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Top 25 Drug discovery consulting firms based in Boston, United States
RevenueBase identified 135 drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in Boston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,666 professional contacts across them, including 634 with verified work emails. Across the United States, Boston is the largest hub for this category.
This list covers drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in Boston, United States, 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 28, 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 discovery consulting firms based in Boston, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INC Research/inVentiv Health (Nasdaq:INCR) is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opus Regulatory is a niche consulting firm headquartered in the Seaport district of Boston.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nimbus Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, structure-based drug discovery company developing novel small molecule medicines designed to act against well-validated but…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Metrum Research Group, established in 2004, is a global leader in biomedical modeling and simulation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Halloran Consulting Group, a ProductLifeGroup company, is a life science consulting firm that provides strategic regulatory, quality, clinical, and organizational support in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Superluminal Medicines is a Boston-based generative biology and chemistry company developing a differentiated pipeline and revolutionizing the speed and accuracy of how medicine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boston-based AI Proteins is a biotech company on a mission to re-imagine protein therapeutics with a novel approach for designing entirely new proteins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You’ve spent 10 years perfecting the science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Launch Tx provides biotech and biopharma companies with solutions that speed drug candidates’ path to market and connection with investors that provide development funding.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2003, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vi-Leon is a specialized Life Sciences consulting firm that provides hiring managers with the necessary resources to efficiently and effectively fill even the most niche positions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AKT Health was founded in 2017 in Japan & India by a team of Techno-functional experts in Clinical, Medical & Commercial fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vivtex originated from MIT, with a mission to enable the development of new oral drugs using sophisticated high throughput screening technologies, IP protected formulation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BioBoston Consulting is a leading life sciences consulting firm headquartered in Boston, providing expert FDA regulatory consulting, quality assurance, clinical, compliance, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Human Predictions is a consulting company focusing on pharmacometrics and clinical pharmacology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Contract Research Organizations, and Medical Device companies navigate technology change in pursuit of human health and wellbeing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The NemetzGroup provides strategic support to help biopharma companies move forward confidently in their mission to serve patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WHO WE ARE Rapidly evolving scientific advancements and increasing regulatory uncertainty represent a complex environment in which to develop and commercialize new therapeutics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dovetail Consulting Group, LLC is a compliance consulting firm serving the life sciences industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diamond Age Data Science is an integrated bioinformatics and computational biology partner for life science companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SEP provides high quality, consolidated preclinical drug discovery and development solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and cosmetic/consumer care companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Development Insights is a strategic life sciences consulting firm specializing in fractional, project-based, and interim support across Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Boston Biodevelopment is a premium regulatory strategy consulting firm of highly experienced regulatory professionals, including former heads of regulatory affairs, providing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BioStrategy Advisors is a strategic business consulting firm servicing small and medium-sized Biotech companies in the Massachusetts area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elite BioPharma Consulting offers superior clinical development and operational leadership consulting services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 discovery consulting 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 discovery consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug discovery consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug discovery consulting 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 discovery consulting firms based in Boston, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Boston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Boston, over 135 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 discovery consulting 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 Boston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “drug discovery consulting 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 discovery consulting 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 discovery consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Boston 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, 634 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 28, 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 discovery consulting firms by metro in the United States
- Drug discovery consulting firms in San Diego117
- Drug discovery consulting firms in New York87
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Cambridge60
- Drug discovery consulting firms in San Francisco55
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Chicago48
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Raleigh46
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Philadelphia39
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Princeton36
- Drug discovery consulting firms in Seattle26
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 discovery consulting 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 discovery consulting firms are there based in Boston, United States?
RevenueBase identified 135 drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in Boston, United States 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?
Inventiv Health Commercial, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most drug discovery consulting firms?
Boston leads the United States with 135 headquartered companies, followed by San Diego (117) and New York (87).
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 634 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 135 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 28, 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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