New materials represent a promising, dynamic area of our portfolio. We look for companies developing technologies that offer higher power output, superior integration, and efficiency and lower costs for carriers. Our strong portfolio of telecom hardware companies, combined with our connections to France Telecom R&D and other prestigious European labs, enables us to provide significant support for start-ups in this sector.

	CyOptics, U.S. CyOptics is a leading developer of 10 and 40Gbps active optical components. Based on Indium Phosphide, CyOptics‘ compact and integrated components are suitable for high-volume, low-cost manufacturing, effecively reducing the size and cost of next-generation optical networks.
	Defacto, France DeFacTo is an innovative chip design software company developing breakthrough technology to dramatically enhance the design for test (DFT) process and increase the testability of integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). The company’s mission is to enable designers to plan, analyze, and implement IC test logic before synthesis, by delivering a high quality suite of tools working at the RT level, covering all DFT needs. The company, founded in August 2003, is headquartered in Valence, France, with offices in Grenoble and Palo Alto, Calif., USA.
	Heptagon, Finland Heptagon is a privately held Swiss-Finnish manufacturer of diffractive and refractive micro-optical products. Heptagon's components are used in optical communication equipment, miniature displays, and a number of optical sensors, to single out only the most important customer segments.
	IFOTEC, France IFOTEC designs and manufactures fiberoptic transmission equipment for a variety of applications. The company was established in late 1998, as a spin-off from Radiall, supported by ten years of experience in optoelectronics engineering.
	Innova Card, France Innova Card is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and supplies secure solutions for trusted smart card terminals. Innova Card provides hardware and software solutions, EMV and FINREAD compatible, based on USIP Professional IC (Universal Secure Integrated Platform), the most secure and the most integrated platform for smart card terminals.
	InPACT, France A spinoff from Saint-Gobain, InPACT specializes in manufacturing Indium Phosphide (InP) wafers, a semiconductor material mainly used in fiber optic telecommunications network components production (laser diodes, photodetectors, switches, amplifiers, etc.).
	iRoC, U.S. iRoC Technologies is the leading company bringing self- correcting intelligence to integrated circuits, protecting them from errors caused by external disruptions and internal defections.
	Kimotion, Switzerland Kimotin provides front-to-back analog design software, including modeling, sizing, and layout tools, that address high- complexity analog functional blocks. The software helps circuit designers quickly produce a layout for complex designs containing thousands of transistors without compromising design performance.
	Magwel, Belgique
	Nanoradio AB, Sweden Nanoradio AB is a fabless semiconductor company in the design and marketing of ultra-low power WIFI wireless components and systems for the wireless handheld industry.
	NOVASiC, France NOVASiC specializes in manufacturing silicon carbide wafers, a semiconductor material used in telecommunications and microelectronics. The properties of SiC make it an excellent material for high-power, high-temperature, high-frequency applications.