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Khartis Therapeutics

3911 Sorrento Valley Blvd #130, San Diego, California, 92121, United States

Overview

Khartis Therapeutics is developing a pipeline of oral small molecule medicines, with a lead program that is an oral selective IGF-1R inhibitor designed for thyroid eye disease. The company is also advancing additional oral small-molecule programs against clinically validated immunology pathways. Khartis was founded in 2024 by Robert Hoffman (CEO and Head of Drug Discovery), Craig Murphy (CSO), and Chris LeMasters (Executive Chairman), and was incubated within Foresite Labs. It is headquartered in San Diego and its team includes many members who previously worked together at XinThera. Financially, Khartis has raised a total of $95 million following its $50 million Series B. The company intends to use the new financing to accelerate advancement of its lead program and continue discovery of differentiated small molecule medicines.

Total raised
$50M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Aug 2026

Industries

  • Biopharma
  • Biotechnology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Health Care
  • Life Science
  • Pharmaceutical
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Aug 2026

    $50M

Team

  • Robert Hoffman

    Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Research

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  • Craig Murphy

    Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer

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  • Chris LeMasters

    Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

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