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Innovative companies: CDC Companies and AP-HP work together
Innovative SME - 19 January 2012
Mireille Faugère, CEO of the AP-HP (Paris Hospitals), and Philippe Braidy, president of CDC Entreprises and Deputy CEO of the FSI in charge of SME and of the regional action, signed on 19 January an agreement to help in the equity financing of companies stemming from the AP-HP and in the technology transfer in the field of health.
Under the terms of the three-year agreement, the two partners will launch joint initiatives:
- setting up a selection committee for start-up or technology transfer projects;
- sharing information on SME financing tools;
- organising start-up training seminars for clinicians, pharmacists and AP-HP project sponsors;
- joint participation in targeted events, where the occasion arises.
The partnership confirms the determination of CDC Entreprises and the Strategic Investment Fund (FSI), both of which already play a part in financing the equity capital of businesses in the healthcare sector, either directly via InnoBio or indirectly via investment funds, to step up the level of financing and support to firms in the sector. Their action will be further reinforced by the creation, announced by the French President, of a fund managed by CDC Entreprises and dedicated to the financing of medical structures – a fund that businesses emerging from the AP-HP hospital system could call upon.
