An artificial heart by French manufacturer Carmat is seen during an interview with Reuters in Velizy, near Paris, January 11, 2021. Sources said Carmat, which had 24 million euros cash at mid-year, was looking to raise a total of around 100 million. Airbus said this week it had invested 50 million euros in Carmat but did not address whether it would spend more. It most recently invested 10 million euros in March 2022. Matra Defense paid a dividend of 207 million euros to Airbus in 2022, filings show.

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Persons: Christian Hartmann, Jean, Luc Lagardere, Alain Carpentier, Carpentier, Stephane Piat, Emmanuel Macron, Thomas Toepfer, Piat, Samir Devani, Carmat, Tim Hepher, Michal Aleksandrowicz, Laura Lenkiewicz, Stephanie Hamel, Josephine Mason, Elaine Hardcastle Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Rights, Airbus, PARIS, Lagardere's Matra Defense, Carmat, Rx Securities, FDA, Zurich University, Matra Defense, Thomson Locations: Velizy, Paris, French, Carmat, United States, Lagardere, Taiwan