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GemVentures background

GemVentures is the corporate venture capital fund of Gemalto, a world leader in digital security. Gemalto, launched in June 2006 by a merger between Axalto and Gemplus, aims to be the world leader in making personal digital interactions secure and easy by delivering secure personal devices, platforms and services to enable its clients to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals.

While the traditional smartcard markets are still growing significantly, the increasing interactions between the smartcard, public sector, IT/network access and media & entertainment industries create new opportunities for Gemalto in many new areas such as IT authentication devices, Government ID markets and new form factor storage and security devices. Secure Platforms will form the core of Gemalto’s activities. Gemalto’s 2005 combined revenues were 1.7 billion euros.

 

GemVentures’ mission is to encourage the deployment of new technologies, of new applications and of new services that will be of critical importance to promote the growing innovation and diversification of tomorrow's Secure Platform by selecting the best projects and support them to become fast-growing companies

 

Thanks to Gemalto’s extensive network, GemVentures is fuelled by an important qualified deal-flow and is willing to maximize the success of its portfolio companies' projects. GemVentures is best positioned to evaluate how relevant and important a particular new technology is to the Secure Platform environment in each given context.

 

The Fund

Set up in early 2000, with an initial funding of €85 Million, GemVentures aims to boost the Smart Card industry initially, and now the Secure Platform industry by investing across Europe, the Americas and Asia in promising early-stage ambitious secure platform related companies. Typically, GemVentures invests in first or second rounds, alone or along other VCs.

The Portfolio is managed by a dedicated unit of Gemalto, GemVentures Services Unit under the supervision of GemVentures, and a network of Gemalto experts.

The Team

§      Guan Hwang, General Manager

§      Morgan Daumas, Manager

Gemalto experts

§      Jean-François Schreiber, EVP Strategy & Ventures

§      Jacques Seneca, President Europe

§      Philippe Vallee, EVP Telecommunications & R&D

§      Olivier Chavrier, VP Corporate Ventures

§      Christophe Richard, Controller-South Asia

 

 

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