Benoit Chastaing

HBM Partners AG (HBM-P) was established in 2001 as an independent provider of investment advisory services with headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. HBM-P's field of expertise comprises global human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology and related sectors. The firm primarily advises HBM BioVentures AG and HBM BioCapital via their Cayman Islands-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, HBM Partners (Cayman) Ltd., which acts as the investment manager for the HBM funds. They rely on the services of an external consultant to analyze investment opportunities in the US.

Biotheranostics, Inc. develops and provides diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tests that support physicians in the treatment of cancer patients. It has commercialized two proprietary, highly differentiated products focused on early stage breast cancer and all metastatic cancers, Breast Cancer Index (BCI) and CancerTYPE ID (CTID). The company was founded by Thomas M. Baer in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Proclara Biosciences, Inc. provides treatment of chronic neurodegenerative diseases. The firm develops therapies for protein misfolding diseases, such as chronic diseases of aging and certain orphan indications by harnessing General Amyloid Interaction Motif (GAIM), which is a multi-target approach that reduces levels of pathological misfolded protein deposits. The company was founded by Hampus Jacob Hillerstrom and Jonathan Eithan Solomon in December 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Siparex Associés SA provides financial services. The company was founded on March 23, 1990 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Descours & Cabaud SA distributes construction materials and mechanical components for industrial machinery. It offers metal, building and public works product, cutting tools abrasives, fasteners, water treatment, welding supplies, tooling, heating, sanitary and plumbing. The company was founded in 1782 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

L Catterton Europe SASU is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Catterton Management Co. LLC founded in 1989 by Philippe Franchet. L Catterton Europe SASU is headquartered in Paris.

Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale provides medical services. The firm specializes in biomedical research and public health research. The company is headquartered in Paris, Cedex, France.

Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS (Cathay Capital PE) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Mingpo Cai and Edouard Moinet. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. operates as an imaginative research and development firm. It works across the development process in regulated markets including medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and life science tools, imaging and industrial applications. The company was founded in February 2005 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

PharmaSwiss SA engages in the provision of healthcare solutions. It also offers consulting services. The company was founded on January 24, 2000 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Bpifrance Participations SA/ PRIVATE EQUITY/ (BPIfrance Participations PE) is the private equity division of Bpifrance Participations SA subsidiary of State-owned Caisse des Dépots & Consignations headquartered in France. Formerly known as Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement SA (Private Equity), the firm was established in 2008 by the Government of France in an aim to strengthen distressed companies of strategic importance for the French economy. Based in Paris, BPIfrance Participations specializes in fund of funds and direct investments in French intermediate-sized companies.

bioMERIEUX Benelux SANV is specialized in the field of in vitro diagnostics for medical and industrial applications. The group designs, develops, manufactures and markets systems used in clinical applications (diagnosis of infectious diseases based on the analysis of biological samples) and industrial applications (the analysis of industrial or environmental samples to determine its microbiological quality). The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Bruxelles, Belgium

Institut Mérieux SA provides solutions for multifactorial management of diseases. The firm provides solutions for diseases, including tuberculosis, liver cancer and hepatitis. It specializes in the field human and veterinary of vaccines. It operates under the activities of diagnostics, immunotherapy and nutrition. The company was founded by Marcel Mérieux in 1897 and is headquartered Lyon, France.

VALKEE Oy develops and manufactures health devices. Its flagship product Valkee is a pocket-sized light therapy device that channels bright light via the ear canals into the brain that has beneficial effects on mood and wellbeing of people. The firm is carrying out additional tests and studies concerning the effects of bright light on cognitive and physical performance and jet lag. The company was founded by Juuso Samuel Nissilä and Antti Aunio in 2007 and is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.

Part of Schneider Electric SE, Schneider Electric USA, Inc. is a specialist in energy management and automation with operations in more than 100 countries. The company is based in Salisbury, NC. The company offers integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments.

ImaginAb, Inc. develops engineered antibody fragments for diagnostic imaging and novel therapeutic applications. It products offer actionable data to facilitate diagnosis of disease, inform better treatment decisions, and monitor response to therapy. The firm also offers a range of pre-clinical (animal imaging) reagents for use with microPET, microSPECT, and optical imaging systems. The company was founded by Christian P. Behrenbruch, Tove Olafsen, Anna M. Wu, and Robert E. Reiter in 2007 and is headquartered in Inglewood, CA.

Lavorel Medicare SA provides medical home care services. The firm provides nursing care and ambulatory services at home. The company was founded by Jean-Claude Lavorel and Stanislas Lavorel in 2012 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Invent SAS is a French company that provides fund management services. The private company is based in Lyon, France. The company was founded in 2010.

Mimetas BV develops organ-on-a-chip technology for testing of new medicines in high-throughput on miniaturized organ and disease models. It develops microfluidics-based culture plates that enable culturing and screening of a range of 3D organ and tissue models. The firm offers OrganoPlates microfluidics-based culture plates that serve as early stage screening models predicting toxic side effects and drug efficacy. The company was founded by Paul Vulto and Jos Joore in 2013 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

keepMED Ltd. manufactures innovative devices for treating obstructive sleep apnea. It offers keePAP, a wearable device that comprises of a lightweight unobtrusive nasal interface and a miniature battery-operated control unit that is used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The company was founded by Rapoport Alex and is headquartered in Rishon Le Zion, Israel.

Keranova SA designs and develops surgical equipment for various ophthalmologic indications that involve the anterior segment of the eye. The company was founded by Fabrizio Romano on September 4, 2015 and is headquartered in Saint-Etienne, France.

Innis & Gunn Holdings Ltd. is a holding British company that produces and sells beer. The private company is based in Edinburgh, UK. and has subsidiaries in United Kingdom and Canada. The company was founded in 2007.

Physio-Assist SAS develops an expertise in bronchial mucus analysis and clearance. The company was founded by Adrien Mithalal on September 17, 2012 and is headquartered in Aix en Provence, France.

ProDigest BVBA provides customized solutions related to gastrointestinal research, bioavailability and metabolism. The firm serves the operators in the market of food, functional food, feed and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Sam Possemiers, Massimo Marzorati and Massimo Marzorati on September 24, 2008 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

General Inception Management LLC (General Inception Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Vikram Chaudhery, Paul A. Conley and Jim Buzzitta. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Financière Senior Cinqus SASU is a private company based in Paris, France. The French company provides fund management services.

Mablink Bioscience is a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France that develops next-generation antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of solid tumors. Mablink Bioscience's exclusive PSarlink™ platform is a unique stealth technology that "masks" the hydrophobicity of the cytotoxic drugs by adding a polysarcosine chain to the linker. The French company's pipeline is built on the topoisomerase-I inhibitor exatecan as a payload for current developments. Recently, the company announced the publication of a review article titled “Payload Diversification\: A Key Step in the Development of Antibody–Drug Conjugates” which reviews the history of the successes and failures in ADC payloads and takes a look at the new roads currently explored by the industry. The company was founded in 2018 by Warren Viricel and Jean-Guillaume Lafay, with Jean-Guillaume Lafay serving as CEO since then.

Amyl Therapeutics SRL is a Belgian biotech company that uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-? (A?), tau, and ?-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Amyl Therapeutics is based in Liege, BE and was founded in November 2020 by Drs. The company's therapies based on the clarity technology platform are designed to prevent the further accumulation of aggregates and clear existing aggregates from the peripheral organs and the brain, while also blocking further cell-to-cell spread of misfolded proteins. Florent Gros and Pierre Vandepapelière. Pierre Vandepapelière has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Compagnie Merieux Alliance SAS, Mérieux Développement SASU is a Lyon, FR based investment fund. The French company functions as an investment fund.