[Automatic translation follows] Discover the best of French startups and tips for starting your own business! Why “jaimelesstartups.fr”? Passionate about creation, business and entrepreneurship, we opened this site in January 2012 to promote startups in France and encourage exchanges between project leaders, potential investors and all experts who can express themselves freely here. Analyze everything, dissect everything, from the business model to the CSS. As is fitting, we will talk here about everything that makes up the life of a startup: from the initial idea and the business model, innovation and creativity, benchmark and development plan but also the men …

Sectors: NGO, Think Tank

Crédit Agricole is the French economy’s leading financier and one of the top banking operators in Europe. As a leader in retail banking in Europe, the Group is also the leading European asset manager, the first bank insurer in Europe, and the third largest European operator in project financing. On the strength of its cooperative and mutual insurance foundations, its 154,000 employees and 27,000 administrators of local and regional banks, Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, useful bank, serving 54 million customers, 11.8 million mutual shareholders and 800,000 individual shareholders. Thanks to its universal retail banking model – the close …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Bank

[Automatic translation follows] A cooperative and mutual banking group, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is made up of the Crédit Mutuel federations of Brittany, South-West, Massif Central as well as around twenty specialized subsidiaries covering all banking, financial and insurance sectors, as well as real estate. Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is present via its networks in 19 of the 22 French regions. With 8,600 employees, 3,700 directors and 3.2 million members and customers, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa ranks among the top banking institutions with their headquarters in the region. banking, insurance, finance, fintech, startup, territory, cooperation, and transitions of the future

Sectors: Bank

Groupe BPCE, at the service of its customers and the French economy Groupe BPCE pursues a full range of banking and insurance activities, working through its two major Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne cooperative banking networks and through its different subsidiaries. Groupe BPCE, the 2nd largest banking group in France, has put down deep roots in its local markets. Its 117,000 employees serve a total of 36 million customers, 8.6 of whom have decided to become cooperative shareholders. The Group’s different subsidiaries pursue their activities in banking and insurance, tailoring their services as closely as possible to the needs of …

Sectors: Bank

Leading in beauty and pioneering the world of beauty tech, present in 150 countries Leading the world in beauty and pioneering the world of beauty tech; we are 86K employees across 150 countries on five continents. Our 36 international brands are divided into four unique Divisions: Luxe, Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, and Professional Products. Our 36 international brands include Kiehl’s, Lancôme, Giorgio Armani Beauty, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Ralph Lauren, Clarisonic, Maybelline New York, Essie, Kérastase, IT Cosmetics, Prada Beauty, Biotherm, Shu Uemura, Viktor&Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Urban Decay, Redken, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, Diesel, Garnier, L’Oréal Paris, and more. For …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Cosmetics

Creating Cycles. For Life. 💧♻️ SUEZ is the trusted partner for circular solutions in #water and #waste #CreatingCyclesForLife

Sectors: Environment

Des profs dans +1000 matières, accessibles en quelques clics. Launched in 2013, Superprof is a platform dedicated to knowledge sharing that offers a service to connect students with more than 20 million teachers, coaches, artists, and mentors in 40 countries around the world. With a total of 1200 subjects, Superprof offers a rich and unique catalogue to its students. A field of discoveries, experiences and passions without limits that has allowed the connection of more than 20 million students and teachers from all over the world. From guitar lessons to salsa classes, from math classes to rollerblading lessons, from pole …

Partageons la réussite Founded in 2013 by Clara Gaymard and Gonzague de Blignieres, RAISE is a pioneer in engaged sustainable finance with its investment and innovation platform. We are a mission-driven company with a unique model of sharing success. RAISE has four investment strategies as well as our innovation activites, all connected by our endowment and philanthropic accelerator. RAISE Investissement Private Equity mid-cap investment strategy focused on French SMEs. RAISE Ventures Early stage Venture Capital from preseed to series B. RAISE REIM Value-add real estate investment strategy targeting assets in Paris. RAISE Impact Private Equity Impact investment strategy focused on …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Building the future of our cities together The Maisons & Cités group was formed in 2002, the date of the creation of the Public Property Management Establishment of Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Epinorpa) and then the acquisition by the latter of SAS Soginorpa, a company created by Charbonnages de France, responsible since 1986 for the management of mining housing assets resulting from coal mining. For more than ten years, the Group diversified its activities, in particular with the acquisition of a social housing cooperative company, Accecura Habitat, which became Maisons & Cités Habitat, which enabled it to develop a housing …

Sectors: Real Estate Social Housing

We are a European VC built by founders to propel startups to global success Breega propels pioneering and purpose-driven founders from idea into impact. We closed our first fund in 2015 and now have €600 m AUM and 100+ trailblazing portfolio companies. Crafted for founders by founders, we built Breega to provide start-ups with the help we wish we'd had. And we’ve created an investment proposition that’s purposefully designed. We call it full stack funding: providing capital and connections, expertise and experience, support and solidarity for entrepreneurs at every step of their journey. We invest across Europe and internationally, focusing …

[Automatic translation follows] GRDF, the main gas distributor in France GRDF is the main operator of the natural gas distribution network in France. Our job is to design, build, operate, maintain and develop this network. These infrastructures measure nearly 200,000 km and are the longest natural gas network in Europe: 5 times around the Earth. This network, a key element of the energy transition, also meets the need to develop biomethane, Natural Gas Vehicles and Power-to-Gas. Our 12,000 employees work in 9,500 municipalities to allow 11 million homes and businesses in France to benefit from access to our network. They …

Sectors: Energy

Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 52,000* employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. …

Sectors: Consulting, audit

The biggest startup campus in the world. STATION F is the world's biggest startup campus based in Paris, gathering a whole entrepreneurial ecosystem under one roof. Startups

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] France's leading economic and financial news channel. BFM Business TV is France's leading economic and financial news channel. It stands out for its programming focused on the search for expertise. Programs focusing on economic news have established themselves as economic news events. "Good Morning Business" for example, offers guests, the latest innovations, editorials and information on underlying trends on its set. BFM Business TV is also available live on our website as well as on a dedicated application. Tech, Stock Market, Economy, Real Estate, Business, Automobile, and High-Tech

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] The professional association of French fintech, insurtech and regtech. Since its creation in 2015, France FinTech has been able to unite French entrepreneurs in the sector and stakeholders to build a dynamic and efficient ecosystem. A leading player, France FinTech is the only initiative to carry the voice of entrepreneurs in innovative finance. A true standard-bearer of a talented French team, France FinTech has been able to build a real brand, a guarantee of excellence, expertise and expression of innovation. France FinTech wants to be open to any initiative that supports the fintech sector in France and …

Sectors: Media

Get more done with faster, more productive AI and analytics from the most trusted analytics partner on the planet. Get more done with faster, more productive AI and analytics from the most trusted analytics partner on the planet. Produce answers as fast as the world produces data with SAS. With over forty years of analytics innovation, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS, BI, Data Mining, Analytics, Business Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Statistics, Customer Intelligence, Enterprise Risk Management, AI, artificial intelligence, speed, productivity, SAS Viya, and cloud

Sectors: IT services

Leading Tech M&A Advisor in Europe With more than 100 deals closed in 8 years, Avolta Partners has proven to be one of the most active M&A advisors in Europe in the Tech Industry. For more information, visit www.avoltapartners.com Venture Capital, Fundraising, M&A, Corporate Finance, and Tech

Sectors: Finance

[Automatic translation follows] Real Estate Bank SOCFIM - La Banque des Promoteurs - has been the BPCE Group entity dedicated to supporting real estate operators for their real estate development, renovation and building restructuring projects for 30 years. Present throughout France, with the support of regional banks (Caisses d'Epargne, Banques Populaires), it operates in all asset categories (housing, offices, retail, logistics, etc.). It is one of the main players in the real estate professional financing market: real estate developers, property dealers, developers and operators. With a team of experts entirely focused on developing its clientele, SOCFIM continues its development by …

Sectors: Bank

Combining our strengths, protecting tomorrow. France’s leading property and casualty insurer and the world’s 10th-largest reinsurer, Covéa is one of Europe’s leading names in insurance and reinsurance, covering the entire risk chain.

Sectors: Insurance

On October 22, 2018, Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire DataFox, whose cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data engine and derived business content provide the most current, precise and expansive set of company-level information and insightful data to optimize business decisions. The transaction has closed. DataFox is a company intelligence platform that helps sales, marketing, and investing teams find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities. DataFox's team of 100+ human analysts verify AI-sourced insights on millions of businesses to provide robust Company Data, Growth Signals, and Account Scoring. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, DataFox is …

Sectors: IT services

Insights you can act on. Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on your investments. Across 21 industries in 400 locations worldwide, we provide comprehensive, scalable and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally. We value your opinions and welcome your comments and questions on our posts here on LinkedIn. Please keep a polite, professional and constructive tone. We remove comments containing objectionable language and derogatory views. We do not allow content that is unrelated …

Sectors: IT services