Participated · Equity · May 2024

Inheart develops an AI-driven digital twin of the heart as a medical device and software platform aimed at improving screening, early detection, and therapeutic support for cardiac disease. The company intends to expand commercially and deploy its solutions across the US, EU, Asia Pacific, and Middle East markets. It plans to use recent funding to develop new software solutions across the cardiac care continuum. Led by CEO Todor Jeliaskov, Inheart emphasizes personalized, predictive therapy to improve decision-making, efficiency of care, and safety of interventions. The announcement notes a USD11M funding round to support these initiatives. The company is based in Pessac, France. inHEART provides a cloud-based software solution that transforms preoperative medical images into a 3D digital twin of the patient’s heart to help plan procedures and assist instrument navigation. The technology is aimed at reducing procedure duration and failure rates during cardiac interventions for arrhythmias. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate commercial development in Europe, access the US market, and continue developing its AI and numerical simulations of cardiac electrical activity. Its technology has been used on more than 2,000 patients in 40 centers worldwide and has been included in the latest international expert recommendations. inHEART is a spin-off from IHU Liryc and Inria and was co-founded by Jean-Marc Peyrat, Prof. Pierre Jaïs, Maxime Sermesant and Hubert Cochet. The company is based in Pessac, France.

Led · Equity · Jun 2022

EcoVadis provides companies of all sizes with expert intelligence and evidence-based sustainability ratings, actionable scorecards, benchmarks, carbon action tools and insights to monitor and improve environmental, social and ethical performance. Its platform covers 200 industry categories and 175 countries and is used by about 95,000 businesses, including Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Salesforce, Bridgestone, BASF and JPMorgan. The company announced $500M in new funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate its global scale-up, deepen its artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities, and pursue strategic acquisitions. EcoVadis guides improvement journeys for environmental, social and ethical practices across companies and their trading partners. It operates offices across France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Canada, Tunisia, Mauritius, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and Spain. The funding was reported on June 14, 2022. EcoVadis operates an evidence-based sustainability ratings and supplier engagement platform backed by a global team of CSR analysts and a single assessment methodology. Its scorecards provide insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 198 purchasing categories and 155 countries. More than 450 enterprises—representing over $2.5 trillion in business spending—use EcoVadis’ ratings; the company’s network exceeds 60,000 assessed companies. In 2019 EcoVadis added 10,000 companies and opened offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and Melbourne. The company plans to use the funding to scale globally, expand into new countries, and further invest in its technology platform, sustainability intelligence solutions and its network of rated companies. Management emphasizes embedding sustainability, fair labor practices and ethics into enterprise supply chains and business commerce. EcoVadis provides sustainability ratings and performance-improvement tools for global supply chains through a collaborative platform. Led by co-CEOs Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel, the company offers CSR scorecards that let companies monitor suppliers’ environmental, ethical and social practices across 150 purchasing categories and 110 countries. The company employs 320 professionals worldwide. EcoVadis raised €30m in its first institutional funding round, led by Partech Ventures. It plans to use the funds to accelerate worldwide adoption of its supplier CSR ratings, advance the reliability and value of its ratings, and further invest in the platform's core technologies via in-house R&D and partnerships with tech startups.