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Top 25 Drug development and research companies based in the Netherlands
RevenueBase identified 100 drug development and research companies headquartered in the Netherlands as of September 2026 and tracks 4,992 professional contacts across them, including 1,473 with verified work emails. Leiden is the largest hub.
This list covers drug development and research companies headquartered in the Netherlands, 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.
The 25 largest drug development and research companies based in the Netherlands
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Synthon is an international, science-centered pharmaceutical company specialized in developing and manufacturing high-quality generic medicines for patients around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Symeres is a leading contract research, development and manufacturing organization (CDMO & CRO) supporting pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies across the full drug…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Driven to improve patients’ lives, Byondis is an independent, fully integrated biopharmaceutical research and development company creating innovative targeted medicines for cancer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shionogi B.V.(known as “Shionogi Europe”) is the European headquarters of Shionogi & Co, Ltd, a leading global research-driven pharmaceutical company based in Osaka, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nordic Pharma is a privately owned, medium-size, fully integrated Pharma company with a history of internal product development and acquisitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Novartis is een farmaceutisch bedrijf uit Zwitserland dat gedreven een betekenisvolle bijdrage wil leveren aan de gezondheidszorg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aurobindo is een wereldwijd toonaangevend farmaceutisch bedrijf dat gespecialiseerd is in productontwikkeling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Polpharma Group is one of the leading healthcare companies in CEE and Central Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nanomi is leader in the field of microsphere and nanoparticle development of long-acting release injectables.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ofimedicine is een onderdeel van de Ofichem Group en zit in het Bio Science Park in Leiden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OctoPlus develops pharmaceutical formulation solutions for an international client base in order to help bring innovative medicine from lab bench to the clinic and onto the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a drug development consultancy company, 3D-PharmXchange brings a range of solutions to companies, by designing and executing optimized product development scenario’s along…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ZoBio is a leading innovator that provides "gene to structure" research services in early stage drug discovery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Vereniging Innovatieve Geneesmiddelen, representeert geneesmiddelenbedrijven die zich bezig houden met de ontwikkeling en het op de markt brengen van nieuwe en vernieuwende…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo is toegewijd aan het creëren en leveren van innovatieve farmaceutische therapieën om de kwaliteit van de zorg te verbeteren en te voorzien in uiteenlopende…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Peregrion is a specialized CRO that supports the acceleration and de-risking of drug development programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Symeres is the leading mid-sized European Contract Research Organization for your drug-discovery and development challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Van Loon Chemical Innovations (VLCI, provides valuable and innovative R&D services to the formulation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PharmaMatch, founded in licenses pharmaceutical dossiers of their own products and those of partners in the global market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to our Innovation and Development Pharmaceutical company!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A company specialized in anti aging product to promote a healthy aging.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SeraNovo is a drug formulation company specializing in oral drug delivery and bioavailability enhancement for poorly soluble and complex compounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alesta Therapeutics is a pioneering company based in Leiden, Netherlands, dedicated to the development of first-in-class small molecules that target GCN2.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flindr Therapeutics, based in Oss in the Netherlands, is a private pre-clinical biotech company developing next-generation precision oncology treatments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DGr Pharma provides consultancy support in early phase drug development with a focus on PK, Clinical Pharmacology, CMC, Regulatory Affairs and IT support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 development and research 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 drug development and research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug development and research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug development and research 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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Drug development and research companies based in the Netherlands at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Netherlands, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Netherlands, over 100 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 drug development and research 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 Netherlands whose own description of what they do matches “drug development and research 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 drug development and research 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 drug development and research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Netherlands 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, 1,473 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
- 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.
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 development and research 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 drug development and research companies are there based in the Netherlands?
RevenueBase identified 100 drug development and research companies headquartered in the Netherlands 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?
Synthon, headquartered in Nijmegen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug development and research companies?
Leiden leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Amsterdam (10) and Nijmegen (5).
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 1,473 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 100 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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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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