ALLOX 完成 1050 万美元种子轮融资，扩展药物发现平台
ALLOX closes $10.5M seed financing to scale drug discovery platform
生物技术公司 ALLOX 完成 1050 万美元种子轮融资，由 Asabys 通过 Sabadell Asabys II 基金领投，CDTI 旗下 SICC Innvierte 和加泰罗尼亚金融学院（ICF）参投。ALLOX 的平台结合高通量遗传学、实验生物学与 AI，并行测量数千个基因突变的影响，以识别变构、正构等调控位点及潜在结合口袋，用于开发小分子药物。资金将用于扩展平台能力、开发预测治疗机会的专有 AI 模型，并推进多个研究项目走向自有小分子候选药物管线。
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Biotechnology company ALLOX has raised $10.5 million in a seed funding round to expand its drug discovery platform and advance its internal development programmes. The round was led by Asabys through its Sabadell Asabys II fund, with participation from CDTI through SICC Innvierte and the Institut Català de Finances (ICF).
ALLOX is developing a drug discovery platform that combines high-throughput genetics, experimental biology and artificial intelligence to identify previously unexplored opportunities for developing small-molecule therapeutics.
Drug discovery remains challenging for certain biological targets, particularly protein-protein interactions and transcription factors, which have historically been difficult to address with conventional approaches. ALLOX aims to overcome these limitations by identifying regulatory regions within proteins that could serve as potential targets for new treatments.
The company's platform measures the effects of thousands of genetic mutations in parallel to map regions that influence protein folding and interactions. This approach enables the identification of allosteric, orthosteric and other regulatory sites, including potential binding pockets that could be used to develop targeted small-molecule drugs.
Júlia Domingo, CEO and co-founder of ALLOX, said:
By combining large-scale functional data with predictive AI, we aim to unlock a much broader range of challenging drug targets and accelerate the discovery of truly differentiated small-molecule therapeutics.
Alongside the funding announcement, ALLOX has appointed Morten Graugaard as Independent Chair of its Board of Directors. He brings more than two decades of experience in life sciences investment, R&D and business development, having previously held senior positions at Orbis Medicines, Novo Holdings and Lundbeck.
Commenting on his appointment, Graugaard highlighted ALLOX's approach to drug discovery, which combines experimental biology and computational methods to identify therapeutic opportunities that have traditionally been difficult to address:
Importantly, ALLOX fills a critical data gap, enabling the development of functional molecules rather than simply identifying binders.
The new funding will support the expansion of the platform's capabilities and the development of proprietary AI models designed to predict therapeutic opportunities from large-scale biophysical datasets.
ALLOX also plans to strengthen its internal drug discovery team, advance multiple research programmes towards a pipeline of proprietary small-molecule drug candidates and establish research collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners.