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Accelerators and incubators are essential for helping new startups take flight.

New entrepreneurs looking to transform their great business idea into a successful and sustainable business sometimes don’t have the experience or connections to make that happen on their own.

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43 Accelerators and Incubators in Paris

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1) AGORANOV

AGORANOV

Agoranov is a place where new businesses with new ideas can grow. It has helped more than 450 startups get started, including 5 unicorns.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2000
  • Industries: Greentech, Digital, Health
  • Number of investments: 319
  • Number of exits: 36

You can find their website here.

2) Wilco

Wilco

WILCO is an innovation program that helps startups make their first €1 million in sales in three years. 

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2001
  • Industries: AgTech, FoodTech, FinTech, InsurTech, Customer Experience, RetailTech, Cleantech, Energy, Biotech, MedTech, Transportation
  • Number of investments: 200
  • Number of exits: 30

You can find their website here.

3) NUMA

NUMA

NUMA has been helping to build up a French ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Fred Oru, Marie-Vorgan Le Barzic
  • Industries: SaaS, Consumer Goods
  • Number of investments: 126
  • Number of exits: 26
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 20

You can find their website here.

4) The Family

The Family

The Family works hard with startup founders for 6 weeks to change their business and get it ready for investment.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Alice Zagury, Nicolas Colin, Oussama Ammar
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 72
  • Number of exits: 7

You can find their website here.

5) 50 Partners

50 Partners

The French accelerator 50 Partners is backed by 50 successful IT entrepreneurs. They give startups high-quality advice, money, and a place to work.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Charles Fourault, Jerome Masurel
  • Industries: HealthTech, MedTech, Biotech
  • Number of investments: 52
  • Number of exits: 4
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 72

You can find their website here.

6) Founders Future

Founders Future

Founders Future is a venture studio that was started by Marc Ménasé, an experienced European tech entrepreneur. It offers ideas, a network, support, and productive capital.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Marc Menase
  • Industries: Technology, Digital
  • Number of investments: 51
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

7) eFounders

eFounders

Efounders is a group of experts in Product, Design, GTM, and other fields who are ready to help startup founders get their business off the ground.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Quentin Nickmans, Thibaud Elziere
  • Industries: FinTech, Web3
  • Number of investments: 42
  • Number of exits: 5

You can find their website here.

8) Startup Sesame

Startup Sesame

Startup Sesame is the most important agency in Europe for tech events. It is made up of experts in innovation and business networking.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Ben Costantini, Joanna Kirk, Moojan Asghari
  • Industries: Information Technology, Network Security
  • Number of investments: 42
  • Number of exits: 2

You can find their website here.

9) Petit Poucet

Petit Poucet

Petit Poucet is a French incubator that helps young entrepreneurs with housing, strategic advice, and money.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2001
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 33
  • Number of exits: 3

You can find their website here.

10) Techstars Paris

Techstars Paris

The Techstars Sustainability Paris accelerator puts money into early-stage, high-growth startups that want to use technology to build a better future.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2006
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 32

You can find their website here.

11) Inco

Inco

INCO helps innovative businesses make the most of their social impact and helps people with different skills reach their full potential.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2010
  • Founders: Nicolas Hazard, Sandy Khan
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 24

You can find their website here.

12) Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners

Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners

Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners wants to build long-lasting businesses by bringing ideas, focus, capital (several M€ if needed over time), technical expertise, creativity, a state of mind, access to a large network.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2012
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 21
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

13) Kamet

Kamet

Kamet Ventures is focused on making companies that will change the way the InsurTech, HealthTech, and Mobility industries work.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Stephane Guinet
  • Industries: InsurTech, HealthTech, Mobility
  • Number of investments: 20
  • Number of exits: 2

You can find their website here.

14) Paris&Co Incubateurs

Paris&Co Incubateurs

Paris&Co is the city's agency for economic growth and new ideas.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Digital Publishing, Ehealth, Cultural Digital, Creative Digital, Smart Food, Sports, Tourism, Sustainable Cities
  • Number of investments: 11
  • Number of exits: 1

You can find their website here.

15) Starburst Ventures

Starburst Ventures

Starburst helps the aerospace industry come up with new ideas.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Bruno Costa, Francois Chopard, Van Espahbodi
  • Industries: Aerospace
  • Number of investments: 06
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12

You can find their website here.

16) European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre, Noordwijk

European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre, Noordwijk

Through its incubator program, the European Space Agency (ESA) helps NL-based startups with coaching.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Aerospace
  • Number of investments: 06

You can find their website here.

17) Lafayette Plug and Play

Lafayette Plug and Play

Lafayette Plug and Play is an innovative platform that will help the next generation of retail and fashion businesses.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Pieter Lammens
  • Industries: Retail, Supply Chain, Ecommerce, Fashion Tech
  • Number of investments: 04

You can find their website here.

18) La Javaness

La Javaness

Javaness helps big companies change faster by scaling AI in a responsible and effective way.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Romain Grosjean
  • Industries: Advertising, eSports, Logistics, Supply Chain Tech, Social Networks, Regtech, Proptech, Legaltech, InsurTech, Hospitality, Traveltech, HR, HealthTech, Fitness, Gaming, FoodTech, FinTech, SaaS, Femtech, EdTech, Ecommerce, Productivity Tools, Cyber Security, Cloud, Climate Tech, AR, VR, AgTech, AI, Data
  • Number of investments: 02
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24

You can find their website here.

19) adVentures Startup Studio

adVentures Startup Studio

At adVentures, they create innovative startups that make money and, in the end, help the public good.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2010
  • Founders: Antoine Duboscq
  • Industries: Technology, DeepTech, Biotech
  • Number of investments: 02

You can find their website here.

20) Hook

Hook

Through a 3-month training program, Hook VC helps you speed up your startup.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: Kevin Primicerio, Sydney Cohen
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Number of investments: 01

You can find their website here.

21) High Flyers Capital

High Flyers Capital

High Flyers Capital wants to bring out a new group of entrepreneurs in France to encourage innovation and impact and speed up the food transition.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Food
  • Number of investments: 01

You can find their website here.

22) ShakeUpFactory

ShakeUpFactory

ShakeUpFactory is an investor and accelerator for FoodTech and AgTech startups and entrepreneurs.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Kevin CAMPHUIS, Nicolas RAFFARD
  • Industries: FoodTech
  • Number of investments: 01
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12

You can find their website here.

23) SOYA CAPITAL

SOYA CAPITAL

Soya Capital gives funding to businesses with big ideas.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2020
  • Industries: AI, Big Data, Robotics, New Energy, Agriculture
  • Number of investments: 01
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 100

You can find their website here.

24) Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab

Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab

The Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab provides global support for startups.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Gaming, Entertainment
  • Number of investments: 01
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 30

You can find their website here.

25) Edencia

Edencia

The goal of Once upon a time is to give people the tools they need to start B2B SaaS companies at scale.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Stéphane Paillard
  • Industries: B2B, SaaS
  • Number of investments: 01

You can find their website here.

26) Fisheye

Fisheye

Fisheye is a seed fund and incubator for picture and culture-focused start-ups.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2017
  • Industries: Culture, Image, Photography
  • Number of investments: 01

You can find their website here.

27) FAMM

FAMM

FAMM is a startup and scale-up program that helps businesses by investing in them and giving them business advice.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Agriculture, Food, AgTech, Art, Healthcare, VR, E-Sport
  • Number of investments: 01

You can find their website here.

28) PULSE Montreuil

PULSE Montreuil

PULSE Montreuil is Pulse Group's social and environmental impact business incubator in France.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Social Impact

You can find their website here.

29) STATION F

STATION F

STATION F is the biggest startup campus in the world. It is based in Paris and brings together a whole ecosystem of entrepreneurs under one roof.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Xavier Niel
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic

You can find their website here.

30) Impulse Partners

Impulse Partners

Impulse Partners helps startups adapt to changing market trends and act on their innovation plans.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2011
  • Industries: Construction, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Energy, Public Sector

You can find their website here.

31) Orange Fab France

Orange Fab France

Orange Fab France chooses promising new businesses several times a year and gives them a program to help them grow their business and get better at running it.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Human Resources, IoT, FinTech, Enhanced Communication, Cyber Security, Blockchain

You can find their website here.

32) 16th Ventures

16th Ventures

16th Ventures is a small consulting firm for start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses that is a leader in strategy co-creation.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: Yann Beuzit
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic

You can find their website here.

33) The Cantillon Institute for Entrepreneurship

The Cantillon Institute for Entrepreneurship

The Cantillon is there to help you get started, grow, and avoid common mistakes in the world of startups.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Francesco Travagli, Gilles Mautin, Laurent de Vivie, Mike Van Cleave, Raodath Aminou
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic

You can find their website here.

34) Construction & Energy by Impulse Labs

Construction & Energy by Impulse Labs

IMPULSE PARTNERS is a strategy consulting company that works with senior executives on strategy, innovation, and performance to help your startup grow.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2013
  • Industries: Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Energy, Engineering, Territorial Collectivity, Industry, Public Sector

You can find their website here.

35) The European Startup Prize

The European Startup Prize

The European Startup Prize for Mobility (EUSP) is a program started by the EU to help sustainable mobility startups grow and get funding.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Jean-François Dhinaux, Karima Delli, Sophie Bailly
  • Industries: Mobility
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 20

You can find their website here.

36) Moove Lab

Moove Lab

Moove lab is a place where mobility-focused startups can get a boost.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2017
  • Industries: Autotech
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24

You can find their website here.

37) Labo de l'édition

Labo de l'édition

Labo de l'édition helps innovative new companies get started and helps traditional publishing companies adapt to digital and new ideas.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Industry Agnostic

You can find their website here.

38) Foundry

Foundry

Embarca is a venture capital firm that invests in and helps early-stage technology startups in Latin America. 

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2019
  • Industries: Fashion

You can find their website here.

39) L'Accélérateur

L'Accélérateur

French startups can get help with money, mentoring, and making connections through L'Accélérateur.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2012
  • Industries: Software, Wellness, Beauty, Food, Home Living, FinTech, Content Production

You can find their website here.

40) Entrepreneur Engine

Entrepreneur Engine

Entrepreneur Engine is a 100% online incubator and boost program that helps and promotes entrepreneurs, businesses, and startups. 

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2014
  • Industries: Industry Agnostic

You can find their website here.

41) SAP.iO Foundry Paris

SAP.iO Foundry Paris

SAP.iO helps innovators start-up and grow with SAP. They bring new partnerships and products to SAP by speeding up and expanding startup innovation and giving entrepreneurs a place to start their own businesses.

Details of the startup:

  • Industries: Industry Agnostic
  • Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 14

You can find their website here.

42) The Blox

The Blox

The Blox helps early-stage projects make a difference by giving them complementary skills and solutions that help growth on every level.

Details of the startup:

  • Started in: 2021
  • Industries: FinTech, Web3, Blockchain, AI

You can find their website here.

43) Next Sequence

Next Sequence

Next Sequence helps founders build the most innovative companies at the edge of Synthetic Biology and A.I.

Details of the startup:

  • Founders: Loretta TIOIELA
  • Industries: Biotech, AI

You can find their website here.

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