69 Best Research Infrastructure Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Research Infrastructure Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 648 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $188.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $2.7b.

Last update to the database: Mar 31, 2026. See changelog.

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$176.5b

Money raised

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

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$140.4m

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Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

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$17.5m

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Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

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$60.0m

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$124.0m

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Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

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$3.9m

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Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

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$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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$336.0m

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Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of Web3.

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$269.5m

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Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.

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Hypergiant Industries is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company offering client-focused services and research and development in various fields. The company was founded by Ben Lamm and John Fremont in 2018.

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$3.9m

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Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

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$3.0b

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.

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$363.4m

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Contentful's platform helps teams deliver digital experiences faster with an API-first approach.

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$5.9m

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Lucigen is a biotechnology company offering research and testing products and services to life science professionals. The company was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

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$8.0m

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Web3 gaming platform and game creator ecosystem with a sustainable economy

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$51.0m

Money raised

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.

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$71.3m

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Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.

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$14.5m

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CasperLabs is a Zug-based company and blockchain platform founded in 2018 by Mrinal Manohar, Clifford Sarkin and Medha Parlikar.

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$1.6b

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Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

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$3.5m

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Peer5 is an operator of a peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network architecture designed to decentralize video viewing experiences for users. The company was acquired by Microsoft in August 2021.

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$99.0m

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NOCD provides online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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$49.6m

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Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.

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$13.3m

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Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

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$28.9m

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Antidote.me closes the gap between clinical trials and patients

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$1.4b

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Nydig is a provider of bitcoin infrastructure and institutional financial services.

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$30.4m

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IoTium is a provider of secure managed software-defined network infrastructure.

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$54.0m

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Alkira is a San Jose, California-based network cloud platform provider, offering cloud infrastructure delivered as a service built to help companies design, deploy, and operate hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks.

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4

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$76.3m

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AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.

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$15.6m

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Iris.ai is a Stabekk-headquartered artificial intelligence company developing tools and applications allowing users to research open-access research papers.

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$95.5m

Money raised

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

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$15.8m

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Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.

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$55.0m

Money raised

Volusion is an Austin, Texas-based developer of an e-commerce software platform to help businesses build and manage online stores.

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$411.9m

Money raised

Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.

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6

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$86.6m

Money raised

Prokarium is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vaccination and cancer immunotherapy solutions based on synthetic biology.

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3

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$108.0m

Money raised

WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

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8

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$11.6m

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RoadBotics is a Pittsburgh-based artificial intelligence company.

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11

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$519.7m

Money raised

Flutterwave is a company designing and developing application programming interface payments across Africa.

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3

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$9.3m

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NSLComm is an Israel-based satellite manufacturing company designing fabric-like, flexible dish antennas that expand in space to offer high throughput communications for small satellites.

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3

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$31.2m

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Deep Lens is an Artificial Intelligence company matching patients with clinical trials.

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6

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$211.9m

Money raised

Keyfactor is a software company that provides cloud-first PKI as a service and crypto-agility solutions.

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$134.0m

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U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.

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$155.6m

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Athelas is a company developing blood testing device that utilizes deep learning and computer vision.

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Clinithink is a Natural Language Processing AI for structuring medical chart notations

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$34.0m

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Deep 6 AI is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Wout Brusselaers.

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7

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$24.0m

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Headset is a tech company providing an IT solution for the cannabis industry.

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$5.3m

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Fakespot is a New York City-based data analytics platform that works to spot fake online product reviews and help consumers make better choices. Fakespot was acquired by Mozilla in May 2023.

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$25.0m

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Prosimo is a Santa Clara, California-based infrastructure development company offering cloud-computing infrastructure.

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$100.4m

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A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

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$88.6m

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Spacelift is an AI-powered infrastructure orchestration platform founded in 2020 by Marcin Wyszynski.

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$4.0m

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Cryptocurrency company/ The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.

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$108.0m

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Petuum helps companies create artificial intelligence/machine learning solutions.

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$65.4m

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Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

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$43.5m

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TechSee is an Israeli technology company that specializes in intelligent visual CX solutions powered by computer vision AI and augmented reality.

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$169.9m

Money raised

Zero Hash is a financial services company specializing in digital assets-as-a-service technology.

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$52.8m

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Remesh is an AI-based company to gather collective insights founded in 2013 by Aaron Slodov, Andrew Konya and Gary Ellis.

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2

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$645.0k

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CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

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$293.8m

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A company providing an API allowing its users to encode, host and stream videos.

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$1.0m

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Sanguine is a company that has the mission to accelerate medical research by eliminating the barriers to patient participation.

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$443.5m

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Biofourmis is a global health IT start-up in Massachusetts that focuses on personalized care and therapies using digital therapeutics.

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6

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$478.8m

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Reify Health is a company building healthcare system

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3

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$41.6m

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A biotechnology and industrial automation company. It was founded in 2010 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$38.1m

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Console Connect is a technology company with a focus on cloud connectivity.

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$2.5m

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Corvid Technologies is a Mooresville, North Carolina-based supercomputer company founded in 2004.

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$40.0m

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54Gene is healthcare startup company providing a genetics testing platform in Africa. It also offers genetic reports on health, nutrition, fitness and weight loss, carrier status, personal traits and ancestry.

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$68.0m

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A biotechnology company developing immune-modulation therapies for infectious diseases and cancer leveraging its technology platform and understanding of immune system mechanisms. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Vienna, Austria.

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$54.0m

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YouGov is an international internet-based market research firm founded in 2000 by Stephan Shakespeare, Peter Kellner and Nadhim Zahawi.

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$56.6m

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A company based in Farmington, Connecticut, that develops skin disease treatments using microbiome science and technology.

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$12.0m

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Wellspring Worldwide is an innovation and technology commercialization program that offers technology scouting, corporate venturing, licensing and intellectual property software for corporations and universities.

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$4.5m

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A mobile platform providing a do-it-yourself (DIY) consumer insights platform that rewards consumers for their participation.

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