Fabrice Marquet

Fabrice was once described as “a man who swapped science labs for business boardrooms.” After getting his PhD in biomedical engineering, he pursued a love for innovation working as a research scientist in medtech in top-tier institutes worldwide. Having contributed to the creation and development of three established medtech companies in France and the US (Supersonic Imagine, IPO in 2014; Vesselon; and Certis Therapeutics) he returned to Monaco in 2017 with the mission to build MonacoTech, Monaco's first innovation program from the ground up working directly with the Minister of Finance and Economy. In 2020, he cofounded Monaco Foundry to impact local and global GDPs through more founders succeeding with innovation that improves people’s lives and the planet. He built with his cofounder a world-class team sharing the same vision and choosing the model of deep engagement with hand-selected startups instead of the typical spray n’ pray approach. With exits from 2022 and those planned for 2023, Monaco Foundry would have successfully exited from 30% of our portfolio with the rest of the companies going strong. To match the right startups with the right investors through accreditation protocol, a global ecosystem—MyFoundry—was created to forge trust between founders and investors and ensure that more startups are funded at scale.