Where does Sébastien Balas work?

Sébastien Balas is Venture Partner for Healthcare at TechnoFounders.

Where did Sébastien Balas go to school?

Sébastien Balas studied at INSEAD (Master of Business Administration - MBA); EPFL (Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering); EPFL (Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering).

Sébastien Balas

Investor

Venture Partner for Healthcare at TechnoFounders

Austin, Texas, United States

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About

Venture Partner for healthcare with a Biomedical Engineering master's from EPFL and an INSEAD MBA. His background includes a project at Moderna and consulting for pharma and medtech firms at Deloitte Switzerland; he has co-created two healthcare startups and analyzed over 150 deeptech health projects.

Experience

TechnofoundersVenture Partner - Healthcarecurrent2022 — presentParis, Île-de-France, France
NOETICA PHARMACo-founder & Venture Partnercurrent2025 — presentParigi
Plasana MedicalCo-founder & Venture Partnercurrent2022 — presentParis, Île-de-France, France
Nodia MetabolicsCo-founder & Venture Partner2024 — 2026Parigi
Deloitte SwitzerlandSenior Consultant2021 — 2022Zurich, Switzerland
Deloitte SwitzerlandConsultant2018 — 2021Zurich, Switzerland
Deloitte SwitzerlandBusiness Analyst2018Zurich, Switzerland
INSEADMBA Candidate2021
Le WagonFull Stack Program, Web Development2018Lyon Area, France
Moderna TherapeuticsProcess Development Intern2017Cambridge, Massachusetts
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)Teaching Assistant2014 — 2016Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Plastic OmniumR&D Intern2014Greater Lyon Area

Skills & more

Mechanical Engineering11Project Management1Microsoft Excel8PowerPoint3Matlab6Management10Microsoft Office1

Languages English · French · German

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Operating Partner at TechnoFounders

Noémie Potdevin

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Olivier Le Blainvaux

Managing Partner at TechnoFounders

Paulin Dong

Financial Controller at TechnoFounders

Pierre Le Blainvaux

Managing Partner at TechnoFounders

Sébastien Wuidart

Managing Partner at TechnoFounders

Thibault Gerard

Venture Partner for Industry at TechnoFounders

Thomas Nicolas

Venture Analyst for Healthcare at TechnoFounders

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sébastien Balas?: Venture Partner for healthcare with a Biomedical Engineering master's from EPFL and an INSEAD MBA. His background includes a project at Moderna and consulting for pharma and medtech firms at Deloitte Switzerland; he has co-created two healthcare startups and analyzed over 150 deeptech health projects.
Where does Sébastien Balas work?: Sébastien Balas is Venture Partner for Healthcare at TechnoFounders.
Where did Sébastien Balas go to school?: Sébastien Balas studied at INSEAD (Master of Business Administration - MBA); EPFL (Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering); EPFL (Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering).

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Shared employers

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