Inria Startup Studio
The Startup Studio finances and supports people and their project in a relationship of trust, goodwill, transparency and respect. This does not prevent us from being ambitious and demanding for the projects. All of this is a consequence of the background and experience of our team and 30 years of creating startups at Inria.
The national ISS team
It coordinates and runs the Inria Startup Studio program.
The co-designers support project leaders with the strategic aspects of their projects.
The Startup managers
They provide a business support in all the project dimensions as well as a day-to-day support for the teams housed in their centre.
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The Inria Startup Studio Committee (CISS)
As a project leader, you will receive support in preparing your application for the Startup Studio program. Once your application is complete, you will present your project to the Startup Studio committee, which will make recommendations to François Cuny, Inria’s Deputy Director General for Innovation.
The Startup Studio Committee is composed mainly of external figures:
François Cuny LinkedIn
Deputy Director General for Innovation, INRIA – Chairman of the Committee
Jean-François Abramatic LinkedIn
Research Director at Inria Emérite
David Argelliès LinkedIn
VP Business Development, Fairmat
Paul Berrux LinkedIn
Associate Director, Multeam
François Bancilhon LinkedIn
Entrepreneur and former researcher
François-Régis Chaumartin LinkedIn
Founder and CEO, Proxem
Ricardo de Aldama LinkedIn
Co-founder ScrubChart.AI
Céline Debled LinkedIn
Digital Division Project Manager, Agoranov
Baptiste Fradin LinkedIn
Entrepreneur & Impact Investor
Christian Frisch LinkedIn
Co-founder & CTO
Jean-Christophe Gougeon LinkedIn
Software Sector Manager / IA / Quantum Computing, BPIFrance
Catherine Guillemin LinkedIn
President, SATT Sayens
Laurent Kott LinkedIn
Venture Partner, Elaia et Président, LKonseilInnovv
Nicolas Landrin LinkedIn
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, ESSEC
Nicolas Penet LinkedIn
Investment Director, UI Investissement
Benoit Rottembourg LinkedIn
Mission manager REGALIA, Inria
Damien Tardieu LinkedIn
Advisor et Investisseur – Ex-cofondateur et CEO, Niland (Spotify)
Our ecosystem
Entrepreneurship in deeptech is rich and complex. If it starts with ideas, sometimes research, technology transfer, it is mainly supported with:
- Advice (training, coaching, mentoring)
- Funding (subsidies, prizes, but also investments)
- Housing (co-working spaces, incubators, accelerators, technology parks)
- Exposure (events, networking, presentation of ideas, community)
- And Internationalization (rarely can a deeptech project stay within its initial borders)
You will find much more information in our blog post : The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem around Inria Startup Studio.
Through its partnership with BPIFrance, its relations with several hundred investors, its training offer with reference organisations, its participation in major innovation events, Inria Startup Studio is perfectly integrated into the French ecosystem and allows project owners of the program to prepare the rest of their project in the best possible conditions.
A desire to try
