Our Team
Isabelle de Cremoux
CEO and Managing Partner
Isabelle is CEO and Managing Partner (Présidente du directoire). She also leads the Life Sciences Department, and notably thematic verticals such as: Health/Food/Nutrition/Digital Health/Microbiome ; Sport & Wellness, Blue Economy with thematic funds: Health For Life Capital™ ; Sport et Performance Capital™ et Blue Forward Fund™.
Isabelle began her career in 1991 with Arthur Andersen in Detroit, USA. She then moved to Pfizer France and Pfizer Europe where she held various positions for six years within management, clinical research and business development.
In 1998, Isabelle joined Laboratoire Fournier / Abbott as Deputy Director of Business Development, in charge of product and technology licensing and acquisitions, and signed numerous Europe and and USA deals.
She joined Seventure in 2001 to establish the Life Sciences division. Isabelle supervises the Life Sciences business and personally invests in French and Scandinavian and north American biotech, nutrition, healthcare, personalized medicine. Isabelle has a particular interest in the microbiome field and frequently gives lectures at conferences in this domain.
She was the founder of Health for Life Capital fund, which primary focus is microbiome, in partnership with Danone and Novartis.
Isabelle’s investment experiences include Santaris (sold to Roche for $450 million in August 2014), ArgenX (listed), OPI (sold to Eusa for € 110 million), Bioalliance (listed), Pixium vision (listed), Biophytis (listed), Metabolic Explorer (listed), Cambrooke (sold to Ajinomoto). She is currently responsible for Enterome Biosciences, Maat Pharma, Polaris, Targedys, Vedanta, Foodsmart, etc.
Isabelle has a degree in Engineering from l’Ecole Centrale Paris and holds DECF and ISEB degrees and brings more than 25 years of international business development and finance experience in the pharmaceutical and food industry to the team.
Isabelle is one of the 6 members of the French “Conseil de l’innovation” (French Innovation Committee) which give strategic direction to French ministry of Education and Research and Ministry of Finance since its establishment in 2018. Isabelle is non executive chairman of the Private Equity Investment dedicated branch of French AFG professional association.