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Sofinnova Partners Are Redefining And Disobeying The Venture Investment Commandments

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

Sofinnova Partners has played a key role in defining the medtech investment space for the past 50 years, helping bring to market a plethora of life-saving technologies, even when they appear, initially, to be risky.  

“Thou shalt not invest in capital equipment is a mantra for most investors,” according to Antoine Papiernik, chair and managing partner at Sofinnova Partners.

And yet, since joining the fund in 1997, Papiernik – and Sofinnova as a whole – has defied this commandment...

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