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Top 25 Drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United States

Name: Drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026 841 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 841 drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,136 professional contacts across them, including 4,335 with verified work emails and 4,608 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in the 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 1, 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 RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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4,335Verified emails

4,608Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 841 drug discovery venture capital firms based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to drug discovery venture capital firms: 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	Flagship Pioneering	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, MA, United States	501-1,000	738 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple transformative human health and sustainability…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
2	NEW Enterprise Associates NEA	Strong evidence	Timonium, MD, United States	51-200	276 contacts →
	Strong evidence “New Enterprise Associates, Inc.(NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
3	RA Capital Management	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United States	201-500	242 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 2004, RA Capital Management is an active, multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based, science-led investing in public and private healthcare, life…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
4	Takeda Ventures, INC	Partial evidence	Cambridge, MA, United States	10001+	233 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Takeda Ventures, Inc.(TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
5	GV Google Ventures	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, MA, United States	51-200	224 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “GV supports innovative founders across multiple stages and sectors, from artificial intelligence and life sciences to consumer platforms, enterprise software, and frontier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
6	Atlas Venture	Strong evidence	Cambridge, MA, United States	11-50	123 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Atlas Venture is a leading biotech venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
7	SOSV	Strong evidence	Newark, NJ, United States	51-200	119 contacts →
	Strong evidence “SOSV is the most active deep tech venture capital firm globally, investing at pre-seed (or at startup inception) supporting visionary founders intent on making a profound impact…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8	curie.bio	Strong evidence	Remote, United States	51-200	116 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Curie.Bio is a venture capital firm that helps founders discover and develop important new medicines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
9	RTW Investments, LP	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United States	51-200	115 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “RTW is a life sciences investment and innovation firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
10	Third Rock Ventures	Partial evidence	Boston, MA, United States	51-200	110 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We discover, launch and build great companies based on bold ideas that meet at the intersection of science, strategy, business and medicine – where transformational science meets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
11	Nimbus Therapeutics	Strong evidence	Boston, MA, United States	51-200	105 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 1, 2026
12	Band Of Angels	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United States	51-200	94 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
13	Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Ibri	Indirect evidence	Indianapolis, IN, United States	201-500	87 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI) is a first-in-class translational medicine institute dedicated to advancing life sciences in the race to eliminate disease and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
14	LUX Capital	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United States	11-50	81 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Lux Capital is a venture capital firm investing in emerging science and technology at the outermost edges of what is possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
15	Venrock	Strong evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United States	51-200	68 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family in 1969, Venrock partners with entrepreneurs to build some of the world’s most disruptive, successful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
16	Versant Ventures	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United States	11-50	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 1, 2026
17	Sphaera Pharma	Strong evidence	San Diego, CA, United States	51-200	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 1, 2026
18	Foresite Capital	Partial evidence	Larkspur, CA, United States	51-200	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Foresite Capital is a multi-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm with ~$3.5B in assets under management (as of 06/30/24).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
19	Aditum BIO	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, MA, United States	51-200	51 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Aditum Bio, from the Latin word for “access”, was founded on a simple mission: to give patients access to medicines that may not otherwise be developed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
20	Perceptive Advisors	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United States	11-50	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Perceptive is focused on supporting the progress of the life sciences industry by identifying opportunities and directing financial resources to the most promising technologies in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
21	Draper Associates	Strong evidence	San Mateo, CA, United States	11-50	45 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm, funding the future first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
22	Catalio Capital Management	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United States	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “New York-based investment firm focused on the full lifecycle of innovative healthcare investing, across private, public and credit markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
23	Sofinnova Investments	Indirect evidence	Menlo Park, CA, United States	11-50	42 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Sofinnova Investments is a healthcare investment firm committed to funding innovative products that aspire to meaningfully impact the lives of patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
24	Incube Labs	Indirect evidence	San Antonio, TX, United States	51-200	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “InCube Labs is a life sciences R&D lab focused on developing and commercializing breakthrough medical innovations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
25	Samsara Biocapital	Indirect evidence	Palo Alto, CA, United States	11-50	34 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Samsara BioCapital, we partner with scientists and entrepreneurs to translate cutting-edge science into transformative medicines for patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 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 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 the United States at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026

42.8%Verified-email coverage

45.5%Mobile-number coverage

12.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

11.7%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

593

11-50

205

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 the United States 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 United States 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, 4,335 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 1, 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 venture capital firms by metro

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 the United States?

RevenueBase identified 841 drug discovery venture capital firms headquartered in the 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?

Flagship Pioneering, headquartered in Cambridge, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most drug discovery venture capital firms?

New York leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by Boston (61) and San Francisco (58).

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 4,335 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 841 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 1, 2026.

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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.