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ProteinQure

ProteinQure is a Toronto biotech designing protein-based therapeutics — peptides and antibodies — with machine learning and molecular simulation. Founded in 2017, it raised an $11-million Series A in May 2025 and put its lead candidate into clinical trials that year.

$11MSeries A, May 2025 (about $16M raised in total)BetaKit, 2025-05-28
70–100patients in its first clinical trial, in Canada and the USBetaKit, 2025-05-28

The people

Lucas SiowCo-founder & CEO · 1 TechTO talk
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Tomas BabejCo-founder & CTOprofile coming
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Chris IngCo-founderprofile coming
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Mark FingerhuthCo-founder, R&Dprofile coming

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About

ProteinQure combines molecular simulation and machine learning to do structure-based design of protein drugs, and has moved from platform to its own candidates. CEO and co-founder Lucas Siow told BetaKit in May 2025 that its trial was the first for a drug from an Ontario-based AI company, running in Canada and the US including at Toronto's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. He spoke at TechTO in February 2020 about the hardest part of building the company.

Backers

Heron Rock Fund, Golden Ventures, Kensington Capital

Quick answers

What does ProteinQure do?

It designs protein-based drugs — peptides and antibodies — using molecular simulation and machine learning, and advances its own therapeutic candidates.

Who founded ProteinQure?

Lucas Siow, Tomas Babej, Chris Ing and Mark Fingerhuth, in Toronto in 2017.

How much has it raised?

About $16 million in total, including an $11-million Series A announced in May 2025 from Heron Rock Fund, Golden Ventures and Kensington Capital.

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