The space conquest has turned into a booming market and has become an accepted investment theme for Venture Capital. This topic has been selected by the INPHO committee and it will be discussed in Bordeaux for the next INPHO Venture Forum that will take place in October 2020.

You are on your way to success… the sun is shining in a blue sky, you are in love with your project and it makes grow your wings… but sometimes the journey to attract private investors can be longer, more challenging and difficult than expected.
Here are 4 important tips to attract investment in making private investors falling as well in love with your company, to build a long-term relationship to support your growth and generate attractive value.

In this Interview, Peter Lukassen, Circular Economy Manager at Robert Bosch GmbH shares insights on how to capitalise on Circular Economy, this interview – made by Marie Bicrel from BLUMORPHO – was part of the open web meeting session dedicated to value creation in a circular economy.

Circularity is not only about waste management; it is designed to be an Economic model that generates value. At BLUMORPHO we put a particular accent on bankable challenges and on delivering technical and business solutions, and sustainable business models are part of it.

The open webmeeting held on October 17th, 2019 about sustainable business models and “how to generate value with circularity” addressed key questions with our corporates and impact investors guests Robert Bosch GmbH, Mirova, and Alter Equity.

The future of mobility and urban living is a major issue that companies need to focus on today to plan tomorrow. Indeed, in 2050 almost 6 billion people will live in an urban area. The growth of the population will multiply the number of transportation modes and housing in the cities. To fulfill the increasing need for transportation mode and housing the offer has to change. Besides, the environmental crisis makes necessary to use cleaner alternative to fossil energies and pollutant activities within the cities.

INPHO® Venture Summit which took place 11th and 12th October 2018 in Bordeaux, France, established itself as an undisputed worldwide reference summit for private investors and corporate executives investing in deep tech hardware to shape the future and keep ahead of the competition

In its proposal for the next EU Research and Innovation program, Horizon Europe, the European Commission proposed to invest 94,1 billion euros over seven years. The new program, to run between 2021 and 2027, would be implemented through three pillars – with one-fourth transversal pillar referring to “Strengthening the European Research Area”. Nicolas Sabatier, advisor to Jean-David MALO, Director “Open Innovation & Open Science” at the DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission will attend the next INPHO® Venture Summit 11th &12th in Bordeaux, France, and accepted to share with us his vision of this new architecture.

John Suh, Vice president and founding Director of Hyundai Center for Robotic-augmented Design in Living Experiences (CRADLE) is one of the Future Shaping Innovator eager to empower disruptors through Open innovation. John Suh will join INPHO® Venture Summit on the 11th and 12th of October in Bordeaux looking for open discussion and collaboration with participants.

Blockchain is part of the 10 strategic technology trends of 2018 listed by Gartner, with a business value predicted to reach $176 billion by 2025, and increase to $3.1 trillion by 2030. Mainly used in FinTech and cryptocurrencies, blockchain could also offer great business opportunities in industrial applications. This technology could indeed provide solutions to support digitization and data protection, as well as the setting up of new models of collaborations within industrial chains. Industrial blockchain is actually part of the key bankable challenges defined by INPHO® Venture Summit investors editorial committee and will be discussed among industrial experts on the 11th and 12th of October in Bordeaux, France.

PROPHESEE, the French inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision system in the world and the winner of INPHO Venture Summit 2016 has just launched its first revolutionary artificial vision system to be integrated into Industry 4.0 solutions: Onboard™. Luca Verre, co-founder, and CEO of PROPHESEE, formerly CHRONOCAM, shared with us his expectation towards Artificial Intelligence solutions in the machine vision sector.

A panel discussion at INPHO® Venture Summit will be dedicated to ubiquitous high-performance computing. In this interview, Michel Cui, head of Mid-market & Internet Industry and Benelux country manager at Alibaba Cloud Europe shares a first taste of what will be challenged during this panel discussion in Bordeaux, France on the 11th and 12th of October at INPHO® Venture Summit.

At INPHO® Venture Summit, executive investors and corporates challenge game-changing innovations in the 5 high growth vertical businesses: mobility, healthcare, infrastructure, consumer and smart factory. Participating in INPHO® Venture Summit is a unique experience in the world of hardware conferences in order to get inspired through hard talks, meet with best partners and get ahead of the competition. A panel discussion at INPHO® Venture Summit will be dedicated to industrial blockchain in order to challenge its unique value proposition and limits while assessing live business cases.

Every two years INPHO® Venture Summit becomes a unique destination where private investors, corporates and leading enterprises meet to evaluate selected pivotal bankable challenges to invest resources towards solving, refining, and redefining.

This year’s challenging topics are:
– Sensors & data generation technologies towards new business models
– Industrial blockchain
– Ubiquitous High-Performance Computing

When the European Union Horizon 2020 research program sets in to give European SMEs easier access to most innovative technologies, thanks to the gateone-project.

Time and again, European Commission studies have shed a light on the widening gap between European companies when it comes to access innovation, according to their size, their home country and their field of activity. To quote but one figure, according to the Digital Economy and Society Index –(DESI), only one company out of five is considered as active in the process of digitalization.

At INPHO® Venture Summit 2018, the European Commission and private investors will strengthen their relationships.
INPHO® Venture Summit will have the great honored to welcome Jean-David Malo, Director “Open Innovation & Open Science”, DG Research & Innovation – European Commission in Bordeaux on the 11th and 12th of October.

With a gathering of 500 participants every two years in previous successful editions, INPHO® Venture Summit has shaped a special agenda to deliberate on the future we want to design, develop, and set-up collaborations to reach common objectives.

BLUMORPHO Innovation Accelerator and its Partner CEA-LETI received the “Best Early Stage Innovation” prize for their new generation of MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG)The final vote for the EU Innovation Radar 2017 took place during the ICT’s Proposers Day in Budapest on 9th November. The quantum MEG technology is a real breakthrough innovation in Brain imaging. It has been developed in the framework of the Gateone-project, one of the first BLUMORPHO’s innovation acceleration program.

6 September 2017 Smart 4 Europe is the new Coordination and Support Action set up to reinforce Digitisation in Europe and to strengthen […]

On June 28 and 29, the Leti Days celebrating LETI 50 years were gathering innovation players in Grenoble, France. Among them, BLUMORPHO.
The 700 participants and 20 keynote speakers coming from Horiba, Renault, Engie or the European Commission are attesting the success of the event celebrating the 50 years of LETI in Grenoble, France. On the 29, the space was divided in 3 routes: The Digital Revolution; The Environmental Transition; New Frontiers for Healthcare.

BLUMORPHO, an innovation and business accelerator for companies involved in smart technologies, today announces that its EU-backed gateone-project has overseen the fast-track development of 35 innovation projects since the three-year program began in 2015. These include Swiss-based F&P robotics’ flexible pressure sensors on its humanoid robot – recognized for its high agility, French-based itk’s IoT solutions for improved crop management and German-Serbian Nissatech’s smart knee sensor to rehabilitate patients following knee surgery.

The face-off between investors and global industry players on key market issues in datacom/telecom, mobility, energy management, and personalized medicine, as well as disruptive technologies.

he largest European business is entering into Smart Innovation and digitization. More than 35 products addressing the digital and smart market are currently under validation for the first market introduction by 2017.

Those new generation smart products are addressing the 54B€ connected devices market expected in 2020 (source Yole Développement) in targeting more than 7 different industrial fields from the consumer market to security, digital medicine, energy efficiency, smart manufacturing, smart cities and also the agriculture industry. With the first investment of 1,3 M€ funded directly by the European Commission, 200M€ cumulative sales are expected in the 5 years to come.

BLUMORPHO enables the digitization of any kind of industry in addressing key challenges such as cybersecurity, pyrotechnics or bearings