Best Life Sciences Tech Companies in New York, United States
The 167 best Life Sciences Tech companies in New York, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Formation Bio.
Our analysis of 50 Life Sciences Tech companies
$9.6b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Life Sciences Tech companies in New York
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Formation Bio 🦄 Provider of AI-powered drug discovery platform for various diseases | $608M | 24 mo ago | Series D | — | Benjamine Liu Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Komodo Health 🦄 AI and cloud-based platforms provide data-driven insights to healthcare providers | $514M | 43 mo ago | Series E | 269 | Arif Nathoo Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 3 | Recursion Pharmaceuticals AI-enabled drug discovery and development platform for novel therapeutics | $452M | 35 mo ago | Public | 400 | Dean Li Co-Founder and Board Member | 203 patents AI-driven drug discovery: ML models for bioactivity, phenomics, and active learning | — |
| 4 | H1 Provider of medical affair services for biopharma and medical device industry | $302M | 48 mo ago | Series C | 480 | Ian Sax Co-Founder | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 5 | PAIGE Developer of AI applications and foundation models for cancer diagnostics | $239M | 41 mo ago | Acquired | 133 | David Klimstra Co-Founder | 540 patents AI-driven digital pathology and image analysis for cancer biomarker detection | — |
| 6 | Paradigm Provider of clinical research healthcare services | $203M | 40 mo ago | Series A | 99 | Kent Thoelke Chief Executive Officer | 29 patents Secure digital credential issuance and verification for government, construction, and IoT devices. | — |
| 7 | Schrodinger Provider of a web-based simulation and modelling tool | $162M | 55 mo ago | Acquired | 625 625 → 1,003 (+60%) | William Goddard Co-Founder | 79 patents Computational chemistry tools for drug design, free‑energy calculations, and molecular modeling | 1 partnership |
| 8 | EvolutionaryScale Provider of an AI models for protein design | $142M | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | Thomas Hayes Co-Founder | — | — |
| 9 | Excelsior Sciences Developer of chemistry for automated small molecule discovery and manufacturing 72Funding top 21%Talent top 38%AI top 45%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 21% Talenttop 38% AItop 45% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $95.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $95M | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | Michael Foley Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | — | — |
| 10 | Accutar Biotechnology Provider of artificial intelligence-based solutions for accelerating drug discovery and development processes | $91M | 62 mo ago | Series C | 37 | Jie Fan Founder & CEO | 145 patents Design of small‑molecule kinase degraders and computational docking for oncology drugs | — |
| 11 | Proxima Developer of a platform for programmable protein interaction-based drug discovery 42Funding top 24%Talent top 38%AI top 45%Tech bottom 45% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Talenttop 38% AItop 45% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 31% Funding: Raised $86.3M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $86M | 5 mo ago | Seed | — | Luca Naef Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 12 | Koneksa Health Digital remote health monitoring tool for providers | $71M | 52 mo ago | Series C | 104 | Chris Benko CEO | — | 3 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 13 | Castor Electronic Data Capture (EDC), eCRF, ePRO application for online data collection for medical research | $65M | 59 mo ago | Series B | 230 | Derk Arts Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 14 | Tandem AI AI-based drug discovery tool for researchers 62Funding top 27%Moat top 32%Patents top 33%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 27% Moattop 32% Patentstop 33% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 41% Newstop 44% AItop 45% Marketbottom 49% Techbottom 46% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $60.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 34 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $60M | 7 mo ago | Series A | 200 | Jeff He Co-Founder & CEO | 34 patents Optimized photovoltaic modules with parameter matching and UV filtering for solar power systems | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 15 | AiCure Developer of an AI platform for patient engagement in clinical trials | $52M | 28 mo ago | Series C | 16 16 → 39 (+144%) | Gordon Kessler Co-Founder | — | — |
| 16 | Manas AI Provider of a platform for drug discovery for the treatment of cancer and rare diseases 62Funding top 24%Growth top 35%Tech top 42%AI top 45% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Growthtop 35% Techtop 42% AItop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 40% Funding: Raised $50.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $51M | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | Siddhartha Mukherjee Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 17 | Code Ocean Provider of cloud based platform for the development of algorithms | $49M | 48 mo ago | Series B | 57 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Circuit Clinical Research site network platform focuses on patient identification, enrollment, recruitment & retention | $48M | 27 mo ago | Series C | 96 | Ray Stapell Co-Founder & Special Legal Advisor | — | 1 partnership |
| 19 | Linus Biotechnology Developer of diagnostic tests for central nervous system and gastrointestinal disorders | $48M | 22 mo ago | Series A | 12 | Paul Curtin Co-Founder | 15 patents Molecular exposomics platforms and bio-surface topographic imaging for health monitoring | — |
| 20 | Envisagenics AI-driven biotechnology company that focuses on the discovery and development of novel RNA splicing… | $47M | 24 mo ago | Series B | 40 | Martin Akerman Co-Founder & CTO | 19 patents Cancer immunotherapy via neoantigen discovery and splicing‑based biomarker platforms | — |
| 21 | PreciseDx Provider of an AI-based medical image analysis software for healthcare professionals 48Talent top 23%AI top 30%Funding top 32%Moat top 48% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 23% AItop 30% Fundingtop 32% Moattop 48% Growthbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 32% Newsbottom 18% Talent: 5 named leaders on record · 5 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $32M | 12 mo ago | Series B | 12 | Michael Donovan Co-Founder | — | — |
| 22 | Phosphorus Provider of next-generation diagnostics and tools for clinicians and researchers | $31M | 70 mo ago | Deadpooled | 28 | — | — | — |
| 23 | Atommap Provider of physics-based and ML-augmented computational drug discovery platform 65Funding top 28%Talent top 35%Global bottom 25% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Talenttop 35% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $31.1M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 65/100 | $31M | 3 mo ago | Series C | — | Yujie Wu Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 24 | Belong Provider of an AI-based patient engagement platform for healthcare providers and clinical trail researchers | $30M | 83 mo ago | Series B | 61 | Irad Deutsch Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 25 | Lokavant Provider of clinical data analytics and trial management platform for CRO | $29M | 32 mo ago | Acquired | 38 | Rohit Nambisan Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 26 | Leal Provider of an AI-powered platform matching cancer patients with treatment options. | $28M | 52 mo ago | Acquired | 52 | Guy Gildor Chief Technology Officer and co-founder | — | — |
| 27 | One bio Online tools for partner management and opportunity screening. | $27M | 18 mo ago | Series A | — | Matt Barnard Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | — |
| 28 | Anju Software Life science software platform | $26M | 92 mo ago | Acquired | 7 | — | — | — |
| 29 | Datacubed Provider of solutions for patient engagement and data management in clinical trails | $22M | 40 mo ago | Series A | 64 | Paul Glimcher Founder & Chief Scientific Officer | — | — |
| 30 | Medidata AI-based clinical trial management software for researchers | $22M | 31 mo ago | Acquired | 1,677 | Tarek Sherif Co-Founder | 228 patents AI‑driven clinical trial data management and remote physiological monitoring platforms | — |
| 31 | Ordaos Provider of an AI accelerator for biomedical research and drug discovery | $21M | 16 mo ago | Seed | 24 | Ulo Palm Md Cofounder | — | — |
| 32 | Whiz Provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions for healthcare industries | $21M | 43 mo ago | Acquired | 106 | Amitabh Patil Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 33 | Auxilius Online platform for clinical trial finance management | $20M | 28 mo ago | Series A | 30 | — | — | — |
| 34 | Scope Security Cloud and AI-based cyber threat identification software for medical organizations | $20M | 54 mo ago | Deadpooled | 5 | — | — | — |
| 35 | Redesign Science Developer of protein-based small molecule drugs | $17M | 54 mo ago | Seed | 32 | David Rooklin Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 36 | Dandelion Health Provider of AI-powered real-world data platform for clinical development 37Talent top 28%Funding top 34%Moat top 39%AI top 45% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 34% Moattop 39% AItop 45% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 24% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $15.9M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $16M | 1 mo ago | Series A | 7 | Elliott Green Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 partnership |
| 37 | ProofPilot Platform for the development & execution of research studies 48Product top 26%Talent top 28%Innovation top 38%Moat top 39% All 9 signals ▾Producttop 26% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 38% Moattop 39% Fundingtop 41% Techbottom 47% Marketbottom 38% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 17% Product: 3 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series D Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $16M | 9 mo ago | Series D | 19 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 38 | Massive Bio Provider of AI-based clinical trial management tool | $16M | 48 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla Md Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer | — | 1 partnership |
| 39 | BEKHealth Provider of patient screening, recruitment, and analytics solution | $15M | 21 mo ago | Series C | 42 | Jason Baumgartner Founder & CEO | 2 patents AI-driven patient identification and recruitment for clinical trial eligibility matching. | — |
| 40 | Imprint Developer of forensic immunology research tools | $15M | 13 mo ago | Series B | — | Victor Greiff Co-Founder | — | — |
| 41 | Waypoint Digital cell therapy platform for providers | $14M | 23 mo ago | Seed | 9 | David Phizicky Co-founder and CSO | — | — |
| 42 | Yseop Provider of automated natural language generation software for regulatory writing | $13M | 30 mo ago | Series A | 84 | Alain Kaeser Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer | — | 2 awards |
| 43 | nemedio Provider of a quality management software for healthcare professionals | $9M | 31 mo ago | Series A | 9 | Sabrina Varanelli Founder & CEO | 2 patents Dynamic configuration software for external hardware devices | — |
| 44 | ViuHealth Provider of home healthcare services | $8M | 31 mo ago | Series A | 20 | — | — | — |
| 45 | Argon AI AI-powered insights and workflow automation for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and life sciences industries | $6M | 11 mo ago | Seed | — | Samy Danesh Co-Founder & CEO | 20 patents Inflatable cushioning pads and gas‑filled insulating foams; GNSS multipath interference mitigation systems. | — |
| 46 | Applied XL AI-based clinical record tracking and documentation tool | $6M | 39 mo ago | Seed | 10 | Scott Cohen Co-Founder | — | — |
| 47 | Inductive Bio Developer of machine learning-based platform for drug discovery and development | $4M | 14 mo ago | Series A | — | Josh Haimson Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 48 | RUMI Scientific Provider of proprietary human stem cell platform for screening genetic diseases | $2M | 25 mo ago | Funding Raised | 6 | Ali Brivanlou Co-Founder | — | — |
| 49 | Drug Hunter Online platform provides information related to drug discovery | $748K | 9 mo ago | Seed | 33 | — | — | — |
| 50 | CellType AI-driven platform focused on drug discovery through biological simulation | $500K | 5 mo ago | Seed | — | Ivan V Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences Tech companies in New York
#1
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2019$86.3Mraised▾
Developer of a platform for programmable protein interaction-based drug discovery. The company offers technologies to discover proximity modulators, including inducers, modulators, and blockers. It focuses on advancing artificial intelligence drug discovery through data generation.
- Jan 2026Seed$86.3M
#2
Series A · New York · founded 2024$95Mraised▾
Developer of chemistry for automated small molecule discovery and manufacturing. It offers technology that transforms small-molecule innovation into a modular, iterative process. The technology facilitates automation, artificial intelligence integration, and use by non-specialists. It enables scaling from discovery to manufacturing. The offering includes chemical building blocks that allow automation to drive synthesis and accelerate discovery. It also provides AI-guided automated iterative synthesis and testing to maximize accuracy of models.
- Dec 2025Series A$70M
- Dec 2025Grant (prize money)$25M
#3
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2020 · 7 employees$15.9Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered real-world data platform for clinical development. It combines proprietary AI tools with extensive real-world patient data to accelerate clinical development and commercialization. The platform offers solutions across the product lifecycle, from early clinical research to post-approval market access. This includes tools to identify therapeutic targets, optimize patient pools for trials, generate regulatory-grade evidence, and quantify clinical and economic impact. The platform also provides AI algorithm training and validation services using diverse, multi-site datasets.
- May 2026Series A$14M
- Dec 2023Seed$15.9M
#4
Series C · New York City, New York · founded 2023$31.1Mraised▾
Provider of physics-based and ML-augmented computational drug discovery platform. It offers Silicon Therapeutics and Roivant Discovery to deliver STING agonist, potent inhibitors against oncology target, and active molecules for therapeutic degradation of target proteins.
- Mar 2026Series C$31.1M
#5
Series A · New York, New York · founded 2021 · 200 employees$60Mraised▾
AI-based drug discovery tool for researchers. The company offers a proprietary web-based platform to increase the speed of drug discovery and deliver cost-effective opportunities to the global scientific community.
- Nov 2025Series A$22M
- Mar 2023Series A$35M
- Dec 2021Seed$25M
#6
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2025$50.6Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for drug discovery for the treatment of cancer and rare diseases. It utilizes artificial intelligence, generative computational chemistry, and leading biology to accelerate the drug development. It customise chemical libraries and utilizes advanced AI filters to identify therapeutic candidates.
- Sep 2025Seed$26M
- Jan 2025Seed$24.6M
#7
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 19 employees$15.7Mraised▾
ProofPilot is an online platform for the development & execution of research studies. Researchers can use ProofPilot’s comprehensive solution to design their study, recruit participants, engage participants, manage tasks, and collect study data. Studies can now be developed four times faster and require less investment of time & money. Researchers can focus on research questions and real breakthroughs rather than recruitment and logistical management. ProofPilot allows researchers to define how they want participants to engage whether it's via ProofPilot's participant platform, mobile app, paired connected device, or in a clinic-based setting.
- Sep 2025Series D$7.7M
- Jun 2024Series C$4.7M
- Apr 2022Series B$12M
- May 2016Seed$1.9M
#8
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 12 employees$31.5Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based medical image analysis software for healthcare professionals. The software has AI-enabled tools that assist professionals to diagnose pathological samples for diagnosis and treatment solutions. The tool uses AI technology to analyze pathological images of the patient and predict disease, it assists in the enhancement of the image and provides workflow management solutions.
- May 2025Series B$11.2M
- Feb 2024Series B$20.7M
#9
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2016$608Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered drug discovery platform for various diseases. It leverages technology such as LLMs and the modern data stack in novel ways to efficiently design and operate clinical development in Atopic Dermatitis, Chronic Hand Eczema, and Knee Osteoarthritis.
- May 2024Series D$372.2M
- Sep 2021Series C$156M
- 2018Series B$80M
- 2017Series A—
#10
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 24 employees$21.1Mraised▾
Provider of an AI accelerator for biomedical research and drug discovery. The platform provides an AI drug discovery pipeline for researchers to develop novel immunotherapies in oncology and chronic inflammatory disease.
- Feb 2025Seed$337.7K
- Aug 2024Seed$3.1M
- Mar 2024Seed$5M
- Dec 2023Seed$500K
#11
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2023$142Mraised▾
Provider of an AI models for protein design. The company has developed ESM3, a frontier language model for biology that can simultaneously reason over the sequence, structure, and function of proteins.
- Jun 2024Seed$142M
#12
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2023$15Mraised▾
Developer of forensic immunology research tools. It builds experimental and computational tools to reconstruct immune histories from memory B and T cells. This helps uncover the causes of chronic diseases by identifying new disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets, enabling the development of diagnostics, cures, and treatments. The tools are designed to be scalable, cost-efficient, and accessible to the biomedical community. The research focuses on understanding the immune system's record of past exposures to identify hidden causes of chronic conditions like autoimmune diseases, long-COVID, psychiatric disorders, and dementia.
- May 2025Series B$15M
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How research on Biotechnology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Biotechnology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6,260 United States-affiliated papers.
- Harvard University209
- Cornell University177
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga140
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute126
- Johns Hopkins University121
- Gene33→164
- Transcription (linguistics)11→79
- Antibody11→62
- Genome6→56
- Mutation7→56
- Gene8→110
- Cell culture3→62
- Gene expression3→62
- Fermentation2→54
- Downregulation and upregulation1→50
- Agriculture19→58
- Antibiotic resistance15→45
- Public health4→31
- Gene6→30
- Production (economics)5→29
Where biotechnology is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing biotechnology patents in the United States
United States biotechnology patent filing is accelerating — 457,918 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Genentech, UNIV California, Regeneron Pharma; annual filings 36884→44446.
- Genentech18103
- UNIV California17969
- Regeneron Pharma16083
- Amgen10510
- Monsanto Technology9754
- UNIV Pennsylvania8526
- Harvard College7463
- UNIV Texas7382