o2h Kickstarter: Japan

A competitive award to turbocharge Japanese biotech start-up with a chemistry boost!

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Key highlights

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Editions across the globe

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Awards provided so far

$6.3M+

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About the o2h Kickstarter Award

The o2h Kickstarter Award has been designed to provide a chemistry boost to small molecule focused biotechnology companies in Japan, who have raised some initial funding and are in need to supercharge their chemistry efforts to meet their next funding milestone. Winners of this competition will receive a dedicated team of chemists and end-to-end project management support to generate chemical matter of their interest to meet their project milestones.

Over the past 20 years, o2h Discovery has established collaborations with numerous early-stage biotech companies based in Japan. We believe that Japanese Biotech startups are at the forefront of innovation, revolutionising healthcare. Fueled by visionary minds, these startups are dedicated to improving human health through innovative therapies. Recognizing the potential of these Japanese biotech startups and ecosystem, o2h Discovery has launched the latest edition of its Kickstarter Award, specifically to support small-molecule biotech start-ups in Japan.

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Benefits

team

Team

A dedicated team of six FTE synthetic chemists of which two are experienced and four are trainees

cost and duration

Cost & duration

Six synthetic chemists at a fraction of the usual price for up to six months

support

Additional Support

Receive 100 complimentary ADME points and save 20% on Biology FTE

inventory

Inventory

Access to a large inventory of chemicals and reagents for synthesis

Eligibility

The competition is for seed and/or pre-seed stage small molecule focused biotech companies based in Japan who have secured initial funding from recognized grant bodies or venture/angel investors, have exciting drug targets and ability to scale.

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Empowering early-stage biotech

We launched our first “o2h Kickstarter competition” back in August 2022 exclusively for early-stage biotech to support them boost their drug discovery research. Listen to this exclusive o2h ChaiTime episode where we discuss with some of the previous winners to understand how this competition supported their research and development efforts.

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Some winners of the previous global editions

Alevin Therapeutics

Alevin Therapeutics

Developing a platform of novel small molecule RGD integrin inhibitors with superior drug-like qualities

Sevenless Therapeutics

Sevenless Therapeutics

Developing technique to uncover a novel chronic pain signaling target

Origami Therapeutics

Origami Therapeutics

Developing next-generation disease-modifying protein degraders and correctors

Five Alarm Bio

Five Alarm Bio

Seeking to develop drugs to slow down the ageing process

Kuano

Kuano

De-risking and accelerating drug discovery by combining quantum and AI

Psylo

Psylo

Next-generation neuroscience for transformative treatments

Gertrude Biomedical

Gertrude Biomedical

Creating innovative and transformational oncology therapeutics, accelerating progress towards a brighter future for sufferers of untreatable cancers.

Monash University

Monash University

Monash is a research-intensive university, known for some significant and lasting discoveries that have delivered impact beyond the academic community.

Evaluation

The applications will be evaluated by the o2h Kickstarter committee, and winners will be announced shortly. This is a time-bound competition. If supportive of the global biotech ecosystem, we will run this competition again.

Evaluation committee

Sunil shah

Sunil shah

Business Analysis

CEO, o2h Ventures and Co-founder, o2h Group
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Gayathri Sadasivam

Gayathri Sadasivam

Scientific Analysis, Biology

VP, Head of Biology, o2h Discovery
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Andy Morley

Andy Morley

Scientific Analysis, Drug Discovery

Chief Science Officer, o2h Group
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Hemal Soni

Hemal Soni

Head of Chemistry

Head of Chemistry, o2h Discovery
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