In the venture capital portfolio, the nature of the investment means that they are all high-tech companies that are in the process of building technological platforms and products that they will then sell. Sometimes they have started selling them already, sometimes the sales come later.
These are global companies from the outset. Their competition is global, but so is their potential to attract customers. These are the companies to which, as Edmée said earlier, we have committed $770 million.
They are divided into four large groups: life sciences, information technology, telecommunications, and another group that we call advanced technologies, including the environment, energy, and all kinds of other areas that are perhaps a little more industrial than the others.