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Top 22 Insect biotech companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 43 insect biotech companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 508 professional contacts across them, including 284 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers insect biotech companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 17, 2026.
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The 22 largest insect biotech companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oxitec is a team of passionate individuals from 15 countries improving lives and livelihoods by developing the world's first safe, self-limiting technology to control pests that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Russell IPM is a leading manufacturer of insect-pheromone based monitoring and control products for use in the agricultural, public health and pest control Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BigSis (http://bigsis.tech) is a fast-growing UK agri-tech start-up that provides chemical-free insect control to farmers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arctech Innovation is a spin-out company from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, bringing together artificial intelligence and the genius of nature to create…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A world-leading provider of insect farms and insect technology • Our mission is to accelerate a global transition to sustainable protein, using insects and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SOLASTA Bio is an ambitious bioinsecticides start up with a unique proposition: nature-inspired small molecule insect control products for the global agricultural market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Flybox® is pioneering Insect Waste Management™ (IWM) as a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to traditional waste processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spotta helps businesses detect pest activity earlier and respond before issues escalate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For supermarkets, food producers, and farmers, we offer modular insect farms that convert food waste into animal feed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Beta Bugs is a cutting edge biotechnology company that produces enhanced insect strains for the growing insect farming industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Queen's Award winning R&D company committed to effective, environment-friendly crop protection solutions from natural sources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pangaea Biosciences is a research-led agri-technologies company dedicated to solving the most critical challenge in modern agriculture – resistance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At PheroSyn, our mission is to scale-up the production of high-value, not currently available insect pheromones and supply them into the agribusiness sector for sustainable pest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “edibl is an innovative UK start-up growing edible insects (principally crickets) to re-cast our approach to protein in the food chain for both humans and pets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biobest, we invented the buzziness As a pioneer in the production of bumblebees since 1987, Biobest has become one of the world’s leading companies in natural pollination and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2017, the UK is the latest country to have a subsidiary of Andermatt Biocontrol.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With headquarters in the UK, offices in Italy, the United States and Russia, and partners across the globe, Vita researches, develops, and manufactures a range of niche biotech…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Yum Bug we're are on a mission to create a more sustainable food system by taking edible insect mainstream.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BUG BAKES is a pet food production company based in Scotland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bestico produces a range of biological pest control solutions for livestock farmers and hobbyists based on natural enemies (beneficial insects) protecting their animals from pests.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here to save the world, one bite at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: insect biotech 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 insect biotech companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of insect biotech companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name insect biotech 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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Insect biotech companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 43 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 insect biotech 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “insect biotech 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 insect biotech 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 insect biotech companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 284 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 17, 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 insect biotech 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 insect biotech companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 43 insect biotech companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Oxitec, headquartered in Oxford, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most insect biotech companies?
London leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (3) and Harpenden (2).
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 284 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 43 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 17, 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.
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