Stéphane Pesqué

LightSand Communications, Inc. develops storage area network connectivity products. It offers development and delivery of storage area network (SAN) connectivity products that can be used to interconnect multiple SANs regardless of physical proximity or vendor disparity. The firm's SAN extension gateways work within the data center and over MAN/WAN networks to interconnect SANs over distance using IP, SONET/SDH, DWDM, and fiber networks. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Jedox AG provides enterprise technologies for Excel applications. It offers consulting, training, support, workshops, newsletter and social media services. The firm also offers planning/forecasting, reporting/analysis, sales controlling, procurement controlling and project controlling. The firm has operations in France and Germany. The company was founded by Kristian Raue in 2002 and is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.

Open-Xchange AG develops e-mail and collaboration software solutions. It specializes in the development of tools for on-premise or on-demand solutions, geared towards fueling clients' businesses. The company designs an application suite, a centralized cloud environment that lets users manage digital lives, emails, tasks, and files from a single interface. Its solutions include e-mail, calendar, address book, document, and task management applications. The company was founded by Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Martin Kauss and Frank Hoberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.

MyThings, Inc. provides custom programmatic advertisement solutions. It specializes in retargeting campaigns on desktop and mobile platforms. The firm’s services include data mining, analytics dashboard, consumer database, and segmentation engine solutions. The company was founded by Ben Z. Arbel in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Quick Restaurants SA owns and operates chain of fast-food restaurants. It offers various types of burgers, sandwiches, chicken products, party snacks, salads, and desserts. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Berchem, Belgium.

Iris Capital Partners SAS operates as a venture capital firm. The firm provides business development, corporate finance and mergers and acquisition services. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Kyriba Corp. engages in the provision of cash and treasury management software solutions. The firm specializes in the design of automated online systems to control clients cash management tasks. Its solution areas encompass cash and liquidity, payments, bank relationships, financial transactions, risk management, and supply chain finance. The company was founded by Jean-Luc Robert and Nathaniel Fraiberger in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Clear2pay NV provides electronic payments solutions. It solution areas encompass open payment and test frameworks, domestic and international payments, direct debits, credit transfers, electronic billing, tax data service, image check processing, consumer remittance payments, electronic banking, business payments and software development kits. The firm offers strategic advisory, co-sourcing, outsourcing and assessment consulting services. The company was founded by Michel Akkermans and Jurgen Ingels in 2001 and is headquartered in Diegem, Belgium.

Next47 Services GmbH (Next47, fka Siemens Venture Capital GmbH) is the venture capital unit of Siemens AG (FR: SIE; NYSE: SI), a global electronics and engineering company based in Germany. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Munich, with additional offices around the world.

Seventure Partners SA (Seventure) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Natixis SA founded in 1997. Seventure Partners SA is headquartered in Paris.

Varioptic SA manufactures autofocus lens for digital imaging applications. The firm offers liquid lenses for development of electrowetting technology to create variable focus lenses with no moving parts. The company was founded by Bruno Berge in 2002 and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

1-2-3.TV GmbH provides auction services through television channel. The firm offers its services digitally via the satellite channels nationwide and cable and is also disseminated to receive via live stream on the internet. The company was founded by Henning Schnepper and Andreas Buchelhofer in 2004 and is headquartered in Grunwald, Germany.

Datamars SA manufactures of radio frequency identification systems. It serves the companion animal, livestock, and textile identification markets. The company was founded by Parvis Hassan-Zade in 1988 and is headquartered in Lamone, Switzerland.

Qualium Investissement SASU is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1994. Qualium Investissement is headquartered in Paris.

BPIFrance Investissement SAS (BPIfrance Investissement) is the private equity arm and subsidiary of State-owned Banque Publique d'Investissement in France. Formerly known as CDC Entreprises SAS, the firm was established in 1994 to carry out public-interest missions such as employment creation and momentum initiation in the private equity field. In 2013 they became BPIfrance Investissement when CDC Entreprises, FSI and FSI Régions merged. Headquartered in Paris, BPIfrance Investissement invests of behalf of the Government of France, as well as for third parties including FEI-Fonds Européen d'Investissement, BEI-Banque Européenne d'Investissement and BPCE SA. The firm invests directly or indirectly in SMEs and intermediate-sized companies at all stages of their development.

Human Inference BV provides software solutions. It offers data quality and identity management software . The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Rue des Ecoles SA operates an educational Internet portal. The firm offers services to students and teachers in France. Its website collects information from schools and universities to provide online teaching material on literature, general knowledge and vocabulary. The company was founded on February 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Today, Artesys is one of the European leaders in the areas of production and information system management. The firm operates throughout Europe, while its core markets remain France and Italy. On behalf of its clients, Artesys is constantly seeking new techniques and technologies to enable them to continually improve its infrastructure's efficiency and productivity. Working from the beginning of the project to post implementation support, the firm helps its clients through the project life cycle. The firm's clients' and partners' continuously renewed confidence in the firm has enabled it to record annual growth in the company's business of more than 30% for the fourth successive year. A high yield market, fascinating projects, professional employees, satisfied clients and faithful partners are the ingredients of its success.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Co., Inc. (United Kingdom) is a consulting firm that helps UK manufacturers embrace new technologies for digital transformation and leadership. The company is based in London, UK. Ruben Schaubroeck, McKinsey Digital's new lead for the UK, Belgium, and Netherlands offices, spoke with Thomas Farrar, a manager of communications in the firm's UK office, about the importance of speed and pace for CEOs in this new growth journey. The British company works with organizations that pursue sustainability, inclusion, and economic growth, all at the same time, to achieve strategic foresight and built-in agility in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new trading relationship with the EU.

Scality, Inc. provides web based storage and infrastructure solutions. It offers RING, a software-based storage that is built to scale to petabytes with performance, scaling, and protection mechanisms, as well as enables users business to grow and works across user applications and protects their data; and Scality HALO Cloud Monitor, a turnkey monitoring solution for the Scality RING object storage platform and S3-focused products. The company was founded by Daniel Binsfeld, Serge Dugas, Giorgio Regni and Jer?me Lecat in June 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Shift Technology SAS develops fraud detection and claim automation solutions to the insurance sector. Its products use software as a service (SaaS) and artificial intelligence (AI) features. The company was founded by Eric Sibony, Jeremy Jawish, and David Durrleman in 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Scality SA delivers web storage services. The company was founded by Bradley King and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Future French Champions provides investment services. The company was founded on March 13, 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

ArangoDB GmbH engages in the development and marketing of software solutions for accessing large amounts of data. It also offers subscriptions, support of development, training, and consulting services. The company was founded by Claudius Weinberger and Frank Celler in 2014 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Iris Capital Dubai (STC Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Iris capital Management SAS founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Media City, Dubai.

ArangoDB, Inc. provides an open source native multi-model database for graph, document, key or value, and search needs. It offers subscriptions, support of development, training, and consulting services. The company was founded by Claudius Weinberger and Frank Celler in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.