Yvan-Michel Ehkirch spent a decade as a software operator at companies like Dassault Systèmes before moving into venture capital in 2001, giving him over two decades of VC experience combined with hands-on enterprise software expertise. He focuses on the challenging industrial scale-up phase for European deeptech companies, speaking at events about financing the transition from early-stage VC to growth capital for capital-intensive technologies.
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Karista
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Health, Medtech, Space, Biotech, Cybersecurity
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Seed - Series B+
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Karista operates two specialized funds—a HealthTech fund focused on AI- and data-driven pharma/medtech and a SpaceTech/Defence/Cyber fund explicitly sponsored by CNES (the French space agency)—rather than pursuing traditional biotech or generic deeptech investments. The firm acts as the first institutional investor in highly technical markets and then actively engineers syndicates with cross-border co-investors to position companies as category leaders, while maintaining a 20+ year European track record spanning now-listed successes like Sequans Communications and Nanobiotix.
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