MicroMGx Inc ← Netcapital

introduction

Our team has worked for years to create an efficient way to discover new chemistry, naturally made by microbes.

We believe that most of undiscovered compounds produced by microbes will be identified and made accessible to life science R&D organizations around the world, helping humans and enriching life.

We aim to scale our discovery platform to identify hundreds of new compounds within the next few years. We believe that this could give access to life science companies of all sizes to license and develop these new compounds into economically valuable and environmentally friendly products.

We envision licensing our natural products to companies such as:

Agriculture: Valent, Bayer, FMC, UPL, Corteva, Syngenta, Sumitomo
Animal Health: Elanco, BiomEdit, Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceutical: Roche, Janssen, Novartis, Merck, AstraZeneca,Pfizer

We plan to continue growing our collection of natural products so that our consumers may have access to new licenses year after year.

success to date

Seven peer-reviewed publications identifying new molecules discovered using the MGx platform.
Investigated/discovered new molecules for clients in the agriculture and animal health industries (Corteva, Valent, Elanco).
$400k angel investment in 2020.
License for MGX-1001, a promising new herbicide with the potential to be the first new mechanism of action broad spectrum herbicide in 35 years (US Provisional Patent Applications #63/075138 and #63/181,745, PCT Patent Application #PCT/US2021/048904).
One of six finalists in the 2022 $1M Radicle Growth-UPL Challenge.
Self-built library containing over 2500 isolated microbial strains.

problem

Over half of all small molecule medicines (e.g. penicillin, Lipitor) and many crop protection products (e.g. glufosinate) come from natural sources. Recent estimates suggest that 97% of all naturally produced chemicals remain undiscovered.

Many life science companies have abandoned their research and discovery platforms surrounding bacterial and fungal natural products because of low success rates and high costs. Classical discovery methods have provided diminishing returns due to the constant issue of rediscovering already known chemicals.

MicroMGx aims to change all that using the MGx discovery platform.

solution

The MGx platform technology discovers new chemistry by harnessing the power of the world’s best chemists: microbes. Microbes have been creating and modifying chemicals to do specific tasks for over 4 billion years.

Our team has worked for 10 years to develop the optimal method for exploring and finding new naturally made chemicals.

The MGx platform integrates DNA sequencing, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics to discover microbes that produce new chemicals. Then, we aim to quickly test for what we are looking for – natural herbicides, cancer therapeutics, antibiotics, insecticides, and more. We hope to cut the cost and time of discovery of classical methods by approximately 1/100th, potentially allowing us to scale up our operation.

frequently asked questions

What does your company do?

We harness microbial chemistry to create more effective and sustainable products - such as crop protection and pharmaceutical products. More specifically, we isolate bacteria from soil samples and use our cutting edge technology to find new chemicals made by these bacteria. We then test, patent and aim to license them to large life science companies.

Why did you choose this idea?

We believe that nature holds the solutions to many of the world’s problems. Unfortunately, many companies have shifted away from the R&D of natural products due to time and cost. Our team wanted to change that by creating a platform that could significantly reduce the time and cost of new molecule discovery while avoiding the issue of rediscovery.

In five years, where do you envision your company?

We envision MicroMGx as a lead discovery company for agriculture crop protection products, and our first sale may occur in 2023. Following that, we plan on doing the same in the pharmaceutical industry.

Why is your team uniquely qualified to solve this problem?

Our talented team has been focused on this problem from the beginning. Northwestern University Professors Neil Kelleher and Regan Thomson and University of Illinois at (U-C) Professor William Metcalf integrated their world-class research in mass spectrometry, organic synthesis, and genomics, respectively. Our CSO has been focused on optimizing large scale natural product discovery since 2010. Our CEO has been successfully leading teams and organizations for 4 decades, with both pharma and agriculture R&D experience. Our experienced Research Associates have been working with us for more than 2.5 years and are ready to be our leaders as we scale up. We have the science, the location, the network and an experienced and talented team.

business model

MicroMGx is a discovery and licensing company.

Our Process:

Discover new molecules made by microbes using the MGx discovery platform.
Test for bioactivity in targeted field/industry.
Patent the novel molecule and its applications.
License our new molecules to uniquely qualified life science companies looking to develop a new product.

Using the MGx platform, we aim to discover new molecules and hope to give the world access to natural medicines and agricultural products still waiting to be discovered.

Licensing would involve an upfront fee to MicroMGx, milestone payments once a customer successfully reaches a development milestone with our chemical, and then, once launched, royalties may flow back to MicroMGx.

market

Our global market is every life science company, large or small, that wants to augment their R&D pipeline. For instance, a mid-sized pharmaceutical may want to license a novel anti-cancer compound from us because of its activity against brain cancer. This may increase their pipeline of new drugs and may supplement their anti-cancer effort. In 2019, Clarivate produced a report of discovery deals from which this diagram was developed.

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team

William Metcalf, PhD

Chairman/Co-Founder

The G. William Arends Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the complex chemistry that bacteria perform, including the biogenesis of methane and specialized natural products. Prof. Metcalf advises MicroMGx on the use of comparative genomics to identify the regions of the bacterial genome that are responsible for specialized metabolism, and on the use of advanced genome sequencing technologies.

Neil L. Kelleher

Director/Co-Founder

Neil L. Kelleher is the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine at Northwestern University. Neil’s research focuses on the use of mass spectrometry for applications ranging from proteomics to natural products chemistry. Prof. Kelleher is also an experienced entrepreneur; he has founded three other companies, including the successful software company, Proteinaceous, and Integrated Protein Technologies which provides cutting-edge devices for protein sample preparation. Neil is a co-founder of MicroMgx and advises on business and technology development, especially the integration of mass spectrometry and informatics into MicroMGx’s workflows.

Regan Thomson

Director/Co-Founder

A Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His research pushes the boundaries of reaction design and applies it to drive the synthesis of complex biologically active molecules. As a Co-Founder and member MicroMGx’s board of directors, his insight as a synthetic organic chemist will guide the development of synthetic natural product analogs with improved activity and selectivity. The role of chemical synthesis in the commercialization of natural products with therapeutic activity is especially important because of current intellectual property policy, which severely limits protections on materials and compounds derived directly from nature.

Jack M. Kloeber, PhD

CEO/CFO

Educated in the fields of Decision Analytics, Industrial Engineering, Simulation and Optimization. After teaching Mathematics at USMA, West Point, NY, and 6 years of Graduate level Operations Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology, he retired from the US Army as an LTC and joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as Head of Portfolio Management. He moved to Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals and held the same position for 5 years. Jack became a partner/owner of a successful consulting company Kromite LLC, where he focused on R&D decision-making for 12 years. He joined MicroMGx as CEO bringing experience in running an analytics consulting company and working with executives in pharmaceuticals, government, and agriculture industries.

Anthony Goering, PhD

CSO/COO

Anthony is trained in the fields of natural product discovery and synthetic biology. He performed his graduate research in the laboratory of Professor Neil Kelleher as part of the collaborative team that created metabologenomics, which is now one of MicroMGx’s core technologies. Anthony was employee #1 at MicroMGx. As the chief scientific officer of MicroMGx, he oversees the continued development of metabologenomics, as well as its application to guide and scale the discovery of new, bioactive natural products.

Rajmony Pannu, MD

Director

A practicing vascular specialist in Westerville, OH. He is one of a select few specialists in the country to have board certification in both vascular medicine and endovascular medicine. While an extremely talented physician, Raj is also an active entrepreneur and brings to the MicroMGx Board a keen entrepreneurial mind, combining successful risk-taking, business acumen, and a flair for healthcare marketing.

Use of Proceeds

If the offering's maximum amount of $1,069,998 is raised:

Use	Value	% of Proceeds
Compensation for managers	$136,568	12.8%
Platform Costs	$600,000	56.1%
Testing MGX 1001	$150,000	14.0%
Rent	$36,000	3.4%
Structure Isolation	$60,000	5.6%
Additional Equipment	$35,000	3.3%
Intermediary fees	$52,430	4.9%

Terms

This is an offering of Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in MicroMGx, Inc., doing business as MicroMGx Inc. This offering must raise at least $10,000 by March 31, 2023 at 5:55pm ET. If this offering doesn’t reach its target, then your money will be refunded. MicroMGx Inc may issue additional securities to raise up to $1,069,998, the offering’s maximum.

If the offering is successful at raising the maximum amount, then the company’s implied valuation after the offering (sometimes called its post-money valuation) will be:

5,082,726 shares

$2.37 per share

$12,046,061implied valuation

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Financials

MicroMGx Inc’s official name is MicroMGx, Inc., so that’s the name that appears in the statements below.

These financial statements have been reviewed by an independent Certified Public Accountant.

CPA review letter

SEC Filings

The Offering Statement is a formal description of the company and this transaction. It’s filed with the SEC to comply with the requirements of exemption 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933.

Latest Offering Statement

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Updates

Jan 25, 2023
MicroMGx is excited to announce that we have...
MicroMGx is excited to announce that we have been chosen to be Finalists in the Hello Tomorrow Global Deep Tech Challenge. Only 70 companies were chosen out of 4000+ entrants. This means our CEO will be on stage in Paris, March 9-10, in front of about 400 global investors. This should be an excellent opportunity to showcase our unique method for discovering new molecules and brag about our natural herbicide - mgx 1001 - and how it may be the first new mechanism of action broad-spectrum herbicide in 35 years. We believe this event could be a springboard towards growth and finding more collaborators and more investors. We will keep you informed! Please check out the link below and look at the Food and Agriculture Track.
Read Official Selection as a Finalist
Jan 25, 2023
Filed Form C/A
Nov 25, 2022
As CEO of MicroMGx, I wanted to let our...
As CEO of MicroMGx, I wanted to let our investors and future investors know that MicroMGx has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge. Attached is the letter. This Global Challenge is focused on Deep Technology that has the potential to impact humanity on a large scale. A link to the overall organization is also included below.

We are honored to have been selected and will find out if we have made the finals in January 2023, but have already been given tickets to the three-day, nationally-supported Deep Technology exposition in March 2023, Paris France.

Over 4000 companies from around the world applied and we are excited to be considered one of the top companies.

While we have ups and downs, good days and bad days, we all know and are constantly reminded by others that we have something special at MicroMGx. Thank you all for believing in us.
Read Official Selection and Invitation MicroMGx 2023 Hello Tomorrow Global Summit Invitation.pdf
Oct 27, 2022
Filed Form C/A
Oct 23, 2022
We at MicroMGx are very happy and proud to...
We at MicroMGx are very happy and proud to announce that the world famous HudsonAlpha Institute’s AgTech Accelerator (HAAA) has chosen MicroMGx to be one of only 5 startup companies (out of 580 applicants) for their inaugural cohort. For the next 8 weeks, our CEO (Jack Kloeber) and CSO (Anthony Goering) will be working intensely with HAAA’s network of scientists, entrepreneurs, marketers, and investors to “accelerate” our growth and readiness for investment. This selection also involves an investment of $100,000 in our company to help us concentrate on growth and to indicate their commitment to our vision. See the official announcement here.
HudsonAlpha's Official News Release and investment in MicroMGx
Oct 13, 2022
The leadership team at MicroMGx would like to...
The leadership team at MicroMGx would like to thank the growing number of investors and the growing size of the investment (over $1000 per investor). There are twice as many interested potential investors following our company, compared to just the end of September. We have easily passed the first milestone of $10,000 and are building momentum to reach higher totals and higher average investment to help us quickly expand and succeed.

Whether you are a large or small investor in MicroMGx, we appreciate your faith in us and our vision. We trust you share our belief that Nature has many new chemicals just waiting to be discovered through our MGx platform. MicroMGx aims to provide access to those valuable chemicals to companies large and small.
Sep 22, 2022
It is starting to get exciting! I have...
It is starting to get exciting! I have received many questions regarding the size of the investment that is permitted. I have also been approached by a west coast VC and an accelerator about joining the crowdfunding effort. Many questions because many people are checking us out. This is good news.

Let me clear up the one common question. The minimum investment is NOT $10,000. The minimum allowable investment is only $99.54. That should help with the decisions of many who want to invest $3000 or $5000.

Please continue to ask or send questions in. I will personally answer every question, whether it is through this announcement method or via email to you.
Sep 14, 2022
We have just started on this 2 month journey to...
We have just started on this 2 month journey to reach our target of $1M by November. Most investors need some time to read about our fantastic company, consider the risks vs the huge upside of discovering many natural chemicals to solve some of our biggest problems, and then talk it over with others. But 4 investors have already jumped in to declare their belief in our mission. Thank you for being the FIRST FOUR!
Sep 2, 2022
Primary offering of 451,476 shares at $2.37
Sep 2, 2022
Filed Form C

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MicroMGx Inc

Nature holds the solutions to many of the world’s biggest problems, but finding and using natural solutions can be hard. MicroMGx aims to make it easier than ever to learn from nature to create new chemical products for agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and more.