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Top 25 Drug development biotechnology firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 159 drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 9,777 professional contacts across them, including 3,965 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in France, 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 16, 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 biotechnology firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on bringing transformative medicines to patients in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 498 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Novartis est une entreprise dans les médicaments innovants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Global Provider in Early Development, we offer Non-Clinical, Clinical and Bioanalytical solutions for both pharmaceutical and biotech companies and we tailor our high-quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LABORATOIRES BOUCHARA RECORDATI is a pharmaceuticals company based out of 70, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, Puteaux, Île-de-France, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Eurofins CDMO is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that provides clients with APIs / Drug Substance and Drug Product development for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ividata Life Sciences is a consulting and services company dedicated to the Life Sciences industry: pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, cosmetology, medical devices, etc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clean Cells is a GMP-licensed Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization providing R&D, production and quality control testing services to the biopharmaceutical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AQEMIA is a drug invention company dedicated to novel medicines, never me-toos, tackling major diseases such as oncology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Valbiotis is a commercially oriented Research & Development company committed to scientific innovation for preventing and combating metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AB Science was founded in 2001 by a team of researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to discover key mechanisms in life science and develop new…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Valerio Therapeutics, we are pioneering a new generation of precision therapies to tackle complex and underserved diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Otsuka Pharmaceutical est une société internationale de produits de santé dont la philosophie est la suivante : « Otsuka – des hommes et des femmes qui créent de nouveaux produits…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Neuro-Sys is a research-intensive and innovative organisation specialising in pharmacology and in advanced in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegenerative diseases, mode of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chez medac, nous sommes convaincus que la santé est notre ressource la plus précieuse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “theravia is a leading international pharmaceutical company focused on rare and neglected diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ariana Pharma is a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) drug development company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oncovet Clinical Research (O.C.R.) is an innovative Contract Research Organization specialized in the conception and management of clinical trials on Dogs & Cats models with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2014, 4P-Pharma is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to addressing serious diseases with significant unmet medical needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A MULTI-SKILLED, STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL PARTNER IN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ATLANSTAT offers a comprehensive range of research and clinical development services to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie · CERMN · constitue aujourd’hui, avec ses quatre plateformes · Chimie Organique et Médicinale, Chemoinformatique…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your expert team from concept to clinic.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GENEL is an international French biotech company that offers expert multi-disciplinary services to Dermo-Cosmetic, Nutraceutique and Pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neovacs, a French Biotechnology company, develops therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of autoimmune, inflammatory diseases aand invests in innovative companies (Biotech and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE WAY DRUGS ARE DELIVERED TO TARGETS Medesis Pharma has developed a revolutionary technology providing a paradigm shift in drug delivery methodology…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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 biotechnology 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 development biotechnology firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug development biotechnology firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug development biotechnology 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 development biotechnology firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 159 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 biotechnology 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “drug development biotechnology 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 development biotechnology 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 development biotechnology firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 3,965 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 16, 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 biotechnology firms by metro
- Drug development biotechnology firms in Paris37
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 biotechnology 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 development biotechnology firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 159 drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in France 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?
IPSEN, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug development biotechnology firms?
Paris leads with 37 headquartered companies, followed by Montpellier (8) and Lyon (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 3,965 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 159 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 16, 2026.
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