Laurent Kott

Firmenich SA produces and distributes perfumes and flavors. It offers fine fragrances and ingredients, and body, oral and home care products. The firm provides flavors for beverages, sweet goods, and savory foods. It serves food, beauty, household, fabric care products, and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded by Matin Naef and Philippe Chuit on November 1, 1895 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

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.

Part of Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc., Thomson Digital Image produces software. Thomson Digital Image was acquired by Wavefront Technologies, Inc. from Thales SA on August 01, 1993 for $14.66 million.

Exane SA (Broker) (Exane) is the brokerage division of Exane SA, itself a subsidiary of Verner Investissements SAS in France. Established in 2004 as a joint venture between BNP Paribas and Verner Investissements, the firm is based in Paris and specializes in European equity research and broking activities. Exane has research centers in Paris and London which are supported by a team of economists and strategists.

TechFund Europe Management SAS (TechFund Europe Management) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of TechFund Capital founded in 2000 by Jean-Michel Barbier and Kurt A. Keilhacker. The firm is headquartered in Paris.

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.

HealthCare Medical Technologies, Inc. provides healthcare management services to health plans focused on obesity, diabetes, renal failure, heart disease, and high risk obstetrics. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

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.

BPIFrance Investissement SAS (BPIfrance Investissement) is the private equity arm and subsidiary of State-owned Banque Publique d'Investissement in France. Formerly known as CDC Entreprises SAS, the firm was established in 1994 to carry out public-interest missions such as employment creation and momentum initiation in the private equity field. In 2013 they became BPIfrance Investissement when CDC Entreprises, FSI and FSI Régions merged. Headquartered in Paris, BPIfrance Investissement invests of behalf of the Government of France, as well as for third parties including FEI-Fonds Européen d'Investissement, BEI-Banque Européenne d'Investissement and BPCE SA. The firm invests directly or indirectly in SMEs and intermediate-sized companies at all stages of their development.

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.

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.

Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA is an innovative and international healthcare company with its own research and development department. It focuses on drugs for the treatment of illness in the fields of neurology and psychiatry. The company is bundling the activities of its subsidiaries Merz Pharmaceuticals, Merz Consumer Care, Merz Dental, and Merz Hygiene, with products ranging from prescription drugs and OTC products for health and wellness, materials for dentists and dental technicians to hygienic products for medical disinfection and cleaning. The units of Merz Group Services, the fith Merz subsidiary, include Human Resources, Supply Chain/Purchasing, Information Technology (IT), Technical Operations and Finances/Controlling.

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.

ETHERA SA provides diagnostic kits for indoor air pollution. It also develops solutions for measurement of chemical pollutants in the indoor air, especially for toxic volatile organic compounds. The firm's products include Profil'air modules, Profil'air sensors and Profil'air accessories. The company was founded by Yves Bigay, Thu-Hoa Tran-Thi and Sylvain Colomb in 2010 and is headquartered in Crolles, 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.

Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière is a part of the AP-HP, which is the CHU of Ile-de-France and is based in Paris, France. The AP-HP has 38 hospitals that receive 8.3 million patients every year. The French company provides medical, social, and legal support to victims of violence through its Maison des Femmes program. The private company also has several research chairs in different fields and all of its clinical services are subject to regulatory certification by the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS). The company uses indicators to regularly evaluate the quality and safety of the care it provides. The company also has a team of social workers who can help patients with their needs outside of the hospital. The company has protocols for cooperation between healthcare professionals to extend the scope of activities of paramedics while ensuring the quality and safety of care.

Nubera eBusiness SL operates as an online business software marketplace. The firm's categorized listings include applications for business intelligence and analytics, collaboration, customer management support, finance and accounting, and marketing. The company was founded by Christophe Primault and Manuel Jaffrin in January 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

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.

CentraleSupélec operates as a higher education and research institution. The firm is a public institution under ministerial charter, devoted to the sciences and engineering. The company was founded on January 1, 2015 and is headquartered in Paris, 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.

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.

Firmenich International SA sells perfume and cosmetic products. The company is headquartered in Satigny, Switzerland.

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.