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Top 25 Directed evolution companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 138 directed evolution companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,232 professional contacts across them, including 2,555 with verified work emails. San Diego is the largest hub.

This list covers directed evolution companies headquartered in the United States, 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 19, 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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138Companies
4,232Contacts tracked
2,555Verified emails
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The 25 largest directed evolution companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 138 directed evolution companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to directed evolution 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
1Indirect evidenceSouth San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,230 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Twist Bioscience is a synthetic biology company based in South San Francisco, California.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceRedwood City, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200270 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Codexis is redefining what is possible in therapeutic development and manufacturing, leading the technology revolution with efficient, high-quality, and commercially proven…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceBoulder, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200228 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Watchmaker Genomics is a biotechnology company that specializes in advanced enzymology to develop precision tools for life sciences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceSan Carlos, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200155 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Born from the founders’ recognition that their diverse but complementary skills and experiences would enable them to successfully address challenges that others had not, Nautilus…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceNewark, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500140 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vector Laboratories serves and partners with scientists and industry teams developing the next generation of diagnostics, therapeutics, and biological insights.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200123 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sail Biomedicines is creating a new class of RNA medicines designed to instruct therapeutic activity directly inside a patient’s body and within selected cells.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceNewark, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200122 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ATUM is an industry-leading provider of life science tools and solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Asimov builds tools to program living cells.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSan Carlos, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20087 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are now at the dawn of the synthetic biology revolution, which will spawn new applications, markets, and business models, improving human lives in countless ways.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceSeattle, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20079 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Arzeda, The Protein Design Company™, is a synthetic biology company that creates novel proteins, enzymes and specialty chemical products that compete on performance, cost and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceSouth San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20073 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission is to create a new generation of smarter medicines that outmaneuver complex diseases in ways previously inconceivable.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5055 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Manifold Bio is a platform therapeutics company building the first AI-guided direct-to-vivo discovery platform.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceTroy, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BIO-CAT provides the very latest enzyme technology and custom formulations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSouth San Francisco, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vilya is a cutting-edge computational biotechnology company, co-founded a team of scientists from from the Institute of Protein Design (IPD) led by David Baker, Ph.D.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceWaltham, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Orionis Biosciences is a life sciences company pioneering technological innovation in genome-scale drug discovery and tunable molecular design of novel therapeutic drug modalities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceEmeryville, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5048 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Profluent is an AI-first protein design company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Superluminal Medicines is a Boston-based generative biology and chemistry company developing a differentiated pipeline and revolutionizing the speed and accuracy of how medicine…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5039 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Boston-based AI Proteins is a biotech company on a mission to re-imagine protein therapeutics with a novel approach for designing entirely new proteins.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLakewood, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20036 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Worthington is a privately owned, ISO9001 Certified.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We envision a world where we continuously, sustainably, and affordably improve human life with biocatalysis.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceMenlo Park, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5034 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Aether Biomachines is an American artificial intelligence company that discovers proteins with high-impact, real-world applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5032 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Neochromosome, we enable biological engineering at a genome-scale.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSeattle, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Monod Bio is a pioneer company in the design of de novo protein biosensors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Atomwise is a preclinical pharma company revolutionizing how drugs are discovered with AI.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceMedford, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sunflower Therapeutics is a unique biotechnology start-up focused on dramatically reducing the time and cost to develop and manufacture biologics for patients around the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Directed evolution companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
60.4%Verified-email coverage
30.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
7.2%Largest-city concentration · San Diego
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
67
11-50
52
51-200
15
201-500
2
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 138 companies.

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 directed evolution 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 States whose own description of what they do matches “directed evolution 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 directed evolution 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 directed evolution companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 2,555 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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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 directed evolution 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 directed evolution companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 138 directed evolution companies headquartered in the United States 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?

Twist Bioscience, headquartered in South San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most directed evolution companies?

San Diego leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Boston (8) and South San Francisco (7).

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 2,555 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 138 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 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.