The incubator
Start-ups will be housed in the Saint-Germain-en-Laye campus.
First-time entrepreneurs : entrepreneur student, entrepreneur teacher-researcher or researcher, intrapreneur
Young innovative companies in a growing stage and experiencing a change of scale (launch of the first prototype, hiring of the first employee, transition to industrialization, etc.)
Support in 6 modules
Objective : To support first-time entrepreneurs in all areas of business creation. This program is tailored to the maturity levels and needs of entrepreneurs.
Description :
- Analyze your market and conduct a strategic study / Validate your value proposal.
- Validate your business model and build your business plan / Validate your governance model
- Define your distribution channel, succeed in your sales campaign, learn how to monitor your sales, manage your sales meetings
- Define your marketing strategy and succeed in your digital communication
- Financing your business, securing a bank loan and raising funds
- Develop and manage your company: hire your first employee, develop team loyalty
- Monitor your activity: define your KPI’s.
Objective : To assist the company in prototyping its solution and validating it with a panel of “early adopters”. Support the company in the industrialization of its solution, the structuring of its supply chain, the implementation of a talent recruitment policy and international marketing.
Description :
- Prototyping and testing
- Industrialization
- Supply chain consolidation
- International sales (in partnership with Business France)
- Recruitment and retaining talent / Support in finding funding through regional, national (PIA4, France 2030, BPI) and European (Horizon Europe) calls for projects
- Support for international expansion.
Objective : Challenge the technological project and the innovation carried by the incubated entrepreneur, by experts in the company’s field, based in international research laboratories or in partner companies.
Description :
- Sponsorship by a research laboratory
- Access to research platforms to prototype the solution
- Coaching by a scientific expert in the field
- Coaching on issues specific to tech entrepreneurship.
Objective : This module intends to train entrepreneurs who have to decide, lead, create, solve, collaborate and act by putting at the core of their strategy the design of their offer and their organization.
Description :
This module will allow incubated companies to benefit from the vicinity of professional designers and the student community (engineering-designer students, designers, engineers) to develop field research, student projects (1 to 8 weeks) or internships focused on the company’s needs.
Objective : To address the issue of social and environmental responsibility from the very beginning of their project. This module aims to make incubated projects more resilient, attractive and sustainable.
Description :
From the start of their incubation, the entrepreneur will set out a strategy to improve the impact of their project and build an action plan in the following areas :
- Company’s mission and its systemic impact
- Sustainable and viable impact business model
- Value chain and value distribution
- Governance models and sharing of power and wealth
- Reporting models
Objective : For incubated companies that are sufficiently mature, iXcampus will gather an exit committee made up of investors (funds, industrialists, banks, institutions, etc.) and potential clients for a key meeting for the entrepreneur: the Key Account pitch.
Description :
Presentation of the project to these key accounts. The exchanges during this meeting will serve as a first contact for fund raising as well as for the industrialization/marketing of the featured projects.
OUR HOSTING OFFER
iXcampus meets the requirements of innovative companies that are concerned about their attractiveness. The premises, like the values they embody, are at the heart of future talent recruitment requirements. Before the completion of the new buildings planned for 2025, which will house the second stage of the incubator program, iXcampus Saint-Germain-en-Laye will host its first cohorts in a coworking space of more than 500 square meters. Each company will have access to shared meeting rooms.
The coworking space is organized around social areas and outdoor patios that are genuine meeting places for employees and students living on campus. Bathed in light, each workspace has been designed according to the latest architectural standards and made with fine materials from sustainable sources.
A wide range of services (event spaces, shared meeting rooms, conference center, catering, sports center, parking, 24/7 guarded site, etc.) make up our offer.
To make its region more attractive to young innovative companies, the Saint Germain Boucles de Seine community has appointed iXcampus to run its first entrepreneurial cohort. Support and accommodation are 100% free of charge at iXcampus.
Apply now!
You are an entrepreneur, you are developing a technological project and you want to be involved in an impact-based initiative? You are one of the recipients identified by iXcampus incubator.
The call for project is closed now. Stay tuned on our social media for the next one.
if you are selected by our jury, you will benefit from :
- tailored support from a program manager dedicated to the follow-up of the Saint-Germain Boucles de Seine Agglomeration Community cohort ;
- Accommodation in a coworking space located at the heart of our technological and university campus in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, as well as access to our facilities (restaurant, conference center, sports center, meeting rooms, Fab Lab, etc.) ;
- Support from two mentors : a mentor with scientific and technical expertise and a mentor with entrepreneurial expertise ;
- access to the academic world and public research, allowing you to validate your technological project with scientific experts and to access iXcampus' private and public partners research platforms ;
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