# Where Synthetic Biology Startups Are Based: 2026 Map of 103 Companies

> Map of where 103 synthetic biology startups worldwide are based, city by city: Cambridge, Copenhagen and London lead. $2.4B raised between them.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/geo-maps/where-synthetic-biology-startups-are-based (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there. Countries are shaded by their count.

## Leading cities

- Cambridge 6 $611M
- Copenhagen 4 $34M
- London 4 $38M
- South San Francisco 4 $325M
- Durham 3 $22M
- Alameda 3 $20M
- Berkeley 3 $25M
- Daly City 2 $66M
- San Francisco 2 $10M
- Auckland 2 $1.3M
- Nottingham 2 $4.0M
- Bruxelles 1 $77M
- Beijing 1 $58M
- Pudong 1 $21M
- København 1 $12M

## By country

- United States 49 $1.6B
- United Kingdom 11 $80M
- Denmark 9 $152M
- France 4 $51M
- Australia 4 $36M
- China 3 $137M
- Canada 3 $44M
- New Zealand 3 $2.0M
- Belgium 2 $85M
- Japan 2 $54M
- Portugal 2 $11M
- Netherlands 2 $51M

## Best-funded

- [**Strand Therapeutics** United States · $267M](https://millionrounds.com/company/strand-therapeutics)
- [**LifeMine Therapeutics** United States · $230M](https://millionrounds.com/company/lifemine-therapeutics)
- [**Senti Biosciences** United States · $169M](https://millionrounds.com/company/senti-biosciences)
- [**Absci** United States · $150M](https://millionrounds.com/company/absci)
- [**Solazyme** United States · $146M](https://millionrounds.com/company/solazyme)
- [**21st.BIO** Denmark · $97M](https://millionrounds.com/company/21st-bio)
- [**GRO Biosciences** United States · $87M](https://millionrounds.com/company/gro-biosciences)
- [**Univercells** Belgium · $77M](https://millionrounds.com/company/univercells)
- [**Bluepha** China · $59M](https://millionrounds.com/company/bluepha)
- [**Tsingke Biotech** China · $58M](https://millionrounds.com/company/tsingke-biotech)
- [**Onego Bio** Finland · $55M](https://millionrounds.com/company/onego-bio)
- [**The EVERY Company** United States · $55M](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-every-company)

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

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