Omnes Capital's exits

Bizanga, a specialist in email management, sold its IMP (Intelligent Message Processor) email traffic management platform to US partner Cloudmark. Bizanga retains its storage business and has changed its name to Bizanga Store.

Dutch company specialised in the clinical development of therapeutic antibodies. The company sold exclusive rights to its PG-110 antibody to Abbott for $190 million. Developed by PanGenetics, PG-110 is a humanised antibody targeting nerve growth factor (in phase I clinical trials). To date, the company has raised close to €51 million in the three funding rounds completed between 2005 and 2008. The deal is an endorsement of the company’s novel strategy predicated on the development of proprietary products and the licensing of new products, excluding R&D activities.

Founded in 2005 to break new ground in the treatment of retinal conditions, Fovea Pharmaceuticals has built an R&D portfolio covering ocular conditions with unmet needs, and now forms Sanofi’s Ophthalmology division. Its core approach is to put patients at the heart of its strategy, thanks to its presence at the Institut de la Vision located on the Quinze-Vingts hospital campus. Its team consists almost exclusively of research scientists. 
The company was bought by Sanofi Aventis in 2009 in a deal worth up to €370 million.

Mutabilis is a biopharmaceutical company specialised in the discovery and development of anti-infectives. Mutabilis discovers and develops innovative anti-infectives, a novel class of drug addressing the current issues arising from resistance to antibiotics and targeting severe bacterial infections. Mutabilis’ new therapies target nosocomial infections in particular.