Investors

Founded in 1996, CDC Innovation is an international venture capital firm with head office in Paris and a local presence in the Silicon Valley and in Switzerland. With over €415 million currently under management, its focus is on venture investments at both the early and late stages, in two sectors: information technologies and life sciences. CDC Innovation’s aim is to create value by providing talented entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and networks needed to turn world-class technologies into great businesses.
http://www.cdcinnovation.com

I-Source Gestion is an early-stage venture capital firm, focusing on Information and Communication Technologies (Software, Saas, Multimedia and Telecom). They currently manage six funds worth €150 million. The I-Source Management team consists of senior operational staff in finance & entrepreneurships that bring significant support to portfolio companies. I-Source Gestion has developed a broad network of research laboratories, incubators, institutional and private investors, and world-class high-tech companies.
www.isourcegestion.fr

TechFund Europe Management is a private equity firm focusing on early-stage investments in breakthrough technology companies. Investments are focused on core and enabling technology including digital media, networking, communications, and energy. TechFund Europe Management leverages its network of strategic partners (including Thomson Multimedia, Thales Group, EDF...) and proactively assists its portfolio companies in accelerating their development. TechFund Europe Management has a pan-European focus and co-manages parts of FCPIs (Fonds Commun de Placement dans l’Innovation) and FIPs (Fonds d’Investissement de Proximité).
www.techfund.fr

CDC Entreprises – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts – manages private equity funds of funds and co-investment funds with the mission of promoting the French private equity industry, mainly for its own account. It supports venture and growth capital, from seed to late stage financing, on a local and national level, in order to facilitate high-tech, fast-growing or traditional SMEs up to €15 million per company. CDC Entreprises currently implements and manages a new investment program called "France Investissement" (2006-2012), which aims at promoting tomorrow’s French champions at an international level. A total of €2 billion have been allocated for investment by CDC Entreprises in this program.
www.caissedesdepots.fr

123Venture is an independent asset management company created in 2001 and dedicated to making private equity available to private individuals through FCPR, multi-managed FCPI and multi-managed FIP. 123Venture manages more than €250 million through 12 funds, and for more than 16.000 private individuals
www.123venture.com

CAC (Champagne Ardennes Croissance) & IRPAC (Institut Régional de Participation Ardenne Champagne) were created through a Regional initiative to give a fresh impetus to the starting up of new regional businesses and to boost the most promising ones by investing and reinforcing the companies’ capital structure and ensuring rigorous monitoring of their development.
The CAC fund focuses on small businesses while the IRPAC fund is dedicated to medium-sized companies.
www.irpac-cac.com