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“As a greentech it’s always very healthy to be challenged – thank you to the incubator and its partners for enabling Holis to strike the right balance between sustainable development and business development!”
“Budees is a strategy and innovation consultancy specializing in object design. Thanks to the personalized support offered by the Descartes incubator and its mentors, we have benefited from strong backing to develop our offering in its markets. This has meant strengthening our planning skills. Our presence at the incubator gave us credibility and enabled us to become part of the local economic fabric.”
“The Descartes incubator has always supported us through sometimes difficult times; we particularly appreciated the legal and financial advice, as well as the contacts with the ecosystem and institutional support, which were greatly facilitated. The IGEU honor loan we obtained also enabled us to build up our start-up capital.”
“Getting off to a good start is crucial in this kind of highly competitive market, and DDI’s support has been decisive since our creation in 2018. In particular, it has enabled us to discuss the management of our license with the Société d’Accélération du Transfert de Technologie, to work in depth on our business model, and during the search for associates and the first recruitments.”
“Our incubation gives us access to quality support, including project monitoring, advice tailored to the problems we face in developing our social company, and essential networking to reach the right people and publicise our missions, all in a friendly place that allows us to exchange ideas with other entrepreneurs.”
“Incubateur Descartes is a strong companion for start-ups. We particularly appreciate the staff expertise, the workshop variety and relevance, the large network of contacts and, in addition, the modern and spacious premises. We are particularly grateful to the Incubator for facilitating access to interesting and adapted financing.”
“Incubateur Descartes helped us to transform our idea into a viable project. Thanks to the incubator, we were also selected by the CCI to exhibit for one day on the CCI Paris Ile-de-France stand at the VivaTech trade fair in June 2021. This allowed us to participate without taking any risks or worrying about profitability.”
“As part of the work on the Grand Paris Express metro in the Eastern part of the Paris Region, the Incubator offered a real opportunity for us to set up in a location as close as possible to our customers. We received genuine technical and logistical support from Fablab Descartes, who were able to assist us in producing our prototypes within very tight deadlines, typical of underground projects work where drilling machines operate 24/7.”
PHILIPPE MARIMOUTOU, FOUNDER - SENSAR
“Having no training in the field of business creation and management, Incubateur Descartes’ tailored support (training, coaching, networks) has enabled us to acquire key skills for our start-up management and development. Access to various financing (loans of honour, grants) has led to the launch of decisive projects.”
ALEXIS MAINGAUD, FOUNDER - SIGHT-O
“Vestack has greatly benefited from the support of Incubateur Descartes. The team is particularly available and pays attention to its entrepreneurs. It is fully mobilised to support them in the early stages of their project development and to provide them with the benefits of its experience in project structuring, financing and innovation. The Incubator has an ambitious positioning on themes that are dear to us, and we in particular share the desire to create sustainable buildings and cities.”
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Sabrina Albeyrak, Executive Director
ARBITRYUM
Yen-Sur Nguy, President
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Camille & Benoît Losset, Co-founders
INÖUQA
Cyprien Cambier, Co-founder
GROWSTERS (previsouly LES BLOBS)
Alexis Lemey, Nicolas Silvani & Mathieu Legeay, Co-founders
LUDOTECH
Benjamin Bajal, Cofounder
MAPETITEMAISONVERTE
Pauline Koch, Founder & CEO
SITOWIE (ALUMNI)
Nicolas Guinebretiere, Co-founder
VESTACK (ALUMNI)