Jacque Vallée Ph.D

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acques F. Vallée, is a co-founder of Euro-America Ventures, a Silicon Valley group investing in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology and healthcare. Dr. Vallée has spear headed investments in over 60 innovative companies and led 21 of them to the public stock markets. In 2006 Dr. Vallée co-founded Red Planet Capital, in partnership with NASA. He is also an active member of Space Angels and the Band of Angels.

A venture capitalist for the last 25 years, Jacques Vallée has worked with Sofinnova, Inc., the Siparex Group, and the Adler Group of New York, serving as an early-stage investor and board member of high-technology companies including Accuray Systems (a medical device company specializing in robotic surgery), Ixys ( a power semi-conductor firm), Ubique (acquired by AOL), Sangstat Medical (global biopharma company), Class Data Systems (acquired by Cisco), Mobilian (acquired by INTEL), Nanogram Devices and HandyLab (acquired by Becton-Dickinson). Other investments that he spearheaded include Com-21, P-Com, Harmonic Lightwaves, Mercury Interactive , Synaptic Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Lundbeck post IPO) and most recently NeoPhotonics, all of which had successful IPOs on the public market.

Jacques currently serves on the scientific advisory board of Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is building a family of private space stations. He also is a member of the science board for the French Génopole investment fund, specializing in genomics and biotechnology.

Dr. Vallée was born in France; he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics from Lille University. Joining the University of Texas as an astronomer, he co-developed the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, and later received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. Moving to California, he pursued his career at the Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future where he was Principal Investigator for the groupware project on Arpanet, the prototype network for the Internet, and served as the founder and CEO of a collaboration software startup.