Philippe Pouletty

Philippe Pouletty is co-founder and General Director of Truffle Capital, a leader in venture capital in Europe. He is a Biotech and Medtech industry veteran, with experience in Silicon Valley and in France.

Dr. Pouletty is Founder and Chairman of Deinove (Alternext: ALDEI) and Abivax, Co-founder and Board member of Carbios (Alternext:ALCRB), Carmat (Alternext: ALCAR), Pharnext, Vexim (Alternext:ALVXM), Board member of Immune Targeting Systems, Myopowers, Symetis, Theraclion (Alternext:ALTHE), Theradiag (Alternext: ALTER), all of which are Truffle Capital portfolio companies.

Dr. Pouletty is an 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) and Conjuchem (founded in 1993, IPO on the Toronto stock exchange in 2000).

He is the former Chairman (2001-2009) and is Honorary Chairman of France Biotech, the French biotech industry association, and former Vice Chairman of Europabio, the European biotech industry association. He conceived the Young Innovative Entreprise Status (JEI), which was implemented in France by President Chirac in 2004.

He is the inventor of 29 patents, including the second highest revenue generating life science patent for Stanford University, earning him entry into the prestigious Stanford University Hall of Fame of Inventors in 2012.

A former hematology and immunology resident in Parisian hospitals, Dr. Pouletty holds an MD from the University of Paris VI and Master’s in immunology and virology from l’Institut Pasteur, was a post-doctoral research fellow (1986-1988) at Stanford University, and the 1999 laureate of the American Liver Foundation. He was also awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.