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Funding and backers

Total raised
$5.8M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$1.8M
Venture round · May 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Golden Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
50/100
in the news, fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 27 Raised a round Venture round $1.8M May 28, 2025 Raised a round Series A Jul 9, 2020 Partnership ProteinQure Collaborates with AstraZeneca to Design Novel Peptide Therapeutics · proteinqure.com Jul 25, 2019 Raised a round Seed $4M 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
11 public repositories · +5%
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round May 2026 $1.8M — proteinqure.com
Series A May 2025 — — businesswire.com
Seed Jul 2019 $4M — proteinqure.com
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Overview

ProteinQure is a Toronto biotechnology company founded in 2017 that designs peptide therapeutics computationally. Its platform combines molecular simulation with machine learning to engineer targeted cancer drugs. The company runs its own programmes alongside pharmaceutical partnerships.

News

Blog 3 months ago
The Monomers We Can't Find: Building a Map of Non-Canonical Chemical Space
You Can Buy It. Can You Find It? Written by Julie Owen, ProteinQure This is semaglutide. The peptide drug that has transformed obesity treatment by copying a naturally occurring gut hormone. Its clinical success rests on a few edits to the natural sequenc
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Blog 5 months ago
ProteinQure Receives $1.8M from FedDev Ontario to Advance AI-Powered Drug Delivery
TORONTO, Ontario, May 27, 2026 - ProteinQure Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging machine learning and generative AI to design precision therapeutics, announced it has received $1.8 million in funding from the Government of Canada throu
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Award 6 months ago
ProteinQure Receives $2.5M Genome Canada Award to Advance siRNA Therapeutics for Glioblastoma
The company also appoints world-renowned neuro-oncologists Dr. Henry S. Friedman and Dr. Alexandra M. Miller to Clinical Advisory Board. TORONTO, Ontario, April 7, 2026 - ProteinQure Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging machine learning
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Blog 1 year ago
ProteinQure Reports Broad Brain Distribution of Peptide-siRNA Conjugates in Non-Human Primates
TORONTO, Ontario, October 15, 2025 - ProteinQure announced new preclinical results today, demonstrating efficient delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) to the central nervous system (CNS) in non-human primates. Using intrathecal administration of prop
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Blog 1 year ago
ProteinQure Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase I Clinical Trial of PQ203 in Advanced Metastatic Cancer
TORONTO, Ontario, September 17, 2025 - ProteinQure Inc., a Toronto-based biotech company pioneering computational peptide drug discovery, today announced the successful dosing of the first patient in its Phase I clinical trial evaluating PQ203 - a novel,
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Blog 1 year ago
ProteinQure Receives Regulatory Clearance to Initiate Phase I Trial for PQ203 in the U.S. and Canada; Granted FDA Fast Track Designation
TORONTO, Ontario, August 7, 2025 - ProteinQure Inc., a leader in computational protein drug discovery, today announced it has received regulatory clearance from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada to initiate a Phase I clini
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News bioworld.com 1 year ago
Series A financing at Proteinqure to advance peptide-drug conjugate into clinic for TNBC
Proteinqure Inc. has closed an $11 million series A financing round to support the initiation of the company's first clinical trial for PQ-203, a first-in-class peptide-drug conjugate for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The funds will also be used t
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at ProteinQure over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Python
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Kubernetes
Practices & domains
Machine Learning
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$106k
Typical range
$106k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $106k $106k
Highest paying role Research Software Engineer $106k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
34/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Toronto
Toronto Canada
HQ
ProteinQure Headquarters
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $106k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
108 College St, Suite 580, , Toronto, ON M5G 0C6 Canada
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, company site, job postings

Jobs

$85k – $106k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Toronto
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
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Linux
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Financials

Total raised
$5.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $1.8M Details
Series A 2025 — Details
Seed 2019 $4M Details