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SATT Linksium Grenoble Alpes

Grenoble, France

SATT Linksium Grenoble Alpes is a French technology-transfer and startup-building company established in July 2014. Its own legal notice identifies a SAS, SIREN803938372 (VAT FR47803938372), with nominal share capital of EUR1 million and headquarters in Grenoble. It is a private company with public capital, rather than an independent limited-partner venture fund. Published shareholders include Bpifrance, CEA, CNRS, Grenoble INP-UGA, INRIA, Université Grenoble Alpes and Université Savoie Mont Blanc. Linksium develops public-research inventions through technology maturation, intellectual-property protection, industrial licensing, startup incubation and business/equity support. Relevant projects include HuntX Pharma’s preclinical axonal-transport research for Huntington disease, Emoface’s digital emotion-learning tools and industrial deep-technology ventures such as biofuel-cell developer BeFC. Incubation or fundraising assistance alone does not establish a cash investment in a named priced round. The HuntX issuer explicitly describes Linksium as a historical shareholder separately from the September2024 EUR1.7 million financing buyers. The current public directory names 28 operating people. Catherine Lafarge is currently listed as president; the own July18,2025 announcement appointed her president on an interim basis and no permanent-appointment date is assumed. A separate investment committee comprises 13 independent industrial, financial and entrepreneurial experts; these are external committee members, not employees or statutory directors by inference. The current French ecosystem page reports a EUR70 million State commitment over ten years, while the English version reports EUR57 million. Both published values are retained as differing versions of a public programme commitment, not an actual LP fund close. Current homepage metrics include 98 startups,247 technology-transfer projects and EUR66 million cumulative project investment; these are programme activity metrics, not new fundraising or individually allocated cash checks. French Tech Seed introductions concern a separate Bpifrance programme. No standalone Linksium LP fund or exact institutional fundraising close has been verified.

Founded 2014