Jean-Michel Petit

Biography

Jean-Michel is a partner at IRDI Capital Investissement since 2003.  He was instrumental to build and structure the venture capital armof  IRDI Capital Investissement.  Before joining IRDI, he spent 10 years  in Canada with CDPQ in the  Life Science venture capital team based first in Montreal and then in Paris.  In this position, he made a range of international investments mostly in the US.  He serves on the boards of several portfolio companies such as Micropep, Solvionic, Gamamabs, SmartCacth, Dionymer, X-pressure, Innov’ATM, Ademtech.  He was an investor in Exotrail, Treefrog, Cell Easy, Fineheart, Aelis Farma, Advicenne, Telecom Design. Jean-Michel graduated from Chimie ParisTech and holds and MSc degree from Montreal University and an MBA from McGill.