Top 11 Bladder cancer treatment startups

Dec 28, 2024 | By Jason Kwon

These startups develop new bladder cancer treatments and diagnostics technologies, such as robot-assisted surgery, immunotherapy, bacillus calmette-guérin therapy, targeted therapy, photodynamic therapy
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Country: USA | Funding: $317.6M
CG Oncology is developing the next evolution of oncolytic immunotherapy for patients with advanced cancers.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $250M
GEMoaB develops universal CAR-T platform with focus on providing significantly safer and more efficacious treatments to patients who are suffering from hard-to-treat cancers and autoimmune diseases
3
Country: USA | Funding: $219.5M
Epic Sciences is a diagnostics company improving cancer management by providing real-time biopsy material to guide personalized medicine.
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Country: USA | Funding: $209M
Ikena Oncology is a biotechnology company that advances new immunometabolic therapies for cancer.
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Country: USA | Funding: $205M
Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases.
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Country: USA | Funding: $114.2M
TARIS Biomedical a specialty pharmaceutical company with deep domain expertise in therapeutics and drug-delivery, is focused on local minimally-invasive drug-device convergence products.
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Country: USA | Funding: $106M
Totus Medicines is a provider of chemical biology technologies by creating life-changing covalent drugs.
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Country: USA | Funding: $73M
OncoCyte focused on cancers with large patient populations and significant unmet need. The company is developing three genetic tests – blood tests for breast cancer and lung cancer, and a urine-based test for bladder cancer.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $5.5M
Sitka Biopharma is a preclinical biotechnology company focused on developing its breakthrough nanoparticle platform technology to increase absorption of drugs in difficult-to-penetrate tissues.
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Country: France | Funding: €4.7M
VitaDX is developing a non-invasive medical device for early detection of bladder cancer, based on a syndicate of French academic research.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2M
Liquid Biotech is a technology for cancer diagnostics and gene discover
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