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Top 15 Drug discovery venture capital firms based in India
RevenueBase identified 41 drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in India as of September 2026 and tracks 486 professional contacts across them, including 101 with verified work emails. Bangalore is the largest hub.
This list covers drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in India, 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 14, 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 15 largest drug discovery venture capital firms based in India
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sphaera Pharma, founded in 2008, is an integrated drug discovery and development organization led by pharma and biotech professionals with global experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “There's a new kid on the block - Kade Ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a clinical stage biotech company, dedicated to discovering and developing novel small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of intractable diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in digital and deep science technology companies building breakthroughs for a better world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It's never too early to talk to us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HealthQuad is Asia’s leading investor in new-age healthcare companies, empowering founders to scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Pavestone, we back committed innovators with smart capital to create real world value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ideaspring Capital is focused on investing in early stage technology product companies in India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MP Advisors exclusive focus and in-depth understanding of pharma Industry over two decades enables the team to offer advisory services to the pharmaceutical companies engaged in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Siana Capital Management LLP (Siana Capital) is a venture fund management company headquartered in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, the country's nerve-centre for science and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Optimistic Capital, headquartered in Bangalore, specialises in providing early-stage, hands-on, and patient capital to micro-cap companies in foundational sectors such as F&B…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At AshtaTx, we design breakthrough medicines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an early-identifier and investor in new-age, health-tech startups on the brink of breakthroughs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We love early-stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are constantly seeking to invest in audacious founders with vision & dynamism, operating in exciting markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 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 venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug discovery venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital firms based in India at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for India, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for India, over 41 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 venture capital 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 India whose own description of what they do matches “drug discovery venture capital 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 venture capital 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 venture capital firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside India 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, 101 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 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 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 venture capital firms are there based in India?
RevenueBase identified 41 drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in India 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?
Sphaera Pharma, headquartered in Manesar, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug discovery venture capital firms?
Bangalore leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (5) and Noida (4).
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 101 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 41 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 14, 2026.
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