Crédit Agricole is the French economy’s leading financier and one of the top banking operators in Europe. As a leader in retail banking in Europe, the Group is also the leading European asset manager, the first bank insurer in Europe, and the third largest European operator in project financing. On the strength of its cooperative and mutual insurance foundations, its 154,000 employees and 27,000 administrators of local and regional banks, Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, useful bank, serving 54 million customers, 11.8 million mutual shareholders and 800,000 individual shareholders. Thanks to its universal retail banking model – the close …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Bank

Veolia is the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. With nearly 220,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and energy management. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and replenish them. In 2021, the Veolia group supplied 79 million people with drinking water and 61 million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 48 million megawatt hours of energy and treated 48 million metric tons of waste. Veolia Environnement (listed …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Energy

[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region includes 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the leading port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength that allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in France (8.5%). …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Come discover and explore the future at LUDyLAB! #Fun&Learn A fun laboratory accessible to all! Driven by the desire to invent the future, to be a Pioneer of change, the LUDyLAB is more than a place, it is also a way of understanding the world in process mode LivingLab (living laboratory) Located in Chambretaud (Vendée - 3 minutes from Puy du Fou), the LUDyLAB is a fun exploration laboratory open to all (from 12 years old) and dedicated to new technologies promoting high-tech innovation and social innovation You will be able to experiment there: • The Indoor …

[Automatic translation follows] Rural innovation booster 📍 The Campus des Champs du Possible - Village by CA in Châteaudun (28) is dedicated to rural innovation in response to the challenges of our territories. 🎯 Agritech, mobility, attractiveness, tourism, transitions, health, housing are all areas in which rurality has many challenges to overcome. 🚀 The villages by CA are innovation acceleration mechanisms for startups and businesses in the territory. The Campus des Champs du Possible has various missions: - Animate the agriculture sector of the future - Encourage the emergence, experimentation and success of projects in the territory through innovation - …

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

[Automatic translation follows] Promote and support the emergence and development of innovative solutions from farm to fork. Food is a major challenge today. How to help people eat better is a real problem, as is knowing how to feed the population in 2050. Thus, the FoodTech network aims to promote a diet based on the triptych of pleasure, responsibility and accessibility. For us, digital technology, new technologies and more broadly innovation are remarkable ways to move towards this vision by contributing to agricultural and food transitions, and to the evolution of practices. Our mission: to promote and support the emergence …

Sectors: French Tech Media

A competitiveness hub dedicated to developing impactful solutions for the future of mobility ID4MOBILITY has the ambition of supporting local project leaders to design, develop, test and industrialize high-impact solutions for the future of land-based mobility, in all its forms: vehicles, mobility services, transport infrastructure and the mobility industry. Contact: contact@id4mobility.org or 02 52 59 59 19 Innovation, Automobile, Mobilité, Machinisme Agricole, Ville intelligente, Engins off road, Business, Performance industrielle, and Usine du futur

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster Research

[Automatic translation follows] The French Tech Vendée aims to unite all the players in the Tech sector in the Territory and attract talent 🚀 The FrenchTech Vendée Community aims to unite all the players in #Tech in the Territory, to make it a source of growth and development for businesses and to create an attractive dynamic to attract new talent

Sectors: French Tech

[Automatic translation follows] Loading the future Images & Réseaux is the leading competitiveness cluster for digital innovation in the Pays de la Loire and Brittany regions at the crossroads of technologies and uses. From projects to products or services, it stimulates and supports innovative economic players in their collaborative research and development strategy (large groups, SMEs, ETIs, research laboratories, clusters, startups, etc. regional and international). competitiveness cluster, innovation, digital, technology, Tech, Responsible digital, and Réseaux

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

La force du premier réseau d’innovation francophone. Formation - Incubation - Accélération - Financements - Corporate. 1K aims to become the largest french seed accelerator, funding and developing 330 projects a year, for first time entrepreneurs. Located in 11 cities in France, Belgium and Switzerland, it will open its first offices, Lyon and Bordeaux, in summer 2015. Formation, Incubation, Accélération, Financements, Corporates, Services, Startups, PME, ETI, Grands Comptes, Transformation digitale, Innovation, and Entrepreneuriat

Accompagner les champions de la croissance écologique Demeter is a major European player in venture capital, private equity and infrastructure for the energy and ecological transition. Its funds invest from €1m to €30m to support companies in the sector at all stages of their development : innovative startups, small and mid-cap companies, as well as infrastructure projects. The Demeter team counts 38 people based in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Madrid, and Düsseldorf, manages €1.3bn and has completed 230 investments over 17 years. Cleantech, Venture Capital, Growth Capital, Infrastructure, Agtech, Transition écologique, Private equity, Impact investing, Economie circulaire, Industrie 4.0, Winetech, and …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Europe's Startup Builder | Startup Programs, Corporate Innovation Programs, Co-working & Offices EuraTechnologies, The Financial Times' number 1 startup/tech hub in France, and top 30 in Europe, stands as one of the largest startup incubators on the continent. Annually, we serve hundreds of startups and enterprises, generating thousands of jobs and facilitating fundraising efforts that have surpassed half a billion Euros for our startups! ➡️ Follow our LinkedIn page for access to the latest news, resources, and inspiration in entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology! STARTUP PROGRAMS We have developed 2 programs tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs: - The incubation program …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

#VivaTech is Europe's biggest startup and tech event. 📍Paris | June 11-14, 2025 Viva Technology is Europe's biggest startup and tech event. We accelerate innovation by connecting startups, tech leaders, major corporations and investors responding to our world’s biggest challenges. VivaTech is where business meets innovation.

Sectors: Trade show