About

It is our mission to build businesses that are original and world changing. We partner with biotech entrepreneurs, providing investment capital and know-how to venture build the companies of the future.

We're an entrepreneurial partnership to build sustainable biotech companies, stimulate economic growth and provide investment returns.

Why OneBio

We are inspired by the perfection of nature, the arrangements of leaves on a stem, the geometry of a snowflake, the uncurling of a fern. The beauty, intelligence and symmetry of biology follow precise mathematical laws.

Underlying nature is a simple code written in the letters A, C, G and T. This code can be further reduced to a computation language of zeros and ones. At its root biology is numbers, biology is code. Its building blocks can be written and read in these zeroes and ones.

Silicon Valley luminary, Peter Thiel believes that copying others takes the world from 1 to n, adding something more of something familiar. But when you do something new, something that shifts the paradigm, you go from zero to one.

It is our mission at ONEBIO to build companies that are original, that are world changing, that push the boundaries of the possible by merging the immense power of biology and technology to solve large global problems.

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