Exhibit 99.1

Reneo Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
IRVINE, Calif., May 3, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reneo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Reneo) (Nasdaq: RPHM), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapies for patients with rare genetic mitochondrial diseases, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of its shares of common stock. Reneo intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the shares of its common stock to be sold in the offering on the same terms and conditions. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed. All of the shares of common stock in the offering are to be sold by Reneo.
Reneo also entered into an agreement with Abingworth Bioventures 8 LP (Abingworth), pursuant to which Reneo has agreed to sell its shares of common stock to Abingworth at the public offering price, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $5.0 million, in a concurrent private placement that is expected to close after the public offering. The sale of these shares of common stock will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The closing of the concurrent private placement is conditioned on the closing of the public offering.
Jefferies LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Piper Sandler are acting as joint book-running managers and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated is acting as a lead manager for the underwritten public offering. Jefferies LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Piper Sandler and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated are also acting as placement agents for the concurrent private placement.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form F-3 (File No. 333-264616) and declared effective on May 9, 2022. The public offering will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus related to the public offering may be obtained, when available, from: Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (877) 821-7388, or by e-mail at prospectus_department@jefferies.com; BofA Securities NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, E-mail: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; or Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: by mail at 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (800) 747-3924, or by e-mail at prospectus@psc.com, or by accessing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
The shares of common stock offered in the concurrent private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements.