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Montai

Harnessing untapped diverse chemistry with AI-enabled drug discovery to develop breakthrough small molecule medicines for chronic disease.

About Montai

Montai is a different kind of drug company, purpose-built to make big leaps forward in the predictable discovery of great drugs for chronic diseases.

Montai is pioneering at the intersection of machine learning, biology, and diverse untapped chemistry to uncover Anthromolecule™ compounds — that are rich with potential solutions for hard-to-drug biology. Shaped by eons of human co-evolution through chronic consumption, Anthromolecules have topologically rich structures that enable precise and selective engagement of complex biological targets. Montai has curated and derivatized over 1B+ molecules from this vast, previously untapped chemical space, creating scalable access to drug-like compounds that offer privileged solutions to discover highly efficacious and selective orals for targets once the domain of only biologics.

What if AI could unlock the predictable discovery of transformative small molecule drugs for chronic disease?
What if AI could unlock the predictable discovery of transformative small molecule drugs for chronic disease?

Our Mission

Our understanding of human biology has grown exponentially, offering new insights into disease and ways to intervene. Yet many of today's innovative therapies remain out of reach or insufficient for most patients. What's more, finding new oral medicines has historically been largely a trial-and-error endeavor with many of the most important validated biological pathways considered undruggable with small molecules. Montai aims to change this.

  • 6 in 10
    US adults living with chronic disease
  • >50%
    Most severe patients
    are untreated
  • <10%
    Proportion of innovative medicines taken that are small molecules
  • 7%
    Likelihood of approval for novel small molecules

The CONECTA Platform

The CONECTA® Platform is an AI-enabled drug discovery system that predictably identifies transformative small molecule drugs from vast diverse unexplored chemical space.

Diverse, Untapped Bioactive Chemical Space at Unprecedented Scale

Montai is aggregating and curating the world's largest, fully-annotated collection of Anthromolecules — bioactive compounds humans have chronically consumed. This richly diverse chemical space offers molecular scaffolds that differ by more than 99% from those found in traditional drug-development libraries such as Enamine or DNA-encoded libraries. Embedded within this chemically diverse space are numerous validated mechanisms of action — such as covalent binders, allosteric inhibitors, molecular glues, macrocycles, and protein-protein interaction inhibitors — that are well suited for addressing complex biology.

Montai has developed proprietary AI and ML tools to generate and curate more than 1 billion synthetically accessible, drug-like analogs derived from Anthromolecules. We continue to expand our chemical space to open access for the first time to the broadest diversity of nature-encoded chemistry for modern drug discovery.

Precision Pathway Connections to Target Biology

CONECTA AI is powered by advanced multimodal foundation models trained on over a billion curated and proprietary data points, and 100 biological pathways across five therapeutic areas. This foundation enables efficient and systematic mapping of diverse chemical space to established biological drivers of chronic disease, and expands the landscape of tractable, orally available therapeutics.

CONECTA's proprietary AI system overcomes prior challenges such as polypharmacy and accessibility in exploiting diverse chemistry through target specific bioactivity modeling and mechanism-directed compound prioritization. CONECTA's multimodal in silico ranking system integrates predictions of bioactivity with more than 60 physiochemical and drug-like parameters (e.g., solubility, permeability, toxicity, manufacturability) to precisely identify the top on-mechanism candidates. This pathway-selective ranking across rich chemical diversity delivers the equivalent of 1,000+ years of experimental screening in under two days.

By enabling predictive, high-resolution prioritization at unprecedented scale, CONECTA empowers researchers and drug developers to uncover the most promising starting points for interrogating and modulating complex biology.

Integrated Decisioning

CONECTA enables unprecedented integrated decisioning across expert domains including — biologists, chemists, toxicologists, manufacturing, translational medicine, and drug developers. The integrated team defines a precise target candidate profile (TCP) and then collaborates with CONECTA's AI/ML experts to uncover the hidden potential in diverse chemistry. This approach allows efficient discovery and advancement of multiple uncorrelated hits, leads, and development candidates (DCs).

CONECTA's approach provides several key advantages:

  • Unparalleled access to diverse chemotypes and mechanisms
  • Highly efficient wet lab — focused on most promising chemistry, AI medchem assist
  • Higher probability of success and clinical optionality — multiple DCs and optimal translational profiles for different indications
A graphic representation of Anthromolecules, highlighting the ratio of known versus FDA-approved.

Our Platform Visualized

Montai has built the world's leading AI to decode the language of Anthromolecule chemistry to predictably unearth and optimize nature's bioactive solutions.
See how we do it.

The CONECTA® pipeline

Montai Pipeline

Montai has progressed promising solutions for 12 validated pathways for transcription factors and biologic replacements with broad application across inflammation and immunology diseases.

Target Lead TA Disc. Lead
Op.
IND
Enable
Phase
1
Mech.
NRF2 (MTAI-1025) Gastro-
enterology
FIH
2026
Covalent
Transcription
Factor
Dermatology DC
2026
Allosteric, Covalent
Biologic
Replacement
Dermatology DC
2027
PPI
Transcription
Factor
Rheumatology Allosteric
Biologic
Replacement
Respiratory PPI
Transcription
Factor Pfizer
Oncology Molecular Glue

We have prioritized five programs for later-stage development with our first program on track to enter the clinic in 2026 as well as a partnership with Pfizer in oncology. These programs highlight our unique ability to unlock powerful mechanisms from diverse, untapped chemistry - covalent binders, allosteric modifiers, protein-protein inhibitors, and molecular glues - to overcome historical challenges and solve hard-to-drug biology.

  • 1B+
    Superior starting points for drug discovery
  • 12
    I&I Pathways with precision matched diverse chemistry
  • 100+
    Pathways and MOAs incorporated into CONECTA

We envision a world where, instead of regular and costly infusions, a convenient and safe pill for long-term use effectively treats a chronic disease, where solutions exist for diseases that today have none.

We are climbing mountains with AI, determined to improve health outcomes for as many people as possible to reduce the growing and unsustainable burden of chronic disease.
Meet Our Team

Featured News

  • Montai Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data on NRF2 Agonist in Ulcerative Colitis at ACAAI Annual Meeting

    Article
    Nov 6, 2025
    Read on Business Wire
  • Montai Therapeutics Appoints Hans Hull as Chief Operations Officer

    Article
    Oct 28, 2025
    Read on Business Wire
  • Montai Therapeutics Appoints Allison Bogosian, JD, as Chief People and Administrative Officer

    Article
    Apr 28, 2025
    Read on Business Wire
  • Spotlight: Montai Builds a Multimodal AI Platform for Drug Discovery Using NVIDIA NIM Microservices

    Article
    Sep 26, 2024
    Read on NVIDIA Technical Blog
  • Montai Therapeutics Appoints Renowned Chemical Innovator Larry Hamann to Company's Board of Directors, Convenes Multidisciplinary Scientific Advisory Board to Inform Strategic Momentum

    Article
    May 29, 2024
    Read on Business Wire
  • How 3 Mass. companies are using AI to design drugs

    Article
    Mar 19, 2024
    Read on WBUR
  • Breaking Boundaries in Chemical Combinatorics Machine Learning: Unveiling the ComboPath Model at NeurIPS 2023

    Article
    Dec 13, 2023
    Read on LinkedIn
  • Montai Health Appoints Christian Antoni, M.D., Ph.D., as Company's First Chief Medical Officer

    Press Release
    Oct 24, 2023
    Read on GlobeNewswire
  • Montai Health Adds Industry Leaders to its Board of Directors

    Press Release
    May 17, 2023
    Read on Business Wire
  • Flagship Pioneering Unveils Montai Health to Treat and Preempt Chronic Disease Afflicting Two Billion People Worldwide

    Press Release
    December 13, 2022
    Read on The PR Newswire

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We are growing our team of leaders, committed to finding breakthroughs to make a difference in as many lives as possible.
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Contact Us

  • Partnerships

    We welcome the opportunity to partner with experts across areas who share our passion for creating Anthromolecule™ medicines and want to collaborate to accelerate the development of safe, efficacious and accessible therapies across diseases.

    partnerships@montai.com
  • Press

    For media inquiries or the latest on research, thought leadership, company news, and events contact:

    press@montai.com