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Top 25 AI drug discovery companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 67 AI drug discovery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 9,192 professional contacts across them, including 497 with verified work emails and 161 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers AI drug discovery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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67Companies
9,192Contacts tracked
497Verified emails
161Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest AI drug discovery companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 67 AI drug discovery companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to AI drug discovery companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-200123 contacts →

“Our mission at Causaly is to redefine the boundaries of human discovery by harnessing transformative AI technologies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2Indirect evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 2026501-1,00089 contacts →

“Exscientia is now Recursion.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3Strong evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20087 contacts →

“Cresset® is revolutionizing molecule design and cross-team communication, combining cutting-edge science with AI/ML to enable our customers to discover new compounds faster and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4Strong evidenceNewhouse, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20084 contacts →

“Founded in 2013, BioAscent is a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services based at the former Organon / MSD R&D site in Newhouse, Scotland, UK.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5Strong evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20060 contacts →

“Healx is a mission-driven technology company pioneering the next generation of drug discovery in order to bring novel, effective treatments to rare disease patients around the…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202651-20053 contacts →

“Optibrium provides elegant software solutions for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7Strong evidencePampisford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5039 contacts →

“PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5037 contacts →

“Peptone is a therapeutics company that uses AI and an experimental physics product engine to design small molecules targeting the 6,200 intrinsically disordered human proteins…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5032 contacts →

“C4XD is a pioneering Drug Discovery company, combining scientific expertise with cutting-edge technologies to efficiently deliver world‑leading medicines.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5022 contacts →

“CoSyne Therapeutics is a vertically integrated AI Drug Discovery company aiming to bring speed to precision medicine through polymathic AI to help patients with under-served…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-1020 contacts →

“More than half of all clinical trials fail due to safety issues.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12Strong evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5017 contacts →

“PharmEnable is a biopharmaceutical company utilizing AI to discover effective small-molecule medicines for disease targets that are inaccessible to antibodies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5016 contacts →

“PentaBind is a VC-backed drug discovery company using Artificial Intelligence and an integrated wet-laboratory to design high performance aptamers with multiple drug-like…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
14Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-1014 contacts →

“Modern drug design software for chemists”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-1011 contacts →

“Kuano is applying advanced computational methods to solve the hardest problems in therapeutic design, accelerating the path to life-changing medicines.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
16Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-5010 contacts →

“Accessible AI for all drug discovery researchers.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
17Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-509 contacts →

“Rayca Precison is a drug discovery company that pairs generative AI with physics-based simulation to design molecules for targets long considered undruggable.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-108 contacts →

“Oppilotech have developed a high-resolution platform based on systems biology and machine learning to model biological processes in cells.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
19Strong evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-108 contacts →

“Oxford Drug Design, an advanced spinout from Oxford University, is an innovative biotechnology company discovering and developing novel therapeutics supported by pioneering…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
20Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-106 contacts →

“Evariste is an AI-enabled drug discovery company developing small molecule inhibitors of next generation synthetic lethality targets.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-106 contacts →

“Axiom Therapeutics is a techbio company founded on the vision of harnessing quantum-accurate physics and machine learning to design covalent medicines that maximise clinical…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
22Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 202611-506 contacts →

“Aithena builds MLRcle, an AI-powered Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review tool for Pharma and the Life Sciences Industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
23Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-105 contacts →

“Inovia Bio is on a mission to revolutionise drug development.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
24Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-105 contacts →

“Sentinal4D is an AI-powered cancer drug discovery and development company, with close ties to the Institute of Cancer Research.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBelfast, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 7, 20261-104 contacts →

“Most of the genome is uncharted.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026

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AI drug discovery companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026
5.4%Verified-email coverage
1.8%Mobile-number coverage
137.2Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
50.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
37
11-50
20
51-200
8
201-500
1
501-1,000
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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among AI drug discovery companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “AI drug discovery companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names AI drug discovery companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among AI drug discovery companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 497 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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AI drug discovery companies by metro

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What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names AI drug discovery companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many AI drug discovery companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 67 AI drug discovery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Causaly, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most AI drug discovery companies?

London leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (11) and Oxford (6).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.