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Top 25 Drug development companies based in France

Name: Drug development companies based in France
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 89 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 89 drug development companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 2,670 professional contacts across them, including 1,002 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers drug development companies 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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2,670Contacts tracked

1,002Verified emails

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The 25 largest drug development companies based in France

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 89 drug development companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to drug development 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Novartis France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	498 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novartis est une entreprise dans les médicaments innovants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	Novalix	Partial evidence	Strasbourg, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	347 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Biotrial	Partial evidence	Europe And North America, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	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 19, 2026
4	Eurofins Cdmo Europe	Strong evidence	Fontenilles, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	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 19, 2026
5	Aqemia	Partial evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	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 19, 2026
6	AB Science	Indirect evidence	FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	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 19, 2026
7	Diverchim Cdmo	Partial evidence	Roissy-en-france, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in Diverchim is a Small Molecule Drug Substance CDMO that specializes in complex chemistry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	Otsuka Pharmaceutical France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	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 19, 2026
9	Therabel	Indirect evidence	Levallois-perret, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Therabel is a privately-owned pharmaceutical company, with a European heritage stretching back to 1945.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	Neuro-Sys	Indirect evidence	Gardanne, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	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 19, 2026
11	Lundbeck France	Indirect evidence	Puteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	34 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lundbeck est une société pharmaceutique mondiale spécialisée dans les maladies du cerveau avec 5600 employés répartis dans plus de 50 pays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	4p-Pharma	Indirect evidence	Lille, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	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 19, 2026
13	Atlanstat	Partial evidence	Rezé, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	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 19, 2026
14	Cermn Centre D'etudes ET DE Recherche SUR LE Médicament DE Normandie	Indirect evidence	Caen, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	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 19, 2026
15	Advanced Biodesign	Indirect evidence	Saint-priest, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2010, Advanced BioDesign is a clinical stage company developing a highly promising therapy for cancer with high unmet medical needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	Medesis Pharma	Partial evidence	Baillargues, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	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 19, 2026
17	EYLIO	Indirect evidence	Illkirch-graffenstaden, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “EYLIO is a fast-moving French pharmaceutical company that partners with biotech and medtech innovators from molecule discovery all the way to clinical success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	Pep-Therapy	Partial evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PEP-Therapy is a Paris-based biotechnology company developing next-generation therapies using our intracellular drug delivery shuttle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	Pepkon	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “PepKon is a French biotech founded in 2022, built on more than a decade of academic research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Beta Innov	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Mise au point en Immunologie et Cancérologie de médicaments innovants à potentiel curatif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	Azurbio Pharma	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AzurBio Pharma is a new international pharmaceutical company developing its products and activities in the area of pharma innovation and rare or serious diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Inoviem Scientific	Partial evidence	Illkirch-graffenstaden, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Inoviem Scientific is a private Bioanalytical company which delivers enabling information to secure drug discovery programs and to take informed decision by closing the gap…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Alzprotect SAS	Partial evidence	Loos, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Alzprotect is a biopharmaceutical company that develops drug candidates, from their discovery to clinical trials, for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Medinsights	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At MedInsights, we are dedicated to bringing optimized therapeutic options for patients suffering from metabolic, cardiometabolic, neurometabolic and rare diseases with high unmet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	IMS Institut DU Médicament DE Strasbourg	Indirect evidence	Illkirch-graffenstaden, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “L’Institut du Médicament de Strasbourg répond aux enjeux de la filière du médicament : produire une recherche de pointe jusqu’au stade pré-clinique, promouvoir l’innovation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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 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 companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of drug development 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 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 companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

37.5%Verified-email coverage

30.0Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

22.5%Largest-city concentration · Paris

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50

51-200

201-500

1,001-5,000

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 89 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 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “drug development 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 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 companies, 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, 1,002 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 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 companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 89 drug development companies 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?

Novartis France, headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most drug development companies?

Paris leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Illkirch-Graffenstaden (4) and Lille (3).

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 1,002 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 89 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.