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Top 25 Biopharmaceutical companies based in Switzerland
The Switzerland biopharmaceutical companies directory lists 327 companies developing and commercializing medicines based on biological products. It includes 187,183 business contacts and 82,717 email addresses for organizations in the category, with Basel as the single most-represented city among the companies on the list. The directory was updated in September 2026.
Biopharmaceutical companies discover, develop, manufacture, or commercialize medicines made from biological sources, including proteins, antibodies, vaccines, and cell or gene therapies. This list covers companies whose primary business includes the research, development, manufacturing, or commercialization of biopharmaceutical products. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 6, 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.
The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies based in Switzerland
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
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| 1 | Indirect evidence | 63,703 contacts → | |||
“Novartis is an innovative medicines company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 16,290 contacts → | |||
“Lonza is a pioneer and world leader in the CDMO industry, setting the pace with cutting-edge science, smart technology, and lean manufacturing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 15,811 contacts → | |||
“Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, with a growth strategy driven by its Purpose: pioneering access for patients.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 5,793 contacts → | |||
“Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a privately owned specialty biopharmaceutical group committed to building families and helping people live better lives.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 2,281 contacts → | |||
“Family-owned since 1983, Octapharma is a global healthcare company headquartered in Lachen, Switzerland.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 1,616 contacts → | |||
“CordenPharma is your full-service partner in the Contract Development & Manufacturing (CDMO) of APIs, Lipid Excipients, Drug Products and Packaging.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 1,559 contacts → | |||
“Acino is a Swiss pharmaceutical company headquartered in Zurich, with a clear focus on high-growth markets.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 1,301 contacts → | |||
“PolyPeptide Group AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (“PolyPeptide”) is a specialized Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for peptide-based active…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 907 contacts → | |||
“IBSA Institut Biochimique SA is a privately owned pharmaceutical company founded in Lugano in 1945.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 804 contacts → | |||
“Swixx BioPharma is designed to fully replace biopharma, OTC and medical device multinationals’ subsidiaries or business units in those countries, or therapeutic areas of CEE, that…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 644 contacts → | |||
“The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative medicines to help more patients.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 557 contacts → | |||
“Polpharma Biologics is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Switzerland that develops, manufactures and commercializes biosimilars for global markets.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 450 contacts → | |||
“Bridging the gap between disruptive discovery products and real-world patient reach, we identify high-potential compounds for in-licensing, we conduct clinical development and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 386 contacts → | |||
“Genedata transforms biopharma data into intelligence.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 316 contacts → | |||
“Helsinn is a global pharmaceutical company that builds, manufactures, launches, and commercializes products to improve the quality of life for patients with cancer and chronic…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 309 contacts → | |||
“Celonic is a “Pure Play” Biologics Contract Development Manufacturing Organization (CDMO).” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 279 contacts → | |||
“Ewopharma is the successor company to M.R.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 214 contacts → | |||
“A.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 200 contacts → | |||
“Extrovis is a fully integrated global pharmaceutical company with strong portfolio offering, comprising of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), Finished dosage forms (FDF) &…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 194 contacts → | |||
“KD Pharma Group | Creating Health Solutions The KD Pharma Group is a CDMO that develops products in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical space.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 192 contacts → | |||
“ten23 health is the human-centric and sustainable strategic partner of choice for the pharmaceutical industry and biotech start-ups for the development, manufacture, and testing…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 187 contacts → | |||
“Rontis, a multinational specialty healthcare corporation, was established in 1986 with a vision to provide the most innovative & trustworthy solutions, aiming to become an…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 173 contacts → | |||
“AC Immune SA is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and a global leader in precision prevention for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 154 contacts → | |||
“Molecular Partners AG is a clinical-stage biotech company pioneering the design and development of DARPin therapeutics, a new class of custom-built drugs for medical challenges…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 136 contacts → | |||
“AmerisourceBergen, soon to become Cencora, fosters a positive impact on the health of people and communities around the world by advancing the development and delivery of…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biopharmaceutical companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biopharmaceutical companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biopharmaceutical companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biopharmaceutical companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biopharmaceutical companies based in Switzerland at a glance
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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 biopharmaceutical 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 Switzerland whose own description of what they do matches “biopharmaceutical 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 biopharmaceutical 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 biopharmaceutical companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Switzerland 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, 82,717 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 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
How many biopharmaceutical companies are in the directory?
The directory contains 327 biopharmaceutical companies based in Switzerland.
Where are most of the biopharmaceutical companies located?
Basel is the single most-represented city among the biopharmaceutical companies on the list.
What contact data is available for biopharmaceutical companies?
The directory includes 187,183 business contacts and 82,717 email addresses for the listed biopharmaceutical companies.
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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.
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