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Top 25 Drug development and research companies based in Spain
RevenueBase identified 170 drug development and research companies headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 10,024 professional contacts across them, including 1,709 with verified work emails. Barcelona is the largest hub.
This list covers drug development and research companies headquartered in Spain, 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 Spain
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,876 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chemo, part of the Insud Pharma group, operates across the entire pharmaceutical value chain, delivering specialized expertise and experience in scientific research, development…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,786 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exeltis is an organization committed to innovation, excellence and healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Madrid, PharmaMar is a biopharmaceutical company, focused on oncology and committed to research and development which takes its inspiration from the sea to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Medichem is a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company and certified B Corp, combining nearly 50 years of industry expertise with a strong commitment to scientific excellence…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Novartis está reimaginando la medicina con el fin de mejorar y prolongar la vida de las personas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Uquifa is a European leader in contract development and manufacturing for small molecules with a sharp focus on delivering high quality products with speed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Noucor we work on providing solutions to improve people's quality of life and contribute to a more sustainable world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We share a deep commitment to service and customer service, which, combined with our professionalism, helps us achieve our primary objective: giving a longer, healthier, happier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo es una de las veinte mayores compañías farmacéuticas a nivel global.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grupo Farmasierra is a pharmaceutical group that specialises in research and development and the manufacture, distribution and commercialisation of medicinal products, food…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, we have worked to ensure that everyone has access to our medications, regardless of their prevalence, thus improving their quality of life.#WeAreRubió…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brill Pharma investiga, desarrolla, produce y comercializa fármacos innovadores y con licencia propia con el propósito de mejorar la salud y la calidad de vida de la sociedad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Otsuka Pharmaceutical es una compañía global dedicada al cuidado de la salud con un lema que nos guía: “Otsuka - personas creando productos para una mejor salud en el mundo”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MEDSIR is an international private company that was founded by scientific experts in oncology back in 2012.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “i+Med is a pharmaceutical laboratory, manufacturer and commercialiser of high added-value medical devices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you want to work for a young and challenging company, and you have a background in the pharmaceutical industry, contact us and ask for a job interview via Cyndea Pharma is a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We share a deep commitment to service and customer service, which, combined with our professionalism, helps us achieve our primary objective: giving a longer, healthier, happier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lundbeck es una multinacional farmacéutica danesa, especializada en enfermedades del cerebro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Farmalider, we believe in ideas as a driving force for progress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Inke S.A, we are dedicated to the development and manufacture of high-quality Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), specializing in complex synthesis processes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MEDINA is an independent and non profit entity with innovative research collaborations and contracts with academic and industrial partners worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DISCOVER US Biotechnology based, Pharmactive is engaged to research, development, manufacture and marketing of natural products and active ingredients for its use in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schwabe Farma Ibérica, empresa farmacéutica de origen alemán con presencia en España desde 2015, dedicada a la investigación, el desarrollo y la comercialización de medicamentos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Laboratorios Heel España S.A.U, filial española del grupo multinacional farmacéutico de origen alemán Heel, destaca por su enfoque en la búsqueda, a través de la investigación, de…” 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 Spain at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Spain, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Spain, over 170 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 Spain 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 Spain 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, 1,709 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.
Drug development and research companies by metro
- Drug development and research companies in Barcelona33
- Drug development and research companies in Madrid33
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 Spain?
RevenueBase identified 170 drug development and research companies headquartered in Spain 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?
CHEMO, headquartered in Madrid, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug development and research companies?
Barcelona leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Madrid (33) and Alcobendas (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 1,709 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 170 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.
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