Best Life Sciences Tech Companies in Virginia, United States
The 34 best Life Sciences Tech companies in Virginia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vibrent.
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 Virginia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vibrent Provider of a cloud-based precision medicine platform | $39M | 73 mo ago | Funding Raised | Praduman Jain Founder & CEO | 2009 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Azure+3 | — | — |
| 2 | ZielBio Developer of targeted therapeutics for cancer | $26M | 85 mo ago | Series A | Kimberly A. Kelly CEO & CSO | 2010 | — | 7 patents Targeting plectin-1 with therapeutic antibodies for cancer diagnostics and therapy | — |
| 3 | Perthera Personalized molecular cancer profiling through genomics and proteomics | $18M | 48 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | — | 12 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 4 | Biotherapeutics Developer of therapeutics, nutritionals, and informatics tools for inflammation and metabolic diseases | $11M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Josep Bassaganya-Riera CEO | 2008 | — | 175 patents Engineered immune cell therapies and bispecific molecules for cancer and autoimmune treatment | — |
| 5 | Incogen Provider of software and professional services to scientists | $10M | 178 mo ago | Funding Raised | Maciek Sasinowski Founder & CEO | 1998 | — | — | — |
| 6 | OpenQ Compliant KOL Management Software | $8M | 184 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2006 | — | 4 patents AI-driven social media compliance monitoring and risk analysis for enterprises | — |
| 7 | One Health Group Provider of information and quality management solutions | $4M | 39 mo ago | Seed | Albert Rienzo Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Qualtrax Compliance software for regulated industries | $3M | 117 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1993 | — | — | — |
| 9 | AMPEL Provider of bioinformatics platform for drug development | $3M | 46 mo ago | Funding Raised | Amrie Grammer Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 10 | GATACA AI-powered bioinformatics for virology, metagenomics, and oncology research | $2M | 175 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Roi2 Offers a SaaS based marketing and product branding analytics platform to healthcare organzations | $1M | 184 mo ago | Deadpooled | Bonnie Rishell ex-CEO and Founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Authentag Traceability solutions for pharmaceuticals, medical devices & US Government inventory | $224K | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | Stuart Corby Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Life Sciences Tech companies in Virginia
#1
Seed · Blacksburg, Virginia · founded 2008 · 8 employees$11Mraised▾
Developer of therapeutics, nutritionals, and informatics tools for inflammation and metabolic diseases. It integrates nutrition, therapeutics, and IT to develop interventions for preventing and treating autoimmune and metabolic diseases. It offers pharmaceutical drug innovation for treating inflammation and diabetes, along with medical foods and supplements. It also provides precision medicine technology. The company conducts preclinical pig studies and offers computational services.
- Dec 2025Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Aug 2025Grant (prize money)$314.4K
- Jun 2025Grant (prize money)$359.6K
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$347.6K
#2
Series A · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2012 · 13 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Personalized molecular cancer profiling through genomics and proteomics. Through the company’s PrecisOn process, Perthera will provide oncologists with a comprehensive understanding of the molecular architecture of their patients’ tumors. The multiple molecular analyses of each tumor will be integrated into Perthera’s Expert Oncologist system (also known as ExpO), an expert learning database that sources the most current clinical knowledge and research/drug information available, to facilitate analysis of multi-omic molecular profiles in context with the patient’s medical history.
- Sep 2022Series A$4.5M
- Jan 2019Series A$2.1M
- Dec 2017Series A$750K
- Jun 2016Series A$9.2M
#3
Funding Raised · Fairfax, Virginia · founded 2009 · 151 employees$39Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based precision medicine platform. It provides an evidence-based technology platform known as Adaptive Platform for Personalized Engagement for longitudinal data collection, engagement, and insights. Specific functionality includes mobile and web apps, interactive informed consent, assessments, surveys, passively sensed data, wearables, and wireless devices data, teachable moments, interventions, reminders, schedules, motivational interviewing, notifications, customized monitoring, feedback loops, coaching, alerts, temporal data integration, visualization, analytics, machine learning and reporting of individual and group level measures and outcomes.
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$39M
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)—
#4
Series A · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2010 · 10 employees$25.9Mraised▾
Developer of targeted therapeutics for cancer. The company uses ZielFind, a target discovery platform to discover new targets. The company's lead molecules, ZB131 fMAb & ZB220 ADC are being developed to target cell surface cytolinker proteins, Plectin-1 as anticancer drugs. The company is also discovering novel cell targets for cardiology, neurology & metabolic diseases with other partners.
- Sep 2019Series A$25.1M
- Jun 2017Seed$755K
- Jul 2015Seed$450K
- Aug 2012Grant (prize money)$301.3K
#5
Seed · Chantilly, Virginia · founded 2017 · 4 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Provider of information and quality management solutions. The platform enables life science industries to meet regulatory standards for research & development. Also, it helps healthcare providers to analyze and validate the clinical data information.
- Jul 2023Conventional Debt—
- Jul 2023Seed$2.6M
- Nov 2021Seed$1.5M
#6
Funding Raised · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2013 · 33 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of a bioinformatics platform for drug development. It offers clinicians and biomedical companies with bioinformatics data and helps in developing personalized drugs.
- Dec 2022Conventional Debt$1.1M
- Jun 2021Conventional Debt$350K
- Feb 2021Conventional Debt$500K
- Jan 2021Conventional Debt$1M
#7
Funding Raised · Williamsburg, Virginia · founded 1998$10.1Mraised▾
Provider of software and professional services to scientists. The suite of INCOGEN tools includes a web-browser-based information mining and management portal, an extensible bioinformatics visual programming and workflow management platform, and two image analysis software packages.
- Dec 2011Grant (prize money)—
- Oct 2010Grant (prize money)$400K
- Sep 2008Grant (prize money)$3.4M
- Aug 2008Grant (prize money)$180.1K
#8
Acquired · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2006 · 52 employees$8Mraised▾
OpenQ Engage, the complete solution for Medical Affairs organizations to compliantly and effectively engage with Key Opinion Leaders and Stakeholders. The company helps life sciences companies identify, profile, and compliantly manage relationships with key opinion leaders through its cloud software, data and analytics. Its Engage application is built natively on the Salesforce.com platform which allows for seamless integration with other Force.com-based or even external solutions. It is a validated data provider and claims to have the largest suite of life sciences and healthcare based social compliance solutions which enable users to identify, profile, plan, interact, and measure their engagements in a compliant manner.
- Jun 2011Series B$5.5M
- Sep 2009Series A$2.5M
#9
Acquired · Blacksburg, Virginia · founded 1993 · 43 employees$3Mraised▾
Qualtrax provides a software solution for regulated industries like manufacturing, food processing, life sciences, Energy and labs to manage critical documents and business processes. The compliance suite offers accreditation management, document management, testing & training management, process management, automated alerts, role-based governance, and integrations. Qualtrax is a subsidiary of Comprehensive computer solutions.
- Jan 2017Unattributed$3M
#10
Funding Raised · Newport News, Virginia · founded 2004$1.6Mraised▾
AI-powered bioinformatics for virology, metagenomics, and oncology research. They develop pathogen-specific software solutions, leveraging deep machine learning and proprietary algorithms. Their GAT/ML pipeline enables de novo assembly, biomarker identification, and haplotype reconstruction for viruses like HBV and HIV. The software is designed for academic scientists, antiviral drug developers, and clinical scientists using NGS data. It offers capabilities in functional trait analysis, dynamic databases, and integration of workflows. The company aims to streamline discovery, improve data management, and facilitate research in genomics and disease analysis. They provide custom analysis tools, editing/writing services, and study design consultation. This is a B2B, SaaS, software solution.
- Mar 2012Grant (prize money)—
- Mar 2012Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jul 2009Grant (prize money)—
- Jun 2009Grant (prize money)$183.9K
#11
Deadpooled · Reston, Virginia · founded 2009$1Mraised▾
ROI² provides programs that generate intelligence and analytics in product branding, marketing and sales targeted to health systems, healthcare providers and pharma companies. The company claims its solutions transform clients’ marketing effectiveness to better identify trusted community networks, key leaders, and the effect their decisions have on market behaviors. Its intelligence solutions are focused around physician influence mapping.
- Jun 2011Seed$1M
- Mar 2010Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2014$224.4Kraised▾
Authentag provides traceability solutions for pharmaceuticals, medical devices & US Government inventory. The company is using various technologies including data analytics, the blockchain, tokenization, artificial intelligence, and encryption techniques to keep immutable records. Authentag's platform uses the unique labels/tags and connecting that tag to the individuals that interact with it & track their movements with simple device scans.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$224.4K
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