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Top 18 Rare disease biotech companies based in France

RevenueBase identified 36 rare disease biotech companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,647 professional contacts across them, including 706 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers rare disease biotech companies headquartered in France, 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 18 largest rare disease biotech companies based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 18 of 36 rare disease biotech companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to rare disease biotech companies: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,000368 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Critical needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2Indirect evidenceÉvry, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500293 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Généthon est un laboratoire à but non lucratif, créé et soutenu par l’AFM-Téléthon depuis 1990.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3Strong evidenceLoos, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200208 contacts →

Strong evidence

“GENFIT, a BCorp™ certified company since 2025, is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with rare and severe liver diseases characterized by…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200118 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Transforming Rare Disease Treatment At Orphalan we identify, develop, and provide access to innovative treatments for patients with rare diseases to make a positive and meaningful…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5Indirect evidenceNantes, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Laboratoire de Thérapie génique de Nantes”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6Strong evidenceNeuilly - Sur - Seine, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20038 contacts →

Strong evidence

“theravia is a leading international pharmaceutical company focused on rare and neglected diseases.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7Strong evidenceLille, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5031 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Established in 2014, 4P-Pharma is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to addressing serious diseases with significant unmet medical needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8Partial evidenceSuresnes, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Pharnext is an advanced clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases that currently lack curative and/or disease-modifying…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Vivet Therapeutics is dedicated to developing innovative gene therapy treatments for orphan diseases.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-1011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PepKon is a French biotech founded in 2022, built on more than a decade of academic research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-109 contacts →

Strong evidence

“AzurBio Pharma is a new international pharmaceutical company developing its products and activities in the area of pharma innovation and rare or serious diseases.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12Partial evidenceBalma, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-109 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ABIONYX Pharma is a new generation biotech company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative therapies for patients without existing or effective treatment.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-2008 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PTC Terapeutics est une entreprise biopharmaceutique axée sur la science et le patient, sur la découverte, le développement et la commercialisation de médicaments pour les…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14Partial evidenceMarseille, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Développement de médicaments pour le traitement de maladies génétiques rares avec vieillissement prématuré ou accéléré”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
15Strong evidenceEvry-courcouronnes, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-104 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Ampleia is a venture-building organization dedicated to support rare diseases therapeutics projects.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
16Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Variant is a biotechnology company that develops innovative products in the ophthalmology sector.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
17Indirect evidenceLyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-502 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Theranexus is an innovative biopharmaceutical company that spun off from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
18Indirect evidenceBoulogne-Billancourt, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-502 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“CTRS is a French pharmaceutical company with a strong and growing international presence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

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Rare disease biotech companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026
42.9%Verified-email coverage
45.8Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
33.3%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
11
11-50
12
51-200
9
201-500
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501-1,000
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 36 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 rare disease 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “rare disease 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 rare disease 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 rare disease biotech companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 706 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
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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 rare disease 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 rare disease biotech companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 36 rare disease biotech companies headquartered in France 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?

Serb Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most rare disease biotech companies?

Paris leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (4) and Puteaux (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 706 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 36 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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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.