Our mission is to accompany health tech startups to achieve their next significant valuation milestones.
We share our expertise on regulations from the earliest stages, which can be a competitive advantage in product development. Neighborhood develops the integrator concept that facilitates collaboration at the point of Innovation by housing an entire health tech ecosystem in a single location.
What can Neighborhood
do for you?
Mentoring
MENTORS IN RESIDENCE
We have extensive regulatory science expertise just next door in med device, digital health, biotech and pharmaceuticals to provide you with regulatory strategy, technical development including manufacturing & scale up, non-clinical & clinical development, etc.
Strategic Resources
Strategic consultants
With our network’s support, we have selected speakers of excellence in the areas of IP strategy, IT strategy, fund-raising, or investor interaction management. These professionals come regularly to share their knowledge with the Neighborhood community.
Global community
EXPERTS/KOLS
We offer an accessible network of key stakeholders in the health tech ecosystem including clinicians, regulators, big pharma or medical device developers.
Office Space
Dynamic working space
Neighborhood offers a dynamic working space for entrepreneurs that meet your day-to-day operational needs on 2 sites in Europe (Paris and Lausanne) and in Cambridge in the US.
Why join us?
Neighborhood develops the integrator concept that facilitates collaboration at the point of Innovation by housing an entire health tech ecosystem in a single location.
Global community
We offer an accessible network of key stakeholders in the health tech ecosystem.
Mentor-in-residence
We have extensive regulatory science expertise just next door in med device, digital health, biotech and pharmaceuticals.
Innovation
We think differently and we turn challenges to advantages.
Functional Expertise
Science is the driving force of regulatory, which paves the roadmap from early development to market. Integrating earlier regulatory elements in your development plan will give you a competitive advantage. Neighborhood benefits the regulatory expertise from VCLS to help you stay ahead of the competition.
Meet our team
Our team members are entrepreneurs, regulatory experts, health tech consultants and key opinion leaders that strive to help health technology startups reach their next valuation milestone.
Business Development Director
Sebastien has been with NEIGHBORHOOD since its’ inception, where he is Business Development Director. He has a unique insight into the challenges faced by startup companies, from setting up his own medical device company in 2007, which he successfully ran for 7 years, and raised more than €4m. More recently, Sebastien broadened his entrepreneurial experience by getting involved in several biotech startups. This experience has further enhanced his understanding of the specific challenges and how they can be overcome. As part of this approach, Sebastien firmly believes that experience sharing and continuous networking are essential elements to the success of any venture; two characteristics of Neighborhood, which he intends to help further develop on behalf of client companies. Sebastien is fascinated by Entrepreneurship, Life Sciences and Education. Sebastien has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. Outside of work, when not playing squash, Sebastien likes to teach his three children to surf. Based in Paris, he enjoys working within the multi-cultural environment.
Program Manager
As Program Manager at Neighborhood, Soraya is responsible for coordinating the healthtech startups’ acceleration programs (i.e., the year-long incubation and stand-alone mentoring sessions). She is involved in the management of partnerships with French government agencies, and national/ international institutes, incubators, and accelerators. Soraya’s expertise is in Drug Development. Soraya brings more than 12 years of experience in the life sciences, including research, innovation, and valorization, all leading to a deep knowledge of the French scientific ecosystem and expertise in scouting and partnering. Soraya has first-hand experience, with academics and startups, of how challenging it can be to meet regulatory requirements when developing a product. She has seen how dedicated external support can offer a huge boost. Before joining VCLS, Soraya worked at the Technology Transfer Office of Inserm (Inserm Transert), as Business Development Manager. She was responsible for the patent portfolio in infectious diseases and immunology, for licensing agreements with pharmaceutical companies and startups. She previously worked as Senior Scientist at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, leader in rare diseases, where she was responsible for a drug candidate research project in the context of a private-public partnership with Imagine Institute. Doctorate in Cell and Molecular Biology (Curie Institute), Soraya is a graduate of Université Paris-Cité. Through her various experiences, she grew passionate about multiple therapeutic areas such as oncology, infectiology and rare diseases. She is a fan of mountain climbing, skiing, Nordic countries, and interior design for children’s rooms. Based in the Paris office, she enjoys being immersed in the most innovative technologies and working alongside ambitious startups.
Project Manager
At Neighborhood, Forum supports startups, by understanding their needs, and connecting them with resources (experts, collaborators, infrastructure) that can help accelerate their progress. She is an engineer at heart and is excited to solve social challenges using deeptech. She has 8 years of experience contributing to MedTech and Agri-foodtech projects for academia, innovation programs, VCs and startups. In the past, she has contributed to Medtech AI projects by identifying pressing medical challenges, ideating innovations, conducting clinical validations & facilitating commercialization of the medtech innovations. She developed a passion for synthetic biology projects following her experiences working with VC firms for technology assessment of synthetic biology projects, as well as mentoring startups at iGEM EPIC program. Through her experiences she has developed a deep understanding of the innovation ecosystem, the evolving needs of the startups and of different stakeholders; at different stages of getting innovations to the market. She has a master’s degree in biotechnology and a master’s in life sciences (synbio). Outside of work, Forum enjoys performing folk dances at cultural events, quoting movies, and hiking in forests.We'd love to get to know you
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