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France Digitale France Digitale

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

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PULSALYS PULSALYS

Incubate the startups Deeptech & amp; Accelerates the scientific innovations of the R & Amp; D Lyon-St Labos 🚀 Pulsalys, incubator and accelerator of Deep Tech innovations in Lyon & amp; St Etienne, builds products & amp; Innovative services of tomorrow, by transforming scientific discoveries from the University of Lyon laboratories into economic opportunities for businesses and startups. Created in December 2013 as part of the Investment Program for the Future (PIA) under the status of Acceleration Society for Technology Transfer (SATT), Pulsalys has become a key player in the attractiveness and economic development of the Lyon - St -Etienne …

Tags: SATT Network Sectors: Research

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Orange Orange

Orange is here. Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with revenues of 40.3 billion euros in 2024 and 127,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2024, including 71,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 291 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2024, including 253 million mobile customers and 22 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business. In February 2023, the Group presented its strategic plan « Lead the future …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Law Practice Telecoms

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Mazars Mazars

Mazars is an internationally integrated partnership, specialising in audit, accountancy, advisory, tax and legal services*. Operating in over 100 countries and territories around the world, we draw on the expertise of more than 50,000 professionals – 33,000+ in Mazars’ integrated partnership and 17,000+ via the Mazars North America Alliance – to assist clients of all sizes at every stage in their development. *Where permitted under applicable country laws Accounting, Audit, Tax, Consulting, Actuarial Services, and Legal

Sectors: Consulting, audit

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AXELERA AXELERA

Together, catalyze successes Create value by bringing out innovative and competitive solutions for industry to the confluence of chemistry, environment and energy, and radiating internationally from a strong regional base, such is the ambition of Axelera, the auvergne-Rhône-Alpes chimie-environment competitiveness pole, created in 2005 by Arkema, CNRS, IFP Suez and Solvay. Axelera brings together and coordinates players in industry, research and training in chemistry and environment, around 5 strategic axes: renewable raw materials, eco-efficient factory, materials and products for industrial sectors, recycling and recyclability, preservation and restoration of natural and urban areas. Ranked among the very efficient centers by the …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

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France Invest France Invest

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

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WeLike WeLike

Undertake & amp; Invest With its endowment fund (Win-UP), its accelerator (Weraisestartup), its clean or associate investment funds (Welikeventure) and its partner associative networks (Welikeangels), Welikestartup has created the Welike network which structures the financing ecosystem of innovative companies. In 2019, the Welike network supported and funded, with its investors and partners, 31 operations for a total of 30 million euros. Each year, the Welike network responds to more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, examines more than 1,000 files, selects 500 entrepreneurs for presentation to its investors, support and follow -up (follow -up towers, Serie A, B ...) until the exit. Almost …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Laboratoires Expanscience Laboratoires Expanscience

Well-being is in our hands We have not given ourselves for more than 70 years without a good reason. At Expanscience, we are a mission society, and our raison d'être is to help everyone shape their well-being, from childhood to seniority. This is what advances, seeking and innovating our 1,300 employees, every day! Independent at heart, we are a French company, 100% family, with products (Mustela, Piasledine 300 ...) present in more than 90 countries. For us it is clear: the well-being of women and men is inseparable from the health of the planet, and is in our hands, to …

Sectors: Cosmetics

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CIC CIC

Construisons dans un monde qui bouge. CIC is the fourth largest banking group in France, consisting of seven regional banks which operate across France through a network of 1,844 branches employing 24,000 staff. CIC's customer base includes 2.7 million retail clients. One in eleven self-employed professionals is a CIC group client and nearly one in three companies banks with CIC Group. Banque de détail, Banque de financement, Activités de marchés, Banque privée, Capital-développement, Crédit, Assurance, Mobile, Automobile, and Télésurveillance

Sectors: Bank

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Bpifrance Bpifrance

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

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La French Tech Bourgogne-Franche-Comté La French Tech Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The capital @FRenchTech_BFC is part of the @LAFRENCHTECH ecosystem. Contact us to discover our programs and news by making an appointment here: https://rdv.lafrenchtechbfc.fr/actor/la-fnch-tech-bourgogne-franche-comte French Tech, Numeric, Tech, Entrepreneur, Start-up, and Scale-Up

Sectors: French Tech

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La French Tech Saint-Etienne Lyon La French Tech Saint-Etienne Lyon

A collective at the service of startups in Lyon and Saint-Etienne. The French Tech Saint-Etienne Lyon association promotes the creation, growth and internationalization of innovative companies in Lyon and Saint-Etienne startup, scaleup, innovation, and french tech

Sectors: French Tech

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La French Tech Alpes La French Tech Alpes

Collective movement initiated for the influence of the digital economy and the innovation of the alpine furrow. The French Tech Alpes is one of the 16 French Tech capitals in France. The association is carried by a collective of entrepreneurs and a set of actors committed to the development and influence of the digital economy and the innovation of the Alpine furrow. With more than 600 members, French Tech Alpes is the alliance of 5 territories: Annecy, Chambéry, Grenoble, Valence-Romans and French Genevans. The French Alpes contributes to the development and influence of the digital economy and young innovative companies: …

Sectors: French Tech

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Bouygues Construction Bouygues Construction

With 32,500 employees working in 60 countries, Bouygues Construction designs, builds and rehabilitates the infrastructures and buildings that are essential for a sustainable society. All over the world, the teams support the development of low-carbon energy production and public transport infrastructures and provide their expertise in the design, construction and renovation of buildings and neighbourhoods essential to life (health, education, work, tourism, leisure, public services, defence, etc.). The teams' commitment is based on three top priorities: safety culture, respect for human rights and ethics.

Sectors: Construction Real Estate

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Saint-Gobain Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility and industrial markets. Developed through a continuous innovation process, our integrated solutions provide sustainability and performance in daily life, addressing the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry. In this way, we contribute to reducing carbon emissions, leveraging resource efficiency and increasing circularity. Saint-Gobain believes in progress and seeks to be a game-changer that improves individual and collective health and wellness. We are convinced that the solutions that meet everyone’s essential needs and allow us to live better together, without …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Building supplies

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Seventure Partners Seventure Partners

We actively fund innovative companies within the two evolving fields of Digital technologies and Life sciences. Seventure Partners is a long term equity investor that actively supports innovative companies aiming at generating positive impacts on Humankind, Society, Sustainability and the Planet. With €950m net commitments under management as of the end of 2022, Seventure is a leading venture capital firm in Europe investing since 1997 in innovative businesses with high growth potential in 2 main areas: Life sciences (Biotech, Health & digital Health, Nutrition, Foodtech, Blue Economy, Aquaculture, Animal & Agriculture, Sport & Wellness ...) with a specific interest for …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Cluster Bio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cluster Bio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The organic cluster is the epicenter of transformers, distributors, organic experts in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The cluster of organic products in Rhône-Alpes Organics Cluster contributes to improving the competitiveness of organic companies in the organic sector of Rhône-Alpes by innovation and marketing aid programs. We work to help organic companies in the food, cosmetics, textiles and cleaning products sectors. - Export assistance: organic export, collective stand on biofach and natexpo, export club, market study - Innovation aid; Innovation test; Living Labs, Bio Innov, Puttision of analyzes, Workshop packaging, B.I.O. N 'Days, Innovation Watch - Help with marketing and communication; Bio Rhône Alpes …

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Pouss@LYS Pouss@LYS

Pouss@lily, the consortium of the Lyon-Saint-Etienne territory, source, analysis and labeling startups #deepTech #hightech The Consortium Pouss@Lys is made up of 27 structures in the world of research of the Lyon-St Etienne site as well as actors capable of detecting and qualifying technological startups (competitiveness poles, incubators, accelerators, corporate programs, investment funds). These specialized business providers source, analyze and label startups thus opening their almost automatic funding. Accompanied startups may benefit, after instruction from the files by Bpifrance, from an investment by the French Tech Seed fund in addition to a fundraising from qualified investors.

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Apec Grand Est Apec Grand Est

The APEC Grand Est regional delegation is one of the 12 territorial delegations of APEC. It represents six locations spread over the territory: 2 centers in Alsace (Strasbourg and Mulhouse), 2 centers in Lorraine (Nancy and Metz) and 1 center and 1 permanence in Champagne Ardenne (Reims and Troyes). Nearly 40 employees, make up a lively force in response to projects for young graduates, executives and businesses. APEC advises and supports • executives throughout their professional career, whether for a salary or entrepreneurial project, • Young graduates in the search for their 1st employment or an entrepreneurial project, • Companies …

Sectors: Human ressources

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Eurobiomed Eurobiomed

The service catalyst for the community of healthcare innovators in the south of France. Created in 2005, the Eurobiomed competitiveness cluster helps to unite and position the healthcare ecosystem of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur and Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée regions at the cutting edge of innovation. Its aim is to foster the growth and projects of innovative healthcare companies in the region. From immunology and dermatology to neurology, oncology and digital health, Eurobiomed supports French and European public economic development strategies, helping to position its members as European champions and anchor France among the world leaders in healthcare innovation. Eurobiomed brings together all healthcare players, …

Sectors: Biotechnology French Cluster Public business cluster

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Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

#Auvergnerhonealpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a large region that has many advantages: - With more than 8 million inhabitants, it is more populated than 13 of the 28 countries of the European Union and ranks 10th region most populated in Europe - covering nearly 70,000 km2, or 13 % of the metropolitan territory, its area is equivalent to that of Ireland. - In France, it is the first industrial and gastronomic region, it ranks first for agricultural productions under label (AOP, IGP, etc.) and the number of organic farms. - In Europe: it is the 8th richest region in Europe with a …

Sectors: National and local authorities

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NEFTYS NEFTYS

Neftys, 1st Alternative financing fintech of innovative start-ups and SMEs Neftys is the 1st business financing platform in France (1900+ operations carried out for a total cumulative amount of € 1 billion - figures on 01/01/2024). Our vocation is to help business creators and managers to secure and speed up 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 expenditure and the benefit of the CIR, a period which can reach 12 to 18 months …

Sectors: Finance

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FoodTech Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté FoodTech Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Valuing and supporting the emergence and development of innovative solutions from the fork to the range. Large challenges are concerned today. How to help people better eat is a real problem, just like knowing how to feed the population in 2050. Thus, the FoodTech network aims to enhance a diet based on the pleasure, responsibility and accessibility triptych. For us, digital technology, new technologies and more broadly innovation are remarkable means to tend towards this vision by contributing to agricultural and food transitions, and to the evolution of practices. Our mission: to enhance and support the emergence and development of …

Sectors: French Tech Media

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France Biotech France Biotech

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

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BFM Business BFM Business

First economic and financial information channel in France. BFM Business TV is the first economic and financial information channel in France. It is distinguished by a programming focused on the search for expertise. Essays around economic news have been established as economic news meetings. "Good Morning Business" for example, offers guests on his set, the latest innovations, editorial and information on background trends. BFM Business TV is also available live on our website as well as an application dedicated to it. Tech, Stock Exchange, Economy, Real Estate, Business, Automobile, and High-Tech

Sectors: Media

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1Kubator 1Kubator

La force du premier réseau d’innovation francophone. Formation - Incubation - Accélération - Financements - Corporate. 1K aims to become the largest french seed accelerator, funding and developing 330 projects a year, for first time entrepreneurs. Located in 11 cities in France, Belgium and Switzerland, it will open its first offices, Lyon and Bordeaux, in summer 2015. Formation, Incubation, Accélération, Financements, Corporates, Services, Startups, PME, ETI, Grands Comptes, Transformation digitale, Innovation, and Entrepreneuriat

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GROUPE INVIVO GROUPE INVIVO

Union nationale des coopératives agricoles françaises 🇫🇷👨‍🌾 With nearly 80% of its 9,200 employees working outside France and sites in 31 countries, InVivo is without doubt one of the most international groups in the agricultural and agri-food sector. Brazil and Mexico in Latin America, Vietnam and Indonesia in Asia, are among the group’s strongholds on these two continents. agriculture, jardineries, semences, distribution alimentaire, nutrition et santé animales, animal nutrition & health, international grain trading, seeds, Vin, agroécologie, agriculture de précision, food, innovation, intrapreneuriat, Digital, Transformation Numérique, agroalimentaire, digital, agtech, agriloving, cooperative, and ferme france

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Réseau Entreprendre Alsace Réseau Entreprendre Alsace

"To create jobs, let's create employers" André Mulliez Network Entreprendre supports new managers, creators or business buyers, at all stages of the life of a business: at start -up, in the development phase, in times of strong growth. More show Show less

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Maddyness Maddyness

Launched Almost a Decade Ago, Today Maddyness is the Go-To Magazine for Entrepreneurs, Startups and Innovators. Maddyness has been the leading platform that has energized the French tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem for 10 years. Each month, 1 million professionals - entrepreneurs, investors, experts and corporates - connect to Maddyness to learn, train and meet. Maddyness offers rich and diverse content (articles, analyzes, guides, events) to stay at the forefront of innovation news. Very active in the organization of events (conferences, meetups, hackathons), Maddyness promotes meetings and exchanges within the Tech ecosystem. Certified B Corp, Maddyness undertakes to promote a positive …

Sectors: Media

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Région Sud Investissement Région Sud Investissement

The South Region Fund for Growth Business, funded by the Feder Co-investment fund for entrepreneurs in the South Region, half funded by Europe Participatory capital and loan

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Cemex Ventures Cemex Ventures

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

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La Tribune La Tribune

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 promote companies that …

Sectors: Media

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