Sébastien Touvron

RHÔNE ALPES CRÉATION SA (RAC) is an independent French venture capital firm which was created in 1990 on the initiative of the Rhône Alpes region and the Caisse des Dépôts to invest in innovative early-stage companies. Based in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, RAC manages the Rhône Alpes Création Fund, backed by the region, banks and private companies. The firm works closely with local business angel associations in Grenoble, Savoie and Lyon and business angel SCRs such as Start Me Up. They also work with members of the FRANCE-ANGEL and PARIS-BUSINESS ANGELS networks in the EASY program, the meeting point for early-stage investors and innovative businesses seeking venture capital from across Europe.

AMORÇAGE RHÔNE-ALPES SAS (ARA) is an independent French venture capital firm which was established in 2002 on the impulse of the Rhone-Alpes Regional Authorities (Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes) with the support of banks and industries. Based in Champagne-au-Mont-D'or, the firm aims to stimulate enterprise creation by investing in innovative technology companies with high growth potential, targeting technologies emerging from or being developed in French public research institutions and universities. The firm has alliances with institutional regional incubators, the Rhone-region and the Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation de la Recherche et de l'Innovation. ARA manages the AMORÇAGE RHÔNE-ALPES Fund, backed by banks, industries, financial institutions, universities and the Rhone-Alpes region.

SIGEFI Ventures Gestion SAS (SVG) is the venture capital subsidiary of Siparex Proximité Innovation SAS in France. Formerly known as Siparex Ventures Gestion, SVG was established 1998 and is based in Lyon, a large city in south eastern France. The firm manages innovation funds (FCPI) for institutional investors, as well as regional investment funds through their subsidiary Sud Partners. Their clients include major French financial institutions and asset management firms, as well as US-based investors. SVG's culture integrates their French and American experience. The firm has a strategic alliance with SBV Venture Partners (SIGEFI Burnette Vallée), based in California.

InfiniScale SA provides modeling, model-based synthesis, and parametric yield software solutions for analog system sizing and yield optimization. It offers modeling engine and optimization software that addresses design for yield challenges. The company was founded by Firas Mohamed Monade and Takis Breyiannis in 2005 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

CAPS entreprise SA provides software solutions. It develops software for application tuning in the domains of HPC and embedded systems and offers a range of development tools and services enabling its customers applications to optimize the performance of multicore processors used by the last generation hardware. The company was founded by Laurent Bertaux and Francois Bodin on April 5, 2002 and is headquartered in Rennes, France.

Kreaxi SASU (Kreaxi) is an independent private equity firm born from the merger of Rhône-Alpes Création and Banexi Ventures Partners. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

BiBOARD SAS operates as a holding company, which engages in the design and development of web-based business intelligence management platforms. Its solutions allow enterprises to monitor their finances, supply chains, human resources, and sales, as well as visualize real-time data and generate on-demand reports. The company was founded by Thierry Thepaut in 2008 and is headquartered in Veuvrey Voroize, France.