Partners for Entrepreneurial Success

Since 1974, Sofinnova Ventures has partnered with entrepreneurs to secure initial funding, build successful management teams, form impactful corporate alliances, win key customers, and navigate acquisitions and IPOs. With $1 billion under management, our firm applies capital and expertise to guide start-up companies to successful exits.

Sofinnova Ventures News

May 02, 2013 Sofinnova Ventures Announces Team Expansion and Promotion - Srinivas Akkaraju Joins Sofinnova Ventures as General Partner; Anand Mehra Promoted to General Partner
April 04, 2013 - PitchBookThe Daily Benchmark: Sofinnova Named One of Only 30 2006 Vintage U.S. Venture Capital Funds
February 22, 2013 - The Recorder by Joshua SiscoHooman Shahlavi
January 10, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal, Venture Capital Dispatch - By Timothy HayAt J.P. Morgan Conference, Life-Science Investors See Biotech Rising
November 06, 2012 - The Pink SheetMore And Better Biotech IPOs, But Step-Ups Still Lag
November 03, 2012 - Sun SentinelBiotech Industry Aims for Growth
October 22, 2012 - Xconomy Who Will Survive the Biotech VC Downturn? The Young and the Proven

Life Science Portfolio News

May 22, 2013 First Aid Shot Therapy Raises Series A for Medicine in a Can
May 14, 2013 AbbVie and Alvine to Collaborate on Investigational Oral Therapy for Celiac Disease
May 13, 2013 Mirna Therapeutics is First to Advance MicroRNA into the Clinic for Cancer
May 02, 2013 Hyperion Therapeutics Receives Orphan Drug Exclusivity From FDA
May 02, 2013 Hyperion Therapeutics Exercises Option to Acquire Rights to Buphenyl® and Ammonul®
April 17, 2013 - BioWorld TodayAuris Medical Gets $51M For Hearing Disorder Drugs
April 16, 2013 Auris Medical secures CHF 47.1 mn Series C financing from Sofinnova Ventures and Sofinnova Partners to advance ground-breaking inner ear therapies through Phase III clinical development
April 08, 2013 Amarin Announces New Clinical Data Showing Significant Reductions in Apolipoprotein C-III Levels in MARINE and ANCHOR Studies of Vascepa(R)

Technology Portfolio News

April 23, 2013 Crocus releases the prototype of its Match in Place™, a secure authentication engine
April 22, 2013 Crocus releases the prototype of its Match in Place™, a secure authentication engine
April 08, 2013 Crocus Technology awarded IARPA contract to develop 8-bit per cell memory
January 22, 2013 Cortina's New 15G CDR and Backplane PHY Leads Industry in Performance, Density and Low Power

Contact

Menlo Park
2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Telephone (650) 681-8420

San Diego
1250 Prospect Street, Ocean Level - 4
La Jolla, CA 92037
Telephone (858) 551-4880

Dublin
Fitzwilliam Hall, Fitzwilliam Place
Dublin, Ireland
Telephone + 353 (0)1 669 6623

For information about our sister firm Sofinnova Partners based in Paris, France, please visit www.sofinnova.fr.