Jacques Gaubil
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Kynogon completes a new round of financing

Paris, France - January 3, 2006 - Kynogon, the leading supplier of A.I. middleware solutions, announced today the successful closing of a new financing round close to US$ 3 millions. Financing was led by new investor Innovacom along with current investor CapDecisif.

Proceeds from the fund raising will be used to open an office in North America and to build on Kynapse, Kynogon industry leading A.I. product.

"We are today significantly accelerating Kynogon development to properly address our customers needs. Next generation games require next generation A.I. Kynapse 4.0 is now offering a revolutionary large scale A.I. including a new asset production pipeline, a unique 3D hierarchical pathfinding, A.I. data streaming mechanisms and multi-core, multi-threaded solutions for complex hardware architectures.

We also want to strongly position Kynogon in North America. We will open an office to expand our support capabilities and be closer to our clients. The North American market is a priority for Kynogon." Pierre Pontevia, CEO, Kynogon

"Kynapse is a truly robust, out-of-the-box, solution for real-time behavior simulation. Our investment decision is based upon the impressive references Kynogon already has as well as the solid relationships Kynogon is building with its clients. Today Kynogon is clearly positioned as the market leader both in the gaming industry and in the serious games and we will accompany its management to address market evolutions." Frédéric Humbert, Partner, Innovacom



About Kynogon
Kynogon develops and markets A.I. software for real-time behavior simulation. Kynogon's technology is used by the world's leading game developers (Electronic Arts, Atari, Real Time Worlds, Ascaron, Majesco, Pyro Studios, ...) as well as industry leaders (EADS, British Aerospace, ...) After providing RenderWare A.I., Kynogon is now offering Kynapse, a unique A.I. engine. With Kynapse, Non Player Characters can move around in any 3D dynamic world, understand their environment, hide, communicate, cooperate, drive vehicles, etc. For more information please visit www.kynogon.com.

About CapDecisif
CapDecisif (www.capdecisif.com) is a early stage venture firm dedicated to investing in high potential, high innovation companies. CapDecisif was created end 2001, manages around €18M and is supported among others by CDC Entreprise, Natexis Private Equity and the Paris Region. It has 15 portfolio companies in Information Technologies as well as Life Sciences. Contact : Jérôme Snollaerts jerome.snollaerts@capdecisif.com

About Innovacom
Founded in 1988 with the initiative of France Telecom, Innovacom is a venture capital investor, specialised in telecommunications and information technologies. Innovacom has taken part in the launch of innovative young companies such as Business Objects, Gemplus, Infovista, Kelkoo, LastMinute.com, Soitec and Inventel. With 400 m€ being managed by their offices in Paris, San Francisco and Stockholm, Innovacom actively invests in Europe and North America. For more information, visit www.innovacom.com.

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