Top California Pharmaceutical Startups (171)

Develop Health, co-founded by Mel van Londen and Ben Easton, is dedicated to transforming the medication prior authorization process. Their product reduces form completion time by over 80% and increases approval rates. With over 10 years of experience in healthcare, the founding team has impacted 200k+ patients and 6k+ providers, holding notable roles at Canvas Medical, IDEO, and Rupa Health.

Conversio Health is an innovative chronic condition management company specializing in respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma. It serves as a key link between patients, physicians, and health plans by combining proprietary technologies and customized medication therapies with a multidisciplinary care team. Through its unique pharmacy model and AI-driven analytics, Conversio Health aims to improve clinical outcomes, prevent hospitalizations, and...

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

Janux Therapeutics is an innovative biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation therapeutics based on its proprietary Tumor Activated T Cell Engager (TRACTr) platform technology to better treat patients suffering from cancer. Janux’s initial focus is on developing a novel class of T cell engagers (TCEs), and its lead product candidates are designed to target clinically validated drug targets. While TCE therapeutics have...

Achira is building atomistic foundation simulation models to power the future of drug discovery.

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...

Multiply Labs develops advanced robotic systems that manufacture individualized drugs at scale. Our products are enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. Multiply Labs has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in San Francisco.

Medspas are booming, and are often a path for individual nurses to become business owners. We believe that’s a good thing for them, their communities, local economies, and clients. We unlock the entrepreneurial opportunity in aesthetics for those with the moxie to take the leap. Moxie gives aesthetic entrepreneurs everything they need to successfully compete (and win) against even the biggest...

ImmunEdge is a biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel therapeutics for patients with serious or life-threatening diseases. With a highly experienced team of experts in immunology and drug development, we are pioneering innovative approaches to target and modulate key molecular pathways that regulate the immune response.

PDC Pharmacy is a long-term care pharmacy that provides specialized pharmaceutical services for individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism, and behavioral health needs, exclusively serving provider agencies.

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...

Lief Labs is a premier formulation and product development innovator and contract manufacturer specializing in dietary supplements and nutraceuticals. Based in Valencia, California, the company provides turn-key solutions for brands in the vitamins and minerals space, offering full-service manufacturing of products such as powders, tablets, and capsules to help clients build premium, lasting, and innovative brands.

Tarsus is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that applies proven science and new technology to revolutionize treatment for patients with unmet needs.

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...

Varda Space Industries was founded in 2020 with the goal of manufacturing products in space to benefit life on Earth. Co-founders Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov imagined a world where space could be leveraged not only for storytelling and awe, but for its economic benefits. Varda was created as a platform for in-space manufacturing, with a range of real-life, on-Earth...

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

Rezo is a different kind of biopharma company. Our mission is to dramatically increase the success rate of drug development by building a disease-agnostic, fully-integrated, network biology platform that will redefine our understanding of human disease and ability to treat it. Our Founders and members of the Board are a group of esteemed, world-class scientists from the University of California,...

Trialfacts was established in 2006 to provide specialised patient recruitment services and effective solutions to the clinical trial industry. Trialfacts combines it’s extensive marketing and advertising expertise with in-depth clinical trial experience to create effective marketing solutions that adhere to GCP and HREC requirements. If you’d like to learn more please visit https://trialfacts.com/participantsguaranteed

Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) dedicated to providing quality, affordable, and culturally sensitive healthcare to underserved communities in greater Los Angeles. The clinic offers medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and behavioral health services regardless of a patient's ability to pay, while honoring the legacy and teachings of Monseñor Oscar A. Romero.

RheoSense is a Bay Area high-tech company developing patented VROC (Viscometer-Rheometer-on-a-Chip) instruments for viscosity measurement and material characterization. Its MEMS- and microfluidics-based viscometers require very small samples, support Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, and provide accurate, repeatable results. RheoSense serves biotechnology, pharmaceutical, protein-therapeutics, chemical, coatings, electronics, food, petrochemical, and research customers through instruments across laboratory and production environments and academic research...