LAVA Gov

CEO of the Advanced Robotics. He has extensive knowledge in class-3 medical devices, airborne SATCOM control and robotic controls.

Michael McClune runs the SoCal based International Business Accelerator (IBA) which catapults startups and high-growth companies into global growth. The IBA prepares US companies for new market expansion by leveraging its proven curriculum, a peerless network of international business experts and access to traditional and non-traditional growth capital. The three tenets of the sector-agnostic accelerator are export readiness, product/service readiness and funding readiness. For the last few years physical cohorts were hosted and supported by USC Marshall School of Business.

Concurrently, and an exciting aspect for co-chairing Global LAVA, is Michael heads the IBA’s soft-landing package for foreign companies to set up operations in, and seek venture capital from, the LA/SoCal ecosystem. As of early 2020 for both inbound and outbound portfolio companies, over 60% are women-owned and half are minority-owned businesses.

For over two decades Michael has owned and managed multiple businesses in the US, Europe and LATAM ranging from a PR firm to dietary supplements. He has been to over 40 countries, backpacked from Chile to California and even married a foreigner…although he insists he fell in love long before he knew her country had the lowest tax rate in the EU.

I provide complimentary info, services and contacts re International development in France's Silicon Valley - Grenoble (Isere county, southeastern valley of the French Alps) and surrounding AuRA region.

I also assist local and incoming French companies and labs with their networks in the US and Canada.

I am a team member of French Cluster (Los Angeles), partner of Business France in the US, member of French Founders.
Specialties: Micro- and Nanotechnology, EDA, software, AI,  new materials, new technologies for energy/renewable energies/cleantech/, smart cities, ICT, Software, nanomedicine, medical devices, Bio- IT, etc. International Trade and development.