Japet Medical Device and Lattice Medical winners of the 2018 Netva competition

For its ninth edition, the NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) competitionhasselected 16 innovative French startups to receive support in Canada and the United States.

The NETVA program offers young, innovative French startups a personalized support program, opportunity analysis, and technological partnership development inthe United States(Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) andCanada ( Toronto). The goal is to meet the internationalization needs of French startups with innovative technologies.

The winners of the competition benefit from a personalized three-phase program:

atraining seminarin June in Paris on approaching North American markets

support from a North American mentorwho guides them in understanding the American environment and finding partnerships

animmersion tripat the end of October to one of the four most dynamic ecosystems in the United States and Canada: Massachusetts (Boston), Silicon Valley (San Francisco), Washington, D.C., and Ontario (Toronto)

2 winners from the Eurasanté Bio Incubator

Japet Medical Device, creator of Atlas, the first exoskeleton designed to treat back pain, will head to Boston to begin its conquest of the North American market.

Heading to San Francisco for Lattice Medical , which is developing the first 3D-printed breast reconstruction prosthesis that allows for natural, personalized reconstruction in a single surgery.