GlycoSeLect Ltd Ireland

Our company develops and manufactures technology and applications for glycoprotein separation and analysis. We are focussed on the biopharmaceutical industry. We also have customers in medical diagnostic and cosmetic companies.
Our facility is based on the campus of Dublin City University in Ireland.
We have developed an extensive network of contacts not only customers but also opinion leaders in glybiology.

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GlycoSeLect Ltd
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2013
Please specify your partnering goal
Joint venture to develop downstream processing applications
Funding Status
Series A
Now raising (In USD)
900,000
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Seek local partner to establish glycobiology specialist company supplying better glycoprotein product analysis and manufacturing technology with support for application development.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
RPL lectins for glycoprotein product analysis & manufacturing applications|Glycan specific proteins for use in detecting and separating glycoproteins|Product analysis and manufacturing, especially vaccines and mAbs.|Worldwide available
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
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Robert Dunne
CEO 
Functionality

Golden State Green World United States

Golden State Green World LLC, is a CBG Hemp Cultivator, located in Riverside County, California. Our team has ten years of extensive greenhouse design and a diverse growing experience. We apply our grow methodologies and eco-agricultural knowledge to supply the global market with high quality, contaminant-free, organic CBG enriched hemp products. Our vision is to become a global distributor of organic CBG infused products that will provided medical and therapeutically benefits to the end user.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2014
Stock Market and Ticker/Symbol/Number
MGWFF
Please specify your partnering goal
END PRODUCT TO CHINA
Funding Status
1ST TRANCHE
Now raising (In USD)
1 MILLION
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Strategic development into extracting and manufacturing CBG isolate and oil medical, health supplement and cosmetics with our own brand name to China and Asia market
Biotech/Pharma Category
TED FUNG
International Sales Manager 
Functionality

HebeCell Corporation United States

HebeCell was founded in 2016 by industry leading inventors in developing the manufacturing platform of hematopoietic cells from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Their first-in-class proprietary 3D manufacturing platform for human iPS-NK cells is feeder-free, designed specifically for single-use-bioreactor at industrial scale. HebeCell’s platform will accelerate the application of PSCs as a viable source of immune cells in the next generation of immune cell therapies for immune-Oncology, autoimmune and infectious diseases.

Dr. John Lu is the President and CEO of HebeCell. Before establishing HebeCell, John was the Senior Director of Research at Advanced Cell Technology/Ocata Therapeutics, which in 2016 was acquired by Astellas, the second-largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. John is an expert in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine with 20 years of experience in the field.

Dr. Allen Feng is the Chief Scientific Officer of the HebeCell Corp. Prior to establishing HebeCell, he was the Director of Cell Biology of Semma Therapeutics, which was acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2019. Prior to Semma, Allen worked as R&D Head of Stem Cell Bioprocessing Group at EMD Millipore, and also served as Director and Senior Scientist at Advanced Cell Technology /Ocata Therapeutics.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
Looking for Big Biotech/Biopharm to form strategic partnership, co-develop our proprietary PSC-CAR-NK platform and move into clinics
Funding Status
Series A
Now raising (In USD)
30 to 50 million USA
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Joint Venture
Biotech/Pharma Category
John Lu
President and CEO 
Functionality

Incuron, Inc. United States

Incuron is a private clinical-stage company that develops a novel class of synthetic small molecules, Curaxins, with a unique multi-targeted mechanism of antitumor activity. These chromatin damaging agents interfere with histone/DNA binding causing decondensation of chromatin in tumor cells, functional inactivation of histone chaperone FACT, and simultaneous effect on a set of universal previously undruggable targets, leading to inhibition of pro-cancer transcriptional factors, MYC, NF-kB, HIF1a, and HSF-1, and activation of the tumor suppressor p53, as well as induction of type I interferon response.
Key advantages of curaxins based on current preclinical and early clinical data include:
- novel mechanism of action that would bring the additional treatment option for advanced and relapsed tumors, as well as potential to overcome resistance to previous treatments;
- favorable pharmacology and manageable safety profiles;
- low potential for serious drug-drug interactions providing opportunities for combinatorial therapeutic regimens;
- broad activity in different tumor types that may open wider market opportunities;
- focused phase 2 clinical study program can establish faster clinical proof of concept and build toward accelerated regulatory approval.
Incuron owns a worldwide patent portfolio, including the composition of matter and therapeutic uses of the compounds.
Website:
incuron.com
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Incuron is currently seeking investors and partners for co-development to execute Phase 2 clinical program or out-licensing opportunities.
Kristina Zakurdaeva
CEO 
Functionality

iNNOGING Medical Israel

iNNOGING Medical - Remote and offline ultrasound image analysis solution

Ultrasound is a real-time examination and very much operator dependent.
Majority of ultrasound scans are done by technicians and afterwards diagnosed off-line by the expert without the presence of the patient. A major drawback is that the radiologist who determines the diagnoses is not the person who performs the ultrasound scan; hence this workflow might lead to errors and worse to misdiagnoses.
iNNOGING is developing a technology that will provide the radiologists a remote and off-line tool to inspect areas of interest, based on recorded ultrasound scans. Allowing navigation like in real time as if the patient is there with the doctor, while all possible information (any plane) of an organ is visible, even information that was not presented in the original scan.

In addition to the above, we have recently launched an affordable SaaS based Ultrasound Simulator.
Website:
www.innoging.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2018
Looking for
Funding Status
Seed round done, going to A-Round now
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We would like to do one of our first clinical trials in China. to aqcuire a CFDA. The Chinese market is growing tremendously and we think it should be the main target for us.
Yehiel Polatov
Co-Founder EVP Business Development 
Functionality

Inorbit Therapeutics ab Sweden

InorbitTX is a virtual drug discovery and development company focussed on the treatment of fatty liver diseases NAFLD / NASH. Its lead project, the FXR agonist IOT022 is currently in late pre-clinical testing. IOT022 differentiates very well from competitor compounds, as it mitigates the risk for pruritus and for drug induced liver injury, seen with competitors. It gives IOT022 an excellent best-in-class opportunity. We look for funding to complete for IND and for Phase I. We also look for partnering for the Chinese / Asian market.

Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2015
Please specify your partnering goal
We look for investors and / or alliance partners for the global or greater Chinese / Asian market
Funding Status
We are currently funded by government and private investors
Now raising (In USD)
1.8 M (50% complete) for pre-clinical, followed by a round of 7 - 9 M to fund Phase I
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We are looking for an alliance partner / out licensing to develop IOT022, a well differentiating FXR agonist for NAFLD / NASH, for the Chinese / Asian market.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
IOT022|small molecule|NAFLD / NASH|late pre-clinical|
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
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Bert Benthem
CEO 
Functionality

InvivoSciences Inc. United States

InvivoSciences, Inc. (IVS) is a preclinical stage biotech company with a team of drug development experts, including Dr. Joseph Schlessinger, who developed various therapies including, a blockbuster drug - Sutent.
With an increasingly aging population with chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart failure is an urgent and critical challenge without an effective solution. There have been no successful phase III trials in worsening chronic heart failure or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Large clinical trials required for the heart failure trials have been the bottleneck. There is clear evidence showing that genetic factors drive heart failure development. Our mission is to cure heart failure one gene at a time.
We have leveraged our advanced artificial intelligence integrated breakthrough in precision medicine discovery platform using patient-derived human micro heart on a chip, NuHeart™, to identify and validate multiple drug pipelines rapidly as well as help us to determine biomarkers and stratify the patients for a clinical trial recruitments. Our precision heart failure pipelines are at least ten times more cost-effective to develop, especially during their clinical stages. Using our platform, we have developed two pipelines of small-molecule candidates for difficult to treat, genetically defined heart failure conditions. Our Pipelines of precision medicines have the potential to deliver better outcomes for patients fighting hard to treat heritable heart disease.
Collaborative patient-driven precision medicine-based drug development empowered with our novel platform will lead to meaningfully better outcomes for heart failure patients, which we refer to as InvivoSciences’ discovery engine to develop target therapies. Our lead program includes candidates in preclinical development for monogenetic heart failures. To date, IVS raised $8.5 Million non-dilutive funding from founders, board, commercial contracts, and grants. The funds have been used to create a portfolio of assets (breakthrough discovery platform, NuHeart™, three genetically defined disease models, current discovery programs, and a strong portfolio of patents including both US and international.
To join and support our drug discovery programs forward, InvivoSciences is seeking world-class life science investors and strategic partners for our Series A round for growth capital for $10 M in two trunches for commercial growth and accelerating our drug program.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2001
Please specify your partnering goal
co-development
Funding Status
Series A open
Now raising (In USD)
5 million crunch of 10
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
partner with global pharma
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
NU HEARTTM|ai integrated 3D human tissue pautomated platform and disease models|cardiac, cardio oncology, rare diseases, heart failure, biomarkers, patient stratification tool, and or diagnostic tool|in use|usa
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Ayla Annac
CEO 
Functionality

Iono Pharma LLC United States

We are a pharmaceutical startup in Memphis, Tennessee. Our focus is on pediatric drug delivery designs as we transform FDA approved therapeutic compounds into pediatric friendly drug delivery systems. We have designed several Epinephrine prodrugs to eliminate the need to use Epipen injections. We seek seed funding for organic synthesis, formulation development and CMC drug development.
Funding Status
Seed funding
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
We filed a patent in china (still pending). We are looking for investors to develop our drug delivery in China.
Biotech/Pharma Category
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
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Dr Hassan Almoazen
Dr Hassan Almoazen
Founder and CEO 
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Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics Inc. (JOT) United States

JOT is a virtual company with its base operation in Jupiter, FL. JOT is in position to quickly come to market with a platform product effective to treat 12 or more indications including Alzheimer’s Disease. The proprietary patented product, JOTROL, is very safe, oral, naturally based and multi-functional. JOTROL will be very effective with high social and economic impact within a reasonable timeframe. Relationships have been developed with scientists at various institutions, such as University of Miami (“UM”), MIT, Harvard, Georgetown University and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, AU. This setup has made it possible to gain access to laboratory work, scientific information, pre-clinical development and scientific expertise in an extremely cost effective and efficient way. JOT will conclude clinical trials by utilizing a contract manufacturer and Clinical Research Organizations, involvement by its scientific advisors as well as support from patient organizations thereby keeping its fixed overhead extremely low for a Biotech company. A Phase I trial is presently ongoing with results expected in Q1,2021. Two Phase II rare disease trials, are expected to be started in H2 of 2021 with possible accelerated approvals from FDA. Partial financing for those are expected to be received from NIH. A Phase II trial in Alzheimer’s is also planned to be executed in parallel. Financing for the Phase I study has been granted by NIA (National Institute of Aging). Financing for a larger Phase II study is also expected to be financed by a NIA consortium (up to $75 million). JOT is prepared to add a commercial organization to market its product in North America while out-licensing marketing and sales operations for the rest of the world.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
Out-license our platform product to a reputable Chinese partner.
Funding Status
Series A
Now raising (In USD)
$15 Million
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Out-license our JOTROL platform product applicable to 12 or more indications.
Assets Information 1: Name|Description|Indications|Stage|IP countries
JOTROL|Patented First and Only resveratrol product that can be disease modifying without side effects.|MPS-1, MELAS, Friedreich's ataxia and other ataxias, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease|Phase I completed mid-March|N/A
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Christer Rosen
Chairman & CEO 
Functionality

Kymeris Therapeutics Inc. Canada

Kymeris Therapeutics (Canada) has exlusive license to a ground-breaking cell-based immunotherapeutic product for clinical development in cancer. This multivalent anti-cancer platform integrates multiple mechanisms in one modifiable platform. The product is tumor-homing, disables the local tumor defenses and expresses encoded biodrugs in the cancer - but not systemically.

*  We are seeking partners with small molecule or antibody (or any encodable peptide or protein) that would have an enabling platform compared to intravenous or intratumoral formulations.

*  We are also seeking strategic investors in the platform that has extremely high potential in future products, adaptable against almost any solid cancer.

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The platform can enable, or enhance, additional small molecule, antibody, peptide or cytokine agents.  It is a preclinical late-stage firm that has discovered and developed a First-in-Class immunotherapeutic platform based on non-pathogenic eukaryotes (nucleated cells, non-viral, non-bacterial). Our platform is original with the first scientific paper just published in November 2020 by the Journal of Immunotherapy of Cancer (BMJ), and our first scientific presentation at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the SITC where we presented recent report on a derivative that secreted human IL-15 within tumor, but devoid of serum detection of the cytokine.

The platform would be a paradigm shift from "reductive" (targeted, mono-mechanism) approaches, and can be encoded with additional molecular therapies to more comprehensively face the complex of solid cancer defenses. Encoding any biological agent (small molecule, antibody, antigen, cytokine...), could enable that agent for a wider scope of applications,  enhanced effect and much safer profile.  In addition, the platform shows abscopal effect, an ability to reach tumors after administration from a distance (subcutaneous or mucosal).

The platform has shown the following characteristics:

1. Tumor-tropism / Cancer-agnostic. Homing to tumor occurred in the absence of a cancer antigen marker (TAA or TSA), and may even work in tumors that are not easily "targetable", such as "cold", lacking cancer markers, heterogeneic or mutating tumors. One oncologist remarked, "This turns "cold" tumors "hot" ".The agents have had effect at distance from tumor site when administered subcutaneously or mucosally. 

 2. Tumor-infiltration + TME counteraction. The agents bear a specialized "universal key" to gain entry into mammalian cell in an active process; no specific  receptor needed. In addition, the agents are able to reprogram tolerogenic cells into a state of immune competence i.e. to overcome cancer-induced immune suppression within the tumor.

3. Intra-cancer delivery of any payload/s. Obligate intracellular microbes, the agents infect cancer cells and replicate, expressing encoded biodrugs. The replication continues as long as there is cancer tissue to infect and/or the TME has not been disabled.  Any agents outside of the TME were naturally cleared in under 10 days.

Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2016
Please specify your partnering goal
1. Out-licensing/codevelopment to partner, by indication, for China market, 2) Strategic investor
Funding Status
firm is privately held & controlled 99% by founders : approx 7.5 million in $ US equivalent value has been spent
Now raising (In USD)
between $ 5 million - $25 million
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Interested in understanding partnership opportunities for the China market with compatible biotech/pharma companies. Also interested in participation of Chinese VC in our ongoing overall funding needs.
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Investment Focus
Seeking funding to move from pre clinical stage to Phase 1/2 clinical trial
Richard McCrae
President & CEO 
Functionality