101 Top Japanese Pharmaceutical Companies and Startups of 2021

June 30, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Pharmaceutical companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Pharmaceutical industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

[adace-ad id=”7108″]

Top Japanese Pharmaceutical Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Takeda Pharmaceutical

Takeda Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited operates as a research-based pharmaceutical company in Japan.

SanBio

SanBio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

SanBio is a regenerative medicine company.

SanBio

Gene Techno Science

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Gene Techno Science is engaged in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products and biosimilars in Japan.

SanBio

Modulus Discovery

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Modulus Discovery is a drug discovery company.

SanBio

SOCIUM Inc

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

SOCIUM is an AI-powered drug discovery and development company focused on first-in-class small molecules.

SanBio

Kringle Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kringle Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company.

SanBio

NanoCarrier Co

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

NanoCarrier Co is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medical products by applying the micellar nanoparticle technology.

SanBio

Fimecs

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

FIMECS is a focused on developing first-in-class protein degradation therapeutics for cancers and other difficult-to-treat diseases.

SanBio

SymBio Pharmaceuticals

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

SymBio Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutic products for cancer, hematology, and autoimmune diseases.

SanBio

Alchemedicine

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Alchemedicine is a drug research and development company.

SanBio

Anaeropharma Science

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Anaeropharma is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in research and development.

SanBio

MabGenesis

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

MabGenesis is a biopharmaceutical company that provides therapeutic monoclonal antibody drugs in human and animal fields.

SanBio

KAICO

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.

SanBio

Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development is a research and development company of medical equipment.

SanBio

Veritas In Silico

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Veritas In Silico is a start-up to research and sales of pharmaceuticals.

SanBio

Curadim Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Curadim Pharma a pipeline-driven biotech company that discovers unutilized innovative drug seeds in Japan.

SanBio

GlyTech

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

GlyTech is a responsibility of the company to protect personal information in its business activities.

SanBio

TMS

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A Tokyo-based clinical-stage biotech company. Lead program TMS-007 (acute ischemic stroke) is partnered with Biogen.

SanBio

Kinopharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kinopharma is a development-type bio-venture established to commercialize kinase inhibitors mainly for clinical application.

SanBio

Toregem BioPharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia.

SanBio

AQUA Therapeutics

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

AQUA Therapeutics primarily engages in the development of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of fibrotic diseases.

SanBio

PRISM BioLab

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

PRISM develop therapeutic drugs that cure these intractable diseases using our unique peptide mimic technology.

SanBio

AlphaNavi Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

AlphaNavi Pharma specializes in the research and development of new drugs.

SanBio

LUCA Science

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.

SanBio

Oligogen

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Oligogen is a bio-venture that specializes in drug development using stem cell technology.

SanBio

Medrx

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Medrx is a pharmaceutical company.

SanBio

M-Box

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

M-Box Provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.

SanBio

PuREC

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

PuREC is a developer of a culture technology intended to bring efficacy to the treatment process.

SanBio

Cytlimic

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CYTLIMIC is a biotechnology company that develops immunotherapy products for the treatment of cancer, including a cancer peptide vaccine.

SanBio

Eisai

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Eisai is a human health care company that provides products and services to its patients and their families under any healthcare system.

SanBio

Kamui Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kamui Pharma, Inc. is a drug discovery startup from Asahikawa Medical University, focused on probiotic medicine.

SanBio

ClinCloud

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

ClinCloud is a company that develops medical supplies and offers software related to monitoring and reporting safety.

SanBio

Starsphere

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Starsphere vision is to deliver safer and more efficient treatments to those who need them faster.

SanBio

Chromocenter

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Chromocenter is a next generation biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing company.

SanBio

Rena Therapeutics

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Rena Therapeutics is a Creation of new nucleic acid drugs realized by third platform technology

SanBio

Immuno-Biological Laboratories

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Immuno-Biological Laboratories is developing, manufacturing and supplying various immunological research reagents, and customized services.

SanBio

Tupac Bio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Intuitively design your DNA, share your designs with collaborators, and perform and analyze your high-throughput screens.

SanBio

A-zas

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A-zas provides marketing and promotional services for pharmaceutical companies.

SanBio

CREO Bioscience

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.

SanBio

Order-made Medical Research

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Order -made Medical Research is a biotech company promoting technology development that revolutionize therapeutic antibodies.

SanBio

CLIPLA

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CLIPLA recognizes the importance of protecting personal information and the social nature of medical-related businesses.

SanBio

Evec

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Evec is a large-scale contract with major overseas pharmaceutical companies.

SanBio

Vasculead

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Vasculead is a pharmaceutical startup company.

SanBio

Evolve Biotherapeutics

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Evolve Biotherapeutics is a bio-venture company that specializes in development of seeds for cancer virotherapy drugs.

SanBio

Shionogi

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Shionogi supply the best possible medicine to protect the health and wellbeing of the patients they serve.

SanBio

MCBI

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Molecular and Clinical Bioinformatics is a Bioinformatics company.

SanBio

Kampo Shoyaku Institute

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kampo Pharmaceutical Research Institute is a traditional medicine originated in China.

SanBio

Herbal-i

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Herbal-i provides an online e-commerce platform for pharmaceutical products.

SanBio

AND Inc.

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

AND Inc. support cost reduction and efficiency improvement based on problems and improvements in hospital management.

SanBio

Kyowa Kirin

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kyowa Kirin is a pharmaceutical company contributing to human health and well-being of people around the world.

SanBio

Micron

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Micron is an imaging CRO company.

SanBio

Otsuka Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Otsuka Pharmaceutical is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures, sells, exports, and imports pharmaceuticals.

SanBio

Orphan Disease Treatment Institute

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Orphan Disease Treatment Institute develops a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

SanBio

Sumitomo Chemical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that produces and markets various types of chemicals.

SanBio

Japan Tobacco

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Japan Tobacco operates diverse businesses across the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and processed food sectors.

SanBio

Teijin

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Teijin is a chemical, pharmaceutical and information technology company.

SanBio

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is engaged in the research

SanBio

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma is a pharmaceutical company based in Japan.

SanBio

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma is pharmaceutical company.

SanBio

ONO Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

ONO Pharmaceutical is focused on the production, purchase, and sale of pharmaceuticals and diagnostic reagents.

SanBio

Nipro Corporation

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Nipro Corporation manufactures medical devices, pharmaceuticals and instrument products.

SanBio

Rohto Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Rohto Pharma is a multinational fast-moving consumer goods and OTC pharmaceutical corporation.

SanBio

Medipal Holdings

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Medipal Holdings is a holding company that engages in the sale of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and daily necessities.

SanBio

Toho Holdings

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Toho Holdings focuses on pharmaceutical wholesale business, dispensing pharmacy business, and pharmaceutical manufacturing business.

SanBio

JCR Pharmaceuticals

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

JCR Pharmaceuticals is a company primarily engaged in the pharmaceutical business, as well as the medical and research equipment business.

SanBio

Fuji Yakuhin

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Pharmaceutical Company

SanBio

Peptidream

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Peptidream is a biopharmaceutical company.

SanBio

Cosmo Bio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Cosmo Bio provides products and information to laboratories, research institutes, life-science education and testing organizations.

SanBio

Ohara Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.

SanBio

Shiseido Americas Corporation

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Shiseido Americas Corporation provides skincare and cosmetic products.

SanBio

Ube Industries

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Ube is group made up of some 140 companies that cover a diverse range of business activities, including many companies that are industries.

SanBio

Novartis Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Novartis Pharma is the Japanese subsidiary of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, a world-leading healthcare company based in Basel, Switzerland

SanBio

Meiji Seika Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Meiji Seika Pharma engages in the manufacturing and sales of ethical pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals and veterinary drugs.

SanBio

Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical is the largest generic drug manufacturer.

SanBio

Suzuken

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Suzuken is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures and markets ethical drugs.

SanBio

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL)

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL), was founded in Kagoshima as Japan’s first contract research organization in 1957.

SanBio

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical is a medical product company that offers a pain relief patch.

SanBio

KISCO

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

KISCO specializes in the sales of pharmaceutical products and semiconductor devices.

SanBio

Oncolys BioPharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Oncolys BioPharma develops breakthrough therapy and diagnostics in cancer treatment from early to late stage.

SanBio

BIC

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

BIC is a translation company specializing in bioscience and medicine.

SanBio

Kowa

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kowa is a research and development and manufacturer of OTC , ethical drugs, and medical equipment.

SanBio

RaQualia Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

RaQualia Pharma’s strengths in drug discovery, our business model, and our intellectual property strategy.

SanBio

Nissan Chemical Industries

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

A first chemical fertilizer manufacturer, by Meiji Period visionaries Jokichi Takamine, Eiichi Shibusawa and Takashi Masuda

SanBio

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

This company is provides a variety of products in fields such as pharmaceuticals, fragrances, dietary supplements and daily necessities.

SanBio

AETAS Pharma

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

AETAS Pharma is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in research and development and licensing.

SanBio

Summit Pharmaceuticals International

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

This company provides drug discovery research support, biotechnology technology tie-ups, and gene sales services.

SanBio

Gene Therapy Research Institution

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Gene therapy is defined as “the administration of a gene or cells with introduced genes into the human body to treat diseases

SanBio

Takeda Consumer Healthcare

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Takeda Consumer Healthcare researches, develops, manufactures, sells, and markets over-the-counter pharmaceutical products and quasi-drugs.

SanBio

Axcelead

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Axcelead is a market solution provider in the drug discovery space.

SanBio

Sawai

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Sawai is the japanese generic pharmaceuticals manufacturer.

SanBio

CBC Group

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CBC Group imports and exports synthetic resins, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, electronics components, and optical equipments.

SanBio

CareNet

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

CareNet is a marketing company providing various solutions to pharma companies through the management of media.

SanBio

Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center is a drug information database construction company.

SanBio

Kaken Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kaken Pharmaceutical is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes novel pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

SanBio

API

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

API specializes in the manufacture and sales of health foods and pharmaceuticals products.

SanBio

Fujirebio

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Fujirebio provides clinical test drugs for infectious diseases, tumors, and lifestyle-related diseases.

SanBio

Seikagaku

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Seikagaku is a pharmaceutical products company.

SanBio

Gankill Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Gankill Pharma Co., Ltd. is conducting research on cancer treatment drugs using PSMD10.

SanBio

Kyoritsu Seiyaku

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Kyoritsu Seiyaku is a pharmaceutical company that handles veterinary medicines and vaccines for companion animals such as dogs and cats.

SanBio

xFOREST Therapeutics

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

xFOREST Therapeutics develops a drug discovery platform that targets RNA structures.

SanBio

Aska Pharmaceutical

Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Aska Pharmaceutical produces, wholesales, imports, and exports medical equipment and medical drugs for human and veterinary use.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

GIPHY App Key not set. Please check settings

FREE: PROMOTE YOUR ASIAN STARTUP

Asian Startup Founders: We want to interview you.

If you are a founder, we want to interview you. Getting interviewed is a simple (and free) process.
PROMOTE MY STARTUP 
close-link

Don't Miss

101 Top Tokyo Manufacturing Companies and Startups

This article showcases our top picks for the best Tokyo

59 Top Russian Music Companies and Startups

This article showcases our top picks for the best Russian