b<>com announces the arrival of three new SME and mid-cap members to its circle of investors.
Over the past year, IRT b<>com has evolved its model to better meet the needs of businesses and strengthen its role in reducing the risks of innovation and promoting technological sovereignty. This transformation is based in particular on simplified access to intellectual property and working methods that accelerate R&D projects.
Industrialists, who are at the heart of IRT governance, contribute to innovation that is directly aligned with market needs and to a collective dynamic between SMEs, mid-cap companies and large groups.
This development has enabled b<>com to welcome eight new industrial members in one year, the majority of which are SMEs and mid-cap companies, thereby doubling the size of its investor circle. Following the arrival of Insimo, Infogreen, Keyros Medica, Kinéis and Octo Technology, Octomiro, Artefacto and Kerlink joined the innovation circle at the end of 2025, which now brings together some twenty companies and a dozen academic institutions.
Octomiro, a deep tech start-up specialising in artificial intelligence, uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to give ERP systems ‘eyes and a brain’. With the support of the teams at b<>com, the company aims to enhance the reliability and robustness of its learning models.
"The R&D partnership we have signed with b<>com is strategic for Octomiro. It enables us to make further progress on key technological barriers, such as the generic nature of our model and the robustness of automated decisions in a real industrial environment. b<>com gives us the ability to transform high-level R&D into reliable technological building blocks that can be industrialised and deployed at our customers' sites," explains Abdelkarim Ben Farhat, President of Octomiro.
Artefacto, an SME specialising in immersive content, is collaborating with b<>com on the real-time porting to mobile devices of a reduced reality solution for wind and photovoltaic projects. Kerlink, a provider of IoT connectivity solutions, is conducting a feasibility study to develop embedded AI dedicated to industrial maintenance, based on real-time analysis of vibration signals.
