Strategy Consulting & Startup Accelerator IMPULSE PARTNERS is a strategy consulting firm that works with senior executives on strategy, innovation and performance. We help our clients tackle growth challenges, identify opportunities, rethink business models and revisit innovation strategy. IMPULSE PARTNERS also develops startup accelerators in close connection with industry decision makers, local government and specialist investors. Our teams detect the most innovative, promising start-ups and connects them to industry leaders in order to speed up their development. DETECT We identify key innovation needs & ideas in a rapidly changing market. We detect & advise the innovators. CONNECT We connect corporate …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

1st Association of Startups in Europe, with +2,000 startups and French digital investors Founded in 2012, France Digital is the largest association of startups in Europe, with more than 2,000 startups and French digital investors. Our missions? - bring out digital champions in Europe. - Put the voice and federate those who innovate to change the face of the world. - Create bridges and business opportunities between all actors in innovation, whether they are large groups, public decision-makers, investors, entrepreneurs or employees of startups and scale-ups. How ? 1. By connecting the actors of the ecosystem during quality meetings, business …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Building a collaborative ecosystem that leverages the power of deep technologies to tackle world challenges. Hello Tomorrow was created in 2011 by a group of individuals convinced that science and technology need to form part of a toolkit of solutions to change our industries, sustain a growing population and help solve global crises. But the traditional model of technology transfer to bring solutions from lab to market, and from idea to impact, could not rise to this challenge. In turn, Hello Tomorrow has built, and now animates, a global ecosystem that facilitates ‘deep tech’ innovation through multiple activities. Over the …

Sectors: Trade show

The Ecological Transition Agency! Ademe in short The Ecological Transition Agency participates in the implementation of public policies in the fields of the environment, energy and sustainable development. It puts its expertise and advice capacities available to businesses, local authorities, public authorities and the general public, in order to allow them to progress in their environmental approach. The agency also helps to finance projects, from research to implementation, in the following areas: waste management, soil preservation, energy efficiency and renewable energies, savings in raw materials, air quality, fight against noise, transition to circular economy and the fight against food waste. …

Sectors: National and local authorities

Bpifrance account, the public investment bank. Bpifrance, public investment bank, supports businesses, from priming to stock market quotes, from credit to equity. A privileged interlocutor, Bpifrance offers in each region financing or investment solutions adapted to each stage of business life. Bank partner of entrepreneurs, Bpifrance supports them sustainably to support their growth and competitiveness. The teams are at the heart of the regions, throughout the territory, through more than 50 regional locations. Financing of SMEs, business creation, international development, investment, creation/transmission, innovation, support, acceleration, and export guarantee

Sectors: Bank

Lieu infini d'art, de culture et d'innovation An innovating artistic and cultural workspace Located in the 19th arrondissement, the CENTQUATRE-PARIS is a space for residencies, production and promotion for the public and artists from all over the world. Conceived by its director José-Manuel Gonçalvès as a collaborative artistic platform, it enables access to all of today’s arts, through a programme that is resolutely popular, contemporary and challenging. As an atypical living area lined with shops, it also offers spaces for free artistic practice and spaces for infants. For the start-ups that are part of its business accelerator, it forms a …

INRAE, National Institute for Research for Agriculture, Food and the Environment Inrae, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, is a major player in research and innovation created on January 1, 2020. Finalized research institute resulting from the merger between the Inra and Irstea, Inrae brings together a community of 12,000 people, with just over 200 research units and around forty experimental units located in 18 centers throughout France. The Institute is positioned among the very first world leaders in agricultural and food sciences, in plants of plants and animals, and ranks 11th in ecology-environment. Inrae aims …

Sectors: Research

The unified voice of French industrial startups As the voice of French industrial startups, Start Industrie is the preferred contact for public authorities and major clients on the issues that determine the emergence and development of these new players. Our mission is to improve the economic, legislative and administrative environment of emerging players in industry by formulating proposals relating to supporting innovation and industrialization, public and private procurement, financing growth and environmental impact. Contact us: contact@startindustrie.fr Idea laboratory, representation of interests, animation of the ecosystem, networking.

Fostering the construction revolution We are the Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) and open innovation unit of Cemex, a leading sustainable construction materials and solutions company with a global trading network of almost 100 countries. With our clear vision for the next frontier of sustainable living, we invest and partner with the most promising startups to fulfill our mission of driving the construction industry revolution. #BuildingABetterFuture