diseases. Our targeted formulations of natural bacterial strains help to rebalance the microbiome which restores and improve one’s health.

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...

Frontier Medicines, located in South San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA, is a precision medicine company that has pioneered a powerful discovery and development platform designed to generate medicines against disease-causing proteins previously considered undruggable. We are deploying our technologies in chemoproteomics, covalent drug discovery, and machine learning to develop a pipeline of groundbreaking medicines against the most important drivers...

Adimab is the most successful antibody discovery company in the industry, with 600+ discovery campaigns and 80+ clinical programs created with more than 130 partners. Our unique, yeast-based platform is a comprehensive and effective tool for the discovery and optimization of fully human monoclonal and bispecific antibodies. Our partners range from some of the biggest pharma to biotech companies at all...

Our mission is to make actionable information accessible to everyone at the time it matters. By making actionable information accessible to everyone in the world at the time it matters most, we are working to facilitate the early detection and prevention of disease, and empower people everywhere to live their best possible lives.

Lycia is a Series B biotech company building upon the novel platform developed by academic founder Professor Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford University to develop LYTAC (lysosomal targeting chimera) protein degraders that harness the cell’s lysosomal trafficking and degradation pathway to target both soluble and membrane-bound extracellular proteins. Applications of the LYTAC platform include: targeting challenging membrane proteins, clearing pathogenic immune...