FINANCIAL PARTNERS

Saint-Gobain Surface Solutions is a global company that designs and manufactures high performance solutions through its product offering of abrasives, adhesives, sealants, tapes, composites and films.

Its efficient, accurate and easy-to-use solutions enable customers to shape, protect and bond surfaces of all materials, for the most complex and challenging applications. Working closely with customers, expert partners and end-users, Saint-Gobain Surface Solutions designs and delivers customised solutions that guarantee the best option in terms of performance, cost and safety.

As part of the Saint-Gobain Group, we believe in progress and seek to change the game by improving individual and collective health and well-being. We are convinced that solutions that meet everyone’s essential needs and enable us to live better together, without endangering future generations, have yet to be invented. Our commitment to achieving this ambitious goal is guided by our shared vocation: “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

Employing 11,000 people in 28 countries
Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050

KAROT Capital supports innovative, high-potential companies in their first phase of development. Entrepreneurial vision, innovation “at large” and team support are at the heart of our project.

Socomore Ventures is an early-stage fund created by Groupe Socomore, dedicated to supporting start-ups and technologies with strong disruptive potential in the industrial sector, particularly in the aeronautics, transport and energy markets.

CALAO FINANCE is an independent Portfolio Management Company dedicated to private equity, licensed by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) under number GP-10000052. Managed by its co-founders, Eric GAILLAT and Rodolphe HERBELIN, our company provides Fund Management and Investment Advisory services to private, professional and institutional investors.

CEA Investissement has financed and supported more than fifty start-ups since 1999, and is active in all the CEA’s business sectors, from life sciences to energy, microelectronics, materials, industrial equipment and more.

ISYBOT has been a winner of the I Lab competition since 2015, making it eligible for BPI France support. A first seed loan from BPI France was granted in 2017 and following the fundraising a second one is planned for 2018..

Scientipôle Ile-de-France Capital is a venture capital company set up in 2006 within the Scientipôle Initiative environment, to provide equity support to young innovative companies in the Paris region.