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 
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INOVOTION France

INOVOTION is a biotech company which offers you a unique in vivo technology dedicated to oncology and immuno-oncology efficacy studies and early toxicity evaluations.
Our Fast, Sensitive, Reliable and Affordable assay will save you time and money, to give you a clear competitive advantage.
This breaking-thought technology, based on chick embryo, provides early analysis of your anti-cancer treatments before the classical preclinical stages. By eliminating low-value molecules early, INOVOTION accelerates your drug discovery process, increases your R&D productivity and reduces its costs.
It’s rapid Go/No Go decision with multi-cancer screening capacities.
This next generation of in vivo efficacy and toxicity tests covers fours main aspects:
- EFFICACY assays for your treatments in oncology and immuno-oncology
- EARLY TOXICITY assays for your drug candidates
- TARGET VALIDATION in oncology
- MULTI-CANCER SCREENING to (re)positioning your treatment
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2015
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
At this step, We want to understand the Chinese Market and we are looking for our first Chinese Customers and/or Partners
Philippe Fornies
Head of Business Development 
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 
Functionality

Israel Foreign Trade Administration China

to promote the business cooperation between Israel and Southwest China
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Please specify your partnering goal
looking for Chinese companies and investors have an interest in IL technologies
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Asset Stage
Medtech Development Stage
Kathy Tong
Trade Director 

iX Biopharma Ltd Singapore

iX Biopharma is established in 2008, and listed on Singapore Stock Exchange (Catalist Board) in 2015. iX is a specialist in novel wafer formulations using patented sublingual delivery technology, WaferiXTM , which is patented in China to 2033. R&D and manufacturing at wholly-owned GMP licensed facility in Melbourne, Australia.
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
2008
Stock Market and Ticker/Symbol/Number
42C
Looking for
Funding Status
SGX-listed
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
1. Seeking a development & commercialization partner for the US, EU, China, Japan, and other key territories. 2. Open to collaborations on WaferiX sublingual drug delivery technology.
Ms Yuhuan Wang
Senior BD Manager 
Functionality

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

Kitov Pharma Israel

Kitov Pharma (NASDAQ:KTOV) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical
company advancing first in class oncology therapies. We currently have one FDA
approved drug, Consensi™, and two oncology therapeutic candidates, CM-24 and NT-219:

• CM-24 is a clinical stage mAb targeting CEACAM1, a novel immune checkpoint inhibitor with high potential to treat multiple oncology indications. CEACAM1 is associated with angiogenesis, is an
inter-cellular adhesion regulator and acts as a TIM-3 activator. High CEACAM1 expression is known to be associated with poor disease prognosis in a number of tumor types. Thus, blocking CEACAM1 with CM24 is associated with anti-angiogenic, immune access, and checkpoint release mechanisms. In a phase I
clinical study, CM-24 demonstrated a good safety profile and promising efficacy signals. We are developing CM-24 in a clinical collaboration with Bristol
Myers-Squibb for Phase 1/2 trial combining CM-24 with nivolumab in NSCLC and pancreatic cancer patients expressing high CEACAM1 levels.

• NT-219 is a first-in-class, dual inhibitor small molecule targeting IRS 1/2 and STAT3, two key signal transducers that promote cancer drug resistance. In preclinical studies, NT-219 demonstrated outstanding
efficacy in preventing acquired resistance and reversing tumor resistance when administered as a monotherapy and in combination with various oncology therapies. We are initiating first-in-man clinical trials with NT219, both as monotherapy and in combination with cetuximab (Erbitux™), with plans to expand combination studies in patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN cancer during 2020.
Year of foundation
2011
Looking for
Please specify your partnering goal
We are looking for in licensing opportunities in the Oncology drug development field
Headquartner in China
Biotech/Pharma Category
Yael Lahat
Associate Director Business Development 
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

L.E.K. China

L.E.K. Consulting is a global management consulting firm that uses deep industry expertise and rigorous analysis to help business leaders achieve practical results with real impact. We are uncompromising in our approach to helping clients consistently make better decisions, deliver improved business performance and create greater shareholder returns. The firm advises and supports global companies that are leaders in their industries — including the largest private and public sector organizations, private equity firms, and emerging entrepreneurial businesses. Founded in 1983, L.E.K. employs more than 1,600 professionals across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. For more information, visit www.lek.com
Website:
www.lek.com
Company Size (Fulltime employees)
Year of foundation
1983
Funding Status
n/a
Headquartner in China
Plan in China
Established 20+ years in mainland China, serving MNC and China-originated firms with growth strategy services.
Stephen Sunderland
Partner 
Functionality