Owkin

Owkin is an AI biotech company focused on decoding complex biology to find the right treatment for every patient. Their core technology, Owkin K, is an agentic AI platform that integrates multimodal…

Agentic AIAIBiologyBiotechDiagnosticsDrug DiscoveryPatient DataPrecision Medicineowkin.com

Owkin

Agentic AIAIBiologyBiotechDiagnosticsDrug DiscoveryPatient DataPrecision Medicineowkin.com

HQNew York City, US

Team Size447

Open Jobs9

Total Funding$304M

Latest Fundraise4 years ago

TL;DR

Founded: 2016

Headquarters / Footprint: French–American company with New York headquarters and multiple global offices

Tech focus: Multimodal, agentic biomedical AI (drug discovery, clinical development, diagnostics)

Reported total funding: $304.1M

Notable strategic investor/partner: Sanofi (strategic $180M investment)

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Decoding complex biology to find the right treatment for every patient; accelerating drug discovery, development, and diagnostics using AI.

Founded

2016

Industry

Biotechnology Research

Tech Stack

Reinforcement learning

Large language models

Multimodal foundation models

Federated learning / privacy-preserving data networks

Funding Track Record

- 2021-11-18

180000000

Strategic investment reported as $180M alongside a multi-year oncology collaboration

- 2020-05-07

25000000

Reported $25M Series A extension (reported at the time to bring total to roughly $55M)

Investor Signal

“Has raised institutional venture capital and strategic corporate investment (including a major strategic investment from Sanofi and participation from investors such as GV, Bpifrance, F-Prime, Cathay Innovation, Eight Roads, NJF Capital, Otium/Frst, Mubadala, MACSF)”

Founders

What we do

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Strategy & Corporate Development Analyst

On-SiteLondon, GB

On-Site • London, GB

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About us

Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.

Position is based in our London offices.

Please submit your CV in English

About the role:

As a Corporate Development & Strategy Analyst, you will work within Owkin's Corporate Development & Strategy team on a broad range of key strategic initiatives underpinning Owkin's core business: multimodal data access and generation, agentic AI software and platforms, therapeutic in-licensing, and clinical development. You will interact with a wide range of other functions at Owkin in order to deliver on Owkin's strategic growth objectives. The Corporate Development & Strategy team is involved in:

Defining the overall corporate & operational strategy
Building Owkin's portfolio of therapeutic assets and defining our clinical and pipeline strategy
Executing mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, asset in-licensing, and fundraising
Providing market research, financial analysis, competitive intelligence, valuation exercises, and coordinating comprehensive due diligence processes

In particular, you will:

Competitive Intelligence & Landscaping

Research, report on, and maintain knowledge bases of relevant companies to identify potential strategic partners and competitors.
Landscape cutting-edge technologies and scientific developments to help shape Owkin's strategy.

Research & Analysis

Conduct financial, literature, and market analyses to support and develop strategic recommendations and build compelling business cases.
Integrate insights from diverse sources (market reports, databases, scientific publications, internal experiments) into clear, structured reports and presentations.
Contribute to the preparation of high-quality materials for Owkin's internal decision meetings, external presentations, and board meetings.

Project Management & Reporting

Prepare summaries, key takeaways, and detailed notes from internal and external meetings, and provide updates across business units to keep activities aligned and advancing
Maintain and enhance project management tools, folders and trackers to monitor progress across various projects.

About you

We are looking for someone who:

Has completed a Master's degree program in in Chemistry / Biology / Pharmacy / (Bio)chemical Engineering / Biotechnology / Data Engineering / Bioinformatics / Software Development in life sciences or similar field
Ideally has previous experience in the biotech or life sciences sector
Has demonstrated strong interest in business, finance or management
Can work full time in our Paris or London office
Is a structured thinker, can formulate how to get work done and ask questions
Communicates effectively in written and oral English
Learns quickly and is passionate about Biotech and AI

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What we offer

Flexible work organization
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

If you think that you have been a victim of fraud,

Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn
Check our senior team on our website https://owkin.com/team/
Check the existence of the position on our website: https://www.owkin.com/careers#current-opportunities
Notify Owkin's recruitment unit at this address hiring@owkin.com
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Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.

Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual's desire to obtain a job and can sometimes "feel" like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:

Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.

Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).

The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.

The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;

Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger

Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.

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