MentionFox lists 25 Biotech companies for 2020. Of them, 25 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Summer 2020, with 9).
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Biotech startups in 2020
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Foods | Impossible foods of seafood | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Future Fields | We make unmakeable proteins with radical advanced biomanufacturing | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals | Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a Clinical stage biotechnology company… | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| inSoma Bio | Helping Plastic Surgeons Rebuild Fat | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Kernal Biologics | Kernal is creating mRNA 2.0 therapies that work in specific cells | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Known Medicine | Combining 3D cell culture & AI to translate drugs to clinical success | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Liyfe | Digital Nurse to Automate Symptom Assessment and Risk… | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nabla Bio | We use AI to design antibodies for intractable diseases | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nephrogen | Curative genetic medicines for kidney diseases | Summer 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Abalone Bio | We create activating antibodies to treat diseases others can’t. | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Algen Biotechnologies | Using CRISPR to find treatments for cancer and inflammation | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Altay Therapeutics | Altay develops disease-modifying therapies targeting transcription… | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ansa Biotechnologies | Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Dropprint Genomics | The better way to run single cell genomics | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Equator Therapeutics | We are developing a drug to burn calories and increase metabolism… | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Genecis Bio | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| General Proximity | The next generation of induced-proximity medicines. | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Isabl | Cancer tests based on whole genome and transcriptome data. | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Living Carbon | maximizing biomass on low quality land | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Menten AI | Menten AI designs peptide and protein therapeutics using quantum… | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nomic Bio | Nomic is doing for proteins what Illumina has done for DNA | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ochre Bio | RNA medicines for liver diseases | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| PostEra | Medicinal Chemistry powered by Machine Learning | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| UrbanKisaan | Foundation models and autonomous chambers for plant biology | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Volumetric | Volumetric builds living multicellular tissues with a focus on the… | Winter 2020 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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