PACA Investment, the co-investment fund created by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, with financial support from the EU (Feder), Nestadio Capital, Kima Ventures (the investment fund of Xavier Niel) and BA06/FCPR06 invest 800 K€ in ActiveEon, company based in Sophia Antipolis (06) in order to support its business development in France and abroad.

ActiveEon “spin-off” of Inria is a software company “Open Source” created in 2007.

It uses the Grid and Cloud Computing technologies to accelerate applications used by businesses and optimize their hardware resources. These solutions manage, pool dynamically and optimize all resources of an IT infrastructure.

ActiveEon designed and developed the software « Proactive Parallel Suite » which offers the possibility to execute faster and more simply by providing tools for programmers to accelerate the operation of applications in the fields of Grid and Cloud. This software will help streamline costs and manage information technology but also improve the performance of business applications and manage the growing volume of data.

Software development (in partnership with INRIA, CNRS, I3S and the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis) and integration are directly made by experts from ActiveEon.

In partnership with solution providers such as Microsoft and Numergy (french cloud actor). ActiveEon’s ProActive Parallel Suite suits both SMEs and major accounts. “We also have a project with DISIC (Interministerial Directorate of Information and Communication Systems, ISD State group, Ed) to manage clouds from different departments,” says Denis Caromel. The founder of ActiveEon Denis Caromel, PhD and MBA at HEC, himself had professionnal experiences within start-ups in Silicon Valley. He wears this project with ambition and plans to be a player in the cloud market in strong growth in France and abroad.

Marie Desportes, Associate Director of Turenne Capital, said: “PACA Investment is pleased to support the company ActiveEon. Their product are clearly innovative and responds to issues that CIOs face. Today, demand is increasing for high performance applications and software Proactive Parallel Suite address effectively this new major issue for a growing number of users.”.

Georges Dao, BA 06, said: “The dynamics of the leader and the product developped on a very timely topic led us to support the development of ActiveEon to allow him to enter the market and develop its activity”.

Bertrand Bégin, CEO Nestadio Capital, said: “A real technological advance in the key sector such as Cloud and Grid, a rapidly marketable to international product sectors, ActiveEon is the typical startup that Nestadio Capital supports through Nestadio Tech Fund. ”

Source: ActiveEon