Anne Osdoit

Anne is a Partner in the Sofinnova MD Start Strategy. She has run our in-house MedTech accelerator, MD Start, since she came on board as a Partner in 2015.

Anne embodies the MD Start team’s hands-on approach: She is the founding and current CEO of Moon Surgical. She is a Board member at both SafeHeal and May Health — two companies where she was also founding CEO.

“What I like about this job is that it is about building products and companies,” Osdoit says. “It is very diverse. It is in different therapeutic areas, in different spaces with different technologies.”

Prior to joining Sofinnova, Anne held several key positions at Mauna Kea Technologies, a Paris-based international medical technology company developing a disruptive “optical biopsy” technology. She was closely involved in multiple financing rounds, including the company’s 2011initial public offering on the NYSE Euronext Exchange in Paris, a highly successfuloperation and the largest public listing for the sector that year.

Anne is an active angel investor and an independent board member of Cardiologs Technologies, a Paris-based digital health startup that was purchased by Philips in 2021.

She is a trained biomedical engineer with degrees from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds additional degrees in Biostatistics and epidemiology applied to clinical trials (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), as well as Corporate Finance (London School of Economics).