# Mérieux Equity Partners

> Mérieux Equity Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, France
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/merieux-equity-partners
- Website: https://www.merieux-partners.com/

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 managesmore than €600m AUM and has recently launched a new vehicle MP3 of €350m dedicated to growth/LBO.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.7M–$30M |
| Series B | $6.6M–$87M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 20 | 48% |
| Biotechnology | 18 | 43% |
| Medical | 9 | 21% |
| Life Science | 7 | 17% |
| Medical Device | 7 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Series B | 7 | 17% |
| Private Equity | 6 | 14% |
| Series C | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 12% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 12 | 29% |
| United States | 6 | 14% |
| Spain | 3 | 7% |
| Belgium | 2 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoann Bonnamour | Investment Manager | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoann-bonnamour |
| Jean-Francois Billet | Senior Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-francois-billet |
| Jean-Guillaume Lafay | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-guillaume-lafay |
| Thierry Chignon | Senior Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thierry-chignon-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ona Therapeutics | 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 |  |
| HEALTH IN CODE | 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 | M2care specializes in transformative innovation to create more efficient, equitable, and long-term models. | $30.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| SeqOne Genomics | 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 | 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 Santé Animale | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Amyl Therapeutics | 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. | $5.7M | Series A | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Broken String Biosciences | Broken String Biosciences is developing a platform of novel sequencing tools to assess genome stability and to unlock the next generation of innovative medicines, including cell and gene therapies. | $15M | Series A | Sep 18, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

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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 Series B stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mérieux Equity Partners's check size?

Mérieux Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $5.7M–$30M at Series A and $6.6M–$87M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mérieux Equity Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Mérieux Equity Partners?

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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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