Getting airborne

Ensuring your startup is airborne and going in the right direction.

Support

Because the first months of life are fraught with risk.

Booster power

Boosting your business and getting ahead of competitors with startup accelerators.

A territory devoted to experiments

Toulouse and its surrounding area gives companies the possibility of conducting experiments while relying on innovative public-private partnerships.

Lean Start-up Ekito

Lean Start-up Ekito

Lean Startup methodology focuses on the main theories behind positioning: target market, channels of acquisition, value proposition, and price and cost models.

Laboratoire des usages

Laboratoire des usages

Within the scope of Toulouse Metropole's Smart City approach, the Laboratoire des usages facilitates and supports the joint creation of projects for the benefit of users.

Open Métropole, a city devoted to innovation

Open Métropole, a city devoted to innova...

Toulouse Métropole is building Open Métropole, the city of the future, and to do so it has implemented a new Smart City approach. The challenge is to exploit the potential of new technologies, to offer citizens a free-flowing, convivial, attractive and sustainable, high-performance city.

Tex Sicoval

Tex Sicoval

Bringing innovation to fruition in real-life conditions, to access the market faster.

Easier funding for my project

Making it easier for public/private investors and growing companies to work together.

Small business act

Small business act

Signed in December 2014, this Small Business Act charter, which is shared by the City of Toulouse, Toulouse Métropole and Tisséo, is a local growth accelerator and a lever for economic development among SMEs, in the service of local employment.

Major groups

Major groups

One of the challenges faced by French Tech is also to progressively bring together major groups and startups, to facilitate their access to markets on the one hand, and promote innovations on the other.

DIRECCTE, an intermediary

DIRECCTE, an intermediary

Innovation in public procurement is opening up potential markets for startups, and helping to stimulate the development of solutions suited to new requirements in terms of administration. The mission of DIRECCTE's innovative procurement referents is to advise and support ground-breaking companies in their approach aimed at accessing innovative public markets.

Tool : the French Tech Grant

Helping cutting-edge startup projects to mature.

Financed within the scope of a partnership between Bpifrance, the public investment bank and INPI, the National Institute of Industrial Property, the French Tech Grant plan sets out to promote risk-taking among entrepreneurs by providing them with support during the stage devoted to creating innovative companies, and to enable companies with strong growth potential, during their creation stage or shortly afterwards, to make their first disbursements required to access the market after mapping risk factors and securing the strategic dimensions of their project as thoroughly as possible.


Who can benefit?

  • Physical entrepreneurs, including those in sole proprietorship, provided they are supported by an organization (public or private) devoted to supporting innovative projects or startups, that boast structured and sustainable project selection organizations (incubators, accelerators, support networks, platforms, etc.),
  • New companies with real growth potential created less than one year ago, that meet the European definition of Small Companies (companies employing less than 50 people with a turnover or total balance sheet of less than €10M), registered in France, regardless of their economic activity sector (services, industry, digital, etc.).

Tool : French Tech Ticket

Attracting international entrepreneurs in France with an ambitious project.

Launched in 2015, similar to programs in other countries such as Chile or the United Kingdom, and in a context of high talent mobility and competition between international capitals, the French Tech Ticket aims to attract international contractors in France with an ambitious project, in creation or already created.

The program is aimed at foreign entrepreneurs, possibly already settled in France, as part of their studies, for example. The founders can be between 1 and 3 with only one French maximum per team.

 Detail of the reception device:

  •  Funding of 45,000 € per project to cover, as a matter of priority, professional expenses,
  • A 12-month incubation in one of the 41 partner incubators, throughout France, with a mid-term evaluation at 6 months,
  • An accelerated and simplified procedure for issuing a residence permit for winners and their families,
  • A dedicated mentoring and coaching program,
  • A "Help Desk" to assist the laureates in the formalities (Residence permit, financing, taxation, insurance, social security),
  • A practical help to the personal installation (find accommodation, a practical guide to the installation in the city with special offers ...)

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Tool : French Tech Diversity

Promoting social diversity in the French startup ecosystem

Attracting and retaining the best entrepreneurial talents within French Tech is an important lever for its long-term development. The French Tech Diversity program aims to promote social diversity in the French startups ecosystem by detecting, mentoring and supporting the best start-up projects carried out in particular by entrepreneurs in priority neigbourhoods, by scholarship students, etc.
The call for candidates for Toulouse will start in the last quarter of 2017!

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AudioGaming

Audiogaming, the audio synthesis specialist, creates cutting-edge tools devoted to audio activities. It also develops its own technologies aimed at creating interactive experiences in the movie, television and video game sectors. It is one of the Toulouse-based startups to have been granted a French Tech Pass, and enjoys customised support for the development of its activities in Europe and at international level.

AudioGaming

The audio synthesis specialist