Best Genomics Companies in Utah, United States
The 43 best Genomics companies in Utah, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ancestry.
Our analysis of 50 Genomics companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 84% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Genomics companies in Utah
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancestry Provider of an online genealogy platform offering a host of services | $446M | 124 mo ago | 1,228 1,228 → 1,863 (+52%) | — | SentryApple iCloud MailSalesforce Desk+26 | — | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Lineagen Sequencing-based diagnostic test and consultative services for autism | $67M | 139 mo ago | 40 | — | — | 85 patents Genetic biomarkers and diagnostic assays for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders | — |
| 3 | IDbyDNA Developer of search engine to identify pathogens in sample | $29M | 78 mo ago | 75 | — | — | 27 patents Targeted metagenomic sequencing and analysis for microbial identification and antimicrobial resistance detection. | — |
| 4 | Great Basin Scientific Sample-to-Result molecular diagnostics devices company | $28M | 121 mo ago | 182 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Seek Labs Developer of a technology for the treatment and diagnostics of infectious diseases. 53AI top 15%Patents top 27%Innovation top 28%Moat top 32% All 9 signals ▾AItop 15% Patentstop 27% Innovationtop 28% Moattop 32% Fundingtop 33% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 31% Marketbottom 29% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Patents: 48 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 30 filings since 2022 vs 12 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $14M | 6 mo ago | 27 | Jared Bauer CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 48 patents Rapid point‑of‑care nucleic‑acid diagnostics and CRISPR‑based treatments for animal diseases | — |
| 6 | Traceyourpast.com Provider of recruitment services | $10M | 121 mo ago | 31 | — | Beehiiv RSS feedLearnWorldsCodeMirror+20 | — | — |
| 7 | Inherent Biosciences Developer of epigenetic diagnostics and therapeutics for complex diseases | $9M | 16 mo ago | 15 | Kristin Brogaard Co-Founder & CSO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Juneau Biosciences Diagnostics for women's health using population genetics and genomics | $8M | 165 mo ago | 12 | Kenneth Ward Founder and CEO | — | — | — |
| 9 | Known Medicine Provider of drug response predictions using living patient cells and biomarkers | $7M | 60 mo ago | 15 | Andrea Mazzocchi Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 10 | BioMicro Systems Developer of research products based on its proprietary microfluidic and microarray technologies | $5M | 227 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Co-Dx Provider of genomics-based information and solutions for transplant patients | $4M | 37 mo ago | 155 | Dwight Egan CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | — |
| 12 | XCR Diagnostics Provider of a portable device for nucleic acid testing | $2M | 117 mo ago | 11 | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Co-Diagnostics Provider of statistical bioinformatics-based molecular diagnostics | $2M | 37 mo ago | 155 155 → 87 (-44%) | Dwight Egan Co-Founder & CEO | — | 94 patents Multiplex cooperative PCR primer technologies for precise nucleic‑acid variant genotyping and infection diagnostics | 2 partnerships · 1 expansion |
| 14 | KimanTech Developer of PCR-based products for molecular biology | $2M | 103 mo ago | 5 | Rob Parry CEO | — | 10 patents Automated fluid handling and dispensing systems for biotech laboratory applications. | — |
| 15 | Knudra Provider of transgenic tools for drug discovery and other life science research | $1M | 137 mo ago | 16 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Gradient Biomodeling Computational platform for modeling biomolecular interactions and pathways | $800K | 119 mo ago | — | Nick Kaludov Co-Founder | — | 7 patents Macrolide-based therapeutics for liver-stage malaria treatment | — |
| 17 | Fluoresentric Point-of-care instruments and assays for nucleic acid amplification | $203K | 138 mo ago | 4 | — | — | 54 patents Molecular diagnostics and chemical sensing for nucleic acid detection and amplification | — |
| 18 | M-Vac System Provider of DNA collection and sampling equipment services | $184K | 154 mo ago | — | Jared Bradley Founder & CEO | PHPJavaAlmaLinux+14 | — | — |
Top 12 Genomics companies in Utah
#1
Series B · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2017 · 27 employees$13.6Mraised▾
Developer of a technology for the treatment and diagnostics of infectious diseases. It offers point-of-care diagnostic and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based technologies to detect and treat infectious diseases.
- Feb 2026Grant (prize money)$2M
- Aug 2023Series B$13.6M
#2
Series A · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2019 · 15 employees$9.1Mraised▾
Developer of epigenetic diagnostics and therapeutics for complex diseases. It focuses on identifying dysregulation across multiple genes and related pathways. It aims to transform the diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases like infertility through its epigenetic platform. The company's initial product, SpermQT, seeks to improve fertility testing and provide personalized treatment plans.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Jan 2025Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Feb 2024Grant (prize money)$1M
#3
Acquired · Lehi, Utah · founded 1996 · 1228 employees$446.2Mraised▾
Ancestry is a provider of an online genealogy platform offering a host of services. It offers family history information, historical records, and other genealogical information. It enables users to create their family tree and helps them discover, preserve and share their family history. The company uses microarray-based autosomal DNA testing technology and an online family history resource to predict family connections and relatives. The company offers a subscription-based service. The company claims its online resource contains all relevant Federal Census records since 1790 (Archives).
- Apr 2016Post IPO$6M
- Dec 2012Convertible Debt$300M
- Oct 2007PE$113M
- Aug 1999Series B$33.2M
#4
Acquired · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2002 · 40 employees$66.9Mraised▾
Lineagen helps physicians to evaluate children with autism or other forms of developmental delay. It offers sequencing-based diagnostic tests and consultative services for autism & developmental disorders for parents. It also provides digital platforms m-chat.org, an online screening tool and OpenAutism.com for information flow between specialists.
- Jan 2015Series C$12.2M
- Nov 2013Series C$16.1M
- Nov 2013Series B$16.1M
- Apr 2013Series B$11.6M
#5
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2013 · 155 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Provider of genomics-based information and solutions for transplant patients. The company specializes in the development and manufacturing of in vitro diagnostic tests, particularly in the field of infectious diseases. The company offer a range of products and solutions for various applications, including Zika testing and syndromic infectious disease testing.
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Aug 2018Conventional Debt$2M
- 2016Seed$1.1M
- 2015Seed—
#6
Acquired · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2014 · 75 employees$29Mraised▾
IDbyDNA offers a search engine to identify pathogens in sample. Taxonomer, a DNA Search Engine to empower clinicians and researchers to identify any pathogen from any sample. Taxonomer is based on NGS-based metagenomic analysis technology. It is peer-reviewed and is meant for DNA search algorithm and large curated bacterial, viral and fungal databases for NGS data. It can be used for both nucleic acid and protein-based taxonomic classification and also for real-time big data analysis.
- Jan 2020Series B$20M
- Sep 2016Series A$9M
#7
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2005 · 182 employees$28Mraised▾
Great Basin Scientific is a publicly-held molecular diagnostics company that commercializes chip-based technologies. The company developing sample-to-result technology and products that provide multiple-pathogen diagnoses of infectious diseases. By providing more diagnostic data per sample, healthcare providers are able to treat patients with the right medication sooner and improving outcomes. Great Basin has created a molecular diagnostics platform Combining isothermal amplification with chip-based detection in a sample-in/result out format
- Jul 2016Post IPO$68M
- Jan 2016Post IPO$20.5M
- Apr 2014Series B$600K
- Dec 2013Series B$5.8M
#8
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2012 · 155 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Co-Diagnostics Inc is a molecular diagnostics company. It develops, licenses, and commercializes molecular technologies such as lab systems (MDx device) and manufacture and sell reagents used for tests that are designed using the detection and/or analysis of nucleic acid molecules (DNA or RNA). CDI's low-cost system uses its tests to diagnose tuberculosis, Zika, hepatitis B and C, Malaria, dengue and HIV. The company's diagnostics systems enable very rapid, low-cost, sophisticated molecular testing for organisms and genetic diseases by greatly automating historically complex procedures in both the development and administration of tests.
#9
Seed · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2020 · 15 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Provider of drug response predictions using living patient cells and biomarkers. The company offers a machine learning-based sensitivity assay paired with -omics data. This allows for identification of predictive biomarkers to determine likely responders for new drugs. The company builds a 3D cell culture dataset with images of patient cancer cells responding to drugs.
- Aug 2021Seed$7.2M
- Aug 2020Seed$125K
#10
Series B · Provo, Utah · founded 2014 · 31 employees$10.4Mraised▾
Provider of recruitment services
- Jul 2016Series B$910K
- Jul 2015Series B$7M
- Dec 2014Seed$2.5M
#11
Series A · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2007 · 12 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Diagnostics for women's health using population genetics and genomics. Its flagship test is being developed for the diagnosis and prognosis of endometriosis. It is currently recruiting healthy patients and patients with endometriosis for a population-wide gene mapping exercise as a part of the development of the diagnostic test.
- Nov 2012Series A$25K
- Jun 2012Series A$500K
- Jul 2011Series A$1M
- Mar 2011Series A$3.8M
#12
Deadpooled · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2000 · 10 employees$4.9Mraised▾
BioMicro Systems serves the life sciences community by developing and marketing biological research products based on its proprietary microfluidic and microarray technologies. Its products include MAUI hybridization systems, disposable MAUI Mixer microarray hybridization chambers combined with microarray hybridization instrument. It also offers Kits for FISH, arrayCGH, microRNA microarrays, gene expression microarrays, and protein arrays. BioMicro Systems was closed as of Sep 2010.
- Sep 2007Series B$2M
- May 2007Conventional Debt$250K
- Aug 2004Series A$900K
- May 2003Series A$2M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Genomics coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
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How research on Bioinformatics in Utah is moving
A read on the academic research around Bioinformatics in Utah — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 87 papers.
- University of Utah75
- Mutah University5
- Utah Department of Health4
- Utah State University3
- University of Utah Health Care2
- Gene6
- Drug discovery3
- Enzyme3
- Biosensor3
- Genome2
- Genome3→4
- Genome3
- Epigenetics2
- Disease2
- Immune system2
- Melanoma2
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