# Giorgio Anania

> Giorgio Anania is a seed investor at Aledia (Paris) backing Medical and Biotechnology. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aledia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aledia)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giorgio-anania-73ab083/

Giorgio Anania is a seed investor at Aledia in Paris focused on Medical and Biotechnology. Giorgio has spent more than 30 years in senior management at high-technology companies, from start-up ventures to international public companies, and has led two successful IPOs. He is chairman of Cube Optics AG and vice president of the executive board at Photonics21.Previously, Giorgio was CEO of Bookham, now Oclaro, which he grew from astart-up into a quarter-billion-dollar NASDAQ-listed public company. He also served as the vice president of sales, finance and business development for Flamel Technologies.Prior to that, he was the founder and general manager of the Miniplex DSL Business Unit at Raychem and strategy consultant at Booz Allen.He has a M.A. degree in physics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in thermonuclear fusion from Princeton University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LinKinVax | LinKinVax operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. LinKinVax is developing an innovative protein-based vaccine platform that can accelerate availability of vaccines by leveraging the research conducted at the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI). | $5M | Seed | Feb 10, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Aledia

VC Fund · Grenoble, France

Aledia develops and manufactures innovative light-emitting diodes based on a unique 3D architecture using gallium-nitride on-silicon microwires.The technology uses standard silicon wafers with diameters of 8 inches (200 mm) and existing CMOS wafer-fabrication processes and tools, enabling the production of LED chips at 25 percent of the cost oftraditional planar LED chips. The process and tools help develop both mobile displays and microdisplays for AR/VR applications, enabling users to use them for direct-view displays such as for smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, and laptops. In 2011, Giorgio Anania, Philippe Gilet, and Xavier Hugon co-founded the Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes-based company.

5 contacts available at Aledia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Giorgio Anania | Chairman, Co-Founder, President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giorgio-anania |
| Bernhard Stapp | Independent Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernhard-stapp |
| Francis Taroni | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francis-taroni |
| Nathalie Gambade | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nathalie-gambade |
| Philippe Gilet | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippe-gilet |

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## FAQ

### What does Giorgio Anania invest in?

Giorgio Anania invests primarily in Medical and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Giorgio Anania last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Giorgio Anania closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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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