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Healthcare & Bio AI startups in the UK

AI startups advancing medicine and the life sciences: drug discovery, biotech, diagnostics, chemistry and care. The UK's world-class universities, the NHS and hubs like Cambridge and Oxford make it a leader in AI for health.

20
Companies
90
UK & remote roles open
09Research AI

Motives

Team of AI agents running qualitative consumer research, moderating and analysing video interviews for brands (YC S25).

LondonSeed
Careers →motives.ai ↗
10Healthcare AI

Flok Health

Flok Health operates an AI physiotherapy clinic that autonomously assesses, treats and discharges patients and is deployed across NHS regions.

CambridgeSeries A
Careers →flok.health ↗
11Healthcare AI

01Health

01Health provides a technology platform that combines AI tooling, clinical protocols and remote specialist oversight so local clinics can deliver specialist treatments like orthodontics and dental sleep medicine.

LondonSeries A
2 UK roles →01health.ai ↗
13Healthcare AI

Penelope Health

London company selling into US healthcare: a knowledge graph turning insurers' medical coverage policies into programmable data, 500,000+ procedure codes deep and updated daily, so a coverage check can happen at the point of care. $100m commitment led by Thoreau.

LondonGrowth
Careers →penelope.health ↗
14Medical AI

Brainomix

Oxford spin-out whose e-Stroke imaging software reads brain scans to flag biomarkers and guide treatment decisions in the minutes that matter; now extending the approach beyond stroke to lung fibrosis. £18.8m Series C.

OxfordSeries C
Careers →brainomix.com ↗
15AI Chemistry

Chemify

Lee Cronin's Glasgow spin-out digitising chemistry itself: a 'chemputer' that takes a molecule's code and robotically synthesises it, with AI choosing the route. Its Chemifarm facility holds what it calls the largest curated library of validated reactions. $50m+ Series B.

GlasgowSeries B
Careers →chemify.io ↗
16Healthcare AI

Accurx

The messaging layer NHS primary care actually runs on, with 350,000+ users, now adding Scribe to transcribe and code consultations straight into EMIS and SystmOne. A communications platform adding AI rather than an AI-native company.

LondonSeries B
12 UK roles →accurx.com ↗
17AI Biotech

Sensible Biotechnologies

Makes mRNA inside living cells rather than in a test tube, with an NVIDIA-built computational engine designing and optimising the sequences — cutting optimisation time by over 90%. Partnered with Sartorius and Ginkgo Bioworks; Oxford and Bratislava.

OxfordSeries A
Careers →sensible.bio ↗
18Healthcare AI

Frontier Health

JUNO, an AI agent built for NHS administrators rather than clinicians: chasing test results, rebooking missed appointments and spotting patients stuck in a pathway before a target slips. Founded by Palantir's former healthcare lead across 40 NHS hospitals; $16m seed led by Atomico.

LondonSeed
2 UK roles →frontierhealth.ai ↗
19Medical AI

Qureight

Deep-learning analysis of chest CT and other scans for drug trials in lung fibrosis and other lung and heart diseases, now building a 3D chest-imaging foundation model to cut the data needed for each new disease model. Runs trials for AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb. $20m Series B led by Molten Ventures.

CambridgeSeries B
10 UK roles →qureight.com ↗
20Healthcare AI

Tandem Health

Stockholm-founded AI medical assistant that listens to consultations and writes the clinical notes and coding, with decision support; used by 10,000+ care organisations across 14 European markets; now building triage, scheduling and patient messaging into a clinic operating system. London office on Portland Place. $100m Series B led by EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund.

MaryleboneSeries B
14 UK roles →tandemhealth.ai ↗
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