Sofinnova Partners is a leading European VC firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise. Sofinnova Partners is a hands-on company builder across the entire value chain of life sciences investments, from seed to later-stage. The firm actively partners with ambitious entrepreneurs as a lead or cornerstone investor to develop transformative innovations that have the potential …

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 …

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Multi-energy company. We produce and market oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Have you ever thought of offering your skills and expertise to a multinational company? Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with TotalEnergies. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 105,000 employees : to be a world-class player in the energy transition Oil & Gas - Exploration & Production, Upstream, Refining, …

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[Automatic translation follows] At the heart of #CleanTech innovation Led by the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, the Arbois Technopole is the first Technopole in France dedicated to the environment. It hosts 12 research units, 90 innovative companies (including around forty start-ups in the #Cleantech incubator), students from the Master's in Terrestrial Environmental Science and the Aix-Marseille University Environmental Science doctoral school, and the Capenergies, SAFE and Ea eco-business competitiveness clusters and clusters. The mission of the Technopole is to support companies and research laboratories located in its territory in the development of knowledge and technologies that enable them to gain competitiveness and …

Michelin is a world-leading manufacturer of life-changing composites and experiences. Pioneering materials science over more than 130 years, Michelin is uniquely positioned to make decisive contributions to human progress and a more sustainable world. Drawing on technological leadership in polymer composites, Michelin is constantly innovating to manufacture high-quality tires and components for critical applications in demanding fields as varied as mobility, construction, aeronautics, low-carbon energies, and healthcare. The care we put into our products and our intimate knowledge of consumer habits enable Michelin to offer its customers exceptional experiences, whether in terms of connected solutions and artificial intelligence for professional …

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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

Karista is a VC firm investing in game changers from scratch to success. Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious entrepreneurs. For the past 20 years, we have been backing and guiding more than 100 companies from inception to success in Health, Digital, and Technology. Because we believe that investment is not only about money but mainly about people, we provide support to our founders and entrepreneurs very early-on. We come from different backgrounds and bring various skills to help nurturing our portfolio companies on many levels. We are currently deploying three European early stage funds: our …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] The sun rises in the South ☀️ ☀️ The sun rises in the South! ☀️ The South Region, co-host of the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games: the #FrenchAlps at the top! ☀️For you, the South Region is... Daily support from high school, at every stage of your life. Getting around, studying, developing an activity, finding a job, learning, eating well, taking care of yourself or playing sports: this is what our Region is really for! With a higher commitment in the background: fighting against climate change and preserving our environment. High schools, Vocational training, Apprenticeship, Public …

Sectors: National and local authorities

Innovation for Health Founded in 2005, the Medicen Paris Region global competitiveness cluster aims to position the Paris Region as a European industrial leader in diagnostic and therapeutic innovation and leading-edge health technologies, thus enabling it to become one of the global centres for translational medicine. Medicen Paris Region’s partnership approach is based on the concept of economic value creation in the Paris Region stimulated by innovation, which forms the very basis of the creation of competitiveness clusters and sets three main priorities: developing growth and employment in profitable markets in a successful dynamic relationship between YICs/SMEs, large firms and …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] The competitiveness cluster of the energy transition, a catalyst for innovation in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes The competitiveness cluster of the energy transition. A catalyst for innovation in renewable energies in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Tenerrdis' mission is to promote sustainable business growth and the creation of long-term jobs in the new energy technology sectors, in line with the challenges of the energy transition, by mobilizing all the resources (industrial, institutional, academic and scientific) of the ecosystem.

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

L'Agence économique régionale au service des entreprises industrielles et de services à l'industrie The Regional Economic Agency guides and supports industrial companies and services to industry businesses at all stages of their development: investment, training and employment, innovation, export, access to funding and European projects, etc. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entreprises is also in charge of promoting the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region throughout the world and championing its multiple assets to attract new businesses. Valoriser, Structurer, and Accompagner

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Cooperative banks, the Caisses d'Epargne have been combining trust, solidarity and modernity since 1818. The second largest banking network in France, the 16 regional Caisses d'Epargne are among the leading banks in their region. They support all economic players and are leaders in financing the public sector, social housing and the social economy. In total, the Caisses d'Epargne now have 4.8 million members and 20.6 million customers, managed by the 4,182 bank branches and the Mon banquier en ligne agency.

Entrepreneurs in HealthTech Created in 1997, the association is the French non-profit organization that brings together the country's leading innovative health compagnies and their expert partners (investors, lawyers, research institutes, cluster, etc...). Its core mission is to promote health innovation in France and help the sector's start-up companies and SMEs to become tomorrow's leaders able to rapidly develop new therapeutic solutions. Our Missions: To support innovative start-ups and SMEs of the HealthTech industry (biotech, medtech, digital health, big data) by tackling four major issues: - Financial: encourage investment in health innovation - Tax: ensure fiscal stability - Administrative and regulatory: …

Sectors: Biotechnology Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Your Trusted Capital Arkéa Capital is the Private Equity subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. As a minority shareholder, we support companies at all stages of development, from start-ups to mid-cap companies, while maintaining the independence of decision-making centers. We consider entrepreneurial success based on overall performance criteria: economic, financial, environmental and human. Our commitment is long-term, based on a partnership approach based on mutual trust and transparency. With €1.3 billion under management, Arkéa Capital is now the partner of nearly a hundred companies spread across the country through 7 regional offices located in Brest, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] 1st professional organization (union) of the digital sector in France, + 2,500 members. 85% of the total turnover of the sector. Numeum is the 1st professional organization of the digital sector in France. Member of the Syntec federation which constitutes the second representative branch of the MEDEF, we bring together more than 2,500 member digital companies: digital service companies (ESN), software publishers, platforms and Engineering and Technology Consulting (ICT) companies. All of these companies generate 85% of the total turnover of the sector. Our actions: - Promote our members, our professions and defend their interests - Embody …

Humans and technology to scale up sustainable performance Established in 1989, the Scalian Group has nearly 5,000 employees in France and abroad. It is organized into 3 business lines specializing in Digital Transformation, Digital Systems and Operations Performance. Scalian has activities in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Canada and the United States. Engineering, Quality management consulting, Project management consulting, Big data, Procurement, Simulation , drone, cybersecurity, Virtual reality, AR, Software, Testability, Industry 4.0, information security, transformation, innovation, agile methods, industrial performance, supply chain, artificial intelligence, unmanned solutions, software development, and project performance

Investing for a sustainable world Eiffel Investment Group is a third-party asset manager with ca €6 billion under management* with a focus on positive impact strategies and the financing of the ecological and energy transition. Eiffel Investment Group’s investor base consists of large institutional investors (insurance companies, mutual insurers, pension funds, banks, family offices, public investors, etc.) as well as retail investors via intermediated distribution. Backed by the Impala group founded by entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, Eiffel Investment Group cultivates a strong industrial expertise, in particular in the field of the energy transition, but also in the life sciences, agri-food and …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

La French Tech désigne tous les acteurs de l’écosystème de start-up françaises, soutenus par la Mission French Tech. 🇫🇷 La French Tech est la marque déployée par l’Etat français qui représente l’écosystème de 25 000 start-up françaises et de tous les acteurs qui gravitent autour (fonds d’investissement, associations, acteurs publiques, etc.), soutenus par la Mission French Tech (administration rattachée à la Direction Générale des Entreprises, au sein du ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie). Elle a pour mission d’accompagner le développement de l’écosystème French Tech, mouvement français des start-up technologiques innovantes, dans la lignée des priorités gouvernementales, à …

Sectors: Media

Aiming to promote nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation and the strengthening of the disarmament regimes. The Office for Disarmament Affairs supports multilateral efforts aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.

Sectors: International development

We’re celebrating 175 years of daring scientific innovation—and we’re not done yet. Every day, we’re channeling our passion and resources into delivering innovative therapies that change the face of healthcare. Let’s outdo yesterday. Follow our progress as we accelerate the next generation of cancer treatments at LetsOutdoCancer.com For additional information on our guidelines, please visit http://www.pfizer.com/community-guidelines To apply science and our global resources to improve health and well-being at every stage of life. We strive to provide access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services to the people who need them.

Sectors: Pharmaceutical

[Automatic translation follows] Account of Bpifrance, the Public Investment Bank. Bpifrance, a public investment bank, supports companies from seed to stock market listing, from credit to equity. A privileged contact, Bpifrance offers financing or investment solutions in each region that are adapted to each stage of a company's life. A partner bank for entrepreneurs, Bpifrance provides them with long-term support to support their growth and competitiveness. The teams are at the heart of the regions, throughout the country, through more than 50 regional locations. Financing of SMEs, Business Creation, International Development, Investment, Creation/Transmission, Innovation, Support, Acceleration, and Export Guarantee

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

We are Accor We are more than 290,000 hospitality experts placing people at the heart of what we do, creating emotion for our guests, and nurturing passion for service and achievement beyond limits. Building on the strength of our teams and of our fully integrated ecosystem of leading brands, personalized services & expert solutions, we break new ground to reimagine hospitality and inspire new ways to experience the world. We are dedicated to suit all desires and needs, and reinvent the guest experience every day with our 45 hotel brands across all segments- 5,600 properties around the world from luxury …

Sectors: Hospitality

We're transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do for people, society and the planet. For more information, visit www.astrazeneca.com. Community Guidelines: bit.ly/2MgAcio Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical, Innovation, Research and development, and Global business

Sectors: Pharmaceutical

[Automatic translation follows] Neftys, the leading alternative financing fintech for innovative start-ups and SMEs Neftys is the leading business financing platform in France (1,900+ transactions completed for a cumulative total of €1 billion - figures as of 01/01/2024). Our mission is to help business creators and managers secure and accelerate their research investments. With our exclusive PREFICIR® system, we offer start-ups and SMEs an immediate cash advance on their Research Tax Credit, in order to finance the time lag between the commitment of research expenses and the benefit of the CIR, a period which can reach 12 to 18 months …

Sectors: Finance

Specialized in education and research in management, HEC Paris Business School offers a complete and unique range of educational programs for the leaders of tomorrow: Masters Programs, MBA, PhD, HEC Executive MBA, TRIUM Global Executive MBA and Executive Education open-enrolment and custom programs. Founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and founding member of ParisTech, HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 115 professors, more than 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers and executives in training every year. management, corporate governance, strategy, general management, finance, human resources, marketing, operations management, entrepreneurship, coaching, business, business school, executive, …

[Automatic translation follows] Support for fundraising and sale/acquisition - Valuation of startups and VSEs/SMEs - UGAP Rating Linkera is the essential solution dedicated to optimizing business acquisition and sale transactions. The platform connects business owners and potential buyers. Each month, it presents companies and assets worth millions of euros to nearly 2,000 users. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Rating, Financial & extra-financial advice, investment, algorithm, data, UGAP, Valuation, Fundraising, Sale, Acquisitions, Financing, Startups, VSEs, and SMEs

Sectors: Consulting

Behind every moment in life In the past, we used to have a job, a partner, a home for life... But that is all in the past. Today we move from place to place. We are more mobile. A great opportunity? We change job. A great idea? We create our own company. Feel like taking a break from things? We pack our bags. Our lifes go faster, further. And Septeo is there for it all: to provide professionals with the right solutions. And even though we might not always be visible, we are still there. Behind a wedding, a new …

Sectors: IT services

Our Vision : We have High Standards - We Build Companies - We have Impact Kurma Partners is a key European venture capital group specialized in healthcare, with €470 million under management, with two dedicated franchises : Kurma Biofund focused on therapeutic (current active fund KBIII) and Kurma Diagnostics focused on diagnostic and digital health (current active fund Kurma Dx2). Biotechnology, Lifesciences, Drug Development, Technology transfer, Rare diseases, Digital Healh, Diagnostics, and Medtech

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] The Entrepreneurial House of Private Equity. Founded in 2006 by Charles Beigbeder, AUDACIA is an independent player in private equity. AUDACIA attracts the best sector experts around three high value-added businesses: • Development Capital in fast-growing SMEs • Real Estate Capital, focused on Coliving, a new mode of shared housing • Innovation Capital including the Quantonation fund, the world's first fund dedicated to quantum technologies. Since its creation, the company has invested in more than 350 companies.

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

At Nasdaq, our purpose is to advance economic progress for all. At Nasdaq, our purpose is to advance economic progress for all. We power stronger economies, create more equitable opportunities, and contribute to a more sustainable world to help our communities, clients, employees, and people of all backgrounds reach their full potential. Meet the #NasdaqFam and learn about our purpose, culture and careers here: https://www.nasdaq.com/about/careers Technology Solutions, Financial Markets, Global Trading, Equities, Market Technology, Market Services, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Corporate Solutions, Global Index Services, Listing Services, and Nasdaq MarketSite

Sectors: Finance

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. With close to 1,930 listed issuers and around €6.8 trillion in market capitalisation as of end March 2023, it has an unmatched blue-chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total …

Sectors: Finance

[Automatic translation follows] Acting together for biodiversity CDC Biodiversité designs and develops concrete solutions that promote the restoration and preservation of biodiversity. Advising, measuring, renaturing and training are its 4 areas of activity. It supports public and private economic actors to meet their regulatory obligations (Avoid Reduce Compensate sequence), and those who wish to voluntarily commit by measuring their biodiversity footprint or by supporting concrete achievements to adapt territories to climate change. The actions implemented by CDC Biodiversité all fall under nature-based solutions, NBS. For ecological compensation after avoiding and reducing projects, CDC Biodiversité keeps the long-term commitments of developers. …

French association of investors for growth Founded in 1984, France Invest is the industry association representing French private equity professionals. Its role is to promote this asset class to institutional investors, this funding method and support to entrepreneurs, and this leading economic sector to opinion leaders and public authorities. The association itself is home to 359 asset management companies and nearly 200 associate members from all the business lines that support and advise investors and entrepreneurs in setting up and managing their partnerships. Our membership supports and finances more than 7,700 of the most dynamic startups, SMEs and mid-caps, employing …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

A leading private equity firm dedicated to the energy transition and innovation. Omnes is a leading European private equity firm dedicated to the energy transition. With over €6 billion in assets under management, Omnes provides companies with the equity capital they need in order to grow. Its four core businesses are Renewable Energy, Resilient Cities, Deeptech Venture Capital and Co-investment. Our 70 employees are based in four offices in Paris, Bruxelles, Munich and Zurich. Omnes is committed to sustainability and ESG. It is a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and has a Gender Equality index …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Consultor is an online information site, approved by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The strategy consulting media read by 100,000 students, consultants and clients each month: news, surveys, job offers, interview preparation... strategy consulting, consulting, management consulting, and Journalism

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Building tomorrow's territories together! The general interest has chosen its bank. Banque des Territoire finances, advises and operates with all French territories for the general interest. By Caisse des Dépôts

Sectors: Bank

Building Leading Companies for the benefit of our economy and society. Gimv is a European investment company with more than 40 years'​ experience in private equity. Listed on Euronext Brussels, Gimv currently has EUR 1.5 billion of assets under management. The portfolio contains around 60 portfolio companies, with a combined turnover of EUR 3.7 billion and more than 20,000 employees. As a recognized market leader in selected investment platforms, Gimv identifies entrepreneurial and innovative companies with high-growth potential and supports them in their transformation into market leaders. Gimv’s five investment platforms are: Consumer, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Smart Industries and Sustainable …

We found, fund and build transformational businesses via our unique partnership with the University of Oxford Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) is an independent, billion-pound investment company, created in 2015 to found, fund and build transformational businesses across specialist areas of life sciences, health tech, AI, new compute, climate tech and agtech. Via our unique partnership with the University of Oxford, the world's #1 research university, we turn the world's most advanced science and technology into companies tackling the world's toughest challenges. In nine years, we have invested £0.7 billion in over 120 ambitious companies built on Oxford science. A key …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Let's Share the Economy. Combining the expertise of a historic title with digital agility, La Tribune has carried out its transformation for several years, deploying itself at the heart of its audience's uses: website, digital daily newspaper, mobile applications, social networks, but also a field presence allowing it to animate its audience through the organization of 80 events per year. Its territorial roots make La Tribune the economic media of metropolises with editions in the regions and in Africa with La Tribune Afrique, feeding an editorial line focused on the real economy (innovation, digital, territories, etc.) and …

Sectors: Media