To exist, you had to elbow, on January 29, in the vast Bercy reception room. That evening, Emmanuel Macron, the Minister of Economy and Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State Digital, had invited representatives of the French Tech for a ceremony full of greeting fervor and complicity.
A few weeks ago, this little world hurtling at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to show off its latest high-tech inventions, often obscuring the ads American and Asian giants present. With a touch of pride, Axelle Lemaire discusses the recent one of the great American popular newspaper USA Today , devoted to the French innovation. And she surely had to pinch seeing The Economist , usually follower of French bashing, be the apostle of the French Tech – with entrepreneurs, investors and researchers – seriously refreshes image Digital France.
At the same time last year, the French high-tech champions had just been brought to the baptismal font of the same CES. Fleur Pellerin godmother. Today, Nicolas Dufourcq, General Director of Bpifrance, great financier of the Digital France, do not hesitate to speak of “Silicon Valley to the French.” American consecration took place several weeks after the certification by the government nine metropolitan French Tech in November, hoping that infuses all the “digital spirit.” “The wealth of France is its territories,” proclaims Axelle Lemaire, pushing the idea of a “digital Republic.”
Funding adapted
Lille Montpellier, the mutation is fast and deep. The eco-system is changing in size, and attitudes are changing: “There are four or five years, entrepreneurs dreamed up a box of 50 or 100 million euros. -Today, They cultivation billion, “says Paul-François Fournier, director in charge of innovation Bpifrance. Nevertheless, access to finance is to democratize -present everywhere in France.
On January 26, the bank startups presented its transformation plan, Nova, to simplify processes and to support entrepreneurs in their journey. And to better serve the disciples of the French Tech, it sets up a range of financing supposed to serve all the needs of entrepreneurs at different stages of their development. Of the purse of 30,000 euros loan innovation, through the boot loan or advance system, all the details of the offers contained in a small yellow book, published specially for the occasion, which describes the new philosophy the bank. put innovation at the center
Initiated by Fleur Pellerin, Axelle Lemaire deployed by the French Tech initiative will undoubtedly helped to oil the wheels of a sickly mechanics. Philippe Collombel, co-founder of the fund Partech International is also a great publicity stunt: “The French Tech is the best remedy against French bashing”. Paid for the nine newly labeled cities to transform the test.
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