§ ABOUT UNOBIO/EST 2024

Some medicines never reach patients because the right partner was never found.

We exist to close that gap, finding promising assets that have stalled for reasons that have nothing to do with the science and giving them a path forward.

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Story

We believe there are successful medications that never make it to market, not because they failed, but because the right partner was never found.

We see it across the board: in academia, in biotech, and inside large pharma portfolios. Programs with real data and real signal reach a point where the next step depends on timing, capital, or geography rather than the science itself. It is a common situation, and one the industry has never had a good answer for.

Unobio was built to be that missing counterparty. We license promising assets and build them into focused US companies, pairing each program with dedicated operators, capital, and a development plan aimed squarely at the next inflection point.

What we believe.

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The asset is rarely the problem.

When a promising program pauses, it is usually for reasons outside the science: portfolio priorities, financing windows, geography, timing. That is a matching problem, and matching problems are solvable.

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Licensing should start with the data.

We begin with what the asset has actually shown, not with a term sheet. Understanding the evidence first is what makes it possible to move quickly, and to walk away early when the fit isn’t there.

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A NewCo is a vehicle, not a milestone.

Standing up a US entity is a means of giving an asset a dedicated team, a clean capital structure, and access to US capital markets. It matters only insofar as it gets the medicine closer to patients.

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Aligned incentives, or no deal.

Originators keep meaningful exposure to the upside they created. Structures are built so that everyone at the table wins on the same outcome: the program advancing.

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Approach

Our work takes two forms, and they usually run together. We in-license clinical- and late-preclinical-stage assets from universities, biotechs, and pharma partners looking for the right home for a program. And where an asset warrants its own dedicated vehicle, we form a US company around it.

A US NewCo gives a program a set of advantages that are hard to assemble otherwise: a management team whose only mandate is that asset, a clean cap table, proximity to the FDA, and access to the deepest pool of life-sciences capital in the world. Originators stay in through equity, milestones, royalties, or some combination, so the people who created the science share in what it becomes.

Every situation is different, and we don’t pretend otherwise. Structures get built around the asset and the people behind it, not the reverse. What stays constant is the intent: get good science out of the drawer and back on a path toward patients.

§ 03 / Our Investors

Our Investors.

Unobio is backed by a small group of long-horizon technology investors who underwrite multi-decade biology rather than quarterly returns.

Our lead is Focal, with Aglaé Ventures participating across stages.