French Tech Connection

Come meet the finalists from this year’s French Tech Tour, who are 11 of the hottest software startups France has to offer. Selected for exclusive meetings by AT&T, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel Capital, Microsoft, Symantec, and Sun, these companies are touring Silicon Valley to meet with investors, strategic partners, customers, entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Business angels, VCs and Press are all welcome to join us for this exciting evening of mingling and conversation hosted by the French Economic Department and the French American Chamber of Commerce.

The event will kick off at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, and will include cocktails, mingling, and networking with executives from the following French technology companies:

After stiff competition, we are proud to announce that eleven companies have been selected by the sponsoring companies AT&T, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel Capital, Microsoft, Sun, and Symantec to participate in the French Tech Tour. They will join the Tour May 19-23 for exclusive face-to-face meetings with corporate development teams of the sponsoring companies. Register now to catch their product demos at Valley Talk on May 21 at Microsoft, and also get a change to sit in on some great discussions with some Valley greats. Congratulations again to the winning companies!

Exaprotect

Exaprotect provides regulatory and audit compliance log monitoring, event management for threat detection, and change management to allow business policy based network configuration change. Exaprotect uniquely allows these appliances to work together for security governance, closing the security management loop and improving the operational efficiencies of network and security teams of service providers and enterprises worldwide with large and complex infrastructures.

Sinequa

Sinequa is a search specialist created with the vision that corporate information is complex, heterogeneous and poorly organised. Sinequa has built a corporate search solution that can access to all sources and applications, managing security, using linguistic and semantic algorithms to add context to information and to offer intuitive navigation combined with efficient search. Sinequa is used by numerous international corporations because their employees say it really saves them time and energy and truly connects them to available knowledge wherever it may be, and because their IT staff find it fast and easy to deploy.

Twinsoft

Twinsoft is an actor in Enterprise Mashups. Our flagship product, Convertigo Enterprise Mashup Server helps companies reuse their existing assets to build new and exciting WEB 2.0 composite applications for a fraction of the cost and time needed to complete software rewrites or traditional development. We are also known as an SOA and Mashup enabler for our unique Legacy screen scraping and Web scraping technologies. With its very large set of non intrusive connectors, Convertigo is recognized to be one of the most powerful WEB 2.0 integration platforms on the market.

Maeglin Software

Maeglin is a mobile phone software company specialized in peer-to-peer exchanges. At Maeglin, we free people’s mobile, with Pleex a Mobile social networking software that allows content back up & sharing

Frogans

Frogans / STG Interactive has invented a way for everybody on the planet to create their own secure and user-friendly mini-site, called a “frogans,” located on the Internet via its frogans address. STG Interactive provides developers and Internet users with free standard technology for authoring and browsing frogans, and is the directory provider of frogans addresses.

TellMeWhere

TellMeWhere was founded in January 2007 with the vision that relevancy of local search can be dramatically enhanced by giving people the keys to personalize their local searches and enrich local databases. TellMeWhere, the first local search engine where relevancy of results are guided by recommendations of people you can choose and where content can be enriched and corrected by end-users, provides a better alternative to current local search engines or directories.

myERP.com

myERP.com is a complete web-based ERP solution using Google technology (GWT & Google Apps) and covering all functional fields of company management around a single database: CRM, Commercial Management, Logistics, Points of sale, Finance & Accounting, Purchases, Production, Quality. myERP.com is a true global business enterprise solution: multilingual, multicurrency, and complies with American, European and Chinese, best practices (accounting standards).

Momindum

Momindum is the technology leader in the creation of rich media presentation. Our software generates, from recorded speech, professional presentations using synchronized documents and indexed video; our rich media are capitalized in a base with deep-tagging technology.

NIT Action

NIT ACTION / DELCREA is the inspirer in resolving the challenges of email from both diagnostic to efficiency solutions for individuals to large companies. Our software brings an innovative approach to control, organize and secure email faster and easier while reducing time building knowledge bases from existing content, and eliminating all risk of compromising internal and external business sensitive data.

BOBEX

Bobex Founded in 2000, Bobex (www.bobex.com) is a leading B2B e-marketplace, active in 6 countries. We make markets more transparent by matching local buyers and suppliers for non strategic products & services: buyers submit their requests for quote and qualified suppliers respond with customized bids.

Newscape

Newscape Technology is the top innovator in software graphical engines on mobile devices to enable the development of new applications using massive 2D / 3D vector data, textures, Content / Advertising and topography.

RSVP (required) here to join us at Mighty – 119 Utah Street, San Francisco.