We invest to extend and enhance human life
Our strategy is to create a diversified portfolio of 20-25 globally leading healthcare companies with a goal, over a rolling 10-year basis, of delivering three to five companies in which we retain a significant ownership position to the point of product approval. We focus on developing treatments for patients by working in close partnership with world-class academic founders and management teams.

Our business in numbers*

13

Portfolio companies

£641m

Value of life science portfolio

£654m

Capital pool

12

Members of the investment team

92%

Investment team with PhDs

18

Portfolio company board seats

Unlocking the potential from truly innovative science to transform patients’ lives

We do this by creating, building and scaling companies to turn exceptional science into transformational treatments to patients in areas of high unmet need.

Who we are

A strong sense of culture and social purpose

We invest to extend and enhance human life.

We have a strong, entrepreneurial culture, where everyone takes personal ownership for delivering Syncona’s mission. Our culture is underpinned by our values.

Purpose, culture and values

Driving value creation through strategy

We take a long-term approach to building leading life science companies, focusing on maximising value through the cycle. Our fundamental view is that value creation in life science comes by taking products into late development, product approval and, in some cases, beyond.

A team of experts

The life sciences investment team members have deep technical scientific backgrounds, supplemented by strong commercial experience ranging from venture capital investment to pharmaceutical launch. 

Our people

“The UK’s scientific research base continues to be right at the forefront of global innovation and our team continue to see significant opportunity to create more companies based on the hugely promising technology being developed to treat patients in real need.”

Chris Hollowood
CEO, Syncona Investment Management Limited

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Our differentiated model

We create, build and scale companies around exceptional science in areas of high unmet medical need, where there is potential to take product to market.

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Rapid translation of scientific research

Our platform enables the rapid translation of scientific research into companies with the potential to be global leaders.

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A data-driven investment process

Our data driven investment process leverages the team’s significant expertise.

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Founded to make a difference

Syncona was co-founded in 2012 by the Wellcome Trust, the premium charitable funder of life sciences in the UK. The business was set up to address the lack of long-term funding in UK life science by creating globally competitive, sustainable companies.

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*Unless stated all financials at 31 December 2022