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Veritas In Silico

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 130A Listed

Result on listing day

+100.1%

Offer price

1,000 yen

First traded price

2,001 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a gain of 100,100 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2024-01-24 — 2024-01-30
Lottery result
To be announced
Listing date
2024-02-08
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 100,000 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
920 million yen ・ 920,000 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
6.3 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 役員・主要株主に90日間または180日間

Brokers you can apply through

You can only enter this lottery through a broker underwriting it. The lead underwriter is Mizuho Securities, which receives the largest allocation.

Broker pages are in Japanese. A comparison in English is on the brokers page.

What stands out

  • It concentrates on small-molecule drugs that target messenger RNA, a field few companies in Japan work in
  • Joint research contracts with several pharmaceutical and chemical makers, including Takeda Pharmaceutical and Toray, bring in research-support and milestone payments before any drug is sold
  • In the year to December 2023 it recorded revenue of 360 million yen and its first full-year profit since it was founded

What could go wrong

  • Revenue depends on how far partner projects have progressed, so it swings sharply from year to year: 360 million yen in the year to December 2023 against 91 million yen in the year to December 2025
  • In the year to December 2025 it spent ahead on research for its own pipeline and posted a net loss of 425 million yen
  • Drug programmes are often halted part-way, and if that happens the milestone and licence income the company was counting on never arrives

About the company

A drug discovery start-up whose ibVIS platform designs small-molecule drugs aimed at messenger RNA, working with pharmaceutical companies to create the seeds of new medicines.

How it makes money

The company does not sell medicines itself. Its business is a drug discovery platform run together with pharmaceutical firms. Its own technology, ibVIS, analyses the three-dimensional structure of messenger RNA on a computer to find the spot worth targeting and the small molecules that can bind to it. It has joint research contracts with Japanese pharmaceutical and chemical makers including Takeda Pharmaceutical and Toray, and earns upfront and research-support payments plus milestone payments each time a project clears a stage. If a drug reaches approval, licence income would follow later.

Where growth is meant to come from

The company treats 2025 to 2027 as its medium-term plan period. Alongside the platform business it runs with partners, it has begun developing drug candidates of its own. Its stated goal is to become a specialty pharma company with medicines of its own by 2030, running both models side by side.

Read about this company in Japanese →

Figures are taken from the offering documents and public sources, and are checked against two independent sources before publication. Nothing here is investment advice. Shares can and do open below their offer price.