The document outlines the initiatives and support systems provided by a French hub for digital and ecological transformation, emphasizing personalized support for startups and SMEs, innovation training, and market assessments. It highlights funding successes and growth of startups, along with events aimed at promoting digital transformation and ecological innovation. The document promotes collaboration among various stakeholders, including professionals and institutions, to enhance the Paris tech ecosystem.

1. The French Hub for Digital & Ecological Transformation
PARIS
Date
March 2019
Author
Jean-Baptiste BINI – Program Manager

3. Members
SMEs &
start-up
Large
companies
laboratories &
universities
Years of
supporting digital
innovation
partners
worldwide
VCs &
Business
Angels
R&D projects of R&D
investment
events organised /year raised by start-up
& SMEs in 2018

5. Support R&D &
Innovation
• Personalized support
• Expert assessment
• Certification of projects
with the Cap Digital label
• Information sessions
on regional, national &
European calls for
proposals
• Partners’ search support
& networking
• Promotion & follow-up
on the members’ projects
Boost startups’
growth
• Pitch training
• Strategy coaching
• Design coaching
• HR & marketing coaching
• Fundraising coaching
• Internationalisation
• Market Assessment
• Market Entry
• Softlanding
• International missions
Promote digital
transformation
• Acculturation events
for top managers
• Open innovation programs
• Data challenges
• Challenge definition
• Startup scouting
• Support to prototyping
Train and
upskill
• Cap Digital Campus
Training on AI, data,
blockchain, VR/AR and
innovation with “doers”
• Jobs of the Future
Monthly meetups to meet
professionals who pitch about
their emerging or evolving job
• EdFab Fablab
Training on the maker culture
and how to use & create a
Fablab
Inspire & share
knowledge
• Market & technology
watch and forecast
• Publications & studies
• Workshops
• Thematic events

6. REVEAL will deliver a web service to investigate the
origin and dynamics of online disinformation
• Detect
• Identify
• Browse
• Analyze online news
In development by

8. 7 high-speed train stations: 19 million passengers
3 international airports: 101.5 million passengers.
Flights to 119 countries and 482 cities
3 ports along the Seine – Paris, Rouen and Le Havre
100 km, largest European port with 92.6 MT of
maritime traffic
20 MT of riverboat traffic in Paris Region

9. Startups with a focus on
Deep Tech, AI, IoT, etc.
Innovation Centers
Incubators &
Accelerators
Coworking spaces
Shared offices Fablabs & Makerspaces
Region in Europe regarding
the number of startups of
The Technology Fast 500 EMEA
French startups in Las Vegas
CES 2018, 2nd world delegation
after the United States

11. Benefits
• Full offset of corporate income tax the first year, 50% the following year
• 7 years offset of employers contribution to unemployment insurance
• Combinable with CIR (Research Tax Credit)
Which conditions
• SME
• Revenues under 50M€
• Created less than 8 years ago
• Independent
• R&D expenses representing at least 15% of tax-deductible expenses

12. of R&D expenses
up to €100 million
of experimentation costs covered with
a cap of 170k€

13. https://parisregionstartups.fr/en/
contact@parisregionentreprises.org

14. Alan
• Created in 2016
• 14 people in January 2018
• Today they have 75 employees
• Recent funding round of €40
million
• Hiring an additional 110 people in
2019
https://alan.eu/

15. Nextmind
• Developed a new way of translating your thoughts
into digital commands in real-time
• Raised $4.6 million in funding to bring its direct
brain command solution to technology integrators
and game developers in 2019
https://next-mind.com/

16. -22.7°C VR takes you on a sensory and
introspective trip in the Far North.
Exploring the sounds of the powerful
but dangerous polar nature, you’ll fall
into your inner world, where you will
have to face your deep emotions and
fears, until you reach a state of
harmony.
http://novelab.net/en/homepage/

17. •
Manufacture des Gobelins - Mobilier National
Attending visitors,
80% professionnals
public authorities, companies
start-ups, researchers, institutions…
to every players from the
sustainable city and digital
ecosystems

19. Our office is located at the hearth of Paris in a
Eiffel style architecture.
We will guide you to discover the Paris tech
ecosystem, get inspired & develop new
cooperation

20. Jean-Baptiste BINI
jean-baptiste.bini@capdigital.com
Twitter: jbbini