Category: Innovation

NETVA 2017: 2 Inria start-ups selected!

Supported by the scientific and technological services of the French embassies to the US and Canada, the NETVA programme (New Technology Venture Accelerator) helps young French businesses to find their feet across the Atlantic by introducing them to the contacts and resources they need to penetrate the North American market. In 2017, 107 young innovative …

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CITRIS-Inria APPCIVIST project wins “Chancellor’s award for public service” in collaboration with the city of Vallejo

The AppCivist project of the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS (Connected Communities Initiative) in partnership with Inria, has won the 2016-17 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the category of Campus-Community Partnership in collaboration with the City of Vallejo. All award recipients were honored at an awards ceremony and reception on May 2, 2017 in Krutch Theatre on the Clark Kerr campus …

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Launch of the Ambici app in the San Francisco area: Changing Environmental Consciousness

. As part of its transatlantic collaborative research activities in the smart city domain, Inria@SiliconValley has nurtured the development of the Ambiciti solution for changing environmental consciousness. The App gives people a new tool to understand their environment.   San Francisco, 8th March 2017 – Protecting ourselves from environmental pollution requires the best possible information about …

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Interview: Olivier Clatz, co-founder of Therapixel and NETVA 2016 laureate

Therapixel was founded by Olivier Clatz from Asclepios team and Pierre Fillard from Parietal team. Therapixel offers a flexible medical imaging solution that can be adapted to different locations and users. The business raised €600,000 to internationalise its fluid application, which, among other things, uses contactless visual recognition to allow surgeons to access the medical images they need in …

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NETVA 2017 edition (New Technology Venture Accelerator) in partnership with Inria

For the 2017 edition, Inria partners with the NETVA mentoring program so as to promote the participation of Inria startups. Created in 2010 by the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in the United States, NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) is a mentoring program tailored for young, innovative French companies hoping to …

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Paola Goatin awarded “Femme en Or 2016” in the Smart City category

The 24th edition of the “Femme en Or” award was dedicated to Innovation, with two new categories this year: “Femme de Goût ” (Woman of Taste) promoting the “French art of life” and “Femme de la Smart City” (Smart City Woman) for those who introduce digital science in our cities. The “Femme de la Smart City” …

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Takeaways from the Smart City TechMeeting organized in San Francisco

Source: https://www.chooseparisregion.org/ On May 26, the Open Innovation Club convened a TechMeeting on Smart City. The event kicked off with a panel discussion moderated by Gordon Feller, Founder of the non-profit Meeting of the Minds and consultant at Cisco Systems, and featuring Paul Campbell, VP Innovation at Schneider Electric, Valerie Issarny, Senior Researcher at Inria …

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NETVA 2016: 5 Inria start-ups take off for the United States

Supported by the scientific and technological services of the French embassies to the US and Canada, the NETVA programme (New Technology Venture Accelerator) helps young French businesses to find their feet across the Atlantic by introducing them to the contacts and resources they need to penetrate the North American market. 2016: a winning year for …

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NETVA 2016 edition (New Technology Venture Accelerator) in partnership with Inria

For the 2016 edition, Inria partners with the NETVA mentoring program so as to promote the participation of Inria startups. Created in 2010 by the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in the United States, NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) is a mentoring program tailored for young, innovative French companies hoping to …

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Interview: Alexandru Plesco, CEO/CTO XtremLogic and NETVA 2015 laureate

XtremeLogic, co-founded by Inria researchers Christophe Alias, and Alexandru Plesco, is a new start-up offering next generation green high-performance computing on FPGAs with up to 100 times better performance/watt ratio than existing solutions. In 2015 the start-up was selected in the framework of the NETVA program. Alexandru Plesco, who was the Startup Project Manager and is now XtremeLogic CEO/CTO, tells us about …

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