Sophia Start-up Club : an appointment on Monday March 12th

The 15th edition of the Sophia Start-up club will take place on Monday March 12th, 6.30 pm, at the Novotel hotel (Les Lucioles, 290 rue Dostoïevski in Sophia Antipolis). They will spoke about incubators with the presentation of the East PACA incubator, recently set up in the Esinsa premises and in the Sophia Euro Lab's, settled at the Foundation in the beginning of the year. During this meeting, they will also mentioned the question of investment in start-ups with two representatives of powerful investors, and a success story example as well. The Viviance France's story, a company located at the CICA in Sophia Antipolis, allied with 3i, the venture-capital European leader.

The monthly appointment of Sophia Start-up will end with a presentation of booming start-ups (in the program here after, the six companies that will come to present their activities).

Program

- Current events abroad : Senator Pierre Laffitte reviews the situation in India and Germany
- Presentation of two incubators : the Nice's incubator (Nadine Marchandé); Sophia Euro Lab (Pierre Taillardat)
- Investors : HSBC investment bank (Jean-Michel Brunie); Viventures concept (Bertrand Limoges and Benoit Grossman)
- Success story : Viviance (Birger Rask, Jean-François Carrasco) and the 3i company
- Companies : Menway sud (Pascale Marmara); Neurocom (Marc Brua); Trusted logic (Eric Vétillard); Previsite (Stéphane Caron); Infobjects (Franck Lebastard); Semiosigns (Xavier Canal).