The Launch of Sorbonne Venture

Sorbonne University has been certified as a University Innovation Cluster (Pôle Universitaire d'Innovation, PUI), and is now recognized as an innovation leader in in the Paris region. Sorbonne University promotes the research results of its units, research institutes and university hospital institutes, and supports its teaching and student communities in the development of partnerships and the creation of start-ups.
Sorbonne University has launched "Sorbonne Venture" with the goal to accelerate the transfer of knowledge to the socio-economic world, and to society as a whole: a seed capital fund dedicated to deeptech and healthtech projects. This fund aims to finance start-ups developing high-potential, disruptive innovations from the Sorbonne University ecosystem.

The most innovative start-ups will be supported, as well as the most important from an environmental, social and economic point of view. Two start-ups have already been financed by Sorbonne Venture: Polygon Therapeutics, which aims to limit damage and heart failure after a myocardial infarction, and Austral Dx, which is developing the first no-contact ultrasound imager.

"Innovation is of major importance for Sorbonne University, which has created a structure to promote the development of research, to implement a policy of innovation and knowledge transfer through dedicated mechanisms, and to coordinate the missions of the various players in its development chain. “Sorbonne University's ambition is to place science, and the innovations that derive from it, at the heart of society.  That's why we're launching the Sorbonne Venture fund," says Nathalie Drach-Temam, President of Sorbonne University.

Mutualité Française is Sorbonne Venture's first institutional partner.