Winner of the first-ever Club 600 Entrepreneurship Award in honor of the late Dominique Mercier 10,000 €
2008 Club 600 business plan competition, New York, USA
"Club 600 was established in 1985 by a group of French-speaking business executives in New York City. Their intention was to create a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among Francophones living in New York and to contribute to the development of economic, commercial and financial relations between French and American business entities. The Club 600 Entrepreneurship Award was created to honor the memory of one of its members, the late Dominique Mercier, who was a very successful business entrepreneur."
Winner of the Jacques and Francoise Douce Prize 7,500 €
2008 Business Plan Competition, Senat Tremplin, FRANCE
Tremplin Entreprises is a French business plan competition organized in the Senate. Applicants can submit business plans in four different categories (software, internet, biotech and materials). Among the 250 or more applicants, 30 companies are selected for the finals. Finalists are given the opportunity to present to a panel of investors, angels and specialists of the industry. Among the 30 finalists, 5 companies are awarded prizes (one in each category and one special prize - Jacques and Francoise Douce prize).
Winner of 250,000 €
2008 Concours Creation and Development - OSEO
OSEO is a public institution which helps support innovation through subvention, guaranteed bank loans and funding of technical partnerships. The competition "Création et Développement" is organized by OSEO, but it is funded by the ministry of research and technology. It is the equivalent of a small business innovation research grant. As such it is a very competitive national competition. The money from this grant should help Fruition Sciences launching its research program in France and specifically several academic partnerships with the best research institutions in Montpellier.
Winner
2008 Business Booster Competition,
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
Finalist
2007 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition
Winner of 39,000 €
2007 Concours Emergence OSEO
Finalists
2007 UC Intel Berkeley Technology Entrepreneur Challenge