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Sofinnova Partners exceeds target with €165M biotech acceleration fund, Europe’s largest, with strong Pharma support

Biovelocita II attracts robust support from leading pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer Ventures The fund has already screened over 300 projects and made several investments into new companies to catalyze transformative innovation in biotechnology PARIS, France – March 18, 2025 – Sofinnova Partners (“Sofinnova”), a leading European life sciences venture capital […]

Hot topic: Should Pharma be looking east for new assets?

“Go west, young man!”   Such was the famous advice of Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the (long defunct) New York Tribune, to an acquaintance, Josiah B. Grinnell, in the mid-19th century.  Countless individuals, businesses, and industries have since followed that advice – and gone on to strike gold.  But when it comes to where […]