Gerard Milhiet

FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc. engages in the developing, manufacturing and marketing of in hand-carried ultrasound systems, which are used in a variety of medical specialties in a range of clinical settings at the point-of-care. It designs products for applications, including emergency medicine, surgery, critical care, internal medicine, musculoskeletal, and vascular access procedures as well as for imaging in traditional applications, such as radiology, cardiology, vascular medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. The company was founded in April 1998 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.

BioVex, Inc. develops vaccines for the treatment of cancer and the prevention of chronic infectious diseases. Its products include OncoVEX oncolytic and ImmunoVEX technology. The company was founded in 1999 by Dr. Robert Coffin and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Its lead product candidate, ITCA 650, is currently in development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The firm’s platform technology is a proprietary subcutaneous delivery system that involves a matchstick-size, miniature osmotic pump implanted sub-dermally to provide continuous and consistent drug therapy, and the company’s proprietary formulation technology, which maintains stability of therapeutic proteins and peptides at human body temperatures for long extended periods of time. The company was founded by Mark Moran in June 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Direct Conversion AB manufactures and supplies X-Ray detectors such as cadmium telluride (CdTe) detectors. Its products include XC-THOR, XC-HYDRA, XC-TDI, XC-ACTAEON, SNAP 225, SNAP 150 and SNAP 100X2. The firm’s products are used in the dental, medical, welding, industrial, food and security industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Danderyd, Sweden.

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.

Amgen Rockville, Inc. develops and commercializes antibody-based products. Its product development pipeline includes novel antibodies generated with its BiTE antibody platform, as well as conventional monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

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.

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.

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.

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.

iDbyMe SA sells clothes online. It provides online shopping related services. The firm offers sweaters, short cardigans, long and short vests, shirts, leather jackets, tops, dresses and coats. It provides to its customers the possibility to submit their own clothing designs. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg.

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.

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.

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.

Part of MEDIAN Technologies SA, Median Technologies, Inc. provides medical imaging services. The company is based in Burlington, MA. The CEO of the company is Fredrik Bjjorn Brag.

Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and fabricates drugs. The firm’s pipeline products are based on proprietary XTEN half-life extension, Antibody-XTEN-Drug Conjugate, ProTIA pro-drug and bispecific T-cell engager platform technologies. The company was founded by Willem P.C. Stemmer and Volker Schellenberger in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Nuvation Bio Operating Co., Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology company developing proprietary therapies focuse on oncology. It portfolio includes Seven Novel and Mechanistically Distinct Oncology Programs, Each with Multiple Drug Development Candidates. The company was founded by David Hung in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc. provides health care services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture.

Aerium Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that focuses on epidemic and pandemic preparedness. The company is based in Lausanne and has operations in the United States. The company's mission is to discover and develop antibodies and small molecule antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 and other epidemic and pandemic threats. Aerium Therapeutics has a team of world-class scientists and biotechnology veterans, as well as experienced investors. Aerium's lead assets are monoclonal antibodies that show broad activity against important variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron and its subvariants. The company plans to expand its pipeline to antiviral therapeutics in late 2022 and will broaden its focus to other epidemic and pandemic threats in the future. The CEO of the company is Rajeev Venkayya.

Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

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.