Top Science Startups in 2026

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!

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.

Ripple Effect provides professional consulting and exceptional talent for federal, private, and non-profit clients to deliver some of the most crucial policies and programs that shape our nation. We are researchers and communicators, scientists, analysts and more, driven by curiosity and a commitment to positively impact health, safety and prosperity.

BenchSci's vision is to bring medicine to patients 50% faster by 2025. The company empowers scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology accelerates science at 15 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. BenchSci is a CIX Top 10 Growth company, certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

Seed Health, Inc. is a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental health. In collaboration with leading academic partners, our foundry model accelerates breakthrough science to develop live biotherapeutics and consumer innovations. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of leading scientists with expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, environmental sciences, and women’s health. Learn more—seedhealth.com Our consumer portfolio, Seed®, develops next-generation probiotics for specific developmental stages and various ecosystems of the body—seed.com

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.

Verily lives at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. Our mission is to make the world's health data useful so that people enjoy healthier lives. Verily is developing tools to collect and organize health data, then creating interventions and platforms that put insights derived from that health data to use for more holistic care management. We have three guiding product design principles: start with the user, simplify care, and lead on security and privacy. Public Projects: verily.com/projects

Labviva leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage the content for their products. We can also integrate eProcurement platforms making a seamless buying process.

We believe that the key to solving the grand challenges that humanity is facing is in: 1) science, 2) translating science to innovation on the market, 3) and intense collaboration between all ecosystem stakeholders. We believe this requires bringing transparency to the scientific ecosystem, so no one is limited by whom one happens to know. We believe this requires unlocking access to advanced scientific intelligence for the 99%. We believe that anyone should be able to reach for the stars, with minimal friction in their journey from ideation to innovation. That’s why we took action. In the past eight years, we built a scientific intelligence platform that allows to find a few clicks the most relevant scientific experts, research groups, biotech startups, pharma companies, publications, ongoing projects, patents, clinical trials, press releases... and find answers to specific questions via our LLM integration. Our platform is used by leading pharma, biotech, enablers and academics to make better data-driven decisions, faster. More info here: academiclabs.com/customers Some of our customers call us a "google for science". And, yes, this is our grand ambition. Interested in joining our rollercoaster and having real impact on society? Happy to talk! To learn more about our product: - Website: academiclabs.com - Try our application without signing up: app.academiclabs.com/search Follow us on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/company/academiclabs

Azora is a fast-growing tech startup based in San Francisco, CA and Phoenix, AZ. We are building high-bandwidth optical communications infrastructure for environments beyond the reach of traditional fiber. Our work spans LEO satellite constellations, lunar exploration missions, GEO satcom, deployable ground stations, and next-generation data centers - both on and off-Earth.