Intelligent Investment
Berlin Market
Global Life Sciences Atlas
April 11, 2025 5 Minute Read
Overview
- Known for its strong start-up culture, Berlin has developed into a key life sciences location.
- Industry companies have established life sciences parks serving as incubators and catalysts in Berlin in recent years. However, Berlin’s life sciences sector also encompasses the entire city beyond these parks.
- Berlin has a strong scientific culture of universities (TU Berlin, University of Potsdam, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and affiliated institutions. Between 2010–2021, the number of publications in the top 1% of their field (biomedicine, health, geosciences and life sciences) increased by 125%, surpassing U.S. and U.K. growth rates during the same period.
- The region sustains a strong cluster in biotech, pharmaceuticals and medical technology due to its robust research, hospital infrastructure and business-friendly policies.
- In 2023 and 2024, Berlin secured 10% of Germany’s life sciences venture capital funding, a drop from an 18% share between 2020-2022, but still higher than the meager 2% share in 2019.
Submarkets
Life Sciences Venture Capital Investment Trends
Figure 1: Life Sciences Venture Capital Funding
Life Sciences Market Stats
Figure 2: Inventory Lab/R&D
Development Pipeline or Activity
Figure 3: Life Sciences Speculative Development Pipeline
Figure 4: Speculative Lab/R&D Deliveries
- AB Diagnostic
- BASF
- Bayer
- Bioline GmbH
- Biotx.ai GmbH
- Crystal Photonics
- Deutsche Biotech Innovativ
- Eternygen
- Freal GmbH
- Hybrotec GmbH
- INVICOL
- M.I.S.S. Medizintechnik
- Takeda Pharma
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Fraunhofer Institutes
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Max Delbrück Center (MDC)
- Max Planck Institutes
- Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
- Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
- University of Potsdam
- Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Global Life Science Markets
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The Leiden Bio Science Park is the Netherlands’ main life sciences cluster due to the strong pharma and healthcare presence and close proximity to Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport.
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London has all the elements of a strong global life sciences hub, with three of the world's leading universities for biomedical sciences—UCL, King’s College and Imperial College—located within the city.
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Paris is at the epicenter of the French life sciences cluster, benefitting from an influx of government and private funding to support healthcare initiatives.