the INNOVACOM story since 1988
A history of “pioneering” and “committed” investors with entrepreneurs, marked by the emergence of technological champions among the most emblematic of French and European innovation.
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startup
1988
birth of innovacom
1987
black monday
1988
Gemplus, smart-chip card creator, starts-up
1988
european HDTV
1989
SOITEC
1st unicorn
1991
1st IPO COM1
1991
Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web
1991
1st European GSM mobile phone network
1991
photo digital camera
1992
1st investment abroad: Micronas (AT)
1994
the Channel Tunnel
1994
Digital satellite DirecTV launched.
1994
1st au Nasdaq introduction (Business Objects)
1995
Netscape launched
1995
MPG4 by Apple
1998
Technocom1 launched
1998
Lancement launched
1st French Priming Fund dévoted to financing public and private research laboratories
97-99
Financial crisis 97 Asia98 Russia99 Argentina
1997
"Deep Blue" computer beats Kasparov
1998
LAST MINUTE
1999
Bluetooth
1999
aufeminin.com
2000
innovacom 4
launched
2000
Corvis Algety's IPO : 28b$
2000
Internet bubble
2000
1st Livebox for France Telecom-Wanadoo
2000
Innovacom becomes Innovacom Gestion
2000
GPS
2000
6 milliards de terriens
2001
Artificial heart
2001
Wikipedia
2002
Mozilla
Firefox
2003
innovacom 5
launched
2003
WIFI
2003
Human Genome fully sequenced
2004
2004
Digitick
2004
Yahoo Inc. buys Kelkoo
2005
European Constitution refusal
2005
Sabre buys lastminute
2005
Bitcoins
2007
innovacom 6
launched
2006
Spotify
2006
2007
Deezer
2007
Netflix
2008
Sub-primes crisis
2008
4G
2008
Beijing's Olympic Games
2008
iPhone
2009
Crowdfunding
2009
Google's autonomous car
2012
technocom 2
launched
2010
European sovereign debt crisis
2010
IBM's Ai Watson wins Jeopardy!
2010
Nissan Leaf becomes world's best-selling electric car.
2011
Ubisoft buys Owlient
2011
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
2011
21Net High speed Wifi for trains
2012
fund management company independency
2012
Aix's offices
2012
AVIWEST unveils DMNG PRO180, "uplink"'s video portable transmitter
2012
G2mobility Smart Charging
2012
Olea Medical - innovative MR and CT imaging
2017
Partnership with
Turenne Capital
2013
Bionic eye
2013
Pre-natal DNA's sequencing
2013
Hyperloop
2014
Augmented reality
2015
Olea Medical bought by Toshiba
2016
Tesla Autopilot
2016
Trump president
2017
Apple's facial recognition
2017
Macron president
2017
Quantum computers
2017
Space X
2017
Heptagon-AMS latest unicorn
2017
CaiLabs : world record via multimode fiber optics
2017
Gene therapy 2.0