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Top 25 Drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,258 drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 15,336 professional contacts across them, including 6,197 with verified work emails and 4,960 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide, 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 1, 2026. Country and city lists for drug discovery venture capital firms follow the table.
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 drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 738 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple transformative human health and sustainability…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We develop and apply fragment and structure-based methods to solve problems in drug discovery, and have generated cell active lead compounds and development candidates against…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Isomorphic Labs is here to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Enterprise Associates, Inc.(NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IP Group accelerates the impact of science for a better future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2004, RA Capital Management is an active, multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based, science-led investing in public and private healthcare, life…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Takeda Ventures, Inc.(TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm backed by Fidelity that helps entrepreneurs scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Astex Pharmaceuticals is a world leader in innovative drug discovery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Proteros is an early drug discovery partner for even the most technically challenging targets, from target through to lead progression.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atlas Venture is a leading biotech venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SOSV is the most active deep tech venture capital firm globally, investing at pre-seed (or at startup inception) supporting visionary founders intent on making a profound impact…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Thinkhat, we are building platforms that transform innovative concepts into successful companies through ideation, incubation, and illumination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Curie.Bio is a venture capital firm that helps founders discover and develop important new medicines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RTW is a life sciences investment and innovation firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We discover, launch and build great companies based on bold ideas that meet at the intersection of science, strategy, business and medicine – where transformational science meets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nimbus Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, structure-based drug discovery company developing novel small molecule medicines designed to act against well-validated but…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI) is a first-in-class translational medicine institute dedicated to advancing life sciences in the race to eliminate disease and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lux Capital is a venture capital firm investing in emerging science and technology at the outermost edges of what is possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family in 1969, Venrock partners with entrepreneurs to build some of the world’s most disruptive, successful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Versant Ventures is a leading healthcare investment firm committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build the next generation of great companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 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: drug discovery venture capital firms. 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 drug discovery venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug discovery venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug discovery venture capital firms. 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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Drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 1, 2026Companies by employee count
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 drug discovery venture capital firms, 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.
- Coverage
- 11 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, India, Germany, Spain, Israel, Sweden, Australia and 1 more. Country and city lists for drug discovery venture capital firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “drug discovery venture capital firms”. 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 drug discovery venture capital firms), 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 drug discovery venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 6,197 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 between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 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.
Drug discovery venture capital firms by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Drug discovery venture capital firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United States841
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United Kingdom95
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Canada48
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Switzerland47
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in India41
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Germany39
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Spain33
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Israel30
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Sweden30
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Australia28
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in France26
Cities
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in New York, United States154
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in London, United Kingdom119
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in San Francisco, United States112
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Boston, United States85
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States47
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in Cambridge, United States44
- Drug discovery venture capital firms based in San Diego, United States27
Frequently asked
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 drug discovery venture capital firms, 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 drug discovery venture capital firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,258 drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide 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?
Flagship Pioneering, headquartered in Cambridge, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most drug discovery venture capital firms?
The United States leads with 841 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (95) and Canada (48). Every drug discovery venture capital firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most drug discovery venture capital firms?
New York leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by London (66) and Boston (61).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,197 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,258 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 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.