{"entity":{"id":"medicxi","kind":"company","name":"Medicxi","aka":[],"tldr":"A London and Geneva venture firm that funds single-asset drug companies run by experienced drug hunters. Its cancer companies have included ProfoundBio (bought by Genmab), Kurome Therapeutics and Gadeta.","summary":"Medicxi has offices in London (25 Great Pulteney Street), Geneva and Jersey (contact page). Its approach is asset-centric: backing focused companies built around one or a few drug candidates, often with partners such as Verily, Novartis and GSK as limited partners. Its news room records a EUR 400 million Medicxi III fund closed in 2019 and a $40 million investment in D3 Bio in 2024. Oncology deals in the news room include Genmab's acquisition of ProfoundBio (antibody-drug conjugates), Kurome Therapeutics' $15 million Series A for kinase inhibitors in haematological cancers, Divide & Conquer (disrupting cell-to-cell communication in cancer), Yukin Therapeutics and Gilead's purchase of the gamma-delta T-cell company Gadeta. Non-oncology exits such as Centessa (Lilly) and Vicebio (Sanofi) dominate recent headlines.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://www.medicxi.com/"},{"label":"News room","url":"https://www.medicxi.com/news-room"},{"label":"Contact","url":"https://www.medicxi.com/contact"}],"tags":["vc"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":["profoundbio","genmab"],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Founding year not stated on fetched pages and there is no Wikipedia article; omitted. The companies page is rendered client-side."],"hq":"London","country":"GB","companyType":"investor","website":"https://www.medicxi.com/","investors":[],"funding":[]},"route":"/companies/medicxi/","neighbours":{"company":[{"id":"genmab","kind":"company","name":"Genmab","route":"/companies/genmab/"},{"id":"profoundbio","kind":"company","name":"ProfoundBio","route":"/companies/profoundbio/"}]}}