About Nanovip.Com
Our interest in nanotechnology and the companies involved in this exciting industry naturally led us to the web, where we discovered that no definitive reference existed. We found some good web sites which provided nano business listings as part of their general directory, but there was no site dedicated to nanotechnology companies. This is why we created Nanovip.com: to offer a web-searchable, human edited database, focused on nanotechnology companies sorted by country and business sector.
Our site was launched in November 2003 and keeps growing every day. We are proud to continue to promote the nanotechnology industry from our position as the first exclusive worldwide nanotechnology companies directory.

About the Nanovip.com database:
Our goal is to remain the leading nano companies web directory, and to accompany the industry during its rapid growth in the years to come. Our database is clearly organized into a number of industry-specific categories, and each company is also listed by country of origin, for easy international localization. Our database is kept current on a daily basis, through a process of discovering and validating new nano companies to list. More and more companies are realizing the value of listing on nanovip.com, and they contact us directly. But in addition, each day our staff scouts the media for nanotechnology industry news and press releases, and in this way our directory regularly adds new listings from across the globe.

Maintenance: Each month, we automatically check each and every link in our database. If, after multiple checks, the link is determined to be dead, we remove it and add a new updated link if one exists.
Additionally, once a year, we manually check each listing to verify that the company’s contact information is accurate.

These measures insure that our database remains fully functional and as up to date as possible. (You can download our entire database here.)

About the companies in our database:
There is a debate to define which company may be considered a « Nanotechnology » company or not. It seems that a part of our audience expect to find molecular manufacturing companies with self-assembling robots capabilities. Some are considering the “bottom up” technology process of molecular manufacturing as the only “TRUE” nanotechnology. The problem is that as of writing this note, there are no “TRUE” nanotechnology companies according to the above definition. Thus we made the deliberate choice to list on Nanovip.com, companies involved in nanoscale interaction, manipulation, observation and fabrication: the result might not fit anyone’s expectation from a “nanotechnology company”.
It is easier to define the recent self-called nanotechnology start-ups, but it is more difficult to define already existing companies that are progressively incorporating nanoscale technology into their operations, yet these companies are still, in our opinion, engaged in the path of nanotechnology - a technology interacting with the matter at the nanoscale (atomic / molecular) level.

About Kaeria SARL
Kaeria SARL is the company which owns and publishes Nanovip.com. Benjamin Melki, a specialist in web site development with a strong interest in nanotechnology advances, founded Kaeria SARL, which also benefits from an association with the accomplished jurist Florian Pernes.

Kaeria SARL
16,Bd Saint-Germain
75005 Paris
France
 

Benjamin Melki:
"Science and technology are not given the respect they deserve in our modern society, in spite of the fact that not a day passes in which we do not benefit from their advances. If we were to freeze the development of technology as it stands today, all the goodwill in the world, all governments both right and left, would not be able to resolve the problems of poverty, of pollution, of energy, of healthcare…
Nanotechnologies, which arise at the convergence of biotechnologies and the information age, will permit humanity to take a giant step toward the amelioration of the problems of our times. In this spirit, Nanovip.com was created to facilitate contact between the key players in the domain of nanotechnology."

Florian Pernes:
"Nanotechnologies represent technological, ethical, and legal challenges, all at the same moment. We must be able to answer the new questions which will arise. Nanovip.com is an excellent base for those who want to identify and locate the builders of our nanotechnological future."

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