Innovacom
| Industry | Venture Capital |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters |
Paris, France Stockholm, Sweden San Francisco, United States |
Key people |
Jérôme Lecoeur Jérôme Faul |
| Total assets | $ 330 million |
Number of employees | 9 |
| Website | www.innovacom.com |
Founded in 1988,[1] Innovacom is a venture capital firm with offices in Paris,[2] Stockholm and San Francisco. The firm has about $330 million under active management. In 2015, Innovacom manages 1 seed[3] and 2 venture funds, allowing the firm to make 4 investments a year in companies with breakthrough digital technology. Innovacom specializes in corporate venture[4] in the field of information technology.
Examples of companies currently supported by Innovacom
- CAILabs: optical switches
- Cozy Cloud: personal cloud
- Exagan: GaN over Si components[5]
- Feeligreen: health devices[6]
- Intersec: big data for mobile operators[7]
- IS2T: Java for embedded applications
- I-ten: microbatteries
Examples of companies formerly supported by Innovacom
- Business Objects: pioneer in business intelligence - listed (NASDAQ: BOBJ)
- Digitick: leader in paperless ticketing in France - acquired by Vivendi[8]
- Gemplus: now Gemalto
- Jabber: instant messaging - acquired by Cisco
- Kelkoo: pioneer in online shopping - acquired by Yahoo!
- Owlient: social gaming - acquired by Ubisoft[9]
- Netezza: data management - acquired by IBM
- Olea Medical: image processing for medical applications
- Qobuz: first lossless online musique service
- Streamezzo: pioneer in rich media services - acquired by Amdocs
- Videoplaza: leader in online video commercials - acquired by Telstra[10]
References
- ↑ "CrunchBase".
- ↑ "INNOVACOM GESTION (PARIS 8) Chiffre d'affaires, résultat, bilans sur SOCIETE.COM - 430087429". www.societe.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Innovacom seed fund Technocom 2 closes on €30m". Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Innovacom sets up academic seed fund · Articles · Global University Venturing". www.globaluniversityventuring.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Exagan raises €5.7m to produce GaN-on-Si power-switching devices on 200mm wafers". www.semiconductor-today.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Grasse: Feeligreen raises €1M and wins a TOP TIC award". Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ Europe, Highland Capital Partners. "Intersec Announces $20 Million Funding led by Highland Capital Partners Europe". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Vivendi buys 65 percent of Digitick for EUR 29 million". www.telecompaper.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ "Ubisoft acquires Owlient". Retrieved 2015-08-20.
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "Ooyala Buys Euro Video Ad Startup Videoplaza In Its First Acquisition". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
External links
| |||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.