Vespa Investment
Beyond the Box: Unleashing Your Ambitions
Vespa Investment
Beyond the Box: Unleashing Your Ambitions
About Vespa Investment
Passionate about entrepreneurs, innovation and investment
Consulting firm founded by Didier Leconte. Didier draws on his experience in innovation and investment in organizations of all sizes to assist you with your development, growth, and financing projects or simply to help you break the status quo.
Experience
Didier's experience across various sectors has endowed him with a comprehensive global perspective and a versatile ability to navigate and adapt to multifaceted situations.
- Established and spearheaded a dedicated life science investment team within Investissement Québec. Managed there as well the growth equity investment team information technology and multimedia.
- Following a strategic review, created and managed a fund-of-funds investment team at Fonds de solidarité FTQ. Managed as well the VC investment team in technology.
- Successfully repositioned and directed the life sciences investment team of Fonds de solidariét FTQ (investment in companies and in funds).
- Expertly managed MSBi Valorisation (affiliated to MSBi Capital now iNovia Capital) a pre-seed fund aimed at fostering academic discoveries from diverse universities and medical research centers.
- Demonstrated adeptness in managing technology transfer from academic settings to industry, including company creation and industry-to-industry transitions.
- Proficiently commercialized and oversaw R&D development activities across various sectors, leading a robust R&D team to drive innovation and progress.
In each of these positions, as well as in several corporate board roles, led strategic thinking exercises, as well as their execution.
Interests
Deeply committed to driving impactful innovation, particularly within the dynamic field of life sciences.
Services
Approach
Empower clients to surpass their goals through strategic insight, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring they thrive in a dynamic environment. To achieve this, Didier leverages his investment network, knowledge of the market and approach of identifying new solutions to problems.
Mandates
- Advisor to the Life Sciences investment team of Investissement Québec
- Advisor to companies in their fundraising of growth strategy (deck review, scenarios, identification of potential partners)*
- Advisor to investment firms or governments*
- Reviewer of investment or financing proposals*
* Clients are confidential. References names could be provided if clients agree.
Boards
Interested in applying strengths, strategic thinking and governance experience and training to Boards.
Currently director on the board of:
- Congruence Therapeutics
- DalCor Pharmaceuticals
- Institut de recherche clinique de Montréal
- Morphocell Technologies
News / Presence in Conferences
2024:
- JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
- BIOTECanada Investor Summit
- Bloom Burton Healthcare Investor Conference
- BIO2024
- Bionation 2024