Valérie Danaguezian

Alta Partners Management Co. LP (Alta Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Jean Deleage, Guy Paul Nohra, Marino Polestra and Garrett P. Gruener. The firm is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.

Laboratoire Precilens SAS is a holding company engaged in the design, manufacture, and commercialization of contact lenses. It offers gas permeable and soft progressive lenses, as well as specialized corrective varieties for conditions such as presbyopia, myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Avesthagen Ltd. provides personalized healthcare through convergence of food, pharma and population genetics. It offers genome analysis, transcriptome analysis, metabolome analysis and lead optimization, and recombinant protein expression services, as well as engages in the generation of stable mammalian cell lines over-expressing a recombinant protein, development of product specific bioassays, and design of novel animal component free production media. The company was founded by Villoo Morwala Zareer Patell on April 20, 1998 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GO Capital SAS (GO Capital) is an independent French private equity firm founded 2003 and is headquartered in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande. Formerly known as Grand Ouest Gestion SAS, the firm's investors include regional and cooperative banks, Natixis and CDC PME.GO Capital is located in Rennes and focuses primarily on the northwest quarter of France, also known as Grand Ouest, which comprises the Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Pays de la Loire and Basse Normandie regions. The firm manages the Ouest Ventures fund.

ACG Management SAS (ACG) is the private equity subsidiary of Vivéris Holding SAS in France. The firm was formerly known as Vivéris Management SAS, established in 2000, and became ACG Management in 2014. Based in Marseille, with additional offices in Ajaccio and St. Denis de la Réunion and subsidiaries in New Caledonia and Tunisia, ACG is a multi-regional firm which provides technology venture capital, development capital, capital transmission and LBO services as well as a range of investment vehicles, including FCPIs, FIPs and FCPRs for institutional investors.

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.

Dieau-Edafim SA designs and manufactures water fountains and coolers connected to the domestic water system or fitted tanks. The company was founded on April 1, 1999 and is headquartered in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, France.

CDC Croissance SA is an asset management firm headquartered in Paris, France. It was founded in 2001 as CDC Entreprises Valeurs Moyennes SAS. The firm is a subsidiary of BPIFrance Investissement, which in turn is a subsidiary of government-owned Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale. CDC Croissance manages assets of individual and institutional clients.

Compagnie Mérieux Alliance SAS owns shares and interests in firms that manufactures, sells, and distributes medicines and other pharmaceutical products. The company is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Genclis SA operates as a holding company with interest in providing research services to the medical and biotechnology firms. The company was founded by Jean Cinqualbre in 2006 and is headquartered in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.

Axess Vision Technology SA designs, develops, produces and commercializes surgical equipment. It offers video endoscope and electro-therapeutic products. The company was founded by Olivier Brosset, Marc Malou, Olivier Fructus and Nicolas Mathieu in February 24, 2006 and is headquartered in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France.

Kurma Partners SA (KP) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Thierry Laugel. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Silliker Group Corp. SARL operates as holding firm with interest in food testing and consulting network. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France

PricewaterhouseCoopers France provides accounting and business management consulting services. It offers expertise in auditing, financial strategy, legal advise, and investment. The company was founded on May 30, 1963 and is headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Based in Lyon within the Center of excellence in Infectious Diseases, Platine Pharma Services is an essential source of immune information for scientists and clinicians. From protocol support to regulatory reports, the company designs, performs and interprets complex molecular and cellular assays. Platine actively supports the development of in-vitro diagnostic, cosmetic and therapeutic product candidates, highlighting key markers and features in both normal and pathological conditions, and guiding decisions at each development stage. Using state-of-the-art technologies such as multi-parametric flow cytometry, Singulex, Luminex, Mesoscale Discovery, ELISpot or ELISA, Platine Pharma Services offers a fit-for-purpose approach to its customers and partners.

Transgene Tasly (Tianjin) Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. engages in theresearch and development, and manufacture of immunotherapies for the treatment of oncology and infectious diseases. Its business scope includes biopharmaceutical technology development, technology transfer, and related technical advisory services. The company was founded on July 26, 2010 and is headquartered in Tianjin, China.

iSTAR Medical SA develops innovative ophthalmic implants. Its products include MINIject, STARflo and STAR Material. The company was founded by Michel Alvarez in 2011 and is headquartered in Wavre, Belgium.

Egidium Technologies SAS develops and markets software solutions to security and safety of critical sites. It offers a united 3-D visualization, as well as a decision-making support in real time for the site security. The company offers access control, video-protection, fire alarms, and security staff services. The company was founded by Laurent Denizot in 2009 and is headquartered Orsay, France.

Horama SA engages in the development of gene therapies, It focuses on ophthalmological diseases for preserving visual autonomy of patients. The company was founded by Denis Cayet, Christian Hamel, Guylene Le Meur, Philippe Moullier, Vasiliki Kalatzis, and Michel Weberin March 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

SparingVision SAS develops therapeutic approach for treatment of blinding inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa. The company was founded by Jose Alain Sahel, Thierry Leveillard and Florence Allouche Ghrenassia and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Argobio SAS is a start-up studio founded in 2021 and based in Paris, FR. The company was initiated by Kurma Partners, a leading healthcare venture capital firm based in France, and Bpifrance, the French national investment bank. The French company aims to nurture and launch at least five breakthrough biotech companies over the next five years by sourcing innovative early-stage projects from renowned European academic research institutions. The focus is on selected therapeutic areas, including rare diseases, neurological disorders, oncology, and immunology. Argobio will identify, select, and incubate these projects up to company creation and beyond, providing broad expertise in the discovery and development of novel drugs with a team of highly experienced biotech entrepreneurs. The internal team is led by Yves Ribeill, Neill Mackenzie, Poul Sørensen, and Rémi Soula. Thierry Laugel, Managing Partner at Partners, is the President of Argobio. Kurma and Bpifrance were joined by complementary strategic investors, Angelini Pharma, a private international pharmaceutical company, Evotec, a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company, and the Institut Pasteur, an internationally renowned center for biomedical research.

GLOWBL SAS designs and develops communications software for videoconferencing and content sharing. It enables users to share media content and live events. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.