Sofinnova Ventures
140 Geary Street, Tenth Floor
San Francisco
California
94108
United States
Tel: 415-228-3380
Fax: 415-228-3390
Website: http://www.sofinnova.com/
Email: info@sofinnova.com
About Sofinnova Ventures
As a small, highly skilled firm focused on early stage investments, Sofinnova Ventures brings unique benefits to our portfolio companies and prospective entrepreneurs. We pride ourselves on flexibility and fast decision making. Our real world operating experience and proven record of collaboration make us an ideal firm for innovative startup and early stage companies. Our unique geographic positioning leverages the best opportunities and synergies in the U.S. West Coast, Europe and Israel.Geographic Synergy Our Managing Directors' expertise is of the greatest help to early stage companies and our skills prove beneficial to companies on both sides of the Atlantic. We invest both in companies seeking growth through new geographic markets yet we also invest in U.S.-based startup companies primarily targeting only their home market. While we can often meet a startup's entire investment needs we frequently invest in conjunction with U.S. venture capital syndicates or Sofinnova Partners. While the majority of our investing is in the U.S. and mostly on the West Coast, about 25% of our investments are made in Europe and Israel.
American-based investments benefit from Sofinnova's intimate knowledge of the French market and its Parisian connections. This network includes its shareholders and its relationships with world-class research centers and Universities. These factors provide greater access and better penetration of American products within France. Conversely, we often provide invaluable assistance to our European and Israeli portfolio companies in entering American markets.
Emphasis Sofinnova targets specific areas of the Information Technology sector (about 70% of our funds), as well as specific segments of the Life Sciences market (about 30%). The bulk of our investments are in startup and early stage companies but we invest about 15% to 20% of our funds in later stage companies in which the management team is in place and the product has been developed.
Within the large and dynamic Information Technology industry we focus on telecommunications, networking, Internet-related software, enterprise general software and wireless technologies. But we are flexible and have considered and invested in promising ventures outside these areas of focus. The technology sector is in continual upheaval, with new companies usurping older established technologies. In the past, as shown by its successful investments, Sofinnova has been able to catch many winners in these series of never-ending new waves such as Premisys, Ray Dream/Fractal, and Network Peripherals. No other segment of American industry has seen so many opportunities in such a short period of time.
In the Life Sciences sector we target opportunities in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, with emphasis on therapeutics and medical devices. We focus on promising seed stage and startup investments, made possible by the strong scientific network of our Life Sciences Managing Director Michael Powell, but we also invest in intermediate stage companies that are believed to be significantly undervalued, whose technology has not been fully appreciated by the average investor. We will search out investments that provide a balance between early stage "research" projects such as platform or revolutionary technologies, and the development-oriented opportunities that will capture existing markets through innovation rather than invention
Investment Criteria We consider these factors in every investment opportunity:
- The quality of the management team, and in particular the experience of its members and the team's business potential and cohesiveness;
- The potential for growth, as offered by the technology, the products and the targeted markets;
- The valuation of the company: we will invest only in companies which have a very attractive valuation, and therefore offer a substantial potential for capital gain;
- A clear interest demonstrated by the management team for capital appreciation and liquidity.
Key Management: Alain Azan, azan@sofinnova.com Eric Buatois, eric@sofinnova.com Robert Carr, carr@sofinnova.com James Healy, jim@sofinnova.com Dr. Michael Powell, powell@sofinnova.com Nathalie Auber, auber@sofinnova.com
Last Updated 1-21-02
28 articles about Sofinnova Ventures
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Pixium Vision announces the implementation of a bridge financing with Bpifrance and Sofinnova and a reverse stock split on the basis of 1 new share for 50 existing shares
7/28/2023
Pixium Vision SA announces that it successfully negotiated a 3 million Euro convertible shareholders’ loan with Bpifrance and Sofinnova.
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Sofinnova Partners Appoints Mary McCarthy as Partner for the Firm’s Industrial Biotech Strategy
4/20/2023
Sofinnova Partners announced the appointment of Mary McCarthy as Partner at Sofinnova Partners, joining the growing Sofinnova Industrial Biotech Strategy team.
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Noema Pharma, Founded by Sofinnova Partners, Raises CHF 103 Million (USD 112 Million) in Series B Financing
3/7/2023
Sofinnova Partners, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, announced that Noema Pharma, has raised an oversubscribed CHF 103 million Series B financing round.
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Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates. Belgium-based Galapagos NV won European approval for Jyseleca for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC).
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Noema Pharma raises CHF54 million in Series A financing round led by Sofinnova Partners and Polaris Partners
12/1/2020
Strong participation from international syndicate of investors, including Gilde Healthcare, Invus and BioMed Partners
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EnginZyme Secures €6.4 Million Series A Financing Round Led by Sofinnova Partners
4/22/2020
The funds will be used to accelerate the development of EnginZyme’s technology platform and take its first internal production process to pilot
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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, March 20
3/20/2020
Companies strengthen their leadership teams and board with this week's Movers & Shakers. -
BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Feb. 21
2/21/2020
Biopharma and life sciences companies strengthen their leadership teams and board with this week's Movers & Shakers. -
Gimv and other shareholders sell biopharmaceutical company Breath Therapeutics to Zambon after a fast development
7/25/2019
Gimv, Sofinnova and Gilde Healthcare announced the sale of biopharmaceutical company Breath Therapeutics.
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Sofinnova Partners Launch MD Start III Medtech Acceleration Fund at €48M
5/21/2019
Sofinnova Partners, a leading European venture capital firm specialized in Life Sciences, announced the launch of MD Start III, which closed above its original target of €40 million.
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Sofinnova Partners Invests in Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics
5/9/2019
Top European VC leads 28-7’s Series A extension with $15 million and brings financing to over $80 million
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Polyneuron Raises CHF22.5 Million in Series A to Advance Novel Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases
3/28/2019
Leading venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners led the Series A financing, together with New Enterprise Associates, which co-led the round
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Gail Maderis, currently president and chief executive officer of South San Francisco-based Antiva Biosciences, has a rock-solid resume.
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In the biotech world, only 7 to 9 percent of companies have women as their chief executives. Antiva BioSciences is a good example of how this problem is perpetuated.
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Akouos, based in Boston, announced a Series A financing worth $50 million. The round was led by seed investors 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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It’s been a big year so far for activity in the U.S. biopharma market—record IPOs and plenty of big acquisitions. But things may be heating up in Europe as well.
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Sofinnova Partners Announces the Sale of ReCor Medical to Otsuka Holdings
7/10/2018
Sofinnova Partners today announced that Otsuka Holdings is acquiring its portfolio company ReCor Medical.
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Sofinnova Partners Appoints Dr. Martin T. Rothman as Venture Partner
5/21/2018
Sofinnova Partners significantly reinforces its team with an internationally renowned physician and entrepreneur
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Sofinnova Partners Leads Micropep Technologies €4M Series A Financing Round
3/6/2018
Micropep Technologies, developing a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants, is the third investment of the Sofinnova IB I fund dedicated to industrial biotech; Sofinnova IB I, which recently closed at €125M, is the largest European fund dedicated to sustainable transition of the chemical industry.
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Sofinnova Ventures Spinout HealthQuest Eyes $175 Million
1/13/2016