London’s 101 Fastest Growing Pharmaceutical Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Pharmaceutical companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Pharmaceutical Companies & Startups (London)

Verona Pharma

Verona Pharma is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering new drugs for the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases.

Alchemab Therapeutics

Alchemab Therapeutics is developing natural protective antibodies designed to keep people free of hard-to-treat diseases.

MiNA Therapeutics

MiNA Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutic medicines to harness gene activation mechanisms.

Pando

Forward is now Pando! Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.

Lifebit

Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.

Closed Loop Medicine

Developing personalised digital healthcare solutions to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians

Echo

Echo is a simplifying pharmacy, helping everyone get the medicine they need.

Advanz Pharma

ADVANZ PHARMA is a pharmaceutical company focused on serving the needs of patients and healthcare providers.

Phlo

Phlo is a digital pharmacy that provides secure, real-time, same-day prescription delivery.

Stallergenes Greer

Stallergenes Greer is a fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.

Skipping Rocks Lab

Skipping Rocks Lab develops natural and biodegradable packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract.

Prokarium

Prokarium is biopharmaceutical company pioneering the field of microbial immunotherapy.

Capella BioScience

Capella Bioscience engages in the discovery and development of monoclonal antibodies.

SyntheticGestalt

SyntheticGestalt develops machine learning models for drug discovery and software for facilitating and automating research.

Peptone

Peptone is a UK-based startup that is helping pharmaceutical companies unravel the secrets of proteins.

Exogene

Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating target & TCR discovery for cancer cell therapies using AI-enabled TCR-antigen screening.

Dunad Therapeutics

Dunad Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of next-generation targeted protein degradation therapies.

Small Pharma

Small Pharma is dedicated to identifying these opportunities.

Tuli Health

Tuli Health is a digital health platform that provides instant access to private medical appointments and testing.

Aptorum Group

Aptorum Group is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of therapeutic assets to treat diseases with unmet medical needs.

IAG, Image Analysis Group

IAG, imaging expert company helps to accelerate novel drug development by using the right analytical tools and modern trial infrastructure.

Yaqrit

Yaqrit Limited is a UK-based company specialising in interventions in liver disease based on 20 years of research and development at UCL.

Cotinga Pharmaceuticals

Cotinga Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops drug therapies for diseases.

Carbon Analytics

A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.

LIfT BioSciences

LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies.

Veristat

Veristat, a full service Clinical Research Organization (CRO).

Smart Surgical Appliances

Smart Surgical Appliances is a medical device company, developing sensor-enabled surgical instrumentation.

Alyve

A personalised nutrition company offering tailor made all-in-one vitamins and at-home blood test kits.

medsii.com

medsii.com is Next-Generation Health Information. medsii won the 2021 Webby Honoree Award in the Health & Fitness cateogory.

Autolus

Autolus is in T-cell programming and manufacturing technology.

Pharmacierge

The free e-prescribing service chosen by Private GPs and Consultants to deliver medication to their patients nationwide

Fortuna Fix

Clinical-stage biotech company .

Synthace

Synthace is a Life Sciences R&D cloud platform that enables experiments to be automated, with the resultant data seamlessly integrated.

Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey is an international speciality chemicals company, founded almost 200 years ago in London.

Motif Labs

Motif Labs is built on a legacy of exceptional extraction technology.

MyMeds&Me

My Meds & Me provides a web-based solution for the capture of adverse event, product complaint.

RXLive

RXLive is a digital pharmacies with over 5,000 active patients, delivering over 10,000 prescriptions per month.

Prescient Healthcare Group

Prescient Healthcare Group was founded in London in 1995, originally specializing in competitive insights.

Antidote.me

Antidote is a digital health company that accelerates and improves medical research by combining technologies, data, and business models.

Causaly

Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine

Firza

Firza is a medical company modernizing healthcare using technology-enabled, bespoke workforce solutions.

Ophidia Medical Technologies

Ophidia is a MedTech startup working with advanced technologies such as IoT, Blockchain and RFID to enhance the clinical trial proccess

BTG International

BTG is a global healthcare company focused on Interventional Medicine.

Canbex Therapeutics

Canbex Therapeutics is dedicated to treating spasticity in multiple sclerosis (MS) and other disorders.

Hammersmith Medicines Research Ltd

Hammersmith Medicines Research is a London-based biotechnology company that provides CRO services.

Stealthyx Therapeutics

Stealthyx is developing a unique, safe, patented drug-targeting platform technology capable of drug delivery only at sites of disease.

SomaNautix

Building an innovative Oncology Product company which exploits the unique physico-chemical properties of endoNaut technology.

Acellera

Acellera is a company devoted to speed up drug discovery and development.

Pharma intelligence

Pharma intelligence helps in analysis, insight, and consultancy services for pharmaceutical, MedTech, and clinical research organizations.

Oxford Phamascience Group

Oxford Pharmascience Group offers technology platforms to re-develop existing medicines.

Medimsight

Medical image triage and biomarkers analysis for precision medicine.

Oppilotech

Developing the next generation of antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action.

Morria Biopharmaceuticals

Morria Biopharmaceuticals engages in the discovery and development of multi-functional anti-inflammatory drugs.

Internis Pharmaceuticals

Internis Pharmaceuticals develops, manufactures, and supplies prescription vitamin D medicines for the United Kingdom market.

Validair Monitoring Solutions

Validair Monitoring Solutions is a technical services and environmental monitoring solutions company.

Evaluate

Evaluate provides trusted commercial intelligence for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Therakind

Therakind creates, develops, and improves paediatric and other speciality medicinal products.

Airfinity

Airfinity is a science information and analytics company

APCER Life Sciences

APCER Life Sciences provides drug safety, medical information, medical writing, and regulatory services to pharma & biotech companies

MAASI Enterprises

Leading Consulting, Advising and Temporary Management for Complex and Highly Regulated Enterprises

Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc

Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. is an innovative Canadian Health Care Company focused on providing healthcare professionals and their patients.

Eden Pharma

Cannabis Research and Development

PHASTAR

Specialist biometrics CRO, offering statistical consulting, clinical trial reporting, data science and data management services.

Sinclair Pharma plc

Sinclair Pharma is a pure-play Aesthetics business with a highly differentiated portfolio based on improving facial shape and volumisation.

Pangaea Data

Pangaea Data provides a machine learning-based software solution making scientific and clinical data more meaningful.

Oxagen

Oxagen is a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule drugs addressing asthma, and chronic allergic and inflammatory conditions.

Theramex

Theramex is a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to women and their health.

Conference Series

ConferenceSeries conducts 3000+ Global Scientific Events in Medical, Clinical, Pharma, Engineering and Life Sciences across the Globe.

Cellen

Cellen Health is a health tech company on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of people living with chronic pain.

Everna

Everna is a biotech company developing novel therapeutics.

performance.io

performance.io is a performance marketing agency focused on health & tech.

Flarin

Flarin is an exciting and innovative pharmaceutical product.

Clerkenwell Health

A psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation.

ProClinical

ProClinical is a leading international recruitment agency.

Ro5

Biotechnology

Smartway Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Smartway Pharmaceuticals is a leading MHRA registered UK pharmaceutical wholesaler and supplier of a comprehensive range of products.

Intract Pharma

Intract Pharma is an oral drug delivery licensing and product development company offering a range of proprietary formulation technologies.

AMCo

AMCo is a rapidly-growing international pharmaceutical company.

Inexia

Inexia aims to develop intranasally administered orexin positive modulators for the treatment of neurological diseases.

Nucleus Global

Nucleus Global is a medical communications company.

Kinapse

Kinapse provides advisory, capability building and operational services to the life sciences industries.

Access Infinity

Access Infinity is a market access and pricing consultancy that helps pharma companies get products to the market.

MTHK

MTHK is a pharmaceuticals company that designs and produces eye care products.

Viramal

Viramal is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of global therapeutics.

Senzer

Senzer Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company.

ClarusONE Sourcing Services

ClarusONE Sourcing Services is involved in the strategic sourcing of generic pharmaceuticals at a competitive cost to meet consumer demand.

Pharma IQ

Pharma IQ is an equipping business leaders with indispensable insights and innovations to drive success in the pharmaceutical industry.

Nanomerics

Nanomerics “switches on” drugs

Avillion

Avillion LLP, a London, UK-based company that focuses on clinical co-development of therapeutics.

Antisoma

Antisoma is a biotechnology company specialising in the development of novel drugs for the treatment of cancer.

STEM Healthcare

STEM Healthcare provides pharmaceutical benchmarking services.

Okyo Pharma

OKYO focuses on novel GPCR based therapeutics for eye diseases of high unmet need and non-opioid analgesics for chronic pain.

SkyePharma

SkyePharma is a speciality drug delivery company with a range of oral and inhalation technologies.

Equinox Pharma Ltd.

Equinox Pharma Ltd. is a computationally-driven logic-based drug discovery company.

Lifeways

Lifeways is one of the UK’s leading providers of support services for people with diverse and often complex needs in community settings.

MyCognition

MyCognition are dedicated to helping every student reach his or her full potential through adaptive, insightful brain training.

Hloop

Hloop is a next-generation talent marketplace & community specialized for the life sciences industry.

Hanway Associates

Strategy and corporate advisory for the cannabis sector

Motilent

Motilent deals with technology and research on providing innovative services that helps for digestive system in health and disease.

Diabetology

Diabetology is an award winning clinical stage biopharmaceutical company

Sirius Market Access

Sirius Market Access provides market access services to the pharmaceutical and therapeutic market. Acquired by Genesis Research in 2020.