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Top 25 Drug discovery venture capital companies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 64 drug discovery venture capital companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 809 professional contacts across them, including 304 with verified work emails and 352 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers drug discovery venture capital companies headquartered in San Francisco, 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 11, 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 venture capital companies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Versant Ventures is a leading healthcare investment firm committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build the next generation of great companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IndieBio is now known as SOSV NY and SOSV SF.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “5AM was founded in 2002 and pursues investments in advanced life science innovations, and seeks to be diversified across the biopharmaceutical therapeutics, and platform…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Robust is an early-stage, industry-agnostic venture capital firm that invests globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atomwise is a preclinical pharma company revolutionizing how drugs are discovered with AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Yosemite is an oncology-focused venture fund investing in biotech and healthcare innovations to make cancer non-lethal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Column Group (TCG) is a science-driven venture capital firm that makes significant financial and operational commitments to build early stage drug discovery companies based on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “rpv is a fully deployed DeepTech Venture fund focused on early stage, scientifically intensive ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Illumina Ventures is an independently managed firm focused on early-stage companies that are pioneering new applications of genomics and enabling precision medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity's most critical crises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AN Venture Partners is a venture capital fund investing in biotech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Health Velocity Capital invests in growth-stage healthcare software and services companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Silicon Valley, H7 BioCapital is a venture capital firm dedicated to life science investment and Licensing & Strategic Partnership in the pharmaceutical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alix Ventures: Driving Patient Impact - Supporting early stage Life Science startups engineering biology to drive radical advances in human health Born from our collective…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biotech, tech-bio, deep tech, hard tech, chem tech… whatever you call this frontier of science and technology, we've been here for over a decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McKesson Ventures helps innovators build and scale businesses that support an easier to navigate, more effective and efficient health care delivery system for key stakeholders on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Telegraph Hill Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm dedicated to helping life science, medical device and healthcare companies achieve their growth objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Axial partners with great founders and inventors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We invest in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BABEL Ventures is leading the charge in early-stage consumer biotech investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bison Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage frontier technology companies focused on creating healthier people and a healthier planet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INITIATE funds and co-creates transformational companies - We focus on bold ideas at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences and technology - We are entrepreneurs and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 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 venture capital 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 discovery venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug discovery venture capital companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug discovery venture capital 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 discovery venture capital companies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
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- 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “drug discovery venture capital 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 discovery venture capital 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 discovery venture capital companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 304 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 11, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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Drug discovery venture capital companies by metro in the United States
- Drug discovery venture capital companies in New York88
- Drug discovery venture capital companies in Boston64
- Drug discovery venture capital companies in San Francisco61
- Drug discovery venture capital companies in Cambridge45
- Drug discovery venture capital companies in San Diego34
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 venture capital 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 discovery venture capital companies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 64 drug discovery venture capital companies headquartered in San Francisco, 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?
Canaan, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug discovery venture capital companies?
New York leads with 88 headquartered companies, followed by Boston (64) and San Francisco (61).
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 304 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 64 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 11, 2026.
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