You are unique, so are we

Inria Startup Studio, 1 year to launch your digital deeptech startup in the Inria environment

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Session de formation de porteurs et porteuses de projets d'Inria Startup Studio à Lille, le 12 octobre 2022.

Inria Startup Studio | Espace Startup incubateur paris

An idea, a desire,
and a technology?

If you have a project of a digital deeptech startup, our program gives you the opportunity to fully dedicate 100% of your time and energy for one year in the best possible conditions: salary, support, and much more!

Discover the program

Since 2019, in the 9 Inria centers :

Inria Startup Studio | Sélection Espace Inria Tech

50+

Selection committees

Inria Startup Studio | 137 personnes financées

180+

Selected projects everywhere in France

Inria Startup Studio | des projets partout en France

Incorporated startups

How to apply?

Applications are made on the fly with selection committees that take place every month. The process usually takes a few weeks. The 3 steps to join the program:

I apply

1 / Discovery

Let’s explore together the interest of the program for your project

2 / Pitch

Present your project to the Startup Studio selection committee

3 / Let’s go!

If you are selected, join the program in the following months in one of the 9 Inria centers

Pre-selection

You are in and so are we

Selection

We inform you of our final decision

They talk about their experience

We are researchers and we started the program with a purely technical approach. Through contacts, through exchanges, through the training we received, we have been able to add real skills in business, communication and management to our technical background.

Simon Evain

Anax (Inria Rennes)

The first step at the startup studio is to get everything out of the way. They’ll challenge us on the technology, the market, the customers, who’s buying, and so on. And then we’ll work with the people we’re working with to create a business model, a business plan, and then go and talk to our potential customers.

Philippe Giraudeau

Co-Idea (Inria Bordeaux)

The startup studio’s support is very intense, enabling us to move from an extremely technical project to a business project with all the dimensions of marketing, communication, customer acquisition and market analysis.

Marie Paindavoine

Skyld (Inria Rennes)

Thanks to the funding of a year of project maturation, Inria Startup Studio gives us the opportunity to create our startup project based on the research we have conducted over the last 8 years on flexible robots. Of course technology is important in such a project, but the program helps us to prepare for the different aspects of creating a company.

Christian Duriez

Compliance Robotics (Inria Lille)

Inria Startup Studio | Harold Témoignage

When you have a problem or when you experience something, another project owner, in general, will have already experienced it and will be able to share her experience with you. And it’s something extremely rich to create and share moments like that with people who are not necessarily in your project, but who are going through something similar.

Harold Blériot

Lyrion (Inria Paris)

Inria Startup Studio | Justine Témoignage

One of the highlights of this experience is that thanks to ISS, I was able to meet one of the big names in my field, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. A big challenge for me!

Justine Bonnot

Yubik (Inria Rennes)

Inria Startup Studio | Thibaud Témoignage

The support team never stopped challenging us by asking to go even further and by making even more contacts with the main stakeholders, the hearing impaired people.

Thibaud Moufle-Milot

Pulse Audition (Inria Sophia Antipolis)

The startup studio gave us a lot of things. The first step was to give me the means to take my technology out of the laboratory and develop a product around it. They forced me to go and see potential customers before having a product, and that’s not innate when you come from research. And finally, access to an ecosystem of investors, former entrepreneurs who can advise us, has been very valuable for me.

Emmanuel Menier

Augur (Inria Saclay)