We hope you’ll join us on Monday, February 6 at 6 PM (Paris time). Sign up information is below. Please note the webinar will be held in French.

First of all, we’re very excited about the companies who have downloaded our dossier de candidature so far!

Second, as your company works to complete application materials, we invite you to peruse our French Tech Tour testimonials, where former participants share their experience and offer a bit of advice for this year’s candidates.

Our latest addition to these interviews comes from YSEOP. Enjoy!

Ready, Set, Go!

Applications are officially open for the 2012 edition of our French Tech Tour. Candidates can download their application here.

Please keep this page bookmarked, as we’ll be keeping you updated with more details and exciting announcements as the deadline (February 27th) approaches.

If you have any questions not answered here, please feel free to contact us directly: frenchtechtour@ubifrance.fr.

A très bientôt!

La sixième édition du French Tech Tour aura lieu en juin prochain.

Les candidatures seront ouvertes début 2012, et nous vous tiendrons bien sur informés sur ce blog.

Pour toute demande d’information, n’hésitez pas à contacter Badr-eddine JARIDI, Trade advisor IT Industry, badr-eddine.jaridi@ubifrance.fr, +1 415 568 4588

A bientôt !

A little over a week ago, we said goodbye to the 12 outstanding companies that joined us for this year’s French Tech Tour. After a weekend full of pitches and presentations, SVASE’s LAUNCH! Silicon Valley, SFNewTech, the annual soirée, and, well, 150+ B2B meetings… we’ll admit it was a little hard to let go!

That said, if last year’s alumni group is any indication, they’ll be back. We wish the best to all the participants going forward, and will watch closely as they build ongoing relationships with clients and partners in Silicon Valley. We’ll also do our best to keep you posted on their progress, so stay tuned!

In the meanwhile, THANK YOU to our official partner companies & sponsors for your ongoing support. The French Tech Tour proves more successful with each year that passes, and we couldn’t do it without you.

A très bientôt,

The Ubifrance SF team

It’s official! The jury is in. Thirteen of France’s hi-tech companies, chosen by the leaders of Silicon Valley, have been selected to participate in this year’s French Tech Tour.

FTT 2011 will take place June 3 – 10. For the selected companies, it will be a whirlwind week of B2B meetings. For our partners, it will be a unique opportunity to see some of the best of French innovation first-hand.

That said, you don’t need to be a business development executive to meet the participants. Take a look at the week’s schedule, and save the date for one of our events. Each are fantastic opportunities to meet, greet, and network around wine and cheese (or at the very least, SFNewTech’s beloved tacos).

Without further ado, here’s a summary of who’s coming:

Appoke: Discover the best latest Android apps

Appoke is the first Android applications store that integrates a social dimension to solve the long tail problem that developers face to promote new apps and users to discover the apps they truly need. With Appoke, mobile users discover new apps based on friends ‘own apps usage and recommendations. For the developers, they simply need to upload their existing Android code on Appoke’s platform to make their app available, should they be free or not. 

http://appoke.com

Ateme: Keep content looking great, wherever it’s played!
ATEME provides video processing solutions to address the Converged Media market requirements. Over the past 4 years, ATEME has deployed turnkey video headends for tier 1 cable, satellite and IP network operators worldwide. The company processes premium content for millions of viewers in the America’s, Europe and Asia and has enabled the most successful Video On Demand services worldwide. Additionally, they help their clients succeed in the “multiscreen” revolution by offering an all-in-one workflow for file and live content, distributed to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.

http://www.ateme.com

Avencis: European leader for enterprise single sign on
Avencis provides SSOX, the leading European Single Sign On solution for medium to large enterprises. SSOX encompasses users’ management and provisioning, entitlement lifecycle management access control, along with a centralized auditing and reporting facility. Hundreds of customers have chosen SSOX in Europe, managing several hundreds of thousands of end users every day.

SSOX has allowed a drop as high as 90% of help desk calls for a large insurance company. It has also allowed the deployment and management of 14 000 smart access cards while saving 2 full time positions in the help desk department of one of its customer.

http://www.avencis.net

Backelite: Let us simplify your mobile web
BkRender is a mobile services development platform created by Backelite to let developers design and publish mobile services using web technologies. Based on standard Web technologies, it allows web development teams to develop complex services and publish them on every mobile store, tablet and mobile phone. BkRender helps its clients to reach their mobile customers while reducing costs due to multiplatform development. The BkRender solution provides cleints and partners (VARs and web agencies) the ability to develop mobile sites and applications offering rich functionalities, while maintaining superior usability, security and performance. Among top tier clients are “Crédit Agricole” (the largest bank in France), Le Fnac, the national gas company, among several other national and international companies.

http://bkrender.com

CAPS: Manycore programming: your core issue is our core competency
Founded in 2002 by members of an INRIA research team, CAPS is a software company providing products and solutions for manycore application programming & deployment. Manycore – also denoted as hybrid system – can bring impressive, speed up for a large class of applications. Our flagship product HMPP allows a single version of a given application to be developed, ported, maintained and deployed on several manycore systems. CAPS has offices in Shanghai, Santa Clara and Paris. Turnover is $2.8M.

http://caps-entreprise.com

GingerSquid: Outdoor Mobile Social Gaming

GingerSquid is an « outdoor » mobile social online game company incorporated in 2011. Their first game, Blackbeard’s Treasure, will debut on the iPhone in April, 2011. GingerSquid proposes that people can come together and build a real life community around mobile social games through meeting up and forming teams for outdoor challenges in real time. The company offers features such as 3D games, virtual merchandising and has a core competency in game design.

http://www.gingersquid.com/

Global Vision Systems: Data convergence through an avant-garde human-machine interface
Global Vision Systems (GVS) is a software developer and publisher offering innovative Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial supervision and hypervision. We have developed a new technology of 4D visualization that allows you to manage all your information in a real time 3D platform. This snapshot of the system helps context analysis and supports decision making.

http://www.global-vision-systems.com

Mobiquant: Enterprise mobile cloud management and security
Mobiquant’s solution,  MobileNX™ Enterprise Suite and iPhortress™ (the dedicated iPhone/iPad solution),  comes both as a network appliance aimed at corporations looking for a full “in-house” solution, and as a managed services platform for service providers looking to offer mobile enterprise services. The solution is comprised of software, enabled on the platform appliance, and of an on-device agent. The French Ministry of Labour has been using Mobile NX Enterprise Suite™ since 2009, managing more than 7000 devices.

http://www.mobiquant.com

Mootwin: Software to create, run and manage your mobile Apps
We provide companies with a mobile application platform to create, run and manage mobile applications across a variety of devices.  Mootwin’s platform integrates a real-time data push technology, resilient under even the most constrained network conditions. This is a major competitive advantage for all “live” mobile activities like auctioning, shopping, sports betting, stock trading, travel assistance, communities and more. Our references include banks (BNP Paribas, Natixis and Societe Generale) and online betting companies (BetClic, the EU leader).

http://www.mootwin.com

NTX Research: Authentication and Digital identity solutions that brings trust to the Internet, Mobile and M2M

NTX Research is an ICT security software editor and service provider, specialized in Digital identity and strong authentication for Internet, Mobile and Machine-to-Machine. NTX Research is the inventor of XC cryptographic technology and “See-Battle” authentication with a unique Dematerialized 2-Factor Strong Authentication for users and equipment. NTX Research offers a unique infrastructure for electronic signature and overall public key management called PKI 2.0.

http://www.ntx-research.com

Pole Star: Indoor location natively embedded on mobile applications
Pole Star provides NAO Campus, an indoor positioning software designed to provide mobile applications with accurate positioning data especially suited to pedestrian indoor navigation. Being handset and OS agnostic and with the highest accuracy in the world (2 meters), Pole Star has already partnered with the largest mall in Europe and two major international airports among others to provide their customers with indoor, geo-localized enriched mobile services (navigation, hyper local advertising and couponing, etc).

http://www.polestar.eu

RunMyProcess: Less work, more flow
RunMyProcess is a powerful and flexible cloud development platform that allows easy integration between different SaaS and on-premise applications. RunMyProcess lets organizations easily design, run and manage business processes with no hardware, no software or no coding. Gartner Inc. named RunMyProcess as a “Cool vendor” in 2009. In 2010 Red Herring nominated RunMyProcess as one of the top 100 innovators in Europe. RunMyProcess has risen $2.2M from Xange Private Equity in Series A funding in July 2010.

http://www.runmyprocess.com

Yseop: The only software that writes intelligent texts just like a human being, but at a rate of over a thousand pages per second

Yseop is the first Artificial Intelligence software able to automate and personalize communications between any e-business web site and their visitors. It drills down into their precise issue or question without a predefined script, generates intelligent, coherent and multilingual answers (such as individualized FAQs, emails, confirmation letters, CRM reports, etc.) at a rate of over a thousand pages per second.  Our customers include 10% of the 50 largest French companies such as BNP Paribas, Société Générale, SFR (Vivendi), Banque Populaire, Boursorama, and vente-privee.com among others.

http://www.yseop.com

Reminder: the deadline for applying to the French Tech Tour 2011 is February 28. You will find the application materials here.

Nearly every entrepreneur we work with at Ubifrance San Francisco has heard of Loic Le Meur. A serial entrepreneur, Loic left Paris in 2007 to launch his most recent venture, Seesmic, in San Francisco.

While Seesmic was originally a B2C social network based on video sharing, and then a social-media platform, the company has since re-oriented itself as an enterprise solution.

So, we thought we’d ask Loic what the keys are to succesful B2B relationships.

His answer? Add Value.

Here at Ubifrance SF, we’d have to say we agree. Thank you, Loic, for taking the time to speak with us!

French Tech Tour 2011 is organized with:

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It’s a New Year, and start-ups all across France know what that means…

Applications for the French Tech Tour 2011 are officially being accepted!

French Tech Tour 2011 by Ubifrance

With 15 highly competitive French start-ups and 15 American partner companies in 2010, the French Tech Tour was an enormous success here in Silicon Valley. This year, the stakes are even higher. The following partners are already confirmed, with more very likely to come.

Adobe, AT&T, British Telecom, Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm, Panasonic, SAP, Sony, Sprint, Verizon

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We’ve got a lot in the works, so keep checking back on this page for the latest news and announcements. In the meantime, you can download application materials here http://www.box.net/shared/tprvotd22n or here :

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Feel free to contact Gaetan Gachet (gaetan.gachet@ubifrance.fr) with any questions.

Good luck!! The deadline for submitting applications is February 28th, 2011.

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LCI, French number 1 TV News Channel, covered FTT 2010. French speakers, enjoy!

     Surrounded by the excitement and buzz of Silicon Valley, some might forget that incredible innovation is taking place elsewhere. If there’s one outstanding perk to working with UbiFrance in San Francisco, it’s having access a constant supply of reminders of the game-changing developments created by companies overseas. Never has that been more evident than over the past few months.  From the moment we announced our fourth edition of the French Tech Tour in January, our team has been discovering and working with a myriad of companies and technologies from all over France. This month, we had the immense privilege of sharing 15 of those most innovative “reminders” with you.

 Be it through augmented reality eyeglasses, innovative back-typing solutions, 3D mice, or new coding languages, we hope the companies you met gave you an appetizing glimpse into the innovation coming from Europe.  Based on their success, it shouldn’t be long until we’ll all see them again. To put things in perspective, here are a few figures from the week:

-          800 applications downloaded

-          40 candidates

-          15 partners selected the finalists

-          7 day program

-          20+ hours of coaching

-          150 meetings in 3 ½ days with 60+ large IT companies

-          2 networking events specially dedicated to FTT companies with more than 500 people attending

Yet for all you witnessed “on stage” or in meeting rooms, there was a whirlwind of activity taking place behind the scenes. As we gather footage from the week and begin to reflect and plan for next year, we’ll be posting many of the highlights here.

                Stay tuned.

                A très bientôt,