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.

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What we believe in

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We believe, by experience and conviction, that digital deeptech is above all driven by people, entrepreneurs (sometimes in the making). Entrepreneurship is first and foremost discovered through practice (“learning by doing”), and more importantly, one “does not support innovative people by telling them what to do but by allowing them to do it”.

Logically, therefore, we do not impose anything to people: we give them access to resources, events and training. It is the entrepreneurs who decide the strategy and the direction that their project takes.

We called our method “co-design”. Project owners (our future startup creators) are supported in the project in a double dimension, a local and daily one with the innovation managers of the centers and a more distanced one with the co-designers of ISS. More on our blog post The co-design, the support by Inria Startup Studio.

The support is therefore permanent, daily, coupled with a board logic, similar to that of the board of directors of a start-up, whose members are above all the project owners, then the innovation managers of the centers and the ISS co-designers. These daily and recurring meetings put the project in ideal conditions to prepare the creation of the startup before its development towards new horizons.

The best way to verify that these claims are not just words is to contact our alumni.

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The ISS co-designers

They coordinate and animate the program and they support project owners on the strategic dimension of their projects.

Sophie Pellat

Sophie was a partner since 2006 of the Inria Transfert IT2i fund,
Sophie joined Inria Transfert in 2006 then co-founded as a partner in 2011 the IT-Translation fund, which has financed many digital deeptech startups, before joining ISS for its creation in 2019.

She began her career in strategic management consulting (Gemini Consulting, Altis and Ernst&Young) then created her own company. She is a graduate of ENSTA ParisTech in Computer Science and Systems Analysis and of the HEC Entrepreneurs Master’s degree.

Antoine Albrecht

Antoine joined ISS in 2021 after 10 years at IFP Energies Nouvelles and 5 years leading a new Business Unit of D2T, a spinoff from IFPEN and acquired by FEV in 2015.

He also spent 2 years at SATT Aquitaine in the marketing of innovative Deeptech projects and developed a business development services activity for tech entrepreneurs. Antoine is a graduate of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (1998) and a PhD from INP Toulouse in fluid mechanics (2001).

Hervé Lebret

After a career as a researcher in applied mathematics, Hervé turned to innovation, with more than 5 years in venture capital with Index Ventures then 15 years supportingstartup creation at EPFL (Switzerland).

He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford University and did his PhD in convex optimization issues. He joined Inria in 2019 for the launch of the Startup Studio.

Sophie Pellat

Hervé Lebret

He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford University and did his PhD in convex optimization issues. He joined Inria in 2019 for the launch of the Startup Studio.

Antoine Albrecht

Antoine joined ISS in 2021 after 10 years at IFP Energies Nouvelles and 5 years leading a new Business Unit of D2T, a spinoff from IFPEN and acquired by FEV in 2015.

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The Innovation officers

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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Rennes :

Antoine Le Graët

Bordeaux :

Emilie Pons

Mathilde Saleur

Grenoble :

Elise Taillant

Valerie Martinez

Nicolas Jourdan

Vincent Rigau

Lyon :

Mirabelle Henicz

Lille :

Grégoire Maurice

Gauthier Miquet

Paris :

Céline Duclos

Saclay :

Marie Dudicourt

Nancy :

Aurélie Djeradi

Sophia Antipolis :

Stéphanie Morales

Emmanuel Gothié

Alain Prette

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

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