Sofinnova Becomes a Shareholder of PC30 - Sofinnova Partners, the French venture capital firm premier among the top European firms, announced shareholder participation in PC30, the leader in France for technology troubleshooting in the home, quoted on the Free Market of the Paris Stock Exchange. On 22 February the shareholders of PC30 voted Olivier Sichel of Sofinnova Partners onto the company’s board of directors.
This investment reinforces Sofinnova Partners’ strategy of investing in promising companies with long term growth potential. The multiplication of digital devices in the home has created a veritable need for the individual, and so on. Office computers, DVD players, digital cameras, WLANs, game consoles, portable music players and mobile telephones with Internet access have become increasingly common over the years, and problems with installation, configurations and maintenance have followed their increased prevalence.