Alain Horvais

Partner, Kurma Partners
Alain Horvais leads a diagnostics fund, with a decade in senior roles at Bio‑Rad and AstraZeneca, a PhD in molecular biology, biotechnology management training and panel expertise scaling complex biomarkers.
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About Alain Horvais

Alain Horvais is a Partner at Kurma Partners who specifically leads their diagnostics fund, bringing a decade of hands-on experience from senior roles at Bio-Rad and AstraZeneca where he built and industrialized complex diagnostic tools. He combines a PhD in molecular biology with formal training in biotechnology management and is recognized as a panel expert on the risks and limits of developing complex biomarkers into scalable diagnostic products.

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Kurma Partners

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Biotech, Medtech, Health, AI, Robotics
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Kurma Partners operates two specialized healthcare franchises under one roof—Kurma Biofund for therapeutics and biotech company creation from academic labs, and Kurma Diagnostics for diagnostics and digital health—while offering a full innovation-to-growth continuum through its dedicated Growth Opportunities Fund that continues financing promising portfolio companies into scale-up rounds. The firm has built a systematic company-creation engine with major European research institutes like Institut Pasteur and VIB, spinning out academic research into venture-backed companies and providing portfolio companies with operational support through strategic partnerships like its alliance with Samsung Biologics for development and manufacturing capabilities.

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