Top 36 Microbiome startups

Oct 23, 2024 | By Jason Kwon

Microbiome startups develop new microbes, microbe-based treatments and microbiome diagnostic technologies.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.6B
Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom microbes for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.
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Country: USA | Funding: $537.8M
Seres Therapeutics is creating a new class of medicines to treat diseases resulting from functional deficiencies in the microbiome, a condition known as dysbiosis
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Country: USA | Funding: $437M
Vedanta Biosciences is developing a class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome.
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Country: USA | Funding: $397M
Evelo is pioneering therapies that modulate systemic immune response by acting on the gut-body network - monoclonal microbials. They have the potential to treat many diseases, including inflammatory disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, metabolic, neurobehavior and neuroinflammatory diseases.
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Country: USA | Funding: $301M
Viome has developed technology aimed at balancing microorganisms in the gut. With Viome, you can fine-tune the function of your gut microbiome with a personalized diet to minimize the production of harmful metabolites and maximize the production of beneficial ones, so that you experience increased energy and general well-being, all while reaching and maintaining a healthy state of balance.
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Country: USA | Funding: $230.9M
Kaleido BioSciences is a company working to design and analyze the microbiome system and provide adaptive solutions.
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Country: USA | Funding: $188.8M
Finch Therapeutics Group is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering innovative therapies that harness the human gut microbiome.
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Country: France | Funding: €175.8M
Enterome is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing breakthrough immunomodulatory drugs for the treatment of cancer (OncoMimics™ peptides). Enterome’s pioneering approach to drug discovery is based on its unique ability to decode the interaction between the gut microbiome and the immune system.
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Country: USA | Funding: $118M
Zoe is leading the world’s largest ongoing nutritional research project in collaboration with scientists from universities including Harvard, King's College London, Massachusetts General Hospital, Oxford and Stanford.
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Country: USA | Funding: $115.9M
Axial Biotherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company harnessing the link between the human gut microbiome and Central Nervous System to develop a new class of therapeutics to improve the quality of life for people with CNS diseases and disorders
Editor: Jason Kwon
Jason Kwon is a senior editor for MedicalStartups. He has previously covered the pharmaceutical and medical research industries for FDAnews and worked as a head of marketing for medical startup Sonic Therapeutics. Before that, he co-founded a startup consulting business for emerging entrepreneurial hubs in Asia. Jason graduated from St. Bonaventure University’s journalism school. In his free time, Jason enjoys yoga, watching movie trailers, traveling to places where he can't get cell service. You can contact Jason at jaskwon(at)medicalstartups(dot)com