Florent Gros
Managing Director @ Novartis Venture Fund
Antwerp, Belgium
Florent Gros is a Series C investor at Novartis Venture Fund in Antwerp focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Florent Gros is the Chairman & Founder at Amyl Therapeutics. He attended University of Mulhouse.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Florent Gros invests in
Stages Florent Gros invests in
Countries Florent Gros invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 8 (62%)
- Health Care 6 (46%)
- Therapeutics 4 (31%)
- Health Diagnostics 3 (23%)
- Biopharma 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series C 5 (38%)
- Series B 4 (31%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Country
- France 2 (15%)
- United States 2 (15%)
- Iceland 1 (8%)
- Ireland 1 (8%)
- Switzerland 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| GEMMABio is a therapeutics company that supports the rare disease community. | $34M / Seed / Dec 23, 2024 | ||
| ImCheck Therapeutics is a developer of immuno-modulatory antibodies designed for the treatment of cancer and other immune-related diseases. The company's services are engaged in the discovery and development of immunomodulators for treating breast cancer, gastric, ovarian cancer cells and other solid solid tumours. | $100M / Series C / Jun 13, 2022 | ||
| The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME(diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. Furthermore, the technique has been demonstrated to allow diseases at the anterior part of the eye to be treated with a reduced number of topical applications compared to conventional eye-drops. | $57M / Series C / May 04, 2021 | ||
| Anokion, a spin-off from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is focused on applying the company’s antigen-specific immune tolerance technology to reduce the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins and to treat autoimmune and allergic diseases. As a platform technology, Anokion’s approach to antigen-specific tolerance can betranslated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. | $40M / Series B / Sep 11, 2019 | ||
| The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME(diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. Furthermore, the technique has been demonstrated to allow diseases at the anterior part of the eye to be treated with a reduced number of topical applications compared to conventional eye-drops. | $20.5M / Series B / Jan 04, 2018 | ||
| Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer | $35M / Series D / Jan 23, 2017 | ||
| Inflazome is a biotech company that develops orally available drugs to address inflammatory diseases by targeting inflammasomes. The company's drugs block inflammasome signals, eliminating a root cause of inflammation, enabling healthcare institutions to avail targeted therapies for inflammatory diseases such as Parkinson's,Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes.The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. | $17M / Series A / Sep 11, 2016 | ||
| Myopowers Medical Technologies is a French medical device company that develops innovative technologies to provide muscle assistance to patients with high unmet medical needs. The technology can be applied to a number of indications in the GI, cardiology or urology area.The company focus is the development of ARTUS, a new and unique implantabledevice for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence is a condition that affects millions of people around the world. Unfortunately, currently available products are old with significant limitations such as tissue erosion, infection or mechanical failure leading frequent re-operation.ARTUS is made of smooth and flat silicon cuff placed around the urethra. It is individually actionable and adjustable with a remote control allowing patients easy voiding and the surgeon monitoring and adjusting the cuff. This device is the first artificial urinary system specifically designed to include the treatment of female patients who account for a vast majority of the urinary incontinence market. | $5.1M / Series C / Jun 16, 2015 | ||
| Merus is a biotechnology company that discovers and develops new treatments for cancer patients. The company utilizes its proprietary Multiclonics Platform technology to advance its clinical pipeline of medicines. Merus conducts scientific research and clinical trials focused on developing novel treatments. | $79.1M / Series C / Apr 26, 2015 | ||
| Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer | $20M / Series C / Jan 29, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Novartis Venture Fund
Novartis Venture Fund's primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. They balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics, or drug delivery systems. In their investments, they look for unmet needs and clinical impact, novel proprietary science, an understanding of mechanism, managementand board experience, and capital efficiency in the program.Novartis Venture Fund prefers to have their initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company's progress. Their approach involves larger focused investments, with anticipation of total investments up to USD 30 to 50 million per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100,000 USD to get started. They plan to increase their activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participating in larger syndicates.
Novartis Venture Fund Contacts
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Aaron Nelson
Principal & Managing Director
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Anja König
Global Head Novartis Venture Fund
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Bart Dzikowski
Managing Director, Head of Transactions & Legal
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Florent Gros
Managing Director
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Florent Gros
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What does Florent Gros invest in?
Florent Gros invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Therapeutics startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Florent Gros closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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