Top Life Sciences Startups in 2024

quip is the oral care company designing and delivering products, advice and professional services to make oral health more simple, accessible, and enjoyable — starting with a better electric toothbrush. As the first to market direct-to-consumer oral care subscription service — with fresh supplies delivered every three months, oral care advice sent straight to hundreds of thousands of consumers, and a bidirectional tech platform in development to connect users with a large dental professional network — quip is working to elevate every part of the oral care experience for everyone.

Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world's leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.

Branching Minds is a rapidly growing edtech company transforming the way schools and teachers support struggling learners. Our mission is to empower all educators to effectively, efficiently and equitably support the holistic needs of their students and to create a path to academic and personal success for every learner. We aim to be the most impactful national K12 school district solution for achieving high-fidelity RTI/MTSS - consistently demonstrating our ability to save teachers planning/documenting time, improve outcomes of our students, and eliminate the racial achievement gap. Our solution leverages learning sciences, academic research, and team collaboration to streamline and personalize intervention practice so that all students can achieve success. We are a team of mission-driven educators and learning scientists, who believe in partnering with school districts to evolve both our platform and the services we provide to ensure their success.

Causaly’s mission is to accelerate the pace of human discovery in biomedicine and to power the research organizations of the world’s largest life sciences companies to accelerate their drug discovery and development programs. We do this by developing easy-to-use AI tools to find and qualify scientific facts and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams. Our technology mimics human reading, and digests tens of millions of scientific documents, clinical trial, labels, news and other data sources at super human scale to generate a high precision Science Knowledge Graph allowing scientists, investigators, researchers and others to answer questions they can’t answer anywhere else.

Modern Meadow harnesses the building blocks of nature to make products that can perform for the future we want to have. Our focus is on protein-based materials and ingredients for a range of applications from fashion to other consumer sectors. We are a deeply R&D driven company partnering with some of the worlds best brands and manufacturers in a material coalition for change.

Eli is a women's health company on a mission to improve lifelong health through continuous hormone monitoring. Hormones impact physical and mental health every day and at every stage of life. Eli offers real-time insights from hormones in saliva that can be tracked continuously over time, unlike traditional testing methods or send-out tests that only provide a single snapshot. With just three simple steps, Eli's at-home technology provides women with personalized hormone profiles to make informed decisions about their health. Eli is filling a data gap to transform how women manage their hormonal health in key areas like menopause, fertility, contraception, and endocrine conditions. Eli has raised a total of $9 million so women can have the information they need to optimize their overall health from puberty to beyond menopause.

Synex Medical is dedicated to providing people with accurate information about how their bodies are functioning so they can be proactive about their health. To accomplish this, we’re building the next generation of health monitoring technology. We’ve developed novel techniques based on magnetic resonance, the same underlying principle used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that allow us to non-invasively and accurately measure critical blood metabolites like glucose, lactate and ketones. This technology will come in a highly miniaturized form-factor to allow for real-time measurements.

Headquartered in alameda, california, we are a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies. we design, develop, manufacture and market novel products and have a broad portfolio that addresses challenging medical conditions in markets with significant unmet need. we sell our products to hospitals and healthcare providers primarily through our direct sales organization in the united states, most of europe, canada and australia, and through distributors in select international markets.

Want to advance the frontiers of understanding? we develop innovative open source software platforms and integrate them into research, processes, and products. cmake, paraview, the visualization toolkit (vtk), and the insight segmentation and registration toolkit (itk) are among the platforms that complement our expertise in computer vision, data and analytics, high-performance computing and visualization, medical computing, and software process management. from meaningful work, to flexible hours, to collaboration, to a hardware budget, to tech lunches, to a clothing stipend, to family outings, there are many reasons to join us and make an impact.

Hippo Education is on a mission to empower the people of medicine to learn, grow, and thrive by creating education and community. Our hard working and quick-to-laugh crew creates exceptional medical education products through our platform that hosts podcasts, video courses, and more to keep clinicians up-to-date and at their best. We have a team of over 40 people with some working at the main studio in Los Angeles while most of us work remotely across the world. Hippo’s a fantastic place to work and we’re genuinely proud of the impact we have on clinicians and their patients.