Philippe de Backer

Softhale NV engages in manufacturing medical, clinical and pharmaceutical equipment. The company was founded by Jurgen Rawert and Frank Bartels and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Trod Medical NV develops and commercializes tools for use in the focal ablation of soft tissues. The company was founded by Andre Scattolin Faure on June 29, 2006 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

InGen Biosciences SA is engaged in the development of in-vitro diagnostic products for use in medical biology laboratories. The company was founded in 1993 and it is headquartered in Chilly-Mazarin, France.

Amundi Private Equity Funds SA (Amundi PEF) is the private equity subsidiary of Amundi SA, itself a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole SA (XP: ACA) in France. Formerly known as CAAM-CI, founded in 1999 as CPR Private Equity, Amundi PEF was formed in 2009 by combining the Crédit Agricole and Société Générale asset management operations. The firm is headquartered in Paris and has additional offices in Bucharest, Cairo, Casablanca, Tunis and Warsaw. They invest in companies at all stages of development, providing institutional and individual investors with a wide spectrum of investment opportunities.

GQ Life Sciences, Inc. provides software solutions to life science research organizations. It offers LifeQuest, a patent search platform specific for the life sciences that provides a solution for semantic keyword and life science ontology searching; and GenomeQuest that integrates full-text search and sequence search in the intellectual property domain. The company was founded by Eric Glemet in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.