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Truffle Capital aims to support the creation and growth of young innovative companies with the potential to become tomorrow’s market leaders. Chaired by Patrick Kron, alongside the company’s founders and CEOs, Philippe Pouletty and Bernard-Louis Roques, Truffle Capital raised over $1.1 billion and has supported over 75 companies since its creation, in the digital technologies and life sciences sectors.

At the end of 2017, Truffle Capital successfully completed the first close of its two new institutional funds, Truffle Financial Innovation Fund and Truffle BioMedTech Fund, as well as the first close of a fund dedicated to the French Reserve Fund (« Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites » or « FRF »).

On December 2019, Truffle Capital successfully raises nearly €400 million for new Venture Capital funds: Truffle BioMedTech Fund and Truffle Financial Innovation Fund.

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