| Website | insidecontactless... |
| Category | Software |
| Phone | 33 4 42 39 63 00 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Description | open-standard contactless payment |
| TWINLINX | 2/08 |
| TOTAL | $94.7M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $94.7M |
| Venture Round, 11/05 Groupe Siparex Vertex Venture Capital Gimv Visa Marketplace Sofinnova Ventures | $10.9M |
| Venture Round, 9/06 GGV Capital EuroUS Ventures Sofinnova Partners Vertex Venture Capital Vertex Management Gimv Groupe Siparex | $25M |
| Series C, 12/07 Vertex Venture Capital EuroUS Ventures GGV Capital Groupe Siparex HID Global Vertex Venture Capital Sofinnova Partners Gimv Nokia Growth Partners Visa Marketplace Samsung Ventures America Motorola Ventures | $44.4M |
| Series D, 5/10 Sofinnova Ventures Gimv Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement | €11.2M |
INSIDE Contactless S.A., a fabless company, provides open-standard contactless payment and near field communication (NFC) semiconductors and software for payment, transit, identity, and access control applications. It offers contactless reader Interface Chips, service enabling NFC interface circuit, contactless payment platform, contactless memory chips, USB desktop contactless readers, and proximity and long range couplers. INSIDE Contactless also provides professional integration and adoption services, such as application development, packaging services, pre-personalization and personalization, and system integration. The company offers its products for use in smart cards, key fobs, mobile phones, handheld devices, POS, and PC peripherals. It serves payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions.
INSIDE Contactless S.A. was formerly known as INSIDE Technologies S.A. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Aix en Provence, France. It has offices in Shanghai, China; Singapore, Singapore; Warsaw, Poland; Seoul, South Korea; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.
