Biotech & Life Sciences
Drug discovery, gene editing, synthetic biology
At a glance
1.1 Overview
1.2 🔥 Hottest sub-segments
What's heating up inside Biotech & Life Sciences
Top 12 of 39 Biotech & Life Sciences sub-sectors ranked by Dealroom's curated signal score (combines funding velocity, unicorn formation, recency).
Heat ranking from venture-sector-lens — Dealroom's curated 0–100 sector signal combining funding velocity, unicorn formation, and emergence.
The companies
2.1 Related market maps
Dive deeper: Biotech & Life Sciences market maps
Hand-curated landscape charts from the Dealroom data team. Each map ranks every tracked startup in the segment by valuation, revenue, growth and funding.
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The money
3.1 Rounds & valuations
Largest Biotech & Life Sciences rounds & most valuable companies
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds — or switch the view to size companies by their latest valuation (EV). Filter by HQ region; drag the year slider to add earlier rounds.
Largest Biotech & Life Sciences rounds - Global 2026
3.2 VC investment
When the capital landed in Biotech & Life Sciences
VC investment into Biotech & Life Sciences companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Biotech & Life Sciences. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
Geography & talent
4.1 Geographic concentration
Where Biotech & Life Sciences startups concentrate
Cities and countries ranked by Biotech & Life Sciences unicorns headquartered there, plus countries that over-index the global average (5× = 5× more represented than globally).
Benchmark & beyond
5.1 Sector comparison
How Biotech & Life Sciences stacks up
Compare Biotech & Life Sciences with the other simplified sectors — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for every sector.
Combined enterprise value of each sector.
Every simplified sector ranked by combined EV. Biotech & Life Sciences's row is highlighted (#5).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | $3.5T | 9.2× | 320 | $145B | 18.5K |
| 2 | Fintech | $1.9T | 4.8× | 318 | $38B | 21.8K |
| 3 | Other B2B Software | $1.7T | 4.4× | 305 | $28B | 36K |
| 4 | Consumer Services | $1.3T | 2.4× | 220 | $22B | 23K |
| 5 | Biotech & Life Sciences | $1.1T | 3.4× | 158 | $26B | 9,200 |
| 6 | eCommerce & Marketplaces | $1.1T | 2.8× | 175 | $18B | 18.8K |
| 7 | Energy | $920B | 6.2× | 110 | $32B | 7,600 |
| 8 | Transportation | $880B | 3.7× | 88 | $19B | 4,400 |
| 9 | Health Tech & Medtech | $720B | 4.1× | 142 | $16B | 12.4K |
| 10 | Cybersecurity | $480B | 4.4× | 92 | $14B | 6,800 |
| 11 | Space | $380B | 5.6× | 32 | $7.4B | 1,400 |
| 12 | Food | $320B | 3.0× | 56 | $5.8B | 4,200 |
| 13 | Semiconductors | $240B | 7.6× | 26 | $8.4B | 980 |
| 14 | Edtech | $220B | 2.1× | 38 | $4.2B | 5,800 |
| 15 | Defence | $175B | 7.8× | 28 | $6.2B | 720 |
| 16 | Robotics | $165B | 6.1× | 28 | $9.1B | 1,600 |
| 17 | Marketing | $150B | 3.6× | 38 | $4.4B | 6,200 |
| 18 | Aviation | $95B | 4.2× | 12 | $3.8B | 540 |
5.2 Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
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5.3 Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Biotech & Life Sciences
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Biotech & Life Sciences on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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