Hexagon Bio
Surveying great inventors and businesses
Axial: https://linktr.ee/axialxyz
Axial partners with great founders and inventors. We invest in early-stage life sciences companies such as Appia Bio, Seranova Bio, Delix Therapeutics, Simcha Therapeutics, among others often when they are no more than an idea. We are fanatical about helping the rare inventor who is compelled to build their own enduring business. If you or someone you know has a great idea or company in life sciences, Axial would be excited to get to know you and possibly invest in your vision and company . We are excited to be in business with you - email us at info@axialvc.com
Hexagon Bio mines the global metagenome for new medicines. With one of the best engineering teams in biotech, Hexagon combines data science + genomics + synbio to scale & automate the discovery of natural products to drug the "undruggable" genome.
Their platform turns nature’s DNA into new medicines. Centered around HEx, a heterologous system that standardizes expression of biosynthetic clusters & their metabolites. Most microbes can’t be grown so Hexagon built a new system to express their genes https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aar5459
Founded in 2016 by Maureen Hillenmeyer, Brian Naughton, Colin Harvey, & Yi Tang, Hexagon built a pipeline for some of the hardest targets in oncology & infectious disease. With the platform to standardize NP discovery & scale up partnerships.
Learn more about Hexagon’s platform here