French Trade Office Tech Tour Heads to the U.S.

11 French Startups To Meet With Most Influential Tech Companies And
Journalists In Week Long Trip To Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO and PARIS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The French Trade Office in
San Francisco announced today the beginning of the French Tech Tour (FTT).
The week long mission will introduce 11 French technology startups to the
movers and shakers of Silicon Valley. The 11 finalists were selected from
over 24 applicants by 9 supporting companies including AT&T, Cisco, Ebay,
Google, HP, Intel Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec. Backed by
UBIFRANCE, the FTT focuses on bridging the gap between Silicon Valley and
Paris. The week of workshops and one-on-one interviews will also include a
mini-conference on May 21st called Valley Talk: Make It or Break It where both
French and U.S. startups will learn strategies for business success. More
information about the tour and conference can be found at
http://frenchtechtour.wordpress.com
In its second year, the FTT has quickly gained recognition in both the
U.S. and France. Referred to as the home of some of the best high tech
clusters in Europe, French companies continue to raise the technology bar for
their U.S. counterparts. Participation in this tour furthers the
collaboration between the two countries. This year's startup companies
include:
Bobex - a leading B2B e-marketplace, active in 6 countries, makes markets
more transparent by matching local buyers and suppliers for non strategic
products & services.

Exaprotect - a provider of regulatory and audit compliance log monitoring,
event management for threat detection, and change management to allow
business policy based network configuration change.

DELCREA - the inspirer in resolving the challenges of email from both
diagnostic to efficiency solutions for individuals to large companies.
Their 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.

myERP.com - 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.

Maeglin - 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.

Momindum - 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.

Newscape Technology - 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.

Sinequa - a search specialist created with the vision that corporate
information is complex, heterogeneous and poorly organized. 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.

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 - 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.

Twinsoft - an actor in Enterprise Mashups whose 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.

Each company will hold one-on-one meetings with supporting companies'
corporate development teams, as well as interviews with media, training for
presenting and demoing at conferences in the U.S. and introductions with some
of the valley's fast-growing startups.
The Valley Talk mini-conference will host keynote speaker Eric Benhamou
CEO of Benhamou Global Ventures, Chairman of 3Com and former CEO of Palm. The
show will include an in-depth talk with leading editor's and analyst from
CNET, Fortune, GuideWire Group and VentureBeat. Along with demonstrations
from each company the event will conclude with a panel of leading executive in
business development from sponsoring companies outlining what they are looking
for in partnerships as well as potential acquisitions.
"Our goal is to build deeper relationships between the tech communities
here in Silicon Valley and in France," said Aymeril Hoang, Director,
Information & Communications Technology, Embassy of France in the U.S. Trade
Office. "By bridging this gap we can open the door to new opportunities for
both countries. It's as much about introducing Silicon Valley to the
technology leadership in France as vice versa. Hopefully we are fostering and
growing the big companies and partnerships of the future."
About the French Trade Office
Embassy of France Trade Office in San Francisco's primary activity
consists of assisting startups in their development operations in the US.
Through a dedicated program (French)Tech Connection, the Trade Office Tech
Team act as liaison between the most promising French Tech Startups and the
Silicon Valley ecosystem and help the CEO's bridging the gap between the
French and American business culture differences.
SOURCE French Trade Office

Erica M. Lee of StrategicLee, Inc., +1-415-831-0181, Erica@strategiclee.com,
for the French Trade Office