DISCOVER OUR 2022 CATEGORIES & NOMINEES
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​Tech Under $50M in revenue or funding
This category celebrates the achievements and success of Tech companies with revenue or fund raising under $50M. 

• Full Speed Automation
• Platform.sh
• Speach.me
• Vectice 

Tech Over $50M in revenue or funding
This category celebrates the achievements and success of Tech companies with revenue or fund raising over $50M. 

• Aera Technology
• Airbyte
• ESI Group
• Loft Orbital
• Planisware
• The Sandbox

​Life Sciences
This category celebrates companies that have made significant contributions to the development of Healthcare and Life Sciences through discovery, innovation,...

• Atara Biotherapeutics
• Avatar Medical
• DNA Script
• Renegade.bio
• Twist Bioscience

Smart cities and Mobility
This category celebrates companies that are bringing the best innovation to the mobility industry, companies that are undertaking challenges to improve urban mobility, quality of life, mobility of the future... 

• ESI Group 
• Udelv
• Revo (previously Wrightspeed)
• Xwing

Sustainability
This category celebrates those who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice (accomplishments of leaders, initiatives and organizations working to reduce the impact of their business on our environment).  

• Atmo.ai
• Brimstone Energy
• FarmWise
• Naïo Technologies
• Scarlet Solar
• SunPower

Wine industry
This category celebrates the achievements and success of French actors evolving in the wine business, in sectors and industries such as vineyards, cooperage, manufacturers, importers… 

• Clos Solene
• L’Aventure 
• Picayune Cellars

​Food industry
This category celebrates the achievements and success of French actors evolving in the food industry: restaurant, catering, manufacturing, retailer,…  

• Fabrique Delices
• Goudy’s French Cuisine
• Laura Chenel
• Maison Nico
• Maison Porcella

​Promotion of French Culture
This category celebrates the promotion of the French culture in San Francisco Bay Area, in the fields of cinema, theatre, music, art... 

• Cinessance
• FACS SF
• MerciSF
• Sacramento French Film Festival
• Théâtre du Lycée Français

Personality of the year
​This category celebrates outstanding personalities’ achievements.  

• Geneviève Janssens, Winemaking Consultant at GJ Wine Consulting LLC., Portfolio Winery Founder, Chief Winemaker at Robert Mondavi Winery
• Stéphane Kasriel, Head of Commerce & Financial Technologies at Meta
• Claude Le Tohic, Executive Chef at ONE65 San Francisco
• Julie Owono, Executive Director of Content Policy and Society Lab at Stanford, Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières
• Eugénie Rives, Director, Early Moonshots at X, Alphabet's moonshot factory

The laureates will be revealed during the Awards ceremony on Thursday, May 19th, 2022.
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