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
87
black monday
88
Gemplus, smart-chip card creator, starts-up
88
european HDTV
89
SOITEC
1st unicorn
1991
1st IPO COM1
91
Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web
91
1st European GSM mobile phone network
91
photo digital camera
1992
1st investment abroad: Micronas (AT)
94
the Channel Tunnel
94
Digital satellite DirecTV launched.
94
1st au Nasdaq introduction (Business Objects)
95
Netscape launched
95
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
97
"Deep Blue" computer beats Kasparov
98
LAST MINUTE
99
Bluetooth
99
aufeminin.com
2000
innovacom 4
launched
00
Corvis Algety's IPO : 28b$
00
Internet bubble
00
1st Livebox for France Telecom-Wanadoo
00
Innovacom becomes Innovacom Gestion
00
GPS
00
6 milliards de terriens
01
Artificial heart
01
Wikipedia
02
Mozilla
Firefox
2003
innovacom 5
launched
03
WIFI
03
Human Genome fully sequenced
04
04
Digitick
04
Yahoo Inc. buys Kelkoo
05
European Constitution refusal
05
Sabre buys lastminute
05
Bitcoins
2007
innovacom 6
launched
06
Spotify
06
07
Deezer
07
Netflix
08
Sub-primes crisis
08
4G
08
Beijing's Olympic Games
08
iPhone
09
Crowdfunding
09
Google's autonomous car
2012
technocom 2
launched
10
European sovereign debt crisis
10
IBM's Ai Watson wins Jeopardy!
10
Nissan Leaf becomes world's best-selling electric car.
11
Ubisoft buys Owlient
11
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
11
21Net High speed Wifi for trains
12
fund management company independency
12
Aix's offices
12
AVIWEST unveils DMNG PRO180, "uplink"'s video portable transmitter
12
G2mobility Smart Charging
12
Olea Medical - innovative MR and CT imaging
2017
Partnership with
Turenne Capital
13
Bionic eye
13
Pre-natal DNA's sequencing
13
Hyperloop
14
Augmented reality
15
Olea Medical bought by Toshiba
16
Tesla Autopilot
16
Trump president
17
Brexit
17
Apple's facial recognition
17
Macron president
17
Quantum computers
17
Space X
17
Heptagon-AMS latest unicorn
17
CaiLabs : world record via multimode fiber optics
17
Gene therapy 2.0