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Florian Gerard-Mercier

Investment manager at Andera Life Sciences venture capital fund.

Paris, Île-de-France

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $35,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investment Manager

    2022

    Investments closed: TargED, SoniVie, FIRE1, BioVentrix, Ariceum. • Processed and analyzed incoming deal flow in all areas of biotech and medtech. • Coordinated and conducted advanced due diligence on dozens of opportunities. • Carried out scientific due diligence of early-stage opportunities. • Carried out financial due-diligence (incl. valuation modeling, DCF) of late-stage opportunities. • Helped with the follow-up of three portfolio companies. • Carried out reporting and valuation tasks on portfolio companies for LPs.

  • Analyst

    2021 - 2022

  • Co-founder and Director of studies

    2018 - 2021

    • Lead and managed work in the direction of studies. Reviewed notes across all policy areas. • Wrote analysis and opinion notes, and drafted reports, with a personal focus on health, technology & innovation, and industrial issues. • Collaborated with leading elected representatives on public policy proposals.

2017 - 2021

  • Permanent Researcher

    2017 - 2021

    Preclinical research on Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. • Managed the negotiation of a major collaboration agreement (worth 300k$ per annum) with a partner research institute. • Developed models of neurodegenerative diseases and researched innovative therapies (especially gene and cell therapies) for these diseases. • Managed research projects. Designed projects and wrote applications for grants. • Served as expert reviewer for funding agencies. • Reviewed contracts for research partnerships with biotech companies.

2011 - 2017

  • PhD student, then Research Scientist

    2011 - 2017

    Research on flexible decision making. • Developed, in close relationship with neurotech companies, an experimental system to record neural activity simultaneously in distributed brain networks. • Studied flexible decision-making through analyses of information coding and information flow in these networks. •Worked in an extremely international environment.

  • Aid to the logistics officer

    2007 - 2008

    • Helped the logistics officer with his tasks. • Participated in the daily training of the commando units. • Successfully went through the physical part of the commando marine training course.