2019 Participants

Advent France Biotechnology is a French Life Sciences Venture Capital firm dedicated to seeding healthcare’s step forward.

We work with leading research institutions and well-established technology transfer offices, with a strong network of scientific and medical partners, exploring new territories to source breakthrough medical discoveries and drive inventive Life Sciences start-ups to success.

We embrace French Life Sciences’ dynamic of innovation. France harbors a vibrant environment for medical and scientific investigation, with some of the most leading-edge academic and research centers. Advent France Biotechnology seizes the opportunity to highlight their undervalued research programs and assets and participate in structuring France’s biotechnology ecosystem. With Advent France Biotechnology Seed Fund I, we stand as the first dedicated Life Sciences seed-fund in France.

Advent France Biotechnology is supported by Advent Life Sciences, one of Europe’s leading venture teams investing in Life Sciences businesses, giving us direct access to their team of 15 investment professionals. Advent France Biotechnology will apply the investment methodology of Advent Life Sciences that has proven to be highly successful in seeding, creating and supporting early stage Life Sciences projects in the UK and the US for 4 decades.

Advent France Biotechnology was founded in 2015 and is AMF regulated since 2016.

Innate Pharma S.A. is a global, clinical-stage oncology-focused biotech company dedicated to improving treatment and clinical outcomes for patients through therapeutic antibodies that harness the immune system to fight cancer.

For more than a decade, ONTOFORCE has addressed the problem many life sciences companies struggle with when bringing together structured and unstructured data to create new insights. These insights lead to accelerated drug discovery, more in-depth insights into research, real-world evidence, optimized clinical trial research, and a faster go-to-market.
ONTOFORCE already works for lighthouse customers such as Amgen, UCB, BMS, Roche, Medidata, and numerous other life sciences colleagues. Thanks to the intense collaboration with renowned research institutes such as IMEC, VIB, UGent, KULeuven, and international research and industrial consortia such as ELIXIR, FAIRplus, and Pistoia Alliance, it guarantees that you are engaging with a global player that has made transforming data into insights its primary objective.