Bpifrance

Bpifrance Financement S.A. is a French financial institution that provides a wide range of financing solutions and support services for businesses at various stages of their development. Established in 1980 and based in Maisons-Alfort, France, the company offers medium to long-term loans, export insurance, real estate and equipment leasing, and working capital loans. Bpifrance also invests in startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and mid-cap companies through direct investments and fund management activities. Additionally, it provides consulting services for executives and training for CEOs, aiming to facilitate innovation and growth. Bpifrance was formed from the merger of several entities in July 2013, including OSEO, CDC Entreprises, and FSI, to enhance its role in supporting the financing of the French economy.

Laurent Arthaud

Managing Director

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Cross-Functional Investments Venture Capital

Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Deputy Director of the Large Venture Fund and Deputy Managing Director

Sofia Dahoune

Associate

Vanessa Giraud

Managing Director

Laurent Higueret

Senior Investment Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences - Large Venture Fund

Hortense Jacon

Investment Associate

Veronique Jacq

Head of Digital Venture team

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Arnaud Legardeur

Investment Director

Serge Mesguich

Director

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Adrien Neel

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Director

Tuan Tran

Investment Director / VC

Past deals in Communications Infrastructure

Scintil Photonics

Venture Round in 2022
Scintil Photonics SAS, founded in 2018 and based in Grenoble, France, specializes in the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits aimed at advancing high-speed optical communications and chip interconnections. The company offers a range of products, including multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors. By employing wafer-scale bonding techniques that combine Silicon and Indium Phosphide materials, Scintil Photonics creates fully integrated circuits that enhance performance and reliability while significantly lowering implementation costs. Their innovative approach allows for the monolithic integration of optical amplifiers and lasers on advanced silicon photonic circuits, making their solutions suitable for a variety of industrial applications.

Ascor Communication

Venture Round in 2022
Ascor Communication is a holding company based in Rennes, France, established in 2007. The company focuses on investing in digital and distance learning solutions through its subsidiaries. With private and family shareholders, Ascor Communication aims to enhance educational accessibility and innovation in the digital learning sector.

Adeunis

Grant in 2021
Adeunis designs, manufactures, and markets connected objects and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for various sectors, including smart buildings, industrial optimization, and connected agriculture. The company offers a range of products, such as radio frequency transmission modules, wireless transmission systems, and telemetry systems, tailored to meet the specific needs of its customers. Adeunis also provides services like on-site radio mapping, deployment, training, and data processing to support the management of buildings and infrastructure. Based in Crolles, France, the company focuses on creating customized radio solutions and ready-to-use systems that enhance connectivity and efficiency across multiple applications.

Adeunis

Post in 2021
Adeunis designs, manufactures, and markets connected objects and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for various sectors, including smart buildings, industrial optimization, and connected agriculture. The company offers a range of products, such as radio frequency transmission modules, wireless transmission systems, and telemetry systems, tailored to meet the specific needs of its customers. Adeunis also provides services like on-site radio mapping, deployment, training, and data processing to support the management of buildings and infrastructure. Based in Crolles, France, the company focuses on creating customized radio solutions and ready-to-use systems that enhance connectivity and efficiency across multiple applications.

iWire

Series A in 2021
iWire is a UAE based company established since 2009, providing IT services to enterprise clients. As the digital era is unfolding at a breath-taking pace, we are determined to provide leading-edge solutions in the following domains to address the new market realities. o Internet of Things o IT Optimization o Digital Transformation

Saphelec

Venture Round in 2021
Provider of telecommunication and information technology services intended for businesses and professionals. The company offers mobile services, telephony, internet solutions, video conferencing services, IT, telecom, and network outsourcing and support services, helping clients in the installation and management of their telecommunications and IT infrastructure.

Amedia Solutions

Venture Round in 2021
Amédia Solutions is an IT service provider and telecom operator. It is a local player specializing in B to B IT and telecoms. It has thus been able to forge various strong partnerships with publishers, manufacturers, infrastructure operators, security specialists to offer the best of IT and telecommunications.

Kineis

Venture Round in 2020
Kinéis is an independent satellite operator focused on providing global connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). As a key player in the new space sector, the company develops satellite technology that collaborates with terrestrial IoT operators, existing satellite operators, and manufacturers of connected devices. Its solutions enable clients to locate and collect data from objects worldwide, regardless of environmental conditions. Through its innovative approach, Kinéis aims to enhance data accessibility and connectivity for various applications across the globe.

InterCloud

Series C in 2019
InterCloud SAS specializes in providing cloud computing connectivity services tailored for various platforms, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. The company operates its own private global network, offering secure and efficient end-to-end links between organizations and their cloud service providers. One of its flagship services, CloudGate, facilitates private Ethernet connectivity, enabling clients to connect with application providers seamlessly. InterCloud also offers consulting services to assist businesses in migrating to the cloud and optimizing their existing cloud infrastructure. Its clientele includes major technology firms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Salesforce, among others. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France, with additional offices in Madrid and London, InterCloud has established itself as a leader in Software-Defined Interconnectivity in Europe, helping organizations enhance their cloud connectivity while addressing security and compliance challenges.

Scintil Photonics

Seed Round in 2019
Scintil Photonics SAS, founded in 2018 and based in Grenoble, France, specializes in the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits aimed at advancing high-speed optical communications and chip interconnections. The company offers a range of products, including multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors. By employing wafer-scale bonding techniques that combine Silicon and Indium Phosphide materials, Scintil Photonics creates fully integrated circuits that enhance performance and reliability while significantly lowering implementation costs. Their innovative approach allows for the monolithic integration of optical amplifiers and lasers on advanced silicon photonic circuits, making their solutions suitable for a variety of industrial applications.

Wifirst

Private Equity Round in 2019
Wifirst is a telecom operator that offers a network capable of absorbing the spectacular rise in Internet usage. It also offers high value-added services and making WiFi the technical base for the digital transformation of its customers. It operates several hundred thousand intuitive, secure, high-performance connected spaces in Europe and Africas. It was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
Symphony Communication Services, LLC develops a secure collaboration platform tailored for financial institutions, enabling traders and portfolio managers to communicate effectively through messaging, screen sharing, and audio/video conferencing. The platform consolidates digital communications into a single application, allowing users to integrate various applications and bots into their workflows while ensuring data security and regulatory compliance. Symphony offers a range of solutions for enterprise collaboration, including tools for internal and external communication, document sharing, and application integration. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Symphony has additional offices in major global financial centers such as New York, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. The company, previously known as Perzo Inc., was rebranded in 2014 and operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

ALTICAP

Venture Round in 2017
ALTICAP is offers management software services and networks for mid cap and small and medium size companies.

Actility

Series D in 2017
Actility is an industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). ThingPark by Actility offers a carrier-grade IoT platform, with a growing ecosystem of partners; low-power, long-range wireless networks for sensors and devices; an operating system and middleware that enables web applications to connect seamlessly with data from different sensors; and a B2B e-commerce market featuring tested and approved IoT device, connectivity, and application partners. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™.

InterCloud

Series B in 2017
InterCloud SAS specializes in providing cloud computing connectivity services tailored for various platforms, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. The company operates its own private global network, offering secure and efficient end-to-end links between organizations and their cloud service providers. One of its flagship services, CloudGate, facilitates private Ethernet connectivity, enabling clients to connect with application providers seamlessly. InterCloud also offers consulting services to assist businesses in migrating to the cloud and optimizing their existing cloud infrastructure. Its clientele includes major technology firms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Salesforce, among others. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France, with additional offices in Madrid and London, InterCloud has established itself as a leader in Software-Defined Interconnectivity in Europe, helping organizations enhance their cloud connectivity while addressing security and compliance challenges.

SIGFOX

Series E in 2016
Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible. Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers to global IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT. Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore.

Interway Group

Venture Round in 2016
Interway Group is an IT services company that provides digital technology solutions to retail companies.

Seamless Waves

Grant in 2016
Seamless Waves is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in designing and implementing reconfigurable RF transceivers. These advanced transceivers can sweep the frequency spectrum to identify the least occupied frequency bands, facilitating efficient communication through the appropriate wireless standards. Utilizing highly efficient RF Analog-to-Digital converters, Seamless Waves' technology ensures low power consumption, making it ideal for portable devices. In addition to its transceiver solutions, the company offers silicon-proven Analog/RF Physical Intellectual Property (IP) and virtual component models that support early system integration for clients.

ACCO Semiconductor

Series F in 2016
ACCO Semiconductor, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, with additional facilities in Paris, France. Established in 1994, the company specializes in developing advanced CMOS wireless solutions, particularly power amplifiers for mobile communications. ACCO's product offerings include CMOS power amplifiers that support various cellular standards, including 2G, 3G, and 4G, catering to a range of portable devices such as smartphones, tablets, MiFi routers, and USB dongles. The company has innovated a patented CMOS technology that allows for high efficiency and integration of components, enabling the production of power amplifiers that match the performance of traditional gallium arsenide amplifiers while utilizing standard CMOS fabrication methods. This advancement simplifies manufacturing and enhances the capabilities of mobile communication products.

Cirpack

Venture Round in 2015
Cirpack telecom service providers can now promote innovative telephony including the best of fixed and mobile services, to create new opportunities for increased revenues from enterprise sales. Founded in 1998, Cirpack is a leader in Voice over IP (VOIP) software solutions and telecommunication platforms for telecom operators to ensure the convergence of their voice, data and video services (triple play offerings) on their network. IP. The Group is present in France, Germany, Mexico, Lebanon and Vietnam. Recognized for the strength and reliability of its solutions, Cirpack Group offers flexibility and responsiveness to its customers to support them in their communication strategies over Voice over IP. The company offers a full range of innovative products to over 15 million subscribers and 150 operators worldwide thanks to the modularity and ease of integration and operation of its solutions. In parallel, Cirpack provides advice, support and maintenance to its customers.

Actility

Series C in 2015
Actility is an industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). ThingPark by Actility offers a carrier-grade IoT platform, with a growing ecosystem of partners; low-power, long-range wireless networks for sensors and devices; an operating system and middleware that enables web applications to connect seamlessly with data from different sensors; and a B2B e-commerce market featuring tested and approved IoT device, connectivity, and application partners. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™.

SIGFOX

Series D in 2015
Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible. Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers to global IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT. Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore.

SIGFOX

Series C in 2014
Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible. Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers to global IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT. Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore.

E-Blink

Venture Round in 2013
E-Blink specializes in developing innovative solutions for the deployment of mobile network base stations. The company focuses on creating technologies that eliminate the reliance on coaxial cables and short-range fiber optics, with its flagship product, the EB1 system, leading the way. This system enhances deployment flexibility and reduces costs while facilitating better integration of equipment within the base station environment. By offering these advanced solutions, E-Blink positions itself as a leader in fronthaul technologies, catering to the evolving needs of mobile network operators.

Xivo

Series A in 2012
XiVo specializes in IP telephony and unified communications, offering a comprehensive business communication software solution aimed at enhancing telephony systems while maintaining cost efficiency. Founded in 2009 as Avencall, the company provides a versatile platform suitable for call centers, designed to integrate seamlessly with various information systems and facilitate strong customer relationship management. XiVo engages in all stages of the implementation process, including design, installation, support, and training, ensuring clients receive customized solutions that align with their specific business needs. Through its open-source telecommunication services, XiVo aims to support organizational growth and adaptability in a rapidly changing communication landscape.

E-Blink

Venture Round in 2012
E-Blink specializes in developing innovative solutions for the deployment of mobile network base stations. The company focuses on creating technologies that eliminate the reliance on coaxial cables and short-range fiber optics, with its flagship product, the EB1 system, leading the way. This system enhances deployment flexibility and reduces costs while facilitating better integration of equipment within the base station environment. By offering these advanced solutions, E-Blink positions itself as a leader in fronthaul technologies, catering to the evolving needs of mobile network operators.

Neli Technologies

Series A in 2008
NELI Technologies is developing a solution for broadcasting digital terrestrial television throughout the home using powerline communication technology.

E-Blink

Seed Round in 2005
E-Blink specializes in developing innovative solutions for the deployment of mobile network base stations. The company focuses on creating technologies that eliminate the reliance on coaxial cables and short-range fiber optics, with its flagship product, the EB1 system, leading the way. This system enhances deployment flexibility and reduces costs while facilitating better integration of equipment within the base station environment. By offering these advanced solutions, E-Blink positions itself as a leader in fronthaul technologies, catering to the evolving needs of mobile network operators.
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