Biotech / PharmaDelaware

AstraZeneca

Biotech / Pharma · Wilmington, DE

Global pharma (US base Wilmington DE); Puerto Rico (U.S.) manufacturing in Guayama.

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Delaware

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About Delaware

Delaware's real corporate landscape here starts with a single serious anchor: AstraZeneca's Wilmington operation, sitting on ground with a much longer pharmaceutical and chemical research history than headline notices show. A few miles away sits the DuPont Experimental Station, opened in 1903 and the actual birthplace of nylon, Teflon, and Kevlar -- one of the most consequential private industrial labs in American history, though it operates today as a research site rather than a standalone company. Delaware's reputation as a corporate-law and holding-company hub (most US public companies are incorporated here) doesn't translate into a large count of companies that actually operate and employ people in-state -- what's documented here reflects that gap honestly rather than papering over it with holding-company registrations.

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Region Stats

Total firms 22

VC / investors 12

Companies 8

Schools 2

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Corporate Law

Chemicals

Pharma