Market-entry strategy
Define your target market, sharpen your positioning, and build a go-to-market approach suited to your technology and customers.
DEEPTECH · NORTH AMERICA
Innovation travels.
The right connections
create business opportunities.
Turn technical potential into commercial opportunity. Fogatel helps international deeptech companies build their market, relationships, and business in North America.
01 / EXPERTISE
A clear path from
technology to market.
For international deeptech companies, especially from Europe, entering North America takes local insight and the right relationships. Fogatel helps connect strategy with hands-on commercial development.
Business development
Identify strategic partners and early customers. Build the relationships that move a promising technology toward commercial opportunity.
Sales & partnerships
Develop qualified opportunities, support commercial discussions, and move partnerships and licensing agreements forward.
CORE TECHNOLOGIES
SemiconductorsPhotonicsAdvanced materialsDisplays & touch interfacesSensors & actuatorsRoboticsHaptics
MARKETS & APPLICATIONS
Consumer electronicsData centers & datacomCleanTechMedTechIoTWearablesAR/VRAutomotive
Specialist expertise, when needed.
Introductions to independent finance, legal, HR, and marketing professionals, with availability, scope, and terms agreed separately for each engagement.
Meet the network02 / SELECTED WORK
Complex technologies.
Commercial progress.
Experience across IP licensing, fabless semiconductors, and full-stack products. A selection of Fogatel engagements in market strategy, sales, and partnerships.
ENGAGEMENT 01
Smart Surfaces with Touch-Sensitive Wood
A European startup developed a sustainable, transparent, and touch-sensitive wood with wide applications in smart surfaces—from automotive to luxury interiors.
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Fogatel defined a go-to-market strategy and led business development efforts with top CE OEMs including Bose, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Sonos, and Tesla—opening doors to key partnerships and pilot projects.
ENGAGEMENT 02
Multi-Touch Tech for Consumer Electronics
A French company developed an innovative touchscreen solution for consumer electronics.
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Fogatel led North American business development and sales, licensing the technology to a semiconductor vendor and a tier-one OEM, and introducing it to leading brands like Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Samsung.
ENGAGEMENT 03
Flexible Silver Nanowire Electrodes
A company developed a scalable manufacturing process for silver nanowires, enabling the production of transparent and flexible electrodes for next-generation touchscreens, OLEDs, and OPV devices.
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Fogatel supported sales growth in emerging applications, leading to multi-million-dollar revenue and over 10 design wins with major OEMs including 3M, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
ENGAGEMENT 04
micro-LED Technology
A company pioneering scalable micro-LED displays that integrate high-luminance LEDs with silicon transistors on a single wafer using standard semiconductor processes.
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Fogatel led business development efforts, securing and negotiating a development and licensing agreement with a leading global display manufacturer, positioning the company for commercial success.
ENGAGEMENT 05
Touch-Sensitive Robotics
A company developing next-generation sensory technology that enables machines to feel touch—paving the way for seamless collaboration between humans and robots.
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Fogatel helped redefine the go-to-market strategy, focusing the product offering on a specific high-impact application.
ENGAGEMENT 06
Secure Temperature Sensing Technology
Fogatel supported a UK startup developing the world’s first secure temperature sensor, combining cybersecurity and sensing in a single chip.
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Fogatel crafted their go-to-market strategy and facilitated introductions to strategic partners in semiconductors, IoT, and industrial automation.
03 / ABOUT & NETWORK
Personal commitment.
Specialist connections.
Fogatel is led by François Jeanneau. When an engagement calls for additional expertise, clients can be introduced to independent specialists.
FOGATEL / INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
François Jeanneau
Bringing technology, people, and markets together.
François brings over 20 years of leadership experience in technology commercialization, business development, and startup growth. His experience spans advanced materials, displays, IoT, photonics, semiconductors, and clean technologies.
Through Fogatel, he helps deeptech companies develop their North American market strategy and build commercial relationships.
Connect with François on LinkedInIndependent specialist network
These professionals operate independently of Fogatel and are not Fogatel employees. Introductions depend on client needs; availability, scope, and terms are agreed separately for each engagement.
Finance
Linda Ara
Independent professional
Consulting CFO with experience in financial planning, cash management, and investment financing for venture-backed startups.
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Strategy & marketing
Sri Peruvemba
Independent professional
CEO of Marketer International Inc. and former CMO of E Ink, with extensive experience in displays, materials, and technology marketing.
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Legal
Susan Morgan
Independent professional
Entrepreneur-turned-lawyer supporting technology startups with company formation, financing, contracts, and corporate governance.
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Human resources
Christine Kittinger
Independent professional
HR consultant supporting Bay Area startups and established businesses, with a background in employment and corporate law.
LinkedIn04 / START A CONVERSATION
What’s your next
move in
North America?
Share your technology, your target market, and your next commercial priority.
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