69 Best Biomedical Engineering Startups in Uk to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biomedical Engineering Startups in Uk

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There are 90 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $37.9m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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15

Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.8m

Money raised

Orbit Discovery offers a DNA-encoded peptide display technology to identify potential peptide drugs for a range of chronic diseases.

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6

Funding Rounds

$190.5m

Money raised

Kuur Therapeutics focuses on the development of CAR-NKT cell therapies platform for applications in cancer treatment.

3

Funding Rounds

$143.4m

Money raised

An exosome therapeutics company founded in 2016 and based in Oxford, UK, that uses exosomes to deliver small and large molecule therapeutics. The company has a proprietary technology to modify exosomes to target specific organs such as the brain and central nervous system.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$11.3m

Money raised

Emergex aims to tackle the global threat of infectious disease by providing affordable and practical on-demand vaccine solutions.

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7

Funding Rounds

$31.4m

Money raised

Oxford Genetics, also known as Oxgene, is a synthetic biology company specializing in DNA design, protein expression optimization and cell line development technologies and services.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company using mass spectrometry platforms for drug discovery and the development of therapeutics.

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2

Funding Rounds

$37.5m

Money raised

A biomedical company in United Kingdom that develops vaccines and vaccine development technology

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2

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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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11

Funding Rounds

$35.7m

Money raised

Lightpoint Medical is a solutions developer and provider for the health care industry, specializing in the development of intra-operative, robot-guided systems.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

Asimov is a startup that programs living cells with genetic circuits.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Company developing rapid diagnostic technologies, products and services in human healthcare, agriculture and aquaculture

1

Funding Rounds

Isomerase is a Cambridge based microbial natural products drug discovery and development CRO and synthetic biology, fermentation and chemistry service provider

3

Funding Rounds

$13.2m

Money raised

Biosceptre is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company developing diagnostic tools and biomarkers.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Macomics is an Edinburgh-based immuno-oncology company.

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4

Funding Rounds

$179.4m

Money raised

Kymab is a biopharmecutical company developing human antibody based therapies founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

Oxford Cancer Biomarkers is an Oxford-based biomarker company commercializing biomarker tests for colorectal cancer testing.

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

Touchlight is a London-based biotechnology company founded in 2008 which focuses on DNA technology.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.7m

Money raised

The company aims to restore autophagy to boost cell rejuvenation and treat currently incurable neurodegenerative and rare genetic diseases.

7

Funding Rounds

$25.9m

Money raised

Oxford BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology company based in Oxford, UK, Morristown, and San Jose, USA. The company develops immuno-oncology (IO) and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) based therapies.

Key people:

6

Funding Rounds

$203.4m

Money raised

Binx Health Limited is a developer of point-of-care testing platforms.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.3m

Money raised

Developer of immunotherapy for the treatment of infectious diseases.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.4m

Money raised

Laboratory robotics and automation company

5

Funding Rounds

$162.0m

Money raised

A clinical cancer genomics company using liquid biopsy in cancer patients

5

Funding Rounds

$65.8m

Money raised

Theolytics Ltd is an oncolytic Adenovirus Therapies founded in 2017.

7

Funding Rounds

$14.1m

Money raised

Cytox Limited is a company founded in 2004 by Zsuzsanna Nagy.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.9m

Money raised

Medical device compnay focused on improving outcomes for mothers and babies during childbirth and delivery.

5

Funding Rounds

$146.6m

Money raised

Oxford Immunotec is a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based medical diagnostics company manufacturing tests for various diseases based on T cell measurement technology.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Mevion Medical Systems is a company developing radiation therapies for cancer treatment founded in 2004 by Tina Tianning Yu.

1

Funding Rounds

Sygnature Discovery Limited is a drug Discovery Contract Research founded in 2004 by Simon Hirst.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

Kinomica is a Cheshire, United Kingdom-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company that specializes in cell-signaling.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

A pharmaceutical company specializing in drug candidates used for in out-patient and hospital-based sedation

1

Funding Rounds

$718.0k

Money raised

A company offering medicinal chemistry and computational chemistry services for drug dicovery

4

Funding Rounds

SiSaf is the first company to create a Bio-Courier platform technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$34.9m

Money raised

Sense Biodetection Limited is an Abingdon-on-Thames-based molecular diagnostics company developing handheld tests in the fields of infections and oncology.

3

Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

Biofidelity Ltd is a genetic Testing Technology founded in 2019 by Barnaby Balmforth.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Chronos is an Oxford-based biotechnology company operating a semi-virtual R&D model to develop a portfolio of therapies in degenerative and behavioral brain diseases.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

ValiRx PLC. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based healthcare accelerator working to develop new medicines and technologies founded in 2000.

1

Funding Rounds

$36.0m

Money raised

Perspectum Diagnostics Ltd is an Oxford-based developer of diagnostic technologies for diagnosing patients with liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

Akrivis Technologies is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based medical diagnostics company developing solutions for infectious diseases founded in 2009 by Dr. Ban–An Khaw.

1

Funding Rounds

Oncimmune is a Nottingham-based diagnostic company developing early cancer detection products.

7

Funding Rounds

$74.7m

Money raised

Mobidiag UK Ltd is an Espoo-based molecular diagnostic company developing solutions for the detection of infectious diseases.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

DYSIS Medical is focused on developing imaging systems for the non-invasive, in-vivo detection of cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Blue Earth Diagnostics Limited is an Oxford-based developer and supplier of molecular imaging agents.

1

Funding Rounds

$29.0m

Money raised

Renalytix is a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled clinical diagnostic solutions for kidney disease.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

Aptamer Group Limited is a York-based developer of nucleic acid aptamers for use in research and development, biomarker discovery, diagnostics and therapeutic applications.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Mgb Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing anti-infective medicines founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Treos Bio is a cancer Vaccine Technology founded in 2013 by John Hautman.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

Enesi Pharma Limited is a solid Dose Vaccine Delivery founded in 2017.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

Gentronix is a biotechnology company developing predictive toxicology technologies.

2

Funding Rounds

$40.4m

Money raised

Wren Therapeutics is a small Molecules Targeting Protein Mis-Folding founded in 2016 by Chris Dobson.

1

Funding Rounds

$675.0k

Money raised

Mendelian Ltd is a London-based diagnostics company developing rare disease diagnostics.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

Oxford Vacmedix UK Limited is a cancer Vaccines founded in 2012 by Dr Shisong Jiang.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Small Pharma is a London-based pharmaceutical company researching applications of DMT and ketamine in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help treat conditions like clinical depression.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Adaptix is an Oxford-based company developing radiology technologies.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

Momentum Bioscience is a Cardiff-based medical diagnostics company developing blood-based molecular diagnostics.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

nanoTherics is a transfection Technology founded by Jon Dobson.

Key people:

2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Scancell is a cancer vaccine founded in 1996 by Professor Lindy Durrant.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

EKF Diagnostics is a Cardiff-based medical diagnostics company developing point-of-care and laboratory devices and reagents.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.1m

Money raised

Altacor is an ophthalmic Specialty Pharmaceuticals founded in 2007.

2

Funding Rounds

$29.5m

Money raised

ONK Therapeutics is a natural Killer Cell Therapies founded in 2015.

5

Funding Rounds

$17.2m

Money raised

QuantuMDx Group is a Newcastle Higher-based medical device company designing and manufacturing devices for molecular diagnostics.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Transition Bio is a condensate technology, liquid-liquid phase separation founded by Peter St George-Hyslop.

1

Funding Rounds

OSSIANIX is a biotherapeutics company developing single domain antibodies founded by Frank S. Walsh.

2

Funding Rounds

$157.5m

Money raised

Peptide Conjugation Technology for Gene Delivery

1

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised

ADCs

1

Funding Rounds

$41.0m

Money raised

Enterprise Therapeutics is a respiratory Treatments founded in 2014.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Carterra is a provider of high-throughput technologies designed for the discovery of novel therapeutic candidates.

3

Funding Rounds

$56.6m

Money raised

NeRRe Therapeutics is a small Molecules founded in 2012.

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