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Alias: ["Valneva SE", "VLS.PA"]
Tag: ["Wealth", "Investment", "Equity", "Health", "Vaccine"]
Date: 2021-08-17
DocType: "Investment"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp: 2021-08-17
location: [47.2329863,-1.6420352]
Investment:
Type: "Equity"
Style: "Growth"
Stage: "Scale-Up"
Ccy: EUR
Trading:
PDate: 2021-05-03
PPrice: 13.9
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Parent:: [[Equity Investments|Equity Investment]]
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# Valneva
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Valneva is a vaccine producer that came to the forelight when they disclosed that they were looking at a COVID19 vaccine. Their portfolio focusses on rare deseases that are not yet covered by a vaccine and use the mARN technology.
Current portfolio of studies include: COVID19, Lyme, Zika, Chikungunya, Chlostridiodes.
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### Investment thesis
German-french pharmaceuticsl startup based in Nantes, it aims at disrupting the vaccine industry for deseases that have a low incidence and are therefore not extensively researched by big pharma labs.
At time of investment Valneva had achieved 90% efficiency on their 2nd round of trial for their COVID vaccine and were moving towards 3rd (and last) trial phase. Their mutation coverage spans a higher spectrum than competitors which makes this injection a good complement to current mainstream vaccines.
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### Risk profile
High risk
Start-up with no proven vaccine: no recurring income and solely reliant on the success of their current research. High price volatility linked to expectation of success of trial phases of their fifferent vaccines currently being tested.
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### News & corporate activity
#### Current pipeline
Currently, Vaneva's pipeline in a nutshell:
- [ ] Vaccine: Lyme desease
- [ ] Vaccine: Chikungunya
- [ ] Vaccine: Zika
- [ ] Vaccine: COVID19
- [ ] Distribution: Contract with the EU re COVID19
- [x] Distribution: Contract with the UK re COVID19
#### Innovation
Pipeline is inherently innovation.
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### Further steps
Further steps are captured in the [[Equity Tasks|Equity task list]]