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Top 25 Drug development biotechnology firms based in Switzerland
RevenueBase identified 110 drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in Switzerland as of September 2026 and tracks 70,552 professional contacts across them, including 33,778 with verified work emails. Basel is the largest hub.
This list covers drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in Switzerland, 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 Switzerland
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 644 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative medicines to help more patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bridging the gap between disruptive discovery products and real-world patient reach, we identify high-potential compounds for in-licensing, we conduct clinical development and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genedata transforms biopharma data into intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Celonic is a “Pure Play” Biologics Contract Development Manufacturing Organization (CDMO).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AC Immune SA is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and a global leader in precision prevention for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Molecular Partners AG is a clinical-stage biotech company pioneering the design and development of DARPin therapeutics, a new class of custom-built drugs for medical challenges…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL GMBH GLATTPARK CH is a wholesale company based out of THURGAUERSTRASSE 130, Ch-8152 Glattpark (Opfikon), Switzerland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ADIENNE is an integrated biopharmaceutical group of companies based in Lugano, Switzerland, with a proprietary portfolio of orphan-designated marketed medicinal product, clinical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Develco Pharma is a privately owned company operating in the field of development and manufacture of pharmaceutical products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ridgeline, a Versant Ventures Discovery Engine, creates and operates Versant-financed innovative biotech companies in partnership with entrepreneurs, industry, and leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Philochem is a fully owned daughter company of Philogen and represents the Discovery Unit of the Philogen group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At NBE Therapeutics we strive to develop best-in-class oncology treatments to increase survival and improve quality of life for cancer patients worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RetinAI is a Swiss & US-based software company improving and supporting R&D of first-in-human drug candidates, supercharging management and oversight of clinical trials and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “APR (part of Relief Therapeutics) is a Swiss-based international biopharmaceutical company focused on development and global commercialization of innovative, research-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BioCopy is a Swiss-German biotech company with headquarters in Basel and a state-of-the-art R&D facility in Emmendingen, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KBI Biopharma and Selexis SA are consolidating operations as one organization under the KBI Biopharma name.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iOnctura is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company combating neglected and hard-to-treat cancers with precision oral small molecules that target cancers in novel ways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Eumedica we offer an extensive range of products and services, covering healthcare stakeholders' need, in three domains of expertise- Manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At iQone, a Celltrion company our sole mission is to ensure that therapeutic advances like biosimilars and breakthrough medicines reach the patients who need them, when they need…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spexis AG (SIX:SPEX) is a publicly-listed Swiss clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing rare disease and oncology treatments in indications where new therapeutic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amal Therapeutics is a Biotechnology company located in 64 av, de la Roseraie, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rivia is a Zurich-based technology company building a data engine that powers the future of clinical trial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “InterAx is redefining drug discovery by understanding treatment impact on diseases before pre-clinical trials begin, an analysis traditionally inaccessible to very early programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LYO-X provides strategic consulting and PK/PD modelling services dedicated to the preclinical and clinical development of biologics and cell based therapies.” 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 Switzerland at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Switzerland, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Switzerland, over 110 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 Switzerland 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 Switzerland 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, 33,778 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.
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 Switzerland?
RevenueBase identified 110 drug development biotechnology firms headquartered in Switzerland 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?
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals LTD, headquartered in Allschwil, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug development biotechnology firms?
Basel leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Allschwil (7) and Geneva (6).
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 33,778 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 110 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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