Our mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the well-being of people in the Sahel & West Africa. The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent, international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa. Its objectives are to: •Improve the regional governance of food and nutrition security; •Improve the understanding of ongoing transformations in the region and their policy implications through regional, spatial and forward-looking analyses. …

Sectors: International development

About the Financial Times The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at aboutus.ft.com. Subscribe at subs.ft.com. One of the world’s leading business news organisations

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] The culture of freedom since 1826. Le Figaro, the culture of freedom since 1826, the leading general daily newspaper and the leading most visited news site in France. With an audience of over 9 million unique visitors (source: Médiamétrie/NetRatings), the site is characterized by the quality and depth of its content, the result of the complementarity between its paper editorial teams (daily and magazines) and its web editorial team; by its Internet 2.0 uses and the importance of video, which has become a central element of the content offering. Lefigaro.fr also bases its development on the synergies …

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Account of Bpifrance, the Public Investment Bank. Bpifrance, a public investment bank, supports companies from seed to stock market listing, from credit to equity. A privileged contact, Bpifrance offers financing or investment solutions in each region that are adapted to each stage of a company's life. A partner bank for entrepreneurs, Bpifrance provides them with long-term support to support their growth and competitiveness. The teams are at the heart of the regions, throughout the country, through more than 50 regional locations. Financing of SMEs, Business Creation, International Development, Investment, Creation/Transmission, Innovation, Support, Acceleration, and Export Guarantee

Sectors: Bank

[Automatic translation follows] Incubator, nursery and hotel for innovative startups in human health implemented on the Cochin campus. Paris Biotech Santé, an incubator created in 2000 by the University of PARIS CITE, ESSEC, CENTRAL SUPELEC and INSERM, selects and supports ten new innovative projects and companies per year, in the exclusive field of human health: drugs 💊 , medical devices 🏥 , e-health 💻 , AI 🧠. In 2022, the incubator is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the City of Paris and the Ile de France Region 🇫🇷 . Strengthening teams, helping to develop development …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Promoting Innovation and Opportunity in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Region of France L'AER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté accompagne les entreprises et les territoires. Elle a pour mission : - d'accompagner le maintien et le développement de l'activité économique et l'emploi sur le territoire, - de promouvoir l'attractivité du territoire, - de soutenir et de développer l'innovation et l'éco-innovation. Investment Promotion, Economic Development, International Trade and Development , Hydrogen, Luxury Goods, Wind Energy , Health and Wellness, Agri-food, Digital, Aerospace, Corporate Expansion, Business Expansion, Corporate Relocation, and Foreign Investment

[Automatic translation follows] Innovation Catalyst & Business Accelerator in BFC A competitiveness cluster since 2005, the PMT catalyzes innovation, accelerates business and supports the transitions of industries in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Since 2017, it has brought together, through its PMT Santé and PMT ASD clusters, the health technology sectors on the one hand and the aeronautics-space-defense sectors on the other, resulting from excellence in microtechnology. It has also developed strong expertise in support dedicated to start-ups and innovative companies through its PMT Propulseur accelerator. Microtechnology, Health, Aeronautics, Defense, Space, Precision mechanics, Luxury, Innovation, International, Labeling, Training, Medical, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and Precision mechanics

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] The professional organization of pharmaceutical companies operating in France. Leem, Les Entreprises du médicament, brings together companies in the pharmaceutical industry sector in France. Created over 130 years ago, Leem now has nearly 270 member companies, which generate nearly 98% of the total turnover of pharmaceuticals in France. The pharmaceutical industry employs 100,000 people in over 150 professions, and has recruited 10,000 employees per year for the past 10 years. Each year, the pharmaceutical industry invests 12% of its turnover in research, in order to develop new innovative treatments. It brings together more than 20,000 people in …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Innovation for Health Founded in 2005, the Medicen Paris Region global competitiveness cluster aims to position the Paris Region as a European industrial leader in diagnostic and therapeutic innovation and leading-edge health technologies, thus enabling it to become one of the global centres for translational medicine. Medicen Paris Region’s partnership approach is based on the concept of economic value creation in the Paris Region stimulated by innovation, which forms the very basis of the creation of competitiveness clusters and sets three main priorities: developing growth and employment in profitable markets in a successful dynamic relationship between YICs/SMEs, large firms and …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

Nous soignons et innovons 365 jours par an. AP-HP (Greater Paris University Hospitals) is a European world-renowned university hospital. Its 39 hospitals treat 8 million people every year: in consultation, emergency, during scheduled or home hospitalizations. The AP-HP provides a public health service for everyone, 24 hours a day. This mission is a duty as well as a great source of pride. AP-HP is the leading employer in the Greater Paris area: 100.000 staff members – doctors, researchers, paramedical staff, administrative personnel and workers – work there. Toutes les spécialités médicales de la néonatologie à la gériatrie en passant par …

Sectors: Health

Entrepreneurs in HealthTech Created in 1997, the association is the French non-profit organization that brings together the country's leading innovative health compagnies and their expert partners (investors, lawyers, research institutes, cluster, etc...). Its core mission is to promote health innovation in France and help the sector's start-up companies and SMEs to become tomorrow's leaders able to rapidly develop new therapeutic solutions. Our Missions: To support innovative start-ups and SMEs of the HealthTech industry (biotech, medtech, digital health, big data) by tackling four major issues: - Financial: encourage investment in health innovation - Tax: ensure fiscal stability - Administrative and regulatory: …

Sectors: Biotechnology Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] 1st professional organization (union) of digital in France, + 2,500 members. 85% of the total turnover of the sector. Numeum is the 1st professional organization of digital in France. We bring together more than 2,500 member digital companies: digital service companies (ESN), software publishers, platforms and Engineering and Technology Consulting (ICT) companies. All of these companies generate 85% of the total turnover of the sector. Our actions: - Promote our members, our professions and defend their interests - Embody digital France in Europe - Animate the digital ecosystem to promote synergies and innovation Strengthen our services to …

[Automatic translation follows] The bet on intelligence L’Express has been a leading media brand since 1953: a weekly, a website, applications, podcasts, newsletters... and soon masterclasses, events and other projects! Today, the L’Express Group is an editorial team of more than 70 journalists, guarantors of reliable and quality information, as well as a rapidly growing team of digital experts, serving new ways of consuming information. L’Express Studio is the Group’s commercial entity that creates innovative communications solutions with its partners to reach senior executives and opinion leaders Alain Weill, founder of the NextRadioTV Group (RMC, BFM TV), bought L’Express in …

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] France's leading economic and financial news channel. BFM Business TV is France's leading economic and financial news channel. It stands out for its programming focused on the search for expertise. Programs focusing on economic news have established themselves as economic news events. "Good Morning Business" for example, offers guests, the latest innovations, editorials and information on underlying trends on its set. BFM Business TV is also available live on our website as well as on a dedicated application. Tech, Stock Market, Economy, Real Estate, Business, Automobile, and High-Tech

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Search, find, heal, for you and with you. Created in 2010, the Brain Institute is a scientific and medical research center of excellence dedicated to the study of the brain and the discovery of new treatments for diseases of the nervous system. Its innovative model brings together patients, doctors, researchers and entrepreneurs with a common goal: to transform fundamental discoveries into therapeutic solutions via a translational and interdisciplinary approach. Located in Paris at the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital – the largest neurology center in Europe – the Brain Institute brings together more than 900 international experts …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Tech for all, for good French Tech Grand Paris is the Paris region community of start-ups, investors, corporates and community builders. It represents a collective of entrepreneurs, investors and tech leaders created to represent the 8000+ start-ups present in the territory, and to be the voice of an ecosystem that concentrates 70% of Tech metrics. It activates it through numerous events (Public Order, Tech Days, Gen AI, Health Innovative Intensive Training ...), brings together the many actors present in Greater Paris, and deploys the national French Tech programs (Tremplin, Central, Rise, Je Choisis la French Tech ...).

Sectors: French Tech

Push up Startup & Scale-up based in north of France, to Make Business easier,Raise Funds,Growth & Expand in Int. Markets NPO to help Start-ups & Scale-ups based in North of France, to Make Business easier, to Raise Funds, to Growth and to Expand in International Markets. #Innovate #Grow and #BecomeGlobalLeaders ! High Tech, Entrepreneurs, Digital, Raise funds, Talents, Innovation, Research and Development, International, Growth, Scale-up, Start-up, and Data

Sectors: French Tech

[Automatic translation follows] Collective movement committed to the influence of the digital economy and innovation in the Alpine region. French Tech Alpes is one of the 16 French Tech Capitals in France. The association is supported by a collective of entrepreneurs and a group of stakeholders committed to the development and influence of the digital economy and innovation in the Alpine region. With more than 600 members, French Tech Alpes is an alliance of 5 territories: Annecy, Chambéry, Grenoble, Valence-Romans and the French Genevois. French Alpes participates in the development and influence of the digital economy and young innovative companies: …

Sectors: French Tech

La French Tech désigne tous les acteurs de l’écosystème de start-up françaises, soutenu par la Mission French Tech. 🇫🇷 La French Tech est la marque déployée par l’Etat français qui représente l’écosystème de 25 000 start-up français et de tous les acteurs qui gravitent autour (fonds d’investissement, associations, acteurs publiques, etc.), soutenu par la Mission French Tech (administration rattachée à la Direction Générale des Entreprises, au sein du ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique). Elle a pour mission d’accompagner le développement de l’écosystème French Tech, mouvement français des start-up technologiques innovantes, dans la lignée …

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Neftys, the leading alternative financing fintech for innovative start-ups and SMEs Neftys is the leading business financing platform in France (1,900+ transactions completed for a cumulative total of €1 billion - figures as of 01/01/2024). Our mission is to help business creators and managers secure and accelerate their research investments. With our exclusive PREFICIR® system, we offer start-ups and SMEs an immediate cash advance on their Research Tax Credit, in order to finance the time lag between the commitment of research expenses and the benefit of the CIR, a period which can reach 12 to 18 months …

Sectors: Finance

BIO, Where breakthroughs begin BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. Our mission is to be the champion of biotechnology and the advocate for our member organizations—both large and small. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. We also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers. biotech, association, life sciences, biofuels, gmo, cures, energy, agriculture, …

[Automatic translation follows] Social, innovative, supportive and ethical landlord Since 1923, RIVP has been a major player in social housing in Paris. We build, renovate and manage nearly 61,000 homes in the capital and several cities in the Paris region. Our teams fully fulfill their missions for tenants through local management, based on listening, availability, solidarity and quality of service. As a project owner, RIVP is committed to the social housing policy of the City of Paris with a range of housing adapted to a variety of tenant profiles: family housing, university residences, hostels, etc. Today, the RIVP Group has …

Sectors: Real Estate Social Housing

[Automatic translation follows] Liberator of ambitions that helps women and men realize their innovative transformation projects. Challenger. Disrupter. Transform Create economic value. Positively impact society. This is what drives the WILCO teams. startups, loan of honor, innovation, fundraising, Open Innovation, FrenchTech, Digital, Healthcare, Industry, Health, Fundraising, Fundraising, Acceleration, ETI, Large Groups, Corporate, and Intrapreneurship

Business France is the national agency for the internationalization of the French economy. It is responsible for the international development of companies and their exports, as well as prospecting for and welcoming international investments in France. It promotes the attractiveness and business image of France, its companies and its territories. It manages and develops the V.I.E (Volontariat International en Entreprise). Created on January 1, 2015, Business France is a merger of UBIFRANCE and the AFII (French Agency for International Investments). Business France has 1,500 employees located in France and in 70 countries. It relies on a network of public and …

Sectors: National and local authorities