Mérieux Equity Partners
VC Fund
Lyon, France
Mérieux Equity Partners (“MxEP”) is a management company dedicated to venture, growth and LBO investments in the healthcare and nutrition sectors. MxEP actively supports entrepreneurs and industrial companies with differentiated products and services, by providing privileged access to its expertise and international network. MxEP currently manages more than €600m AUM and has recently launched a new vehicle MP3 of €350m dedicated to growth/LBO.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $383M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Mérieux Equity Partners invests in
Stages Mérieux Equity Partners invests in
Countries Mérieux Equity Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $5.7M–$23M
- Private Equity
- $23M–$150M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $12M–$90M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 29 (52%)
- Biotechnology 23 (41%)
- Medical 12 (21%)
- Medical Device 11 (20%)
- Life Science 8 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (16%)
- Private Equity 9 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (16%)
- Series B 7 (13%)
- Series C 7 (13%)
Country
- France 16 (29%)
- United States 11 (20%)
- Spain 3 (5%)
- Belgium 3 (5%)
- Switzerland 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yoann Bonnamour
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jean-Francois Billet
Senior Partner
|
Senior Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jean-Guillaume Lafay
Operating Partner
|
Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Thierry Chignon
Senior Partner
|
Senior Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| HighLife is a company focused on Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR). The technology is intended for treatment of patients suffering from mitral valve regurgitation and is currently in a stage of clinical evaluation.The company was co-founded in 2010 by Mr. Georg Börtlein, President & CEO. The intent is to provide a minimallyinvasive prosthetic mitral valve that is implanted on a beating heart, while preserving the native valve structure and respecting the surrounding anatomy. Ease and safety of use and delivery are key elements of the HighLife technology. | $90M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. | $9.6M / Series A / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Ona Therapeutics is a biotech company that specializes in the discovery and development of therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. Founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Valerie Vanhooren, it was a spin-off from ICREA and Advanced Studies, and the IRB Institute for Research in Biomedicine. | $86.6M / Series B / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| HIC’s foundational mission is “the identification of health problems that may benefit from a genetic diagnosis, and the development and provision of genetic testing services for those conditions”. Since the beginning of the company, our main differential value is the combination of Knowledge Management tools with an expert dedicatedmultidisciplinary team, which allows us to provide a unique level of interpretation for the best genotyping.Currently HIC is specialized in high quality sequencing services and in the interpretation of genetic tests, providing clinicians with the tool to offer personalized medical care. HIC is the European leader on genetic diagnosis of inherited cardiovascular diseases and constantly extending its scope to other diseases: dyslipidemias, skeletal myopathies and most recently, cancer. | Private Equity / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| M2care specializes in transformative innovation to create more efficient, equitable, and long-term models. | $30.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 03, 2025 | ||
| Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine. | $22.6M / May 22, 2025 | ||
DeepUll
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DeepUll is a biotech company that focuses its activity on the development of a new diagnostic system for early-stage sepsis condition. DeepUll’s proposal is based on quickly identifying the pathogens and offering the antibiogram within a few hours on the one hand, and on using the data and learning about the patient’s immunological and functionalstatus on the other. The system allows doctors to predict the future appearance and evolution of sepsis within a short period of time and thus provide a suitable clinical response even before the symptoms arise. | $56.9M / Series C / Apr 29, 2025 | |
| Ceva Sante Animale S.A. engages in the research, development, production, and marketing of pharmaceutical products and vaccines for companion and farm animals. They work with welfare and social programmes around the world to bring this vision to life – anywhere their products and know-how can make a difference and with all kinds of partners. FromUganda, working with small-scale livestock owners and vets to stop sleeping sickness in its tracks, to the UK and USA, where they supply the biggest animal welfare charities with Adaptil® collars to help re-home shelter dogs. | Private Equity / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients. | $48.5M / Series B / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Prothea Technologies is a private medical technology business to provide lung cancer biopsy and therapy in a single hospital visit. | $13M / Series A / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| See all 56 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mérieux Equity Partners invest in?
Mérieux Equity Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Private Equity stage. Most of the 56 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Mérieux Equity Partners invest in?
Mérieux Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $5.7M–$23M at Series A, $23M–$150M at Private Equity and $12M–$90M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mérieux Equity Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mérieux Equity Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Mérieux Equity Partners?
The team at Mérieux Equity Partners includes Yoann Bonnamour (Investment Manager), Jean-Francois Billet (Senior Partner) and Jean-Guillaume Lafay (Operating Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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