[Automatic translation follows] A new chance for a person, a new life for a book. Collective Interest Cooperative Society. "A 2nd chance for a man, a 2nd life for a book." PDF Print Send This could be the slogan of Book Hémisphères. Both an Association under the 1901 law and an Integration Company (known as AEI), Book Hémisphères collects, sorts, and then redistributes used books of all kinds and types. As such, it is a player in the social and solidarity economy (known as ESS). It has a triple vocation: * solidarity and social: in addition to its two permanent …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech greentech

AN ENTREPRENEUR INVESTOR AT YOUR SIDE IDI is a listed investment firm – true pioneer of investment in France – that has been focusing for over 45 years on supporting the development of small and mid-sized companies. IDI invests in French and European companies valued between € 10m and € 250m and typically takes majority or significant-minority stakes in LBO and Growth Capital transactions. As an institutional and independent investor benefiting from a robust financial structure – free of structural debt – IDI has greater flexibility in managing the timeframe and structure of its investments. IDI is notably a shareholder …

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] Human and Capital SOFIOUEST is an investment and holding company that invests in digital innovation, development-transmission capital and corporate real estate. In addition to taking stakes in companies, SOFIOUEST invests indirectly in seed or growth funds. It has an asset base of approximately 130 million euros. SOFIOUEST's shareholders include the SIPA-Ouest France Group (51.26%), Crédit Mutuel Arkea (11.48%) and individuals from the historical shareholder families of Ouest France. The purpose of SOFIOUEST is to contribute to the influence of the SIPA Ouest-France Group through a humane and socially responsible investment, in line with the values ​​of the …

Type: Incubators & VCs

FRENCH MANUFACTURER OF PROFESSIONAL KITCHEN EQUIPMENT SINCE 1947 European leader for the production of catering equipment, Roller Grill makes you benefit of its 65 years experience in this field, thanks to two production works in Bonneval (France), a distribution network over 100 countries around the world among which: - over 200 distributors - over 20 OEM’s for the equipment manufactured by Roller Grill under the OEM brand name - over 50 Food and Distribution companies or Franchises - Cash & Carry in more than 20 countries With a dynamic commercial policy, a perpetual spirit of innovation and a high quality …

Type: SMB Activities: foodtech industry 4.0 manufacturing

[Automatic translation follows] European mutual insurance and risk management group specializing in healthcare and regional stakeholders. Anticipating today to protect tomorrow. At Relyens, we are much more than an insurer, we are a risk manager. Managing, preventing and insuring risks is our commitment to more effectively protect healthcare and regional stakeholders in Europe. Alongside them, we act and innovate in favor of an ever safer general interest service for all. Relyens has 1,100 employees committed to serving healthcare and regional stakeholders in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium. To secure their activity and guarantee the quality of services delivered to …

Type: Large company

[Automatic translation follows] In France and the Maghreb, PwC develops consulting, auditing and legal and tax expertise missions for organizations of all sizes and in all sectors of activity. With more than 6,000 employees, our multidisciplinary teams combine their expertise within an international network of more than 328,000 people in 152 countries. PwC France and Maghreb's strategic ambition is to become the benchmark player in building trust and sustainable business transformation, in line with the PwC network's global strategy, The New Equation. For more information, visit: https://www.pwc.fr/ You want to join us: https://carrieres.pwc.fr/fr/ Fraud alert We draw your attention to …

Type: Large company Technologies: Cybersecurity

[Automatic translation follows] For a greener planet and a more fraternal society. Recycling means transforming waste into raw materials, giving a second life to what we would have tended, yesterday, to consider as definitively useless. With its 300 sites in 10 countries, Paprec is part of this approach every day by collecting and processing waste from industrialists and communities to make new so-called secondary raw materials. An ecological and economically viable activity, recycling has become an industrial profession requiring major investments to meet the innovation challenges imposed by the treatment of more diverse waste. Thus, in almost 30 years, Paprec …

Type: Large company Activities: greentech

[Automatic translation follows] "Let's increase performance, let's invest tomorrow!" A partner of unlisted companies, Ouest Croissance has specialized for over 20 years in capital mobility operations and the financing needs of growing companies. A leading player in private equity in the Greater West, we offer managers financial solutions to support the major stages of a company's life - reclassification, transfer and development. Ouest Croissance's objective: to create long-term value for managers and shareholders. Financial expertise, Capital Development, Equity investment, Capital Transmission, MBO, LBO, and Capital Investment

Type: Incubators & VCs

Growing with direction. Early stage investor in regenerative inspired companies. Ternel is a venture capital firm committed to empowering tech companies that positively impact major societal themes. We focus on restoring and enhancing the planet's resilience, promoting individual and community well-being, and strengthening community bonds. Ternel is backed by Capital Croissance, the €1b entrepreneurs' club platform. Join us in shaping a sustainable and thriving future.

Type: Incubators & VCs

Early stage VC investing € 300k to € 2m in innovative startups. Karot Capital is an early stage VC investing € 300k to € 2m in innovative startups. Natural inclination towards Deeptech, Health and Behaviour Changes in Consumers' habits. We offer our investments direct and rapid access to decision-makers in the sectors they aim at transforming. Try us, also happy to coinvest. @Induo @Toosla @Sevessence @Bone3d @Waamcosmetics @Isybot @BLB @Champerche @Fairmoove @Cook-e @ArcheonMedical @U-Space @MatchaWine @bem.builders @kareg @Insiteo deeptech, health, consumer, web3, seed, seriesA, software, and digital

Type: Incubators & VCs

Private Equity company backing Industry 4.0 transformation & decarbonation challenges French-based private equity company, backing technological manufacturing companies in their Industry 4.0 transformation Industrie du Futur, Industry 4.0, Digital transformation, Manufacturing, Private Equity, Merger and acquisition, Décarbonation, ESG, Environnement, and Sustainability

Type: Incubators & VCs

Entreprenez L'avenir. / Certifié Great Place to Work - Acquérir, financer, valoriser et céder votre entreprise. In Extenso Finance est un acteur de référence dans le conseil en stratégie et ingénierie financière et dans l’accompagnement et la conduite d’opérations de cession, acquisition, financement et Equity Capital Market pour les PME et leurs dirigeants. Reconnu comme un des leaders français du Small market, In Extenso Finance accompagne les entreprises cotées et non cotées, de 1 à 100 millions d’euros de chiffre d’affaires et a réalisé plus de 1000 opérations de fusions et acquisitions. In Extenso Finance est une entité du groupe …

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] FrenchFood Capital is an independent, expert and entrepreneurial Growth Capital fund, strongly committed alongside its investments to support the emergence of French food champions in France and internationally. It invests in SMEs and mid-caps in the food sector that have strong brand value by meeting new consumer uses and expectations. Managed by a team of professionals recognized for their sector expertise and entrepreneurial experience, FrenchFood Capital has brought together a vast network of operators, entrepreneurs and experts to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies. The fund, whose Management Company is approved by the Autorité des Marchés …

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] Non-dilutive financing levers Advice and expertise in non-dilutive fundraising (public and private financing): Innovation, Investment, International. Established in Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille and Lille. Each year, more than 1,000 new companies trust us with just as many clients who call on us again. We work on the long term with each company, because the overall financing strategy must be built over time. innovation support, international support, search for public financing, tax optimization, bank financing, international, impact financing, and calls for projects

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] Reinvesting in the regions! Épopée Gestion is an investment company co-founded in 2020 by Ronan Le Moal and Charles Cabillic whose mission is to develop the regional economy by providing long-term support to regional companies mainly based in the West of France. Épopée Gestion aims to "reinvest in the regions" and create regional champions through an inclusive investment ecosystem that is structured around four complementary investment sectors: innovation and digital (West Web Valley I and Épopée West Web Valley II), SME / ETI transitions (Épopée Transitions I), sustainable real estate (Épopée Immo Rendement I) and infrastructures participating …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: it services

[Automatic translation follows] Tomorrow's economy is everyone's business What's the economic news saying this week? Every Thursday, find Challenges, your French economic weekly, on newsstands. Challenges is also a website and social networks on economic news in real time. Follow and share economic news with the Challenges editorial team*

Type: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Relaxed accounting! 👉Join a group of 550 shakers who have been shaping together for 25 years a pragmatic and responsible accounting, payroll and tax experience for entrepreneurs and real estate investors. 🔹Amarris Groupe relaxes the daily lives of 23,000 independents, managers of VSEs/SMEs and real estate investors, by providing them with a reinvented accounting and management experience! 🔹How? By uniting all the talents of our employees spread across France and in our international subsidiaries. Start-up us? Hmm, not really. Accounting firm? Hmm, not really either. We were born in 1999 under the leadership of Claude Robin, our …

Type: SMB Activities: legaltech fintech hrtech Technologies: SaaS

[Automatic translation follows] The products & services platform dedicated to wealth management consulting La Financière d'Orion was created in June 2009 around a specific founding axis: Human and Innovation. Human reflects the simple observation of the profession of wealth management consulting in France. The salaried CGP enjoys real professional security but at the cost of a heavy pressure of objectivity to manage and lives with the awareness of the work not always well done. The CGPI (Independent Wealth Management Consultant) fully enjoys his real freedom but finds himself hindered and isolated in the face of the change in his market. …

Type: SMB Activities: fintech Technologies: Cybersecurity

[Automatic translation follows] The leading news, everywhere, all the time, by the editorial staff of Le Monde. LeMonde.fr has been on the Internet since December 19, 1995, 51 years to the day after the creation of the paper newspaper. The site and its mobile applications are among the most consulted in France to follow the news in real time (international, economic, political, social, ...) Leading news website in French. Journalism, Media, Online press, Written press, Internet, Video, and Ethics

Type: Media

The experience and flexibility to ensure local expertise reaches global potential We are global M&A and financial advisory professionals, determined to help ambitious entrepreneurs and evolving companies reach their full potential. Oaklins has advisory teams in 40 countries around the world, each highly successful in their region. As we are an 800-strong group of committed professionals, with eyes and ears on the ground locally, our clients have access to potential buyers and sellers everywhere — from Stockholm to Shanghai, from New York to São Paulo. Through our cross-border collaboration, we close the best and most suitable deals for each client, …

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] A leading player in auditing and consulting Nexia S&A, a player in auditing and consulting, provides relevant solutions to its clients in the accounting and financial fields and supports them in implementing them. At the heart of our success, more than 500 employees, including 48 partners, committed to 3,500 clients at all stages of their development on audit, accounting and financial management consulting missions. Its teams have acquired solid international experience and support their clients, with the members of the Nexia network, in most countries on 5 continents. Audit, Transaction Services, Accounting and Taxation, Foreign Desk, Consolidation, …

Type: SMB Activities: fintech Technologies: Cybersecurity

Develop your online business Publisher of e-commerce solutions in Europe, Oxatis provides more than 3.000 B2B and B2C SMEs with a platform to develop their online business. The company, with its 150 employees, is established in five European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom). e-Commerce, SaaS, Cloud Computing, SEO, SEA, SEM, Design, m-Commerce, Social Commerce, Marketplaces, Places de marché, UX, Connexion ERP, Connexion PIM, and Connexion CRM

Type: SMB Activities: it services e-commerce martech Technologies: SaaS

[Automatic translation follows] The Trusted Investor BNP Paribas Développement, an autonomous subsidiary of the international banking group BNP Paribas, is a public limited company that directly invests its own funds to support the development of successful SMEs and ETIs and ensure their sustainability by facilitating their transfer, as a minority shareholder. Venture Capital, Shareholding, Transmission, Innovation, Manager, Investment, and Equity

Type: Incubators & VCs

[Automatic translation follows] Between us, life Created in 2009 by Daniel Caille, Vivalto Santé has become one of the major players in hospitalization in Europe. It is made up of a network of 100 healthcare establishments spread across 6 countries (France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic and Slovakia) in which nearly 6,000 practitioners and more than 21,000 employees work. In France, Vivalto Santé has 53 establishments; making it the 3rd largest player in private hospitalization. For more than 12 years, Vivalto Santé has experienced significant growth thanks to its acquisition strategy. The Group draws its attractiveness from a unique business …

Type: SMB Activities: healthtech Technologies: Decarbonization

[Automatic translation follows] As close as possible to everyone Want to join our teams and support our customers and members in their life projects in the best of times... as in the "hard times"? Crédit Mutuel du Sud-Ouest present in Charente, Dordogne and Gironde, is a cooperative and collaborative bank, partner of a world that is built over the long term. We contribute to this by putting our overall performance at the service of financing territories and their stakeholders in order to increase the range of possibilities and help everyone to achieve their goals. The banking and insurance professions are …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: fintech insurtech

[Automatic translation follows] The insurance partner of construction professionals. Mutual insurer of professionals in the Building and Public Works sector, Auxiliaire offers entrepreneurs a complete range of professional insurance for construction companies (civil and ten-year liability, construction equipment insurance, professional premises insurance and operating losses, cyber risk insurance, etc.). We also insure risks related to people in the construction sector through Auxiliaire Vie (savings, retirement, pension, insurance of conventional obligations, etc.). Craftsmen, Building or Public Works Contractors, Construction Engineers, BET or Architects, do not hesitate to contact us to benefit from our expertise! Professional insurance for construction, Ten-year Liability, and …

Type: SMB Activities: insurtech

Innovons pour demain. Since its creation in 1998, Ingeliance is an engineering company focused on expertise and innovation. Our development strategy is built on a strong proximity with our clients which allows to offer them reactivity, agility and efficiency required for the success of their projects. Ingeliance’s success rely on its capacity to mobilize its collaborators in the growth dynamique and rising value chain, along with attracting new talents. Ingeliance intervene in various industrial sectors such as: Aeronautics, spatial, defence, naval, energy, transport, equipment ... and service industries such as: Administrations, banks, insurances, distribution, logistic centers... You will find more …

Type: SMB Activities: industry 4.0

[Automatic translation follows] Your thin and thick thermoforming solution We have been giving shape to your ideas since 1979 As a specialist in plastic thermoforming in sheets and coils, RBL designs your custom plastic solutions. We produce the specific part you need, in compliance with your technical and aesthetic constraints: - Quantities: from small to large series - Materials: abs, pc, pe, peek, pet, pmma, pp, ps, pvc... - Dimensions: production of parts up to 2660 x 1750 mm and from 0.2 to 15 mm thick - Customization: screen printing, pad printing, painting, thermo-sheathing (leather effect, wood, metal...) Our complete …

Type: SMB Activities: industry 4.0 Technologies: New Materials

Cabinet d'avocats pluridisciplinaire au service des entreprises, des personnes publiques et des particuliers. AVOXA is a Business full service Law Firm established in Rennes, Nantes, Brest, Lorient, Paris and Lyon. AVOXA is now gathering more than 80 associates including more than 50 lawyers having an established practice in the following areas: Corporate & Structures, Tax, Contracts, IT & IP, Labour & Employment, Public, Real Estate, Competition, Commercial & Trade Litigation and Civil Law. As an integral feature of AVOXA’s expertise, AVOXA organizes and coordinates a specific multidisciplinary team (Lawyers, Legal Advisors, Engineers) for each project. AVOXA ensures sophisticated legal support …

Type: SMB Activities: legaltech proptech

Construire et réparer pour la mer About PIRIOU Involved in shipbuilding, repair, naval engineering and services since 1965, PIRIOU specializes in producing vessels up to 120 m with high added value through a combination of high-performance engineering and a global network of industrial sites in Europe, Africa and Asia. With over 460 ships built and delivered worldwide, PIRIOU provides bespoke solutions as well as a complete range of standardized or customized vessels that satisfy the equirements of international shipowners, whether they be private or public, civilian or military. construction navale, réparation navale, and ingénierie

Type: SMB Activities: constructiontech

[Automatic translation follows] Finding the best talent for our clients and the best professional opportunities for candidates 🤝 FAB Group (www.fab-group.fr) is a recruitment and interim management consulting firm. Our role is to find the best talent for our clients and the best professional opportunities for all the candidates who trust us. Since 2007, we have been supporting our partners and talents with an approach based on 3 pillars that have made our reputation: trust, expertise and growth. We place people at the heart of our thinking, making sure to take each project into account individually and setting up real …

Type: SMB Activities: fintech hrtech insurtech proptech Technologies: Cybersecurity

[Automatic translation follows] Promoter and player in the Crédit Agricole Group's Capital support IDIA Capital Investissement (IDIA CI) brings together the Crédit Agricole Group's national minority private equity activities and supports mid-cap companies and SMEs from all sectors of activity with recognized expertise in the agri-food, wine-growing, and energy transition sectors. IDIA Capital Investissement supports the Crédit Agricole Group's networks and subsidiaries. In 2019, IDIA Capital Investissement created CA Transitions, the first proprietary banking investment fund dedicated to energy, agricultural, and agri-food transitions. With €160 million, its aim is to invest in energy transition companies, in agri-food companies transitioning to …

Type: Incubators & VCs

The world's platform for change. Change.org is the world’s largest tech platform for people-powered, social change. More than half a billion people across more than 196 countries use our technology-driven petition and campaign tools to speak up on issues they’re passionate about. Approximately 70,000 petitions are created and supported on our platform every month, with 1.7 million new people joining our global network of users every week. People on Change.org have powered tens of thousands of campaign victories worldwide, and more are winning every week. Every day, our users collaborate to organize on local, national and global issues; hold corporations …

Type: Startup Activities: civictech martech Technologies: A.I. A.I. - Machine Learning Data Analytics

Solutions for a Regenerative Economy, Impact with us: quadia.ch Founded in 2010, Quadia specializes in direct impact investments, though equity, debt and funds. In line with its mission «we finance the solutions for a regenerative economy», Quadia targets companies which have positioned their strategic development on products and service that contribute to a regenerative economy. These transformative companies operate in the areas of clean energy, sustainable food and circular products & materials. Since its creation, Quadia has financed over 40 companies, projects and investment funds for the equivalent of EUR 200 million. Quadia is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Impact Investing

Type: Incubators & VCs

Business media Since 1919, the IJ magazine has been a weekly economic, legal and tax information magazine. Authorized by the Loire-Atlantique prefecture, it includes, in each of its publications, legal announcements: transfers of funds, transactions, commercial information, public markets. A veritable mine of information for the business. économie, fiscalité, annonces légales, marchés publics, ventes aux enchères, vie des sociétés, entreprise, Juridique, droit des sociétés, droit commercial, and conseil aux entreprises

Type: Media

[Automatic translation follows] La Cravate Solidaire is a recognized association of general interest created in Paris in January 2012. Its objective: to facilitate access to employment for people in professional integration or reintegration by fighting against discrimination linked to appearance. Its mission: to offer a suitable outfit (suit, tailor, shoes, belt and accessories) and advice from human resources specialists in the workshop to properly prepare the candidate and put all the odds on his side the day of his interview. La Cravate Solidaire is also a solid team of volunteers: more than 20 image consultants and nearly 40 human resources …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: hrtech