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Sharing this article from Les Echos which reports that Amazon has signed the European Space Agency - ESA's Zero #Debris #Charter 📝 Project #Kuiper 🛰, Amazon’s #lowEarthorbit satellite broadband network, aims to provide fast, affordable connectivity to tens of millions of customers in #unserved and #underserved communities around the world. 🌍 If you're a regular reader of my posts, you will know that we're committed to safe space operations and the long-term sustainability of space for future generations. Preserving space sustainability cannot be accomplished alone, which is why signing this Charter was so important! The Charter outlines ambitious and measurable space safety and sustainability targets for 2030 and brings together multiple organisations who are committed to this goal such as Thales, Safran, Airbus Defence and Space... Next milestone will be #Ariane6 inaugural launch targetted for July 9 🚀 Stay tuned! #LEO #spacedebris #digitalinclusion #outerspacesustainability #ZeroDebrisCharter

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The last part of this 6-part series on how to model a P&L, translated into French and published on Frenchweb. https://lnkd.in/eWHYamDD

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💸 French Tech Finance Partners (FTFP) have submitted their second report on the financing of the French tech ecosystem to Marina Ferrari, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs. This committee of 16 actors from the French tech ecosystem, including Elaia Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Xavier Lazarus, are dedicated to bringing together expertise around a common vision to ensure the French tech ecosystem can be recognised for its innovation worldwide through supporting sustainable and diverse modes of financing for French startups. ⚡️Here are a few highlights from the latest edition: 🇫🇷 3 out of 5 French people use a service provided by a French startups daily 🇫🇷 1.1 million jobs have been created by over 13,000 French startups. 🇫🇷 In 10 years, the French Tech ecosystem has increased its fundraising capabilities and has ranked first in the EU for fundraising Read more from the FTFP in their op-ed in Maddyness 👉 https://lnkd.in/eA9aNuhR Reza Malekzadeh, Alice Albizzati, Delphine d'Amarzit, Jerome Berger, Claire Calmejane, Claire Chabrier, Philippe Collombel, Philippe Englebert, Paul-François Fournier, Benoist Grossmann, Marc Menasé, Maya Noël, Lauriane Requena, Pierre-Emmanuel STRUYVEN, Rafaèle Tordjman, Roxanne VARZA

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Paris, the #AI hub to raise #funds in Europe - France is leading the way in generative AI funding within Europe, with French startups in this sector having raised a total of $2.29 billion to date¹. - High-profile French companies like Mistral AI and Hugging Face have secured significant amounts of funding, contributing to France's position as a top destination for AI investment². - Despite Paris not being the top city for the number of generative AI startups, the startups based there are attracting substantial investment, more than any other European country¹. - The report also highlights that most of the top-funded generative AI companies in Europe were founded by entrepreneurs with experience at U.S. technology giants³. This surge in funding reflects a growing interest and confidence in the potential of generative AI technologies across Europe. France's success in this area is particularly notable, as it underscores the country's efforts to become a leading hub for artificial intelligence innovation. Thanks Arnauld Leservot for sharing this #European #AIEcosystem map. Conversation with Copilot, 27/06/2024 (1) France leads the pack for generative AI funding in Europe. https://lnkd.in/eagR2Mw3. (2) Inside Europe's tech hubs: France's AI push puts it on the rise. https://lnkd.in/eMM8kytv. (3) The best-funded generative AI startups in Europe have something in common: Big Tech experience. https://lnkd.in/ePgpdSeq. (4) Europe tech hubs: France's AI push puts it on the rise - CNBC. https://lnkd.in/e3_rXAsW. (5) France Emerges as Leader in European Generative AI Funding. https://lnkd.in/eTh-YmpF. (6) Getty. https://lnkd.in/e-nBUSrq.

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[PRESS RELEASE]   ✅ 3IA Côte d'Azur is proud to have been labeled as a IA-Cluster and being recognized as one of the French academic centers of excellence in AI alongside MIAI@GRENOBLE ALPES, PRAIRIE Institute Paris, ANITI Toulouse , SequoIA Université de Rennes, Enact Université de Lorraine, Hi Paris! Institut Polytechnique de Paris et HEC Paris, PostGenAi@Paris Sorbonne Université and DataIA Université Paris-Saclay.   Thanks to the 3IA Côte d’Azur team, to our Chairholders, PhD students and post-docs, and our industrial partners for helping to create this dynamic in the region!   📈 The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has announced a grant of €20 million for the project “3IA Côte d’Azur 2030”, which will complement the €19 million already allocated to the “3IA Côte d’Azur” project for the period 2019-2023. « This subvention will be added to the contributions from public and industrial partners, who also contribute to the institute’s economic model. We will collectively need to rework the model in the coming months to align our strategy with the announced financial decisions”, announces Diana Sebbar, executive Director of 3IA Côte d’Azur.   ➡️Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/edTDdeVx   Université Côte d’Azur Centrale Méditerranée CNRS Délégation Côte d'Azur École de l'air et de l'espace EURECOM Inria Université Côte d’Azur Inserm SKEMA Business School   Région Sud - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Département des Alpes Maritimes Communauté d'Agglomération Sophia Antipolis Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur   ICAIR - Industrial Council for Artificial Intelligence Research ClusterIA

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Deon and I are thrilled to announce that Cognyx just closed a 1.7m€ Pre-Seed to help manufacturers design hardware at software speed! The round is led by Bpifrance's VC team Digital Ventures, and features some of the most prominent business angels of the French & German startup scenes. “Hardware is hard”? Let's make it easier and faster to engineer. Our journey started only 8 months ago, when we decided to join forces with OSS Ventures. Using the studio’s robust co-design methodology, we uncovered a massive opportunity in the manufacturing space: engineering R&D cycles are often very slow, mostly because technical and product data lies disseminated across siloed IT systems. Engineers and stakeholders spend weeks identifying dependencies and solving conflicts between design, manufacturing or supply constraints. In particular, the industry’s most central R&D deliverable, the BOM (Bill of Materials) and its many variants, takes forever to align over several departments and scattered data sets. What first sounds like a technical problem actually has a direct impact to a manufacturing company’s core competitiveness: it slows down innovation cycles, extends Time to Market, makes it really hard to optimize products for a set of conflicting constraints, and eventually leads to serious quality issues on the production line. The problem sizes in dozens of millions for most large manufacturers. Cognyx intends to fix this, leveraging the latest available technologies. Using knowledge graphs, the data layer we built already bridges the gap between historical manufacturing softwares (ERP, PLM, MES…). All engineers and stakeholders can now contribute in real time on a unique "super-BOM", solving technical conflicts in real-time. The resulting acceleration of engineering workflows is already massive and… we’re only getting started with #AI! (stay tuned :) We’re incredibly excited by what lies ahead of us, and very grateful to a whole crowd of people for believing in our vision from the very early days! First and foremost our OSS team : Renan, Léopold, Quentin, Jean-Philippe, Guillaume, Elise, Ashok, Pierre, Aurore, Alexandre, Maroussia... many of whom are also angels. My friends, your support was been nothing short of outstanding to get this company off the ground. Then, a very special thanks to our early Design Partners and early-adopter clients (more on this soon ;). And last but not least, to our investors Quentin Mayolle & Ugo Varrasso and to our incredible team of Tech B.A.'s, just to name a few: Roxanne Varza, Christophe Raynaud, Thibault Renouf, Simon Dawlat, Ning Li... Manufacturing experts such as Arno Zinke, Laurent Fiard... not forgetting Laurent, Tom, Jaume and many other members of the Bonial France mafia. Now let’s get to work and build the future of hardware engineering! 📝 Merci à Adrien Lelièvre, Les Echos https://lnkd.in/epxPfmv7

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📣 Are We Witnessing the (Beginning of the) First Wave of Defense AI Mergers? In France, Safran is in talks to acquire the defense AI startup Preligens (https://lnkd.in/eGVBBv8X), while in the US startup Merlin Labs announced to take over EpiSci (https://lnkd.in/eM-ick4x). Not sure if these are weak signals indicating a first wave of #defenseAI #mergers but keep an eye on this (emerging) trend...

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‘Le Chat’ ‘la platform’ Mistral AI artificial intelligence, France’s Startup Darling, Takes Aim at the US Market : Mistral's edge could come from customers that want to avoid being locked into particular cloud companies “Customers are even saying ‘Le Chat’ and ‘la platform’ It seems that the French touch is having an effect.” opportunity is huge — Bloomberg Intelligence estimated that the software and cloud market in generative AI market could reach $350 billion by 2032 : Mistral is going after OpenAI’s home turf “They do not want to be forced into an AI stack” “They want choices” Mistral released a series of AI models, which power generative AI services, and a ChatGPT-like feature called Le Chat : US manager says businesses are looking for alternatives to Big Tech : will find customers through these partners as well as via direct deals with companies using its open-source models. Open source is one of Mistral’s main selling points : the approach — where the underlying computer code is openly shared and tweakable — as a safer, more versatile method than closed systems offered by OpenAI and others : Mistral’s open-source models on-premises, with data stored in local servers instead of with public cloud providers ---- generative artificial intelligence ---

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"AI is statistics on steroids!" 📰 Laurent Daudet co-Founder and co-CEO of LightOn was interviewed in french economic newspaper Les Echos Entrepreneurs Gen AI serves as a catalyst for enterprise transformation by enabling the automation of internal workflows. LightOn's Paradigm platform empowers non technical people to independently build and deploy agents to implement and streamline their daily tasks, significantly reducing workload and enhancing efficiency. By managing Large Language Models on premise, Paradigm supports enterprises throughout this transformative journey. 🎙️ Laurent illustrated how Paradigm revolutionizes its customers daily tasks: "There are many applications, such as being able to query documentary databases in natural language. For example, we have set up an IT support chatbot for all agents of the Région Ile de France Council. Our model responds to requests by indicating the procedure to follow and quoting its sources, which limits the risk of hallucination." #Paradigm #GenAI #LLM #AI

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𝗠𝗘𝗚𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗: 𝗔 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝟯 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 💎 When we learned that The MEGLAND had been selected among more than 700 startups to join STATION F, it was already a highlight. But today, we are reaching a new milestone: we will be presented to more than 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗩𝗖𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟳𝟬𝟬 𝗕𝗔𝘀 – that is, more than 𝟭,𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 – via Station F's investors newsletter. This moment is a real recognition for #Web3 Projects, which continue to prove that they have a solid future in traditional investments. It is no longer a niche, but a sector that is increasingly establishing itself among savvy investors. Since the beginning, we have continued to consolidate our position, thanks to a clear vision and a team determined to overcome all the challenges that have come our way. Being featured by #StationF and listed as one of the startups to watch is proof that $MEG has not only built a strong brand but has also earned the trust of the ecosystem. This milestone confirms that we are ready for the next phases of our journey. 🚀

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If you know an 18 yo who dream of creating a deep tech startup, they could go to a big natural sciences' university. Or… …go to a small(ish) stand alone business school🏫 Les Deeptech 🚀 from Bpifrance just released their latest analysis for #French #Deeptech, which gives us an interesting overview of the local higher education scene. Sure, HEC Paris - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute is ranked #4 in that list (and we are happy about it), but that’s not the really interesting part. What you should pay attention to is that we are not an anomaly. Among the top 15 listed universities, one-third are business schools! It does feel like getting a business education could bring value to science-based entrepreneurship… But what do I know? 🤷‍♂️ What we do know is that investing in research and education keeps paying dividends. And when in doubt between studying science and business, just get both degrees 😁 If you are interested, go check out the full ranking there: https://lnkd.in/eD-r8pDD PS: I know this is a list for ants, no need to call your optometrist 🔍 PPS: I will not complain about per capita measurements not being the global standard for ranking metrics

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🛰️🛰️ 🇪🇺🇪🇺Exciting news for the European #space innovation ! 🇪🇺🇪🇺🛰️🛰️ 🤔Did you know that, today, less than 1% of the worldwide #IoT connections is done via satellites although it is the most efficient way to ensure a global coverage ? ☝️This is changing ! We are very proud of a new collaboration with the European space champion, Sateliot 🇪🇸🇪🇺 ! The European Investment Bank (EIB), in partnership with the European Commission, has successfully inked a #EUR30million #EIBventuredebt transaction, under #InvestEU, with Sateliot a pioneering Spanish satellite 🛰️ company founded in 2018 in Barcelona 🇪🇸. ✍️✍️✍️Signing by Jaume Sanpera 🛰 , Alessandro Izzo witnessed by EIB vice-president Robert de Groot. Sateliot is working on the roll-out of a constellation of #nanosatellites in low Earth orbit (#LEO), providing 5G narrowband internet of things (#5GNBIoT) connectivity to millions of devices in rural, oceanic, and other remote areas. These satellites 🛰️ 🛰️ 🛰️ will enhance global connectivity and support the adoption of #IoT, even in the most remote areas, driving the future of satellite technology and #IoT connectivity. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to fostering European innovation👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓, enhancing the European access to space 🚀🚀🚀, and boosting the competitiveness of the #EU 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺. 👍👍👍All this is made possible thanks to the hard work and innovative spirit of Sateliot founders and teams. Congratulations to the Sateliot teams, Jaume Sanpera 🛰, Jose Ramon Carrero Muñoz, Marco Guadalupi, Carlos Riopedre, Gianluca Redolfi and their teams ! 👏👏👏Bravo for the good work and collaboration of the #EIBVentureDebt deal team : Luis Cervera Cristian Antoci Manuel T. , Anders Bohlin Tanja Tanayama Sergio Ribeiro Silva Steve Wagner Marie Lesschaeve @Magda Munt Sabata, Sara De Maria, Nina Melchior Robert de Groot , Jean-Christophe Laloux , Alessandro Izzo, Adrian Kamenitzer, Felicitas Riedl, Ruth Niland, Anouk Hamers #InvestEU #SpaceTech #EIB #SateliotIOT #EUCompetitiveness #DualUse

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🚨 Last chance to register for our must-attend event: the roundtable "How to accelerate France's decarbonization by 2030?" happening this Thursday, October 3rd, at Hub Bpifrance in Paris! We're excited to announce that during this event, we will be presenting the WeImpact awards to the most promising initiatives in ecological transition. Three finalists have been selected, and YOU will have the opportunity to vote for the grand winner. This pivotal moment will showcase inspiring projects with the potential to accelerate the decarbonization of our economy. Our three WeImpact finalists: 🌱 ECOLLANT has developed the first environmentally friendly process capable of extracting nylon from old multi-material garments, maintaining a quality level that allows reindustrialization in the textile sector. 🔌 ENTENT is developing a machine, the PULSE, that converts low-temperature industrial waste heat (60-150°C) into electricity. This "plug and play" machine can easily integrate into industrial sites. 🌾 OCTOMETHA offers an innovative methanization technology that ensures continuous and efficient biogas production. This solution is ideal for small and medium-sized farms, making methanization more accessible and reliable. Join us for this exciting event, and don't miss your chance to vote for the most impactful project! 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/e8wEj9_J #Decarbonization #Sustainability #WeImpact #GreenTech #EcologicalTransition #CircularEconomy

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SIDO Lyon - IoT, IA, Robotique & XR Lyon Cyber Show 2024 featured a plenary session "Numérique responsable : de l'importance de garder la "tech" froide." 🌍 With the environmental impact of digital technology under the microscope, it’s clear that companies are on the frontlines of pushing for a greener, more responsible digital future. But should we leave this to the IT department? Not a chance! Key Takeaways: 📈 Strategic Alignment: Digital responsibility isn’t just an IT issue; it’s a governance challenge. Boards, CEOs, and sustainability directors need to lead the charge. 🤝 Cross-Department Collaboration: Making tech eco-friendly requires everyone on board—from marketing to HR. 🛡️ Risk Management: It’s about more than just compliance; it’s about transforming corporate culture towards sustainability. Tips for Greener Digital Governance: 🌟 Digital Steering Committee: Assemble a diverse team to oversee responsible digital initiatives. 📚 Invest in Eco-Literacy: Educate all employees on the environmental impact of their digital actions. 📝 Set Green Policies: Implement and enforce policies for sustainable tech use and innovation. Huge thanks to the panelists Anne-Sophie BELLAICHE (Editor-in-Chief, L'Usine Nouvelle), Emeline Baume de Brosses (Vice President, Métropole de Lyon), Antoine Wattinne (Director of Public Affairs and CSR, Cegid), Marine Brogli (CEO, DPO Consulting and Board Member, numeum) 🌿 Gillo Alain Malpart (President & Co-founder, Mavana.earth) Keeping tech cool and green is a collective effort, and today’s session highlighted the crucial role of governance in driving this change. 🌐 #LyonCyberShow2024 #TechGovernance #DigitalTransformation #GreenTech

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 Hugging Face and Sorbonne Université release a base and chat tuned open vision-language model (VLM) called Idefics2 at 8 billion parameters. They incorporate and detail the often overlooked and unjustified design choices in VLM development, which can greatly impact model performance. Through extensive experiments on pre-trained models, architecture choices, data handling, and training methodologies, they have come up with some great foundation to build on.   Key insights from their research highlight the importance of model architecture. The fully autoregressive architecture outperforms the cross-attention architecture when pre-trained backbones are trained, particularly when enhanced with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for stability. The research also underscores the significant impact of the quality of the language model backbone over the vision backbone on the final VLM's performance. Efficiency gains were achieved through strategies such as reducing the number of visual tokens with learned pooling and preserving the original aspect ratio and resolution of images, which maintained or even enhanced model performance on downstream tasks.   Idefics2 demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across various multimodal benchmarks, challenging models four times its size in efficiency and inference cost, making it a compelling option for real-world applications. The team also the trade-offs between compute efficiency and performance, particularly through techniques like image splitting during training, which allows for performance gains in tasks involving text extraction from images. The comprehensive evaluation of Idefics2 on benchmarks like VQAv2, TextVQA, OKVQA, and COCO allow us to determine the impact of various tradeoffs made in general VLM training. Arxiv: https://lnkd.in/e67RbEtk

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🌍 Exciting times ahead for digital health in France! I had the honor of speaking at the roundtable on "Digital Medical Devices: Where do we stand in their assessment and what healthtech stakeholders need to know?" organized by the Agence de l'innovation en santé (Lise ALTER, Camille Schurtz 👏 ) at the "Next generation of clinical research" event in Lille. The discussion was rich with insights on the current landscape of research and the future of digital therapeutics in France, especially. Special thanks to our moderator, Line FARAH (Ministère de la Santé), and my fellow speakers: Jérôme Fabiano (EIT Health France), Corinne Collignon (Haute Autorité de Santé), Sarah Zohar (INSERM), Dr. Joris Giai (CHU Grenoble Alpes) and Louisa Stüwe (Ministère de la Santé). 💡 One of the key insights: YES, foreign clinical data can be used to apply for reimbursed of a digital medical device in France! Let's connect and explore opportunities together! 🚀

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