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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.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
1,258Companies
15,336Contacts tracked
6,197Verified emails
4,960Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,258 drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to drug discovery venture capital firms: 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
1Indirect evidenceCambridge, MA, US501-1,000738 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, 2026
2Strong evidenceStrasbourg, FR201-500351 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
3Strong evidenceGreat Abington Cambridge, GB51-200330 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, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, GB201-500324 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, 2026
5Strong evidenceTimonium, MD, US51-200276 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, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLondon, GB51-200267 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“IP Group accelerates the impact of science for a better future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CA201-500263 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8Partial evidenceBoston, MA, US201-500242 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, 2026
9Partial evidenceCambridge, MA, US10001+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, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCambridge, MA, US51-200224 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, 2026
11Strong evidenceLondon, GB51-200172 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, 2026
12Strong evidenceCambridge, GB51-200138 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Astex Pharmaceuticals is a world leader in innovative drug discovery.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
13Strong evidenceDE51-200136 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, 2026
14Strong evidenceCambridge, MA, US11-50123 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Atlas Venture is a leading biotech venture capital firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
15Strong evidenceNewark, NJ, US51-200119 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, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLondon, GB51-200119 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, 2026
17Strong evidenceRemote, US51-200116 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, 2026
18Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, US51-200115 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“RTW is a life sciences investment and innovation firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
19Partial evidenceBoston, MA, US51-200110 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, 2026
20Strong evidenceBoston, MA, US51-200105 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, 2026
21Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, US51-20094 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
22Indirect evidenceIndianapolis, IN, US201-50087 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, 2026
23Strong evidenceNew York, NY, US11-5081 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, 2026
24Strong evidencePalo Alto, CA, US51-20068 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, 2026
25Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, US11-5061 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, 2026

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Drug discovery venture capital firms worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026
40.4%Verified-email coverage
32.3%Mobile-number coverage
12.2Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
7.8%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
867
11-50
316
51-200
54
201-500
10
501-1,000
5
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
2

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
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Drug discovery venture capital firms by location

18 lists · largest first

Every 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.

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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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About this data

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.