Investments NICT Venture Capital
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Leisure | 2012 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Visiware Based in Sèvres, Visiware is the world leader in digital television gaming with its Playin’TV™ channel. It recently launched PlayAlong™, a solution that has already become a reference for the market. This solution allows millions of viewers to participate simultaneously in televised shows from home using their laptop, tablet, or Smartphone. To date, Visiware has produced hundreds of shows using it’s PlayAlongTM platform and played in nine different countries (Brazil, United States, France, Malaysia, Netherlands, etc.) on channels such as Antena3, Fox, SBT, SBS6, TF1, ZDF… |
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Software | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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viavoo Founded in 2009, viavoo provides for large, brand name companies a full range of Customer Experience and social CRM software solutions to better understand and engage with their customers across multiple channels, including e-mail, chat, surveys, social media, blogs, forums, and other customer touchpoints. Based in Boulogne-Billancourt, viavoo employs fifteen people serving customers across various B2C areas (including Cdiscount.com, Voyages-SNCF.com, Vente-Privee.com, Bouygues Telecom, Nivea and Europcar). |
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E-commerce | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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L'Usine à Design Launched in September 2009, L’Usine à Design is an e-commerce platform and community offering internet users designer and personalisable products. Thanks to its active community, real designer pieces and platform giving access to manufacturers, L’Usine à Design is helping to change codes of practice in the furnishing market and shopping habits in a predominantly standardised sector. Based in Paris, L'Usine à Design has 23 employees. |
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Software | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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TrustYou Created in 2008 and located in Munich, TrustYou provides data widgets and software to the hospitality industry, to analyse reputation and social content (online reviews, posts and tweets) through an innovative technology based on semantics. TrustYou works mainly in Europe for 400,000 hotels, accommodations and restaurants. |
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E-commerce | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Adamence
Established in 2005 and based in Paris, Adamence is a pioneer in online jewellery sales. Thanks to its access to and control of goods and manufacturing, Adamence offers a wide product range while remaining competitive on price. The company's growth was historically based on the sale of diamond jewellery. It gradually expanded its offering and now provides a full range of premium jewellery (diamonds, coloured gemstones, pearls, jewellery for men). The website also offers the option for customers to create their own compositions, to obtain fully personalised jewellery. |
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Internet | 2011 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Trusted Shops Created in 1999 and based in Germany, Trusted Shops has set its sights on becoming one of the leaders in France in certification of retail websites. Its strength is providing merchants with a comprehensive solution unlike any other on the market. T he company offers retail websites a way of gaining consumers’ trust and increasing sales through a package that includes a Seal of Approval, a Legal compliance and financial audit, a Money back guarantee for online shoppers and a dispute resolution service. |
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Internet | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Plista Plista offers innovative and user-friendly ad formats to website owners and publishing houses. With 30 employees in Germany alone, plista runs an audience ad network comprising more than 400 online publishers and 50 publishing houses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Slovenia. plista startedoperating in 2009, offering ad formats in the context of pictures, text and video and multifaceted targeting options. |
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E-commerce | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Confortvisuel.com Founded in 2004, Confortvisuel.com sells a comprehensive range of optical products including prescription eyewear, sunglasses, sports eyewear, magnifying glasses and professional optical equipment. The company has been approved by the French state social security system and private top-up health organizations since 2007. It also has a showroom in Paris where customers can test and adjust their prescription eyewear. |
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Electronics | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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ACCO ACCO Semiconductor, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative CMOS power amplifier components. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has a development team in Louveciennes, France. |
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IT - Technology | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Aldebaran Robotics Founded in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier, and with offices in France, China and the United States, ALDEBARAN Robotics designs, produces and commercializes autonomous humanoid robots for the well-being of humankind. Today over 900 NAOs are utilized throughout the world as research and educational platforms in 30 countries. ALDEBARAN Robotics brings together more than 100 people—including 45 engineers and PhDs—that are involved in the development and production of the robot. |
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E-commerce | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Oxatis Founded in 2001 and based in Marseille, Oxatis has developed a software/SaaS platform for the creation and administration of merchant websites targeting SMEs. It offers a broad range allowing for the management of all services needed to set up and run an e-commerce website, including online software, shopping baskets, hosting, secure payment, order management, inventory management, domain names and links to the main market players. At present, with over 6,500 sites managed and 400 sites created each month, Oxatis is the No. 1 e-commerce solution on the market and has around 40 employees. |
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Internet | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Scality Scality, formerly Bizanga Store, was formed by Cloudmark’s takeover of Bizanga’s IMP (Intelligent Message Processor) e-mail management operations in February 2010. Scality develops massively scalable object-storage for e-mail storage applications. |
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E-commerce | 2010 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Netzoptiker Founded in 2008 and based in Munich, the company operates a website selling glasses and corrective lenses. Netzoptiker has established itself as a true online optician, offering a wide range of products with over 400 brand-name frames, corrective lenses and contact lenses. |
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Cleantech | 2009 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Sens-Innov Founded in 2008, Sens-Innov offers pollutant detection solutions to water companies. The company has been awarded prizes in the “Emerging” (2008) and “Creation-Development” (2009) categories in the national awards for Innovative Technology Companies by the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research. |
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Software | 2009 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Aquafadas Founded in 2006 and based in Montpellier, Aquafadas offers software solutions for digital photos and videos. It is a key player in Europe in the distribution of digital comics. In 2009, Aquafadas launched its digital comic platform, Ave!Comics, for the sale and downloading of digital comics, with rights to the digital version of blondes, the latest Lucky Luke, etc. |
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Internet | 2009 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Turtle Entertainment GmbH Turtle Entertainment GmbH, founded in 2000, is European market leader in electronic sports (eSports). Via the Electronic Sports League (ESL), Turtle operates in 35 countries across all five continents. More than 2 million users are registered on the www.esl.eu league portal, which attracts over 10 million unique visitors per month (source: IVW), making it one of Germany's most frequently visited websites. Turtle Entertainment, based in Cologne, has over 150 employees. |
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E-commerce | 2009 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Keldelice Keldelice is a specialised portal for small regional producers which notably enables users to buy gastronomic products over the Internet. The site, created by Cyril Janin, the co-founder in 2000 of Keljob, the job search engine, offers more than 10,000 products from hundreds of independent French producers and distributors. In addition to being a straightforward e-commerce site, Keldelice provides related content such as recipes, useful addresses and details of gastronomy-oriented events. |
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Software | 2009 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Scan & Target Scan & Target is a software developer that provides a real-time solution in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) mode for the analysis of text content provided by users (User Generated Content or UGC). This analysis can be used for such things as content moderation (filtering of illicit or undesirable content), real-time advertising targeting and validation of unstructured texts (classified advertisement input, routing of e-mails and incoming SMSs, etc.). |
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Software | 2008 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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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 technologies is present in high-potential markets (medical, automobile, and home appliances), and several European and global leaders have already chosen its solutions. |
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Internet | 2008 | NICT Venture Capital | Info |
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Edagora Created in 2007, Edagora publishes a portal (www.avigora.com) specialised in personal coaching, well-being and esotericism. The portal puts private advisors in touch with customers seeking such expertise. Avigora's ambition is to provide this community with rigour and professionalism. |
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