Smart travel app Kune, electric boat battery maker Zenith and lidar diode control company Aerodiode will receive a total of $650,000.

Three France-based spinouts have made their official debut as incubatees of regional tech transfer office Satt Aquitaine’s Science Transfer initiative. Smart travel app developer Kune, electric boat battery maker Zenith and lidar diode control company Aerodiode have collectively received €588,000 ($650,000) to prepare their business models for market. The total includes $22,000 of incubation funds from Science Transfer for each company, and between  $163,000 and $420,000 for Kune and Zenit awarded through Satt Network. Each incubation tenure is due to last 18 months and should equip founders with an improved understanding of their target market, intellectual property, legal obligations and financial trajectory. Kune and Zenith both advance developments from national research institute CNRS, University of Bordeaux and Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux, while Aerodiode builds on work from the same institutions in addition to École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers.

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