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Truffle Capital

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Truffle Capital is a European private equity firm that invests in disruptive technologies in IT and Life Sciences.

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01.01.2001

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Founded in 2001, Truffle Capital has raised over $1.1 billion and supported over 75 companies in digital technologies and life sciences. The firm invests in a variety of sectors, including business products, healthcare, SaaS, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, among others. Chaired by Patrick Kron, alongside the company's founders and CEOs, Truffle Capital has a team of 24 professionals from various nationalities who are passionate about financing innovation. The company has successfully raised nearly €400 million for new Venture Capital funds, including Truffle BioMedTech Fund and Truffle Financial Innovation Fund.
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Jean-Francois Fourt
Jean-Francois Fourt

Jean-Francois Fourt

Over 20 years of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, created his first company in 1983 and realised his first IPO in 1993. Over 20 investments realized as a Silicon Valley business angel. Created the first successful cleantech companies in Europe. Founder and Chairman of Osead. Board member of 2-B Energy, Acerde, Actility, Dietswell (Alternext: ADIE), Eco-Carbone, Maisons Oregon, Neelogy, NG2, SP3H, Watteco, all Truffle Capital portfolio companies. MBA from San Francisco State University (USA), Graduate Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieur de Chimie de Toulouse (France), Master in biochemistry (biomass to biofuels) from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (France).

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Bernard-Louis Roques
Bernard-Louis Roques

Bernard-Louis Roques

Mr. Bernard Roques is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Truffle Capital. He serves as a Board Member at PayTop. He is a Co-Founder of Wizpay. He served as a Managing Partner at Confrapar. He is the co-founder of ABN Amro Capital France and currently is a board member of more than ten of Truffle's portfolio companies. He serves as Chairman at Regency. He serves as a Board Member at Levenue. He served as a Board Member at NetmediaEurope. He previously served as a Member of the Supervisory Board at CoolGames. He received an MBA from ESSEC Business School (Paris) and the MIT Executive Certificate. He became a partner at Confrapar in 2012 and is part of Avanti Fund's management team. He also served as a Board Member at Kang. He serves as a Chairman at Praexo. He holds an Electronics Communication Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Bernard-Louis Roques

Dimitri Popov
Dimitri Popov

Dimitri Popov

A former corporate sales & marketing guy (P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Toyota, GM, D&B, MTV, 1+1, etc.) turned entrepreneur with three exits to date, including a satellite music channel, e-commerce and a social media monitoring SaaS.

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Philippe Pouletty
Philippe Pouletty

Philippe Pouletty

Philippe Pouletty is co-founder and General Director of Truffle Capital. Biotech and Medtech industry veteran with dual experience in Silicon Valley and in France. Founder and Chairman of Deinove (Alternext: ALDEI), Co-founder and Board member of Carbios, Co-founder and Board member of Carmat (Alternext: ALCAR), former chairman and Board member of Neovacs (Alternext: ALNEV), Chairman of Splicos, co-founder and Board member of Pharnext, Plasmaprime, Vexim, Wittycell, Board member of Immune Targeting Systems, Myopowers, Symetis, Theraclion, Theradiag (Alternext: ALTER) all Truffle Capital portfolio companies. Independent Board member of Innate Pharma (Euronext). Founder of SangStat (1988, organ transplantation therapeutics, IPO on NASDAQ in 1993, sold to Genzyme for $600M in 2002), Conjuchem (founded in 1993, IPO on the Toronto stock exchange in 2000). Former Chairman (2001-2009) and Honorary Chairman of France Biotech, the French biotech industry association. Inventor of the Young Innovative Entreprise Status (JEI), implemented by President Chirac in 2004 in France. Former vice chairman of Europabio, the European biotech industry association. Inventor of 29 patents, including the second highest revenue generating life science patent for Stanford University. He thus entered the prestigious Stanford University Hall of Fame of Inventors in 2012. MD from the University of Paris VI, hematology and immunology resident in Paris hospital, MS degrees in immunology (with honours) and virology from Pasteur Institute, post-doctoral research fellow (1986-1988) at Stanford University. 1999 laureate of the American Liver Foundation. Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

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Antoine Pau

Antoine Pau

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Morgan Guilloto

Morgan Guilloto

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Emeline Berg

Emeline Berg

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Nassima Abdi

Nassima Abdi

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Sandrine Gasnot

Sandrine Gasnot

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Rialy Rajaonah

Rialy Rajaonah

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Hélène Henderson

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