Philippe Larde

Aster Capital Partners SAS (Aster Capital) is the French venture capital investment subsidiary of Schneider Electric SA (XP: SU), a world-leading electricity management and industrial automation group. Formerly known as Schneider Electric Ventures SAS, the firm was founded by Jean-Marc Bally in 2000 and changed their name to Aster Capital in 2010. Located in Paris with a representative office in China, the firm manages a venture capital fund sponsored by Schneider Electric and cooperates closely with the group's research scientists.

Cosmo Tech SAS provides software system and digital solutions. The firm develops a proprietary language called CoSML dedicated to the modeling and simulation of complex systems. The company was founded by Hugues de Bantel and Michel Morvan and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Atlantium Technologies Ltd. develops and provides water treatment solutions. The firm provides water disinfection solutions that help water dependent industries such as food and beverage, dairy, and aquaculture as well as municipalities build, expand and operate water-intensive processes. Its hydro-optic disinfection solutions deliver unprecedented microbial inactivation, taking cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly water disinfection to levels never before attained. The company was founded by Benjamin Kahn in 2003 and is headquartered in Beit Shemesh, Israel.

Ioxus, Inc. manufactures ultra capacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets. It designs and manufactures smaller, lighter weight iMOD modules and the new iMOD X-Series family of module systems. The firm also provides individual cells, pre-packaged modules, and system integration services. The company was founded by Chad Hall, Michael Pentaris and Thor Eilertsen in 2006 and is headquartered in Oneonta, NY.

Tiempo SAS provides chip solutions and platforms for use in semiconductors. It offers TESIC, microcontrollers, cryptoprocessors, ACC, and design services. The company was founded by Serge Maginot and Marc Renaudin in July 2007 and is headquartered in Montbonnot Sain Martin, France.

Teem Photonics SA manufactures optical network components. The firm specializes in Q-switched micro lasers as well as photonics integrated circuits based on ion exchange technology. Its products are used in a variety of industrial and biophotonics applications includes fluorescence, spectroscopy, gem marking, microdissection, communications, ranging, and as seeds for fiber lasers and supercontinuum generation. The company was founded by Antoine Kévorkian and Denis Barbier in 1998 and is headquartered in Meylan, France.

Part of nVent Electric Plc, Iceotope Group Ltd. is a data center operator that provides chassis-level liquid cooling technologies to meet emerging challenges in the industry. Founded in 2013 and based in Rotherham, UK, Iceotope's precision liquid cooling solutions are engineered to cool the entire IT stack, from the cloud to the edge, and are used in various sectors such as retail banking and alternative investment to reduce costs, maximize revenue generation, and accelerate to net zero. The British company's demand is increasing for IT deployments at the edge, and its solutions are designed to address unique challenges arising from mass-scale IT deployment in cloud/hyperscale.

Tracetel SA develops and manufactures radio-frequency tracking systems and in-car computing. It also offers street fittings solutions for self-service vehicles and charging systems for electric vehicles. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in La Verriere, France.

Casanova SAS sells universal cabling systems that can transmit VDI including TV. Its solution is based on standard wires with copper twisted pair cable and RJ 45 outlets to which any device can be plugged PCs, TVs, phones or audio systems. The company was founded by David Dray and Henri Lee in 2012 and is headquartered in Champs-sur-Marne, France.

Hightech Bio Activities SA provides filtering equipment. The company's applications are used for detecting air and water bio contaminators produced in the poultry, beef, meat, and fishery industries. It was founded by Hakima Belbachir in 1999 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

Jet Metal Technologies SAS develops coating technology solutions. The company was founded BY Samuel Stremsdoerfer in 2007 and is headquartered in Champagne au Mont d’Or, France.

Etogas GmbH develops and distributes complete facilities for generating synthetic methane from renewable energy sources in industry scale. The firm builds and sells turnkey power to gas (PtG) systems with components developed for use in the fields of power-to-hydrogen, power-to-SNG and hydrogen-to-SNG. The company was founded by Gregor Waldstein in 2007 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.