Investors / South Africa / OneBio Venture Studio
OneBio Venture Studio
Venture capital · Cape Town, South Africa · Middle East and Africa
OneBio is a venture capital firm and venture studio that backs founders building biotech companies. It partners with founders from the earliest stages and provides hands-on support across strategy, technology development, and growth, along with access to wet and dry lab infrastructure at its Innovation Centre in Cape Town.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsbiotechgenomicssynthetic biologytherapeuticsdiagnosticsfood tech
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Or find every investor that fitsOneBio Venture Studio lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (85%), Space & Defense (8%) and Food & Agriculture (8%). 33% of its companies are based in Ghana. It invests most often alongside AAIC Investment, 4Di Capital and Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund.
No funding round on record names OneBio Venture Studio yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not OneBio Venture Studio's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 11. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 85% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 85% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 8% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare OneBio Venture Studio head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altera Biosciences is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing a universal donor cell platform to power the next generation of off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aspyre Foods produces healthy and functionally identical animal-free proteins at scale, using duckweed, one of nature’s fastest-growing plants. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| B-Phage develops targeted bacteriophage therapeutics to tackle antimicrobial resistance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Biomine helps pharmaceutical sponsors, biotechs, and CROs incorporate microbiome-derived biological insight into clinical trials and translational programmes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bixbio builds tools to unlock the potential of diverse genetic data in Africa to transform drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CureRoot leverages cutting-edge technology to unlock the potential of African medicinal plants for drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| LifeQ provides health monitoring solutions and insights derived from physiological biomarkers through wearables with disease detection technology and personalized lifestyle recommendations | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Metanoia Bio delivers lasting cures by leveraging the body's innate ability to regenerate. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pandora Health combines health assessments, gut microbiome testing, and expert guidance to help patients understand the connection between their gut and whole-body health | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sawubona Mycelium harnesses the power of African fungi to revolutionize industries at every scale using innovative fermentation techniques and biotechnology. | Healthcare & BiotechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Yemaachi Biotech leverages underrepresented biological and clinical data to unlock breakthrough discoveries in oncology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- onebioventures.africa
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 11
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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