Top Life Sciences Startups in 2026

Included Health is a new kind of healthcare company, delivering integrated virtual care and navigation. We’re on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone. We break down barriers to provide high-quality care for every person in every community — no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. We offer our members care guidance, advocacy, and access to personalized virtual and in-person care for everyday and urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty care. It’s all included. Learn more at includedhealth.com.

H1 was built by scientists for scientists. We empower stakeholders at healthcare and life science companies to make smarter scientific decisions by providing access to critical data through an intuitive interface. Working with some of the largest and most influential global life science organizations, H1 provides insight into thought leaders, scholarly content, academics, and healthcare professionals with much more on the way.

TrialSpark is transforming the way new medical treatments are brought to market. We’re a technology company that runs end-to-end clinical trials through a network of our own TrialSpark-operated trial sites, making the entire lifecycle of clinical trials more efficient, accessible, and patient-centric. We're growing quickly and would love to have you join us!

Candid is redefining oral health by using modern technology to help deliver human-focused care. With a commitment to creating the best outcomes, Candid inspires confidence and promotes wellbeing. We believe that high-quality orthodontics should be affordable and accessible, and we’re pioneering an innovative approach to diagnosing, treating, and monitoring cases remotely. Our team is a group of startup veterans with experience across healthcare, hospitality, tech, and finance at companies such as Lyft, BCG, Airbnb, Blackstone, and Clover Health.

Omada Health is a virtual-first, integrated care provider. We combine the latest clinical protocols with breakthrough behavior science to make it possible for people with chronic conditions to achieve long-term improvements in their health. Working with over 1,600 enterprise customers – including Fortune 500 and small- and medium-sized employers, health plans, and health systems – Omada delivers personalized interventions for diabetes prevention and weight management, diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal issues and behavioral health. Our virtual care programs are clinically supported and evidence-based, and the results have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. We build programs that employees don’t just try, but stick with – resulting in reduced healthcare costs that deliver long term changes in health behavior and increased ROI. We're especially proud of the clinical results we deliver and the way we leverage technology to amplify and extend the influence of our real human care teams - from health coaches to clinical specialists. Omada has enrolled more than half a million members across all 50 states. Our partners include major employers across the country, including Costco and Iron Mountain, as well as leading health plans, such as Cigna and Kaiser.

Relay Therapeutics is building the world’s first dedicated drug discovery platform centered on protein motion to discover and develop new medicines that will make a transformative difference for patients. By placing protein motion at the heart of drug discovery, Relay is pursuing what it believes will be a fundamental paradigm shift within the pharmaceutical industry, ushering in a new generation of drugs with the potential to improve and extend the lives of millions of patients. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Relay Therapeutics is a private company launched in 2016. To date, Relay Therapeutics has raised $120M in financing from Third Rock Ventures, BVF Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), an affiliate of D.E. Shaw Research, Casdin Capital, EcoR1 Capital, Section 32 and Alexandria Venture Investments.

Ginkgo Bioworks engineers organisms to address fundamental challenges the world is facing today. We aren't trying to study biology, we are trying to build it - constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house pipeline of technologies to design and build new organisms. First biotech in YCombinator: techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/sam-altman-on-his-inaugural-batch-of-companies-as-y…

At ProviderTrust, we are dedicated to helping our clients by providing a healthcare system that is not only safer for our clients, but smarter as well. We realize that by monitoring your healthcare system, we can ensure that all components of your healthcare system are in compliance and conforming to the credentials and established guidelines for a accredited and healthy relationship. Our mission is to identify any compliance issues before they can make a negative impact on our clients. At ProviderTrust, we recognize the importance of staying on top of risk management processes by building an exclusion Monitoring system that ensures that our client's healthcare system is operating as it should. Our simplified license verification system is in place to make sure that all licenses and credentials are verified, taking the stress of verification off of the client. At ProviserTrust, we also offer sanction screening services across all 50 states by using software to search and screen both federal and state agencies to identify sanctioned and excluded individuals and entities. This allows us to deliver reliable and comprehensive results that our clients can count on. To make things even more simple for our clients, ProviderTrust offers total compliance in one Dashboard. ProviderTrust is the modern, smart way to provide safer healthcare for our clients.

Doximity was founded in 2011 by the pioneers of mobile health apps to connect healthcare professionals and make them more productive. Joining Doximity means being part of an incredibly talented and humble team. We work on amazing products that over one million medical professionals, including over 70% of all U.S. doctors and 45% of all NPs and physician assistants, use to make their busy lives a little easier. Here at Doximity we absolutely love creating technology that has a real, meaningful impact on people’s lives.

Our story started when our co-founders, whilst working as medical doctors, recognized that the holistic textbook version of medicine was not at all what was being provided for patients. The reality is that a stretched healthcare system fails to engage people in their medical care at the preventative stages. As a result, the $3 trillion currently spent on healthcare goes on to prevents only 10% of premature deaths. With digital therapeutics, we have the opportunity to prevent 40% of premature deaths that are caused by behavioral patterns. Quit Genius is a behavior change platform that combines digital coaching, personalized content, wearable technology and medication to help people overcome addictive behaviors.