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Founding Board Member
Feb 2019
meteo*swift leverages state of the art artificial intelligence innovations to generate high quality wind and solar power forecasts.
For:
✔️ Traders, to optimize transactions on energy markets
✔️ Power producers, to maximize assets profitability
✔️ Off-grid systems operators, to optimize EMS (Energy Management System) strategies
✔️ Grid operators, to better manage the integration of renewable energies
How?
✔️ By generating short term production forecasts (intraday, day-ahead, weeks-ahead)
✔️ To simulate the power production curve of renewable assets and associated revenues
✔️ With a precise, secure and reliable Data As A Service (DAAS) solution, easy to scale up and adapt to your existing information system
More information at https://www.meteoswift.fr/en/
Board Member
Apr 2017
Each day, 30 million pieces of news and information are created and/or shared.
Your stakeholders and audiences look to you and your team for crucial insights that can help them stay ahead of the market…
But, who has the time or resources to wade through an avalanche of content each day?
What if instead, each day you could have thousands of experts work on your behalf to cut through the noise and pull out the most relevant and most important nuggets you need to know about?
What if you could eliminate your blindspots to discover the important developments and emerging trends happening outside your existing sources and filters?
If you and your team are feeling overwhelmed, under pressure or at risk...
Cronycle can help you:
* Cut through the noise
* Eliminate blindspots
* Focus on the top 2% of information you need to know about
* Keep your teams, audiences and stakeholders informed
Because Cronycle makes it easy for market research, content marketing and sales enablement teams to discover, harvest and share crucial insights.
COO & Board Member
Sep 2016
We bring vision intelligence.
Smart Me Up is a French start-up company doing advanced scientific research on embedded computer vision. Our team of scientists succeeded in conceiving a disruptive approach, which enables high accuracy multi-target detections on low-cost processors.
What we do :
We designed a breakthrough technology able to detect and locate, in a specific scene, any kind of objects like cars, people, animals, bicycles, airplanes, boats... The analysis is carried out directly within the camera, without using any server. Our solution provides data to the devices in real-time and fully respect privacy.
Why choosing us ?
• Embedded technology :
- low cost processors ($/10),
- no bandwidth or network issues,
- smaller devices,
- low power consumption
- no privacy issues.
• Autonomous learning :
- high accuracy as it is specific to the context,
- no labeling burden,
- no use case limitation
• Energetic startup :
- fast-growing
- way too much awards
- 6 of the French top 20 angels
• A solution ready to use, easy to test, simple to integrate and prompt to industrialize.
Partner & Board Member
Nov 2014
Started in 2013, Acacus Technologies is a Dubai headquartered mobility software solutions provider. Specializing in intelligent fleet management solutions, for the transportation and airline industry. Acacus has pioneered the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions and is the first company to develop autonomous vehicle technology in the MENA region.
Acacus was the grand winner of Global Startup of the Year, at GITEX 2016 Technology Week, in Dubai, winning USD 100,000. Forbes Middle East publication listed Acacus Technologies amongst its Top 100 Start-ups of 2017.
Acacus provides mobility solutions Lynx, Lynx Pro, and Lynx Vision which uses mathematical combinatorics, A.I. and machine learning for Fleet Management, Optimized Dispatch and Automate Planning, along with location tracking and vehicle diagnostics. For the airline industry Acacus provides optimization solution Peregrine. It’s an Electronic Flight Bag solution of flight crew and crew operations management.
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2020
Advisory & Decision Committee Member (ADC)
Mar 2020
The MBRIF is a federal initiative conceived and launched by the UAE Ministry of Finance (MoF). The initiative seeks to identify and nurture high potential innovations both within the UAE and abroad. It aims to enhance growth potential of innovative businesses and shape the future of the UAEs economy. Currently, the MBRIF consists of two programs, these are:
• Guarantee Scheme (launched 2016)
• Innovation Accelerator (launched 2019)
MBRIF focuses on the seven sectors of the UAE National Innovation Strategy: Space, Transport, Education, Technology, Water, Clean Energy and Health.
2019
Founding Board Member
Feb 2019
meteo*swift leverages state of the art artificial intelligence innovations to generate high quality wind and solar power forecasts.
For:
✔️ Traders, to optimize transactions on energy markets
✔️ Power producers, to maximize assets profitability
✔️ Off-grid systems operators, to optimize EMS (Energy Management System) strategies
✔️ Grid operators, to better manage the integration of renewable energies
How?
✔️ By generating short term production forecasts (intraday, day-ahead, weeks-ahead)
✔️ To simulate the power production curve of renewable assets and associated revenues
✔️ With a precise, secure and reliable Data As A Service (DAAS) solution, easy to scale up and adapt to your existing information system
More information at https://www.meteoswift.fr/en/
2017
Board Member
Apr 2017
Each day, 30 million pieces of news and information are created and/or shared.
Your stakeholders and audiences look to you and your team for crucial insights that can help them stay ahead of the market…
But, who has the time or resources to wade through an avalanche of content each day?
What if instead, each day you could have thousands of experts work on your behalf to cut through the noise and pull out the most relevant and most important nuggets you need to know about?
What if you could eliminate your blindspots to discover the important developments and emerging trends happening outside your existing sources and filters?
If you and your team are feeling overwhelmed, under pressure or at risk...
Cronycle can help you:
* Cut through the noise
* Eliminate blindspots
* Focus on the top 2% of information you need to know about
* Keep your teams, audiences and stakeholders informed
Because Cronycle makes it easy for market research, content marketing and sales enablement teams to discover, harvest and share crucial insights.
2016
COO & Board Member
Sep 2016
We bring vision intelligence.
Smart Me Up is a French start-up company doing advanced scientific research on embedded computer vision. Our team of scientists succeeded in conceiving a disruptive approach, which enables high accuracy multi-target detections on low-cost processors.
What we do :
We designed a breakthrough technology able to detect and locate, in a specific scene, any kind of objects like cars, people, animals, bicycles, airplanes, boats... The analysis is carried out directly within the camera, without using any server. Our solution provides data to the devices in real-time and fully respect privacy.
Why choosing us ?
• Embedded technology :
- low cost processors ($/10),
- no bandwidth or network issues,
- smaller devices,
- low power consumption
- no privacy issues.
• Autonomous learning :
- high accuracy as it is specific to the context,
- no labeling burden,
- no use case limitation
• Energetic startup :
- fast-growing
- way too much awards
- 6 of the French top 20 angels
• A solution ready to use, easy to test, simple to integrate and prompt to industrialize.
2014
Partner & Board Member
Nov 2014
Started in 2013, Acacus Technologies is a Dubai headquartered mobility software solutions provider. Specializing in intelligent fleet management solutions, for the transportation and airline industry. Acacus has pioneered the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions and is the first company to develop autonomous vehicle technology in the MENA region.
Acacus was the grand winner of Global Startup of the Year, at GITEX 2016 Technology Week, in Dubai, winning USD 100,000. Forbes Middle East publication listed Acacus Technologies amongst its Top 100 Start-ups of 2017.
Acacus provides mobility solutions Lynx, Lynx Pro, and Lynx Vision which uses mathematical combinatorics, A.I. and machine learning for Fleet Management, Optimized Dispatch and Automate Planning, along with location tracking and vehicle diagnostics. For the airline industry Acacus provides optimization solution Peregrine. It’s an Electronic Flight Bag solution of flight crew and crew operations management.
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