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Software


Arkeia Corporation
Arkeia Corporation made its name as an early supporter of Linux and is now a leading player in the market for network backup solutions for companies.
Founded in 1996, the company offers software solutions for backing up data on networks in heterogeneous environments. Its products are quick, reliable and easy to use.
Its client/server architecture, administration capacity and multiflow and multiplex technologies allow it to offer technology previously only available to big companies at an affordable price. Arkeia supports several hundred backup libraries and more than 30 combinations of operating systems and hardware. More than 100,000 users worldwide, including 4,000 clients, protect their data every day with Arkeia. Arkeia Corporation is based in Carlsbad, California. The company is also established in Europe with head offices in Paris.
www.arkeia.fr

Eptica
Eptica is an EADS group spin-off. This software company designs, publishes and markets an innovative customer relationship management solution focused on two fundamental business goals:
- to establish and provide live interactive customer service and support over the internet using email, chat and co-browsing.
- to build closer relationships with clients based on in-depth knowledge of their habits, expectations and specific needs.
The Eptica Enterprise Suite solution comprises three main product lines: Email Management, Live Interaction and Customer Behaviour Analysis
www.eptica.com

ExaProtect
ExaPortect is the market leader in Core Security Event Management (CSEM): monitoring, interpreting and reporting on the security of core business systems and the corporate information they contain.
Following the merger with Solsolft, in October 2006, ExaProtect will be the only vendor to integrate security policy change management and security information & event management (SIEM), to provide real-time remediation.
www.exaprotect.com

Opentrust
Opentrust (anciennement Idealx) is a leader in trust infrastructures for secure electronic transactions. The company provides a comprehensive software solution that bridges the gap from the traditional defensive peripheral security based system, to the modern trust based technology infrastructure, or "ecosystem".
The company currently has over 70 deployed customers in a wide range of blue chip accounts from most industries with one million users located throughout the world.
www.idealx.com

idylis
Established in 2004, idylis proposes an integrated offering of management software applications developed in ASP aimed at very small and small companies: accounting, sales management, tax reports, payroll, email routing, etc. Developed exclusively in ASP mode, its software meets conventional demands - functional wealth and user friendliness - but also modern requirements: team and remote work as well as data sharing. idylis is the first French company to provide an equivalent to the NetSuite and Salesforce packages in the US.
www.idylis.com

 Mereo
Founded in July 2000, Mereo offers revenue management solutions. It provides its clients, mainly leading European media companies (television, radio and bill-boards), with advice and solutions to increase their profitability through advertising revenue optimisation techniques. Mereo's offer combines latest-generation forecasting techniques (using neural networks) with classic management tools opening up a vast variety of possible applications in new markets: leisure, tourism, hotels.
www.mereo.fr

Miriad Technologies
Miriad Technologies is a software publishing company that brings an innovative approach to decision support for the monitoring, diagnostics and control of industrial processes. The auto-adaptive software components developed by Miriad Technologies allow companies to react to data-flows coming from their industrial processes in almost real time. They analyse production data on the fly and can detect and anticipate problems or identify factors having the greatest impact on system performance to allow more efficient control. 
www.miriadtech.com

Reportive
Formed in 1992, Reportive (formerly Artech S.A.) is a software publisher specialised in performance indicators and automated management reporting tools. Reportive offers a global solution allowing functional analysts to design, produce, distribute and implement a suite of management tools, including management charts, reports etc., tailored to their business intelligence requirements. Operating on a simple Microsoft™ Office platform, these tools can be easily implemented by the customer's own staff. 
www.reportive.com

Sparus
Created in 2003, Sparus Software designs, develops and markets an innovative software suite which enables enterprises to deploy and manage mobile handheld devices over wireless networks (GPRS/Edge/3G and WiFi) in a cost effective way, thereby reducing operating expenses. EveryWAN Mobility Manager is an all-in-one, plug & play solution which provides the most advanced functionalities for managing Windows Mobile™ and Windows CE™ mobile devices, including over-the-air security and administration, communication management and real-time remote end-user support.
www.sparus-software.com

TEMIS
TEMIS, leader in Text Mining, provides Text Analytics solutions to optimize information processing, turning unstructured data into actionable knowledge for information extraction and automatic classification. Luxid®, TEMIS's Information Intelligence solution, plays a critical role in Corporations (Life Science-Publishing-Industry) and Governments (Homeland Security), in environments where information processing is complex due to the great volume of data, such as Competitive Intelligence, Image and media crisis intelligence, Customer Sentiment Analysis, Scientific Intelligence, IP Management or content publishing, and provides substantial productivity gains.
www.temis.com

Winwise

Winwise specialises in IT work for websites and highly complex tasks for high-traffic sites.

www.winwise.fr

Denyall
Founded in 2001 by Patrick Asty and Xavier Tardif, Denyall is a software securiting company specialising in web application security. The company operates wolrdwide, including the United States, Europe, Asia and South America thanks to its various type of products: rWeb, rFTP and sProxy.
 
www.denyall.com

H2i technologies
H2i technologies was created at the École des Mines d'Alès incubator in January 2002 by Gilles Cavallucci. The company offers a range of virtual human-machine interfaces (HMI), based on patented optoelectronic technologies. The innovative approach of h2i technologies' combines optics and algorithmic to emulate any type of interface on any type of surface. h2i's new HMI reinvent the design and the ergonomics of the items that surround us. Based in Nîmes, the company currently employs 14 staff.

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Electronics


3D Plus
3D Plus SA is a Thalès spin-off. Its 3D packaging technologies enable stacking of hybrid components (memory, microprocessors, etc.) in embedded electronic systems, optimising space, improving performance and enhancing system robustness.
www.3d-com.com

Avertec
Avertec operates in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) market. Its two products, underpinned by innovative technology resulting from 40 person-years of research, offer clients a significant competitive advantage in terms of execution time and performance, particularly for the verification of embedded memory and complex systems. With the development of nanometric technologies and ultra-high density integrated circuits, Avertec's crosstalk analysis tools are at the cutting edge of current semi-conductor design issues. 
www.avertec.com

DiBcom
DiBcom, founded in June 2000, is a French semiconductor company based on a fabless (no factory) model, that designs, produces and sells integrated circuits for receiving Digital terrestrial TV in mobile and portable environments. DiBcom's technology, which can be added to any type of terminal, allows perfect reception of a high number of TV channels in all mobile situations, in moving vehicles, on laptop PCs, TVs without a rooftop antenna, and soon on mobile phones.
www.dibcom.net

Direct Energie
Direct Energie is a lajor player in ernergy marketing in France. It offering is designed specifically for small business customers, crafstmen, merchants, independant professionals, companies managing numerous sites and municipalities.
www.direct-energie.com

Emulation and Verification Engineering
Emulation and Verification Engineering SA was created in April 2000 by a team of EDA specialists, mainly from Meta Systems (Mentor Graphics group). EVE has developed a revolutionary verification solution for integrated circuits known as ZEBU. This platform reduces design time for the complex integrated circuits frequently used in communications equipment and electronic equipment in general. 
www.eve-team.com

Nemoptic
Nemoptic was created in 1999 by a team of specialists from Matra LCD and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The company develops, produces and markets bistable nematic LCD technology (originally developed by the CNRS) for producers of LCD monitors.
www.nemoptic.com

Novaled
Novaled is engaged in the research, development and marketing of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies. The company is a spin-off of IAPP at the Dresden University and IPMS at the Fraunhofer Society's, founded in 2001 and started operations in March 2003. Novaled experienced a rapid growth in developing and commercializing its proprietary technology maturing into a world-class technology provider. Novaled markets its advanced PIN OLED technology together with its proprietary OLED materials to display makers and lighting companies preparing their entry into this promising new field. The company has a strong IP position manifesting in more than 130 patents granted and filed.
www.novaled.com

Tronic's Micro Systems
Tronic's Micro Systems is a spin-off from CEA Leti. It designs, manufactures and markets high value-added MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) for medical, telecom, aerospace/defence and instrument applications.
www.tronics-mst.com

VACO Microtechnologies
VACO Microtechnologies produces manual and automatic cleaning equipment for the microtechnology industry (microelectronics, micro systems, optronics etc.). It is positioned as a manufacturer of equipment for ultra-clean environments.
www.vacomicrotech.com
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Web-based services


Aduno
Aduno is a new teleconferencing services provider with a European focus that designs, develops and sells automated and reservationless multipoint audio and Web services for putting people in touch.
www.aduno.fr

Glowria
Glowria is France's leading provider of online DVD rental services offered on a subscription basis. The company is also developing Video on Demand (VoD) services enabling the company to sell titles for a few euros either to be viewed immediately as streamed content or to be download for later enjoyment.
www.glowria.fr

Keljob
Keljob began life as a metasearch engine for job offers that allows users to find a good percentage of the job offers online in France with a single search. Keljob also references company job offers through their websites as well as searching job-boards directly.
www.keljob.com

SplitGames
SplitGames, Europe's leading video game swapping community, offers an innovative service with which gamers can update their games library frequently at low cost. Rather than just a service, SplitGames is a community website on which not only games are exchanged but also information, tips and recommandation.
www.splitgames.com

Splendia
Founded in 2004 by Elie de Coignac and Benoît Durand, Splendia operates a hotel booking website and exclusive brand name which positions itself in the"luxury and character hotels" segment. The company has a selection of more than 1,750 hotels world-wide and close to 70 employees based throughout numerous offices in Europe, Miami and Hong Kong.
www.splendia.com

Miyowa

Miyowa is a global company providing compelling instant messaging and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies.

www.miyowa.com
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Telecoms


Arialcom
Arialcom designs, develops and manufactures antennas for GSM and UMTS mobile base stations.
www.arialcom.com

Baracoda
Founded in 2001, Baracoda is a european-based technology company providing innovatire wireless solutions for practical living. Baracoda is the market leader in the Bluetooth Auto-ID industry.
The company purchased the Com One brand of consumer electronics products in may 2005.
www.baracoda.com

Esmertec
Esmertec is one of the leading software companies in JavaTM technologies and solutions for mass-market mobile multimedia phones and embedded devices. Esmertec designs and markets Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) and J2ME enabling software for handsets with limited computing and storage capacity. Esmertec sells its products to mobile phone and consumer electronics manufacturers. Formed in 1999, Esmertec is a global company based in Zurich with engineering, sales and customer support operations in Switzerland, the UK, the US, Singapore, China and Korea. Esmertec is also represented in Japan.
www.esmertec.com

Optogone
Optogone SA is an ENST Bretagne - France Telecom spin-off. Optogone designs and manufactures liquid crystal components for fibre optical networks.
www.optogone.com
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Life Sciences


AMT BV
Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics BV (AMT) is a gene therapy company founded in 1998. AMT focuses on the development of gene-based therapies for orphan metabolic and ocular diseases. AMT's long-term gene expression technology is based on specific delivery of therapeutic genes into target organs or tissues. Production of AAV-based gene therapy vector has been optimized and AMT has developed and validated a unique, stable and scalable GMP production platform. Its lead product, AMT-011, is in phase II for the fisrt indication: treatment of lipoprotein lipase deficiency type I.
The company's Management, Supervisory and Scientific Advisory board bring together an extensive know-how from both gene science as well as the biotech and pharmaceutical worlds.
www.amtbv.com

biospace med
Biospace Med SA was founded by Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak to provide with innovative imaging devices based on his discoveries in high-energy physics and particle detection. Biospace Med has developed a patented X-ray particle detector, which led to an X-ray imaging system that can simultaneously capture multi-planar, full- body X-rays with large reductions in radiation. The company's lead product, EOS ultra-low dose 2D/3D, allows full-body imaging of patients in a weight- bearing position. An advanced workstation, designed to generate a 3D skeletal image from the two planar images, has been developed. The company has corporate headquarters in Paris and Atlanta with an office in Montreal.
www.biospacemed.com

Biovex
Biovex Ltd. is a biotechnology company based in Oxford (UK). Formed in 1998, Biovex is developing a new class of vaccines for the treatment of cancer and chronic infectious diseases. The company has two proprietary vaccine platforms (OncoVEX and ImmunoVEX) and a functional genomics platform (NeuroVEX), all based on genetic manipulation of the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Several of Biovex's products have generated promising results in cancer patients during clinical trials. The company also has a number of service contracts.
www.biovex.com

Circulite
CircuLite CircuLite is developing a miniature blood pump, designed to be placed superficially like a pacemaker, for the long-term treatment of chronic heart failure. The Synergy Pocket Circulatory Assist device is designed to rest a failing heart by supplementing its natural function. By providing long-term circulatory assist on a minimally invasive platform, CircuLite's Synergy has the potential to transform the management of chronic heart failure and improve the quality of life for millions of patients and their families. More information on the successful implantation of the first patient in a European feasibility trial, read the press release (August 8, 2007)
www.CircuLite.net

CareX
7TM Pharma is a discovery and development biotech company with focus on new pharmaceutical drugs targeting 7TM receptors - a large group of highly valuable drug targets. A rich in-house pipeline includes several well advanced programs within the main therapeutic focus area - metabolic disorder - as well as other programs within inflammation, therapeutic angiogenesis and cardiovascular disease. May 19th 2006, 7TM Pharma has acquired CareX SA, a privately held French company based in Strasbourg. All CareX current operations are relocated to 7TM Pharma. The acquisition of CareX strengthens 7TM's position as one of the leading biotechs in the metabolic drug discovery and development space.
www.7tm.com

Cytheris
Cytheris is dedicated to the development of growth factors able to enhance, drive and restore immune system functions. The company is particularly interested in a recombinant human interleukin-7 for immune reconstitution of immuno-depressed patients. Cytheris is expecting an important success for its main product which is currently clinically tested in the USA.
www.cytheris.com

Diatos
Diatos SA is an Institut Pasteur spin-off. The company's mission is to develop and produce new therapies relying on two proprietary vector-based delivery technologies that can be used individually or in combination. These technologies improve the delivery of the drug to the target cell or even to its nucleus. Diatos intends to focus on medical applications where a major need has been identified, particularly in oncology.
www.diatos.com

Fovea
Fovea is a company focusing on the research, development and marketing of innovative medicines for the treatment of retinal diseases such as macular degeneration, pigmentary retinitis, diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema. These diseases of the back of the eye affect a large number of patients (more than 50 million people in North America and Europe). The company is backed by a network of internationally respected scientists and clinicians. Developments are made by both internal research and development, in some ophthalmological indications, of drugs already tested for other therapeutic indications. Fovea's strategy is to leverage its privileged access to cutting-edge science and its careful targeting of patient cohorts.
www.fovea-pharma.com

METabolic EXplorer
METabolic EXplorer focuses on the development of new bioprocesses. The company develops and applies cutting-edge biotechnology tools to identify the metabolic pathways of bacteria, yeasts and plants in order to design new fermentation-based biosynthetic pathways for the production of chemicals. METabolic EXplorer has unique knowledge and expertise in fields ranging from metabolic pathway quantification and modelling to the design and engineering of novel production hosts for industrial biosynthesis of key chemicals. METabolic EXplorer conducts product development in-house and collaboratively with selected partners.
www.metabolic-explorer.com

Mutabilis
Mutabilis is a biopharmaceutical company specialised in antibacterial drugs. It was founded in 2001 by Xavier Nassif, professor of microbiology at the Necker medical school in Paris and head of Inserm's U-570 unit. The company seeks to create a new class of anti-infective medicines by developing drugs that are not antibiotics but which selectively target the bacterial pathogens as soon as they penetrate, multiply and try to spread in the blood and extracellular fluids, without preventing the proliferation of commensal bacteria in their natural locations, such as the skin or gut. This approach offer new therapeutic possibilities, particularly in the field of nosocomial diseases. 
www.mutabilis.fr

Novagali Pharma
Novagali Pharma is a French biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2000, that develops innovative ophthalmological products using its proprietary cationic emulsion technology. The company targets products that will allow ophthalmologists to deliver optimal treatment for a range of eye problems including ocular dryness and retinal diseases.
www.novagali.com

Orexo
In 2007, the public company Orexo has acquired Biolipox, a private research company developing novel, effective drugs for treating respiratory diseases and other inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), rhinitis, pain and arthritis. By drawing on its knowledge in the inflammatory research area, particularly arachidonic acid metabolism, Biolipox has created a portfolio of
potential blockbusters in these therapeutic areas. Orexo is a pharmaceutical company which focuses on identifying suboptimal therapeutic characteristics of existing products and developing more efficient and effective delivery methods for them.
www.orexo.com

Pangenetics B.V
Pangenetics B.V. is an antibody development company headquartered in the Netherland that also maintains an office in England. It takes antibodies from the late research phase through to clinical proof of concept. The company employs a lean business model with most develpoment activities aoutsourced. Its most advanced candidate is a CD40 antagonist that has already shown encouraging results in an open label phase Ib/IIa Chrons study.
www.pangenetics.com

Picometrics
Picometrics is developing proprietary technology (laser-induced fluorescence detection) in the field of analytical laboratory instrumentation. The technology has much greater sensitivity than competing molecular detection processes.
www.picometrics.com

SuperSonic Imagine
The mission of SuperSonic Imagine is to develop a revolutionary technological platform for the measurement and imaging of tissue eslasticity. The diagnosis performed using this ultrasound-based technology is designed to provide a more efficient detection tool for both palpable and non-palpable cancer lesions, improve diagnostic accuracy for improved assesment of lesions and offer a new solution in the high growth segment of non-invasive High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) therapy.
www.supersonicimagine.fr

Xention Discovery
Xention Discovery Ltd is a drug discovery company that utilizes proprietary technologies to accelerate the development of novel ion channel drugs, overcoming existing limitations in ion channel drug discovery. The Company uses true electrophysiological data and ion channel chemoinformatics to support medicinal chemistry and allow the development of drugs that are potent and selective and have preferred functional properties. Xention, which was founded in 2002, is a leader in ion channel drug discovery and has a number of programs in the cardiovascular, neurological and metabolic disease areas.
www.xention.com
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