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Fourteen of France’s hi-tech companies, chosen by the leaders of Silicon Valley
April 2011 by Marc Jacob
It’s official! The jury is in. Fourteen of France’s hi-tech companies, chosen by the leaders of Silicon Valley, have been selected to participate in this year’s French Tech Tour.
FTT 2011 will take place June 3 – 10. For the selected companies, it will be a whirlwind week of B2B meetings. For our partners, it will be a unique opportunity to see some of the best of French innovation first-hand.
That said, you don’t need to be a business development executive to meet the participants. Take a look at the week’s schedule, and save the date for one of our events. Each are fantastic opportunities to meet, greet, and network around wine and cheese (or at the very least, SFNewTech’s beloved tacos).
Without further ado, here’s a summary of who’s coming:
Appoke: Discover the best latest Android apps
Appoke is the first Android applications store that integrates a social dimension to solve the long tail problem that developers face to promote new apps and users to discover the apps they truly need. With Appoke, mobile users discover new apps based on friends ‘own apps usage and recommendations. For the developers, they simply need to upload their existing Android code on Appoke’s platform to make their app available, should they be free or not.
Ateme: Keep content looking great, wherever it’s played!
ATEME provides video processing solutions to address the Converged Media market requirements. Over the past 4 years, ATEME has deployed turnkey video headends for tier 1 cable, satellite and IP network operators worldwide. The company processes premium content for millions of viewers in the America’s, Europe and Asia and has enabled the most successful Video On Demand services worldwide. Additionally, they help their clients succeed in the “multiscreen” revolution by offering an all-in-one workflow for file and live content, distributed to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.
Avencis: European leader for enterprise single sign on
Avencis provides SSOX, the leading European Single Sign On solution for medium to large enterprises. SSOX encompasses users’ management and provisioning, entitlement lifecycle management access control, along with a centralized auditing and reporting facility. Hundreds of customers have chosen SSOX in Europe, managing several hundreds of thousands of end users every day.
SSOX has allowed a drop as high as 90% of help desk calls for a large insurance company. It has also allowed the deployment and management of 14 000 smart access cards while saving 2 full time positions in the help desk department of one of its customer.
Backelite: Let us simplify your mobile web
BkRender is a mobile services development platform created by Backelite to let developers design and publish mobile services using web technologies. Based on standard Web technologies, it allows web development teams to develop complex services and publish them on every mobile store, tablet and mobile phone. BkRender helps its clients to reach their mobile customers while reducing costs due to multiplatform development. The BkRender solution provides cleints and partners (VARs and web agencies) the ability to develop mobile sites and applications offering rich functionalities, while maintaining superior usability, security and performance. Among top tier clients are “Crédit Agricole” (the largest bank in France), Le Fnac, the national gas company, among several other national and international companies.
CAPS: Manycore programming: your core issue is our core competency
Founded in 2002 by members of an INRIA research team, CAPS is a software company providing products and solutions for manycore application programming & deployment. Manycore – also denoted as hybrid system – can bring impressive, speed up for a large class of applications. Our flagship product HMPP allows a single version of a given application to be developed, ported, maintained and deployed on several manycore systems. CAPS has offices in Shanghai, Santa Clara and Paris. Turnover is $2.8M.
GingerSquid: Outdoor Mobile Social Gaming
GingerSquid is an « outdoor » mobile social online game company incorporated in 2011. Their first game, Blackbeard’s Treasure, will debut on the iPhone in April, 2011. GingerSquid proposes that people can come together and build a real life community around mobile social games through meeting up and forming teams for outdoor challenges in real time. The company offers features such as 3D games, virtual merchandising and has a core competency in game design.
Global Vision Systems: Data convergence through an avant-garde human-machine interface
Global Vision Systems (GVS) is a software developer and publisher offering innovative Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial supervision and hypervision. We have developed a new technology of 4D visualization that allows you to manage all your information in a real time 3D platform. This snapshot of the system helps context analysis and supports decision making.
http://www.global-vision-systems.com
Mobiquant: Enterprise mobile cloud management and security
Mobiquant’s solution, MobileNX™ Enterprise Suite and iPhortress™ (the dedicated iPhone/iPad solution), comes both as a network appliance aimed at corporations looking for a full “in-house” solution, and as a managed services platform for service providers looking to offer mobile enterprise services. The solution is comprised of software, enabled on the platform appliance, and of an on-device agent. The French Ministry of Labour has been using Mobile NX Enterprise Suite™ since 2009, managing more than 7000 devices.
Mootwin: Software to create, run and manage your mobile Apps
We provide companies with a mobile application platform to create, run and manage mobile applications across a variety of devices. Mootwin’s platform integrates a real-time data push technology, resilient under even the most constrained network conditions. This is a major competitive advantage for all “live” mobile activities like auctioning, shopping, sports betting, stock trading, travel assistance, communities and more. Our references include banks (BNP Paribas, Natixis and Societe Generale) and online betting companies (BetClic, the EU leader).
NTX Research: Authentication and Digital identity solutions that brings trust to the Internet, Mobile and M2M
NTX Research is an ICT security software editor and service provider, specialized in Digital identity and strong authentication for Internet, Mobile and Machine-to-Machine. NTX Research is the inventor of XC cryptographic technology and “See-Battle” authentication with a unique Dematerialized 2-Factor Strong Authentication for users and equipment. NTX Research offers a unique infrastructure for electronic signature and overall public key management called PKI 2.0.
Pole Star: Indoor location natively embedded on mobile applications
Pole Star provides NAO Campus, an indoor positioning software designed to provide mobile applications with accurate positioning data especially suited to pedestrian indoor navigation. Being handset and OS agnostic and with the highest accuracy in the world (2 meters), Pole Star has already partnered with the largest mall in Europe and two major international airports among others to provide their customers with indoor, geo-localized enriched mobile services (navigation, hyper local advertising and couponing, etc).
RunMyProcess: Less work, more flow
RunMyProcess is a powerful and flexible cloud development platform that allows easy integration between different SaaS and on-premise applications. RunMyProcess lets organizations easily design, run and manage business processes with no hardware, no software or no coding. Gartner Inc. named RunMyProcess as a “Cool vendor” in 2009. In 2010 Red Herring nominated RunMyProcess as one of the top 100 innovators in Europe. RunMyProcess has risen $2.2M from Xange Private Equity in Series A funding in July 2010.
Stereolabs: Innovative stereoscopic 3D solutions that revolutionize 3D content production
STEREOLABS has partnered with leading global R&D laboratories and industry vendors to deliver the PURE 3D-Engine. PURE is a cutting-edge S3D software and IP core that analyzes 3D images, automatically corrects errors in real-time and helps to create technically perfect Stereo 3D images. At the heart of PURE are sophisticated algorithms that capitalize on more than 20 years of research and development in the field of 3D vision.
Yseop: The only software that writes intelligent texts just like a human being, but at a rate of over a thousand pages per second
Yseop is the first Artificial Intelligence software able to automate and personalize communications between any e-business web site and their visitors. It drills down into their precise issue or question without a predefined script, generates intelligent, coherent and multilingual answers (such as individualized FAQs, emails, confirmation letters, CRM reports, etc.) at a rate of over a thousand pages per second. Our customers include 10% of the 50 largest French companies such as BNP Paribas, Société Générale, SFR (Vivendi), Banque Populaire, Boursorama, and vente-privee.com among others.
