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Anderson joining Sofinnova Partners to bridge European biotechs to public markets 

Veteran investor to manage French firm’s crossover fund as IPOs continue to price at record pace in 2020

October 14, 2020 10:34 PM UTC

On the back of two recent NASDAQ listings by European portfolio companies, Sofinnova Partners has added Joe Anderson as partner to manage the firm’s $340 million crossover fund at a time of record fund-raising for biotech companies.

Anderson has more than two decades of healthcare investment experience, most recently as co-founder, CEO and CIO of Arix Bioscience plc (LSE:ARIX), a life sciences venture capital firm launched in 2016. Before that, he spent 12 years as a partner at Abingworth, where he established and led the firm’s venture investment in public equity (VIPE) practice...