OneBio Venture Studio
onebioventures.africa Direct investor
OneBio Venture Studio is a venture capital firm and venture studio that co-builds and invests in biotech companies in Africa, providing capital, lab infrastructure and hands-on support. It invests at pre-seed and seed stages in ventures addressing human, animal and planetary health.
OneBio Venture Studio is a venture studio headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in biotech, human health, animal health and planetary health.
“We invest in pioneering biotech startups advancing human, animal, and planetary health.”
— OneBio Venture Studio, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- biotech, human health, animal health, planetary health, diagnostics, therapeutics, food
- Founded
- 2018
Team, as OneBio Venture Studio publishes it
- Dr. Nick Walker Director
- Gian-marco Melfi Director
- Khumo Mokone Investment Prinicpal
- Anwani Siwada Junior Associate
- Charné Meaker Entrepreneur in Residence
- Francisco Pera Entrepreneur in Residence
- Richard Grieves Entrepreneur in Residence
- Dr. Boitumelo Smete Investment Committee
- Dr. Kate Turner-Smith Investment Committee
- Dr. Benedikt Luhmann Investment Committee
- Kim Hulett Investment Committee
Names and roles exactly as listed on onebioventures.africa. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page OneBio Venture Studio publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://onebioventures.africa/name, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, status
- https://onebioventures.africa/about/is_investor, layer, stage_min, stage_max, description, founded, people
- https://onebioventures.africa/portfolio/thesis_quote
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