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Executive summary

Syncona

A leading European life sciences investor with an ambition to grow Net Asset Value to £5 billion by 2032

  1. unique approach, capital structure and model

delivered by an ambitious team

Long-term approach to value creation

Focus on product and patients

Creating a portfolio to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns

Syncona was founded in 2012 by the Wellcome Trust to take a long- term approach to building life science companies

Thesis that the best risk-adjusted returns in life science come in late- stage development and product approval

Evergreen balance sheet enables our investment model

Focus on creating companies around technology that has potential to have a transformational impact for patients in areas of high unmet need

Aim to create and build companies that are capable of autonomously translating exceptional science to commercial products

Building a portfolio of 20-25 companies with a product and patient-focused strategy to manage risk and optimise returns

Disciplined capital allocation, rigorously balancing the risk and reward potential of each new investment

Aim to deliver 3-5 companies to late-stage development where Syncona has a significant ownership position and can access significant value creation

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Overview of Syncona

Significant impact across the portfolio since being founded in 2012

Building global leaders

Syncona portfolio

22

companies since

2012 foundation

Number of

13 companies in the portfolio today

Number of

1,200+ employees across Syncona portfolio

Our track record

IRR since 2012;

21%

1.5x multiple on

cost across whole

portfolio1

Syncona capital

£1.1bn

deployed since

2012

Generated from

£948m

four successful

exits; 4.3x multiple

of cost2

Patient impact

Patients benefitting

165k from Blue Earth's Axumin™

Products to pivotal trial, with 22

3 programmes progressed into the clinic3

New cases of adult ALL

diagnosed p.a. across

8,400 the US and EU - as Autolus approaches its BLA filing for obe-cel4

Current financials

£1.2bn

Net Asset Value

(184.6p per

share)

£613m Capital pool

£150m-

Capital

200m

deployment

guidance for

2023/4

1- Includes sales of Nightstar, Blue Earth, Gyroscope and Neogene and closure of 14MG and Azeria. 28% of the portfolio held at cost. Reflects original Syncona Partners capital invested where applicable. All IRR and multiple on cost figures are calculated on a gross basis 2 - Includes sales of Nightstar, Blue Earth, upfront proceeds from sale of Gyroscope and upfront proceeds from Neogene, reflects original Syncona Partners capital invested where applicable. All IRR and multiple on cost figures are calculated on a gross basis

3 - Includes lead Beacon programme in XLRP. 4 - SEER and EUCAN estimates (respectively) for US and EU All financials as at 30 June 2023

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