{"id":29520,"date":"2015-05-07T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=29520"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:40:57","slug":"aerospace-defense-giant-safran-launches-e50-million-venture-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/05\/aerospace-defense-giant-safran-launches-e50-million-venture-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerospace and defense giant Safran launches \u20ac50 million venture fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/vc-fund.jpg\" alt=\"vc fund\" width=\"600\" height=\"262\" \/><br \/>\nLooking to reinforce their innovation and transformation focused strategy, French aerospace and defense leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safran-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safran<\/a> has announced that they&#8217;re launching a \u20ac50 million corporate venture fund. The investment period of the fund will span 3 years and will focus on innovative startups\u00a0aerospace, defense and security industries.<br \/>\nSafran Corporate Ventures will seek to invest in startups launching new innovations for highly technological sectors, including :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced materials<\/li>\n<li>Robotics and new manufacturing processes<\/li>\n<li>Networked sensors and data analysis<\/li>\n<li>Energy production, distribution, transmission and storage systems for aircraft and other vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Solutions and technologies for identification and authentication of people and connected objects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new\u00a0fund will be overseen by\u00a0Jean-Pierre Cojan, Safran&#8217;s Executive Vice President, Strategy and Transformation, and led by entrepreneur and VC veteran\u00a0Gr\u00e9goire Aladjidi and Safran M&amp;A expert\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e8ne de Cointet.\u00a0In addition to supporting the development of startups via direct investment, they&#8217;ll also seek to facilitate commercial\/development agreements between their portfolio companies and Safran&#8217;s businesess.<br \/>\nInitially, the geographic scope of the fund will be limited to Europe and North America, but will eventually expand to other regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to reinforce their innovation and transformation focused strategy, French aerospace and defense leader Safran has announced that they&#8217;re launching a \u20ac50 million corporate venture fund. The investment period of the fund will span 3 years and will focus on innovative startups\u00a0aerospace, defense and security industries. Safran Corporate Ventures will seek to invest in startups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":29522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}