2. âą
Our common goals!
Paris Region goals
âą
Help innovators thrive locally
âą
Attract value from foreign companies
Innovative company goals
âą
Develop added-value innovation
âą
Bring innovation to the market
3. âą
Selecting innovative start-ups for
funding (1/3)
Corporate venture/
innovation division
Innovative
local companies
The Paris Region works with 70 local partners
to identify innovative companies matching the fund requirements
such as elite universities, R&D clusters, VC, incubators, events organizers ...
4. âą
Selecting innovative start-ups for
funding (2/3)
Added-value
âą
10 ad-hoc start-up profiles on a regular call basis
âą
Half a day meeting with start-ups at our Paris agency ⊠if needed
âą
Getting to know the sourcing partners (clusters, labs, VC,
accelerators)
An efficient & very low-resource consuming process
âą
A few line in writing indicating the fund requirements
âą
Filling in a line of feedback for each of the 10 start-up profiles
âą
One point of contact through-out the process at our agency
A qualitative and large deal-flow thanks to a strategic
approach
âą
20% of start-ups meeting fundsâ target out of 300 profiles
âą
Strategic validation of scope with our partners
5. âą
Selecting innovative start-ups for
funding (3/3)
Example of partners with whom there is a strategic fit and an on-going
relationship since 2013
6. âą
Selecting innovative start-ups for
partnerships
The SME sourcing process developed for corporate funds also applies to
corporate innovation divisions for co-development partnerships or
commercial partnerships