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.

Past deals in Image Recognition

UnitySC

Venture Round in 2022
UnitySC specializes in metrology and inspection equipment for advanced semiconductor packaging and defect inspection. The company offers global service and application support to maintain equipment efficiency throughout its lifecycle. UnitySC serves various markets, including automotive, high-performance computing, and the Internet of Things, enhancing technological capabilities across industries.

SightCall

Series B in 2021
SightCall is a live video SaaS enabling visual support for enterprises enriched by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence insights.Their solution is a suite of mobile and web applications enabling business users to see what their customer sees and guide them remotely. The video assistance session is powered by Augmented Reality enriching the interaction.Manufacturers improve their field force efficiency, Telecom carriers increase customer satisfaction by solving problems faster, Insurance companies transform the claim process, and many other industries are transforming their business process by leveraging the SightCall platform. They ties in to the application workflow by offering a contextual experience that is application, client, device, network and directory agnostic. The SightCall Video Cloud, a global real-time communication cloud infrastructure, powers the highly available, secure and scalable service, fitting large enterprise requirements.

Pixyl

Venture Round in 2021
Pixyl’s neuroimaging cloud platform facilitates data-driven and value-based patient care by making decision-critical neuroimaging information accessible to clinicians, when it matters. We deliver automatic neuroimaging biomarker extraction for improved insight and decision-making in clinical studies and routine clinical practice. Our cloud-based solutions are designed for seamless integration into the workflows of imaging CROs, neuroradiologists and neurologists. Our platform, Pixyl.Neuro, leverages advanced machine learning methods to deliver quantitative measures of brain atrophy and/or lesion quantification and classification for MS, Stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Moments Lab

Series A in 2021
Moments Lab’s mission is to help content producers build videos faster. The platform makes audiovisual content searchable to reduce the time spent sourcing the key moments required to tell a story. MXT Multimodal AI is here to address video indexing challenges, describing sequences in natural language, enabling content professionals to focus on creativity and higher-value decisions. Today, the platform is used worldwide by TV networks, sports rights holders, production companies, journalists, producers, and archivists to scale content creation workflows and generate new revenue streams. Whether it be for managing and accessing live recordings, clipping highlights, researching story angles, content retrieval, or content showcasing and licensing. Newsbridge offers four solutions powered by MXT-1: - Just Index: For companies needing to extract metadata and send it to their third-party media asset management system. - Media Hub: For companies looking for an innovative media asset management platform with a best-in-class search engine. - Live Asset Manager: For companies needing to instantly access and centralize live streams as they are being recorded, in a scalable fashion. - Media Marketplace: For companies looking for a white label storefront to monetize their media library. Newsbridge creates value for its clients by: - Improving productivity and building video stories 50% faster: by erasing the need for manual logging and accelerating the video sourcing process. - Giving teams and partners immediate access and autonomy in finding content: Did you know that 80% of content worldwide is still stored on hard drives? - Providing immediate ROI: By making content more easily reusable and more findable on video search engine platforms, such as YouTube. Newsbridge serves clients worldwide, including Hearst Corporation, World Rally Championships, Agence France Presse (AFP), Asharq News, SWR, Le Parisien, French Football Federation, Olympique de Marseille, Bayer Leverkusen, TF1, M6, BFM (Altice Group), and more.

Preligens

Series A in 2020
We develop pioneering technology to empower analysts to take smart actions for a safer world. Our artificial intelligence solutions are based on an automated analysis of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) workflows. Powering state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Computer Vision, we aggregate information from multi-intelligence sources (Multi-INT), such as imagery (IMINT), electromagnetic (ELINT), or open source (OSINT), to provide our Defence and Intelligence customers with strategic knowledge regarding mission critical areas of interest ensuring a more insightful operating picture.

Multiwave Imaging

Grant in 2020
Multiwave Imaging is a French company recognized as a leader in the design of metamaterial MRI antennas. It operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Multiwave Technologies AG, which was founded in Switzerland in March 2015 and has its headquarters in Geneva. The company focuses on developing innovative metamaterial technologies aimed at enhancing quality of life. Multiwave Imaging's primary objective is to create and harness intellectual property, assess its commercial viability, and establish management teams to transform these innovations into marketable products. This strategic approach enables Multiwave Imaging to build companies across various sectors, leveraging advanced technology to address diverse needs.

Pixium Vision

Post in 2020
Pixium Vision SA is a Paris-based company focused on developing implantable medical devices to address blindness caused by the degeneration of retinal photoreceptor cells. The company is known for its bionic vision system, the PRIMA System, which aims to restore vision and enhance the quality of life for individuals suffering from vision loss. Additionally, Pixium Vision is advancing its retinal implant technologies through devices such as the IRIS1, currently in clinical trials, and the upcoming IRIS2, which promises improved visual acuity. The company is also working on the IRIS3 sub-retinal implant, leveraging cutting-edge advancements in neural processing and micro-electronics. Founded in 2011 as a spin-out from the Vision Institute and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Pixium collaborates with leading institutions, including Stanford University and Moorfields Eye Hospital, to further its research and development efforts. The company is supported by prominent European venture capital firms.

Multiwave Imaging

Grant in 2020
Multiwave Imaging is a French company recognized as a leader in the design of metamaterial MRI antennas. It operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Multiwave Technologies AG, which was founded in Switzerland in March 2015 and has its headquarters in Geneva. The company focuses on developing innovative metamaterial technologies aimed at enhancing quality of life. Multiwave Imaging's primary objective is to create and harness intellectual property, assess its commercial viability, and establish management teams to transform these innovations into marketable products. This strategic approach enables Multiwave Imaging to build companies across various sectors, leveraging advanced technology to address diverse needs.

TwicPics

Seed Round in 2020
It's not a secret that our brains are wired to respond to visual content. Images and videos are at the heart of all marketing strategies. Visual quality is more important than ever. But websites are heavier than ever, and the main culprits are visual assets. They eat up network bandwidth and increase the time visitors spend waiting for pages to load while being responsible for most of the carbon emissions on the Web. Moreover, tailoring media is extremely challenging with all kinds of devices, screen sizes, and network qualities out in the wild. TwicPics smartly automates images and videos processing. As a result, it guarantees visual quality and web performance while reducing websites' carbon footprint. Major brands and startups use TwicPics to: - accelerate the display of web pages - deliver pixel-perfect images and videos tailored to each client device - simplify their workflow - produce eco-designed websites TwicPics impacts the main KPIs of websites and apps: conversion rates, engagement, and SEO.

Foodvisor

Venture Round in 2018
Foodvisor is a nutrition application that assists users in making healthier dietary choices by utilizing smartphone cameras to identify food items and estimate serving sizes. The app provides detailed nutritional information rapidly, allowing users to access essential data about their meals. This functionality goes beyond merely counting calories; it aims to promote healthier eating habits and support users in achieving a balanced diet. By combining technology with nutritional guidance, Foodvisor empowers individuals to improve their dietary habits effectively.

ISORG

Series B in 2018
ISORG is the pioneer company in organic and printed electronics for large area photo-detectors and image sensors.ISORG offers complete services from proof-of-concept to mass production for innovative opto-electronics systems (hardware and software).

Gleamer

Seed Round in 2018
GLEAMER develops a suite of AI solutions for Radiology that encapsulate medical-grade expertise. The company wants to support imaging users to secure diagnoses for all patients at all times while improving efficiency. GLEAMER’s AI Companions are directly integrated into the users’ usual reading environment and act as an automated and transparent second reading to improve diagnostic accuracy in X-ray imaging. GLEAMER’s solutions are currently being used across 13 countries in more than 300 institutions.

Qopius

Seed Round in 2017
Qopius digitizes shelves to help retailers measure shelf performance, increase productivity and reduce out-of-stock scenarios. They are constructing the world’s biggest AI-powered image recognition engine for digitizing supermarket shelves, that means detecting and recognizing every consumer goods product from images and video, to finally achieve the fully connected store. The Qopius Retail Pulse platform helps the biggest names in FMCG, retailers and manufacturers, to track the behavior of their products on the shelves and take corrective action in real-time to insure the shopping experience is at its best. Their mission is to transform the way of shop. A seamless shopping experience in an automatically functioning store, with no waiting in line, and the right product at the right place. Their dedicated team and their ever-growing artificial intelligence engine will help get them there.

Preligens

Seed Round in 2016
We develop pioneering technology to empower analysts to take smart actions for a safer world. Our artificial intelligence solutions are based on an automated analysis of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) workflows. Powering state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Computer Vision, we aggregate information from multi-intelligence sources (Multi-INT), such as imagery (IMINT), electromagnetic (ELINT), or open source (OSINT), to provide our Defence and Intelligence customers with strategic knowledge regarding mission critical areas of interest ensuring a more insightful operating picture.

Deepomatic

Debt Financing in 2015
Deepomatic is a visual automation platform that helps organizations and businesses with computer vision applications. The company enables field operation companies to turn workers’ smartphone camera footage into actionable insights. Its intuitive SaaS platform assists field service workers thanks to the automatic detection of any key aspect of the field. All data collected from the field is used by field service organizations to have a complete view of their operations and infrastructure. The company’s current sales focus is on telecom and is ready to address a wide range of field services verticals such as the utilities, construction, and property management markets

ISORG

Venture Round in 2014
ISORG is the pioneer company in organic and printed electronics for large area photo-detectors and image sensors.ISORG offers complete services from proof-of-concept to mass production for innovative opto-electronics systems (hardware and software).

Pixium Vision

Series A in 2013
Pixium Vision SA is a Paris-based company focused on developing implantable medical devices to address blindness caused by the degeneration of retinal photoreceptor cells. The company is known for its bionic vision system, the PRIMA System, which aims to restore vision and enhance the quality of life for individuals suffering from vision loss. Additionally, Pixium Vision is advancing its retinal implant technologies through devices such as the IRIS1, currently in clinical trials, and the upcoming IRIS2, which promises improved visual acuity. The company is also working on the IRIS3 sub-retinal implant, leveraging cutting-edge advancements in neural processing and micro-electronics. Founded in 2011 as a spin-out from the Vision Institute and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Pixium collaborates with leading institutions, including Stanford University and Moorfields Eye Hospital, to further its research and development efforts. The company is supported by prominent European venture capital firms.
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