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“€96 million in eighteen months for CEA Grenoble’s startups” Is this an exceptional era for startups based in Grenoble? Sixteen startups from our research environment raised the record sum of €96 million from some 40 investors in just eighteen months. Aledia raised over €28 million, in addition to the €19 million raised by Crocus Technologies, […] >>

The registration deadline for the 7th Ekiden marathon, originally October 5, has been moved forward by more than two weeks; the race reached its maximum capacity on September 17 at 650 teams (that’s 3,900 runners). The relay marathon will be held in Grenoble on Sunday, October 18, 2015. This year, runners will be able to […] >>

The annual i-Lab startup competition organized by France’s Ministry of Higher Education and Research has become a rite of passage for new businesses. And once again this year CEA Tech startups brought home an impressive number of awards, confirming Grenoble’s strong capacity to develop innovative solutions for industry. The five award-winning CEA Tech startups are: […] >>

Researchers at Leti have come up with a way to connect a home’s electric heating system to France’s national grid, letting homeowners take advantage of off-peak utility rates without sacrificing comfort. This smart-grid solution comes in the form of a dedicated circuit board with its own microcontroller. The circuit board collects data like peak and […] >>

Single-electron transistors (SETs) measuring just a few nanometers have been made by several teams of researchers around the world. However, none had managed to do it on CMOS and achieve operation at ambient temperature. Researchers from Leti and INAC have been successful on both fronts, with a transistor inside a 3.4 nm diameter silicon nanowire […] >>