The Truffle team is composed of professionals with many years of experience in the private equity & technology businesses
Dr Philippe Pouletty
Co-Founder and General PartnerBiotech and Medtech industry veteran with dual experience in Silicon Valley and in France.
Founder and Chairman of Deinove (Alternext: ALDEI), Co-founder and Board member of Carmat (Alternext: ALCAR), former chairman and Board member of Neovacs (Alternext: ALNEV), Chairman of BMD and Splicos, co-founder and Board member of Pharnext, Plasmaprime, Vexim, Wittycell, Board member of Immune Targeting Systems, Myopowers, Symetis, Theraclion, all Truffle Capital portfolio companies.
Independent Board member of Innate Pharma (Euronext). Founder of SangStat (1988, organ transplantation therapeutics, IPO on NASDAQ in 1993, sold to Genzyme for $600M in 2002), Conjuchem (founded in 1993, IPO on the Toronto stock exchange in 2000). Former Chairman (2001-2009) and Honorary Chairman of France Biotech, the French biotech industry association. Inventor of the Young Innovative Entreprise Status (JEI), implemented by President Chirac in 2004 in France. Former vice chairman of Europabio, the European biotech industry association.
Inventor of 29 patents, including the second highest revenue generating life science patent for Stanford University.
MD from the University of Paris VI, hematology and immunology resident in Paris hospital, MS degrees in immunology and virology from Pasteur Institute, post-doctoral research fellow (1986-1988) at Stanford University. 1999 laureate of the American Liver Foundation. Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.