Eric Laporte

NAWATechnologies SA engages in developing and industrialising electrode material that combines nano and clean technologies. The firm’s products include NAWACAP, a new generation of ultra rapid carbon batteries based on the principle of supercapacitors; and NawaTECH, a technological platform for custom-made solutions. The company was founded by Pascal Boulanger and Ludovic Eveillard in April 2013 and is headquartered in Rousset Cedex, France.

CEA Investissement SA (CEA-I), formerly known as CEA Valorisation, is the corporate venture arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of CEA-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, which is the French governmental agency in charge of civilian and defense nuclear research. CEA-I was established in 1999 and is located in Grenoble, a large city in the southeast of France. CEA-I manages a portfolio of direct participations in high-technology companies. The firm also provides services related to IP protection for research done at CEA, by other public research entities or within private companies.

SymbioFCell SA manufactures and industrializes hydrogen fuel systems. It also engages in the development, assembly and integration of its fuel systems. The firm’s product applications include industrial and automotive embarkation, such as short- and mid-range trucks, industrial and specialized vehicles, buses, trams, ferries and barges. The company was founded by Fabio Ferrari in 2010 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

Robotiques 3 Dimensions SA specializes in the design and manufacture of collaborative robots. These systems are called cobots otherwise. These devices allow for industry sharing of roles on a workstation: the human and the specific smart move at cobot efforts and vibration. The company was founded by Serge Jean Grygorowicz in 2001 and is headquartered in Moneteau, France.

Nanomakers SA designs and manufactures silicon carbide nanopowders. It offers increase in mechanical and chemical performance for different industrial equipments and materials such as buildings, aeronautics, space, nuclear, automotive and semiconductors. The company was founded by François Tenegal in January 2010 and is headquartered in Ramboillet, France.

Krono-Safe SA provides software solutions for the development of embedded systems. It offers embedded operating systems for critical industrial applications such as automotive, aerospace, rail, energy and medical. The company was founded by Damien Chabrol and Didier Roux in 2011 and is headquartered in Orsay, France.

ETHERA SA provides diagnostic kits for indoor air pollution. It also develops solutions for measurement of chemical pollutants in the indoor air, especially for toxic volatile organic compounds. The firm's products include Profil'air modules, Profil'air sensors and Profil'air accessories. The company was founded by Yves Bigay, Thu-Hoa Tran-Thi and Sylvain Colomb in 2010 and is headquartered in Crolles, France.

Supernova Invest SAS (Supernova Invest) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in France. Founded in 1999, the company has offices in Paris and Grenoble, France.

Algaïa SA generates products and fermentation processes for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. It products include carrageenan’s, alginates, plant bio stimulants and specialty seaweed extracts. The firm offers biomass valorization, biochemical analyses and bioactivity measurement services. The company was founded by Rudy Pandjaitan on July 30, 2004 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Nenuphar SA manufactures offshore wind farms. It designs offshore wind turbines, namely the floating vertical axis wind turbines. The firm’s products include onshore prototypes and the twinfloat. The company was founded by Frederic Silvert and Charles Smadja in 2006 and is headquartered in Lille, France.

Eye Tech Care SA develops medical devices for non-invasive eye disease treatment. It offers an ultrasound device which offers a non-invasive treatment that utilizes the ultrasound circular cyclo-coagulation procedure that reduces the intraocular pressure in refractory glaucoma. The firm serves the ophthalmology market in France and Europe. The company was founded by Fabrice Romano, Laurent Farcy and Philippe Chapuis in 2008 and is headquartered in Rillieux-la-Pape, France.

Pegastech SA provides surface treatment and coating processes. The firm provides its customers to functionalize the surface of a wide range of materials, include plastic, glass, ceramics, wood, metals, fibers and fabrics. The company was founded by Christian Maennel and Sebastien on July 29, 2009 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Haption SA designs, manufactures and sells haptic devices for industrial and academic uses. Its hardware and software products are designed for use in assembly and maintenance simulation and in ergonomic studies. The company was founded in September 2001 and is headquartered in Soulge-sur-Ouette, France.

Tridiméo SA specializes in the development of machine vision solutions. It designs and manufactures next-generation industrial 3D cameras and develops vision software solutions. The company was founded by David Partouche-Sebban and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

mirSense SAS engages in spectroscopic laser detection for chemical analysis applications and supplies industrial quantum cascade lasers and spectrometer modules. The firm’s products include uniMir: Single Mode DFB QCL/Fabry Perot QCL, multiMir: The widely tunable QCL Source for multi gas analysis, multiSense: QCL based spectrometer module for gas analyzers and Mirsense Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) based solutions. The company was founded by Mathieu Carras and Mickael Brun in January 2015 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

Genes'Ink SAS researches in the design and manufacture of active nanoparticles. It develops and produces nanoscale particles, which formulate in conductive and semi-conductive inks. These inks enable applications in the following areas: printed electronics, renewable energies, lighting, safety, and environment sensors. The company was founded by Corinne Versini and Jörg Ackermann in October 2010 and is headquartered in Rousset, France.

Fipsico SAS develops objective and non-intrusive measurement system for measuring human emotional intensity. The company was founded by Antoine Deswarte on June 03, 2015 and is headquartered in Loos, France.

Aveni SA designs, develops, manufactures and markets chemical formulations. It enables future technologies with its approach to metallization for semiconductor, MEMS, advanced packaging, and flex applications. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Massy, France.

Techniwood International SAS designs, manufactures, and sells industrial building systems made from wood and insulation composite. It offers Panobloc, a factory-prefabricated construction panel system. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Rumilly, France.

eLichens SAS engages in the development of software that detects, monitors, coaches, and predicts air quality for indoor and outdoor applications services. Its products include Foxberry and Cranberry gas sensors, eLos and eLsi outdoor and indoor station, Indoor Air Quality Monitor PRO, eLik, and eLichens Air Quality Map. The company was founded by Wahid Issa, Marc Attia, and Yanis Caritu in December 2014 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

DCbrain SAS develops networking and telecommunication software services. It specializes in artificial intelligence solutions. The company was founded by Arnaud de Moissac and François Olivier-Martin in October 2014 and is headquartered in Lannion, France.

Part of Information Resources, Inc., Secant, Inc. provides consumer packaged goods and beverage alcohol consulting services. The company is based in Bridgeport, CT. Secant was acquired by Information Resources, Inc. on July 25, 2006.

Green Impulse SAS engages in the development and provision of biotechnology solutions for agriculture. It focuses on facilitating the decrease and replacement of conventional phytosanitary products usage. The company was founded by Emmanuel Pajot and Alexandre Olivaud in 2019 and is headquartered in Angers, France.

Pili SAS creates bio-solutions to replace the dye petro-chemistry. The company was founded by Jérémie Blache, Guillaume Boissonnat, Thomas Landrain and Marie-Sarah Adenis and is headquartered in Paris, France.

ENGIE New Ventures SA (ENGIE New Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of ENGIE SA founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France with additional offices in San Francisco and Tel-Aviv.

UroMems SASdesigns and develops implantable medical devices. Its product is an active implantable medical device which compensates for sphincter insufficiency with the help of a MyoElectroMechanical System. The company was founded by Hamid Lamraoui in 2011 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

CYTOO SA operates as a contract research organization which develops physiological cell-based assays. It focuses on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing new technologies for cell analysis for life sciences research community. The company has offices in Bethesda and Grenoble. The company was founded by François Chatelain, Alexandra Fuchs and Jacques Lewiner in 2008 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

MedImmune Ltd. engages in research, development and exploitation of products in the field of molecular engineering. The company was founded on December 11, 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility provides the international science community with tools to study materials and living matter. The private company is based in Grenoble, France.

Prestodiag SAS develops, manufactures and markets a life science developments platform aimed at reducing the time and effort to detect microbiological pathogens. Its products include MonoPresto and Detection Kits. The company was founded by Thierry Livache, Thibaut Mercey and Felix Piat in March 2012 and is headquartered in Villejuif, France.

Keranova SA designs and develops surgical equipment for various ophthalmologic indications that involve the anterior segment of the eye. The company was founded by Fabrizio Romano on September 4, 2015 and is headquartered in Saint-Etienne, France.

Microphyt SA researches, develops, produces and markets natural bioactive products from microalgae. Its solutions are intended to address the needs of personal-care, food and health-care industries worldwide, through a differentiated and sustainable approach and proprietary technologies allow controlled and industrial-scale supply of microalgae biomass and extracts. The firm''s Industrial scale photo bioreactors developed and patented and are designed to produce specific strains of microalgae by preserving cell integrity and yielding commercial quantities of slow-growing or biofilm-forming species. The company was founded by Arnaud Muller-Feuga in 2007 and is headquartered in Baillargues, France.

Bioaxial SAS develops and supplies live cell imaging instruments. It develops, manufactures and markets a super-resolution instrument for the life sciences and medical research communities. The firm's products include add-on module CODIM100 and Stand-Alone. The company was founded by Louis-Philippe Braitbart and Gabriel Sirat on February 24, 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

ImmunID SAS researches and develops diagnostic tools for monitoring immune cell repertoire. It specializes in combinatorial repertoire analysis. The firm provides tests which translate the complexity of the immune system into clinically meaningful data. The company was founded by Nicolas Pasqual and Sébastien Weisbuch on March 25, 2005 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

Multix SA manufactures spectrometric X-ray. The firm designs, produces and sells advanced spectrometric X-ray detectors, used for the identification of materials in general, non-destructive testing and the detection of explosives in luggage and packages in particular. The company was founded by Jacques Doremus and Patrick Radisson in 2010 and is headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

CarThera SAS develops ultrasound based medical devices to treat brain disorders. The firm offers SonoProbe and SonoCloud. The company was founded by Alexandre Carpentier on February 8, 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.