Top 10 CRISPR startups

Updated: April 19, 2024

CRISPR/Cas - is a gene-editing technology that have been used to cut 5 to 62 genes at once. CRISPR/Cas's low cost compared to alternatives is widely seen as revolutionary due to its high degree of fidelity and relatively simple construction.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Intellia is a leading genome editing company focused on the development of proprietary, potentially curative therapeutics utilizing a recently developed biological tool known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system. We believe that the CRISPR/Cas9 technology has the potential to transform medicine by permanently editing diseased genes in the human body through a single treatment course. We intend to leverage our leading scientific expertise, clinical development experience and intellectual property position to unlock broad therapeutic applications of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and develop a potential new drug class.
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Country: USA | Funding: $931.6M
Editas Medicine's mission is to translate its genome editing technology into a novel class of human therapeutics that enable precise and corrective molecular modification to treat the underlying cause of a broad range of diseases at the genetic level.
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Country: USA | Funding: $689M
Beam Therapeutics develops of genome editing technologies.
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Country: USA | Funding: $459.7M
Synthego is a provider of synthetic RNA solutions for CRISPR Genome Engineering.
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Country: USA | Funding: $457M
Metagenomi is using the power of metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing systems.
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Country: USA | Funding: $419.3M
Verve is focused on discovering and developing therapies that safely edit the genomes of adults to confer protection against coronary.
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Country: USA | Funding: $407M
The mission of CRISPR Therapeutics is to develop transformative gene-based medicines for patients with serious diseases. Our therapeutic approach is to cure diseases at the molecular level using the breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With our multi-disciplinary team of world-renowned academics, drug developers and clinicians, we are uniquely positioned to translate CRISPR-Cas9 technology into human therapeutics.
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Country: USA | Funding: $317.7M
Caribou Biosciences is a pioneer in the revolutionary field of CRISPR-Cas genome editing. Our proprietary technology puts us at the forefront of the development of new medical therapies and bio-based products which offer profound benefits to both human health and society as a whole.
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Country: USA | Funding: $317.8M
Emendo Biotherapeutics develops gene editing platform to expand the list of diseases amenable to treatment with gene editing, resulting in a pipeline of hematology and ophthalmology programs.
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Country: USA | Funding: $305.8M
ArsenalBio is focused on integrating technologies such as CRISPR-based genome engineering, scaled and high throughput target identification, synthetic biology, and machine learning to advance a new paradigm to discover and develop in immune cell therapies.
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Country: USA | Funding: $264.5M
The CRISPR-based platform for disease detection.
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Country: USA | Funding: $128.7M
Locus Biosciences develops CRISPR-engineered precision antibacterial platform designed to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial disease.
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Country: Denmark | Funding: $60.2M
SNIPR Biome is to develop CRISPR-based medicines that give hope for effective and safe treatment of difficult-to-treat diseases in the future.Precision killing of bacteria has the impact to revolutionise the management of untreatable and difficult-to-treat infections as well as complex diseases directly impacted by the human microbiota.
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Country: USA | Funding: $55M
Epic Bio's strength is a relentless focus on ushering in a new era of gene regulation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $45M
Exonics Therapeutics is developing transformative SingleCut CRISPR gene repair therapies for devastating genetic neuromuscular diseases