Edwin Khodabakchian

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Codenvy LLC provides coding, building and testing applications. The firm's cloud environment for coding, building, and testing apps uses cloud's infinite resources to shorten development tasks while organizations simplify on-boarding, collaboration and compliance processes. The company was founded by Benjamin Mestrallet and Tyler Jewell in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

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.

EnobraQ SAS develops yeast for the production of chemical compounds. The company was founded on November 13, 2015 and is headquartered in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, 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.

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.

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.