Christophe Dardel

Auriga Partners SA (Auriga) is an independent, management-owned venture capital firm which was founded by Patrick Bamas, Jacques Chatain and Bernard Daugeras in 1998. Headquartered in Paris, the firm's core activity is enterprise creation. In addition to providing a network of contacts capable of accelerating internationalization, and furthering strategic partnerships and business deals, Auriga manages several seed and early-stage funds specializing in information technology and life sciences.

Sofinnova Partners SA (Sofinnova) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France. Originally known as Sofinnova, the first venture capital firm created in France, the firm created a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco in 1976. In 1997, both firms were bought out by their management teams, which become the majority shareholders of the new companies, Sofinnova Partners in Paris and Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco.

IRDI Capital Investissement SAS(IRDI Capital) is an independent French regional venture capital/private equity firm which was established in 1981 by Alain Savary. The firm is headquartered in Toulouse.

Domain Therapeutics SA discovers and develops drug candidates targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) in all major therapeutic fields. The firm?s products include technologies, such as DTect-All and BioSens-All. Its services encompass allosteric modulators identification, biased ligands selection, orphan and historically intractable GPCRs address and high throughput screening campaign. The company was founded by Maurice Isra?l, Pierre Potier, Bernard Jacques Alex Gilly, Yves Dunant and Pascal Neuville in 2008 and is headquartered in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France.

Elaia Partners SAS (Elaia) is an independent French private equity boutique which was founded in 2002. Named after the Greek word for olive tree, the symbol of resilience, longevity and prosperity, Elaia focuses on software technology companies. The firm is headquartered in Paris and manages Elaia Ventures, a French FCPR fund backed by financial institutions, industrial investors and family offices.

PALUMED SA develops and produces pharmaceutical products for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The firm specializes in the development and production of new antimalarial agents and antibacterial molecules. The company was founded on December 8, 2000 and is headquartered in Castanet-Tolosan, France.

Aveni SA designs, develops, manufactures and markets chemical formulations. It enables future technologies with its approach to metallization for semiconductor, MEMS, advanced packaging, and flex applications. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Massy, France.

Eptica SA provides online customer service software. It offers solution for customer interaction management including web self-service, social customer service, email management, chat, fax-letter-short message service, and knowledge management for customer service. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

IXO Private Equity SAS (IXO-PE) is an independent France-based regional private equity firm which was founded in 2002. Headquartered in Toulouse with an office in Bordeaux, the firm was previously known as ICSO Gestion. Their culture emphasizes regional development and local employment creation. The firm manages FCPR limited partnership venture capital funds for institutions and FIP regional development funds for individual investors. IXO-PE's institutional clients include local collectivities, insurance companies and international corporations as well as regional, national and European banks.

EVE SA provides electrical installation work on public roads. The company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

France Biotech Association is an independent association founded in 1997 that brings together healthtech entrepreneurs and their expert partners. The non-profit company is based in Paris, France. The association actively contributes to meeting the many challenges of the healthtech industry, such as companies' financing, innovation-related taxes, regulatory and market access related issues. It offers concrete competition and solutions through its commissions and working groups to help startups and SMEs become international leaders capable of rapidly developing and bringing innovative solutions to patients. The French company was founded by Philippe Pouletty, Pascal Brandys, Denis J. Lucquin.

Availpro SAS provides online hotel reservation solutions. It offers a booking engine, which is integrated with a distribution tool, allowing the hoteliers to advertise and sell their rooms on third party websites. The company was founded by Philippe Jean Pierre Lamarche and Sébastien Maurice Boher on April 6, 2001 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Tc Land Expression SA operates as a molecular diagnostic company. It focuses on the development and commercialisation of tests aimed at monitoring patients with immunological conditions. The firm specializes in the area of organ transplantation and immune mediated disorders. Its development programs encompass RA-INF-Dx, IMD Dx2, IMD Dx3, and L-TolX. The company was founded by Marina Guillet and Alain Huriez in November 2002 and is headquartered in Huningue, France.

AlchiMedics SA specializes in coating technologies via electrografting. Its products enables covalent adhesion of nano to micrometric polymer-based layers on surfaces. The firm designs, develops and implements electro-grafting technology for implantable biomedical applications. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

CYTOO SA operates as a contract research organization which develops physiological cell-based assays. It focuses on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing new technologies for cell analysis for life sciences research community. The company has offices in Bethesda and Grenoble. The company was founded by François Chatelain, Alexandra Fuchs and Jacques Lewiner in 2008 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

Convertigo SAS provides Internet related software. It delivers a secured and scalable disruptive all-in-one solution, integrating rapid cross platform mobile development tools and a powerful MBaaS covering challenging backend enablement, featuring a middleware optimized for mobility. The company was founded by Olivier Picciotto and Jean-Michel Cohen in 1994 and is headquartered in Orsay, France.

BonitaSoft SA develops open source software. It also provides open source business process management solutions. The firm's product, Bonita open solution, is an open source BPM solution that designs, develops, executes, and monitors business processes; Bonita Studio, a BPM notation solution for drawing processes graphically; and Bonita execution engine with Bonita open solution for integrating new services or BPM standards as they emerge. The company was founded by Rodrigue Le Gall, Charles Souillard, and Miguel Valdes-Faura in 2001 and is headquartered in Boulogne, France.

eXo Platform SAS provides information technology products and services. Its offers private cloud hosting, professional services, on-demand services, services packages, and training. The company was founded by Benjamin Mestrallet in 2003 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Flash Therapeutics SAS provides biotechnology products for medical research. It custom products include lentiviral vectors, non-integrating lentiviral vectors, stable cell line and animal models. The company was founded by Pascale Bouill? in 2005 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Meiogenix SAS operates as a biotech company which develops breeding technologies. Its technology allows the modulation of the homologous recombination in eukaryotic cells. It facilitates the natural process that introduces genetic diversity in organisms allowing the generation of novel natural varieties. The company was founded by Giacomo Bastianelli and Alain Nicolas in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Isocell SA operates as a holding company with interests in the manufacture of food supplements. It develops proprietary formulation for super-oxyde dismutase. The firm also targets food areas including sodas, sport drinks and dairies with wellness claims. It also engages in the ownership and operations of medical laboratories. The company was founded by Francois Vix on July 9, 2001 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Allure Systems SASU provides proprietary patented algorithms and studio technologies to replace fashion top-models, photographers and graphic artists. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Microphyt SA researches, develops, produces and markets natural bioactive products from microalgae. Its solutions are intended to address the needs of personal-care, food and health-care industries worldwide, through a differentiated and sustainable approach and proprietary technologies allow controlled and industrial-scale supply of microalgae biomass and extracts. The firm''s Industrial scale photo bioreactors developed and patented and are designed to produce specific strains of microalgae by preserving cell integrity and yielding commercial quantities of slow-growing or biofilm-forming species. The company was founded by Arnaud Muller-Feuga in 2007 and is headquartered in Baillargues, France.

Fabentech SAS developes immunotherapeutic solutions for emerging infectious diseases as well as for certain drug intoxications. Its products include infography development, Lassa(FBH-003) and other emerging diseases. The company was founded by Bertrand Lepine on June 5, 2009 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Pylote SA conceives and develops mineral microspheres to sell solutions. Its products include mineral microspheres, material integration and pylote added. The company was founded by Loïc Marchin and is headquartered in Dremil-Lafage, France.

Ffly4u SASU provides a low frequency localization services for mobile assets. It also offers services like movement, temperature, noise or opening detection in order to guarantee the integrity of sensitive assets. The company was founded by Pages Olivier in 2015 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Nosopharm SAS operates as a biotechnology company. It develops an anti-infective drug platform that is based on the medicinal chemistry of a novel antibiotic class used to cure life-threatening multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections. The company was founded by Philippe Villain-Guillot and Maxime Gualtieri in February 2009 and is headquartered in Nimes, France.

FlashCell SAS produces lentiviral vectors to develop gene therapy and immunotherapy programs for therapeutic purposes. The company was founded on August 12, 2016 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.

VitaDx International SAS develops a solution for early diagnosis of bladder cancer. It offers Fluorescence, a technology that can classify cancer cells as tumorous or healthy, and machine learning, a software analysis that used a set of mathematical techniques allowing algorithms to solve problems from data without being explicitly programmed. The company was founded by Allan Rodriguez in 2013 and is headquartered in Rennes, France.

Elicit Plant SAS is a French agri-biotech company that aims to become a leader in the ecological transition for agriculture and address the challenges posed by climate change on large-scale crops. The company is based in Moulins-sur-Tardoire, France. The company's proprietary technology, based on the exogenous application of phytosterols, enhances plant stress resistance by eliciting their natural defenses. Extensive field trials across three continents have proven that the biosolutions from the eliterra® platform are the only ones providing farmers with a regular and sufficient return on investment for use in large-scale crops, yielding an average increase in productivity of 12%%. The company was founded in 2017 by Jean-François Dechant, who has been the CEO since 2017.

Werewool, Inc. develops fibers. The CEO of the American company is Chui-Lian Lee.

Bon Vivant SAS produces dairy products. The company is based in Lyon, France. The French company was founded in 2021. The CEO is Helene Briand.

Firalis SA engages in the discovery and development of biomarker-based diagnostics. It offers biomarkers for drug safety, cardiovascular, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The firm offers a portfolio of biomarker-based diagnostic methods and provides customer-tailored biomarker solutions. The company was founded on July 8, 2008 by Hüseyin Firat and is headquartered in Huningue, France.