

Zhichong Pharma
Develops new drugs for pets with generative AI, using its own small-molecule and large-molecule design engines (ChemoFetch and OmniFetch), and argues that testing in the target animal closes the loop from design to evidence faster than human drug development can; its programmes are in anti-infectives, chronic disease and ageing.
Money and evidence
No research by this company is on the record yet.
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-10-23Series A1Round
tens of millions of yuan
For: clinical work on its lead programmes, its end-to-end AI drug-design platform, and new programmes in anti-infectives, chronic disease, the brain and ageing
Toward the clinicModels and platform
First reported by VCBeat with the founder Wenjuan Wei and Dan Zhao, a partner at the lead, quoted. No valuation. Tianhui Capital is the name the source gives for the lead (Tianhui Hongyou and Tianhui Sumintou); the English is pinyin.
On the deal: Dan Zhao (Partner; spoke for the lead in the announcement, Tianhui Capital)
Advisers: Index Capital (exclusive financial adviser)
- 2023-07-06AngelRound
tens of millions of yuan
For: clinical development of ZC001 for feline infectious peritonitis
Toward the clinic
PEdaily's report of 6 July 2023 says the company was founded in 2022; the 2026 report says 2023, so no founding year is recorded here.
Research entries are the timeline's graded entries that name this company. A level grades one claim, not the company, and a blank can mean the record has not caught up rather than that nothing was published.
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