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Idea Center
Idea Center
Innovation | Digital & Data | Entrepreneurship | Acceleration
The HEC IDEA Center has recently been created to enhance HEC's reputation as the leading European Business School for Entrepreneurial and Digital Innovation, meeting the aspirations of a new generation of students and the needs of businesses. As well as overseeing the coordination of the Business School's programs, the IDEA Center runs an innovation laboratory for developing cutting-edge ideas and it will soon have a research center dedicated to data science.
Key Facts
400
projects supported each year
100%
of students sensitized to entrepreneurship & innovation
+40
years of entrepreneurship program
32
StartUp Launchpad Projects supported per year
65
start-ups currently hosted at the HEC Incubator
40
HEC Challenge+ innovative projects trained each year
Success Stories
Behind every great idea is a great entrepreneurial team. Discover our success stories.
Nathalie Gaveau is the founder of Shopcade and the General Manager of Lagardère Active Shopping. She was also the co-founder of PriceMinister that was sold to the Rakuten Group in 2010 for $250 million. BACKGROUND Shopcade was founded in 2011 in the...
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet was the founder of PriceMinister.com in 2000. He left PriceMinister.com in 2014 and has subsequently established two investment funds, ISAI and Kernel Holding Investments. BACKGROUND PriceMinister.com was founded in Paris in...
Céline Lazorthes is the founder and CEO of the Leetchi Group, which has more than ten million users in over 150 countries! BACKGROUND Created in 2009 by Céline Lazorthes, Leetchi.com is a secure web service that provides a fun and easy way for people...
Events
News
Part of the HEC Incubator Spring 2018 Batch, the startup Fintecture, co-founded by Faysal Oudmine (H2009), is disrupting traditional bank card networks.
Running out of ideas for the holidays? Here is a list of original gift ideas from our HEC Paris start-ups and companies.
For the very first time, HEC Paris and Netexplo welcomed a group of over 160 managers from major corporations to the HEC campus in Jouy-en-Josas, on Tuesday, December 10th and Wednesday, December 11th.
nr2 is the first French company to win the K-Startup Grand Challenge, a global start-up competition organised by the South Korean Government. Trained at HEC Incubator (Winter Batch 2019), the data project...
On November 14th, the FORUM HEC CHALLENGE + took place on the HEC Paris campus. This event marked the closing of the 2019-1 promotion
The 6th edition of the Blue Ocean Awards took place the last Thursday, November 7. This was the occasion to reward two startups distinguished at the HEC Seed event: Liebr and Tarmac Technologies
Transform your idea into a company with high potential! Join HEC CHALLENGE+ , a proven Business Support Program that will enable you to acquire very specific knowledge and skills to design a well-thought...
The weekend of November 16, 2019 was the final of the Michelin Campus Innovation, HEC Paris' Corporate Partner, in Clermont-Ferrand.
One year after its launch, the French startup Cuvée Privée, founded by 3 young alumnae entrepreneurs, Aurélie Berthon, Morgane Suquet and Marie Forget, graduates of HEC Paris and passionate about wine...
ViiBE, the Web technology of remote assistance designed for contact centers has successfully completed a €1.2M Seed round.
HEC Paris, together with the Ile de France region, supports the leaders of the up and coming companies in inclusive social entrepreneurship by offering them the benefit of a tailor-made programme to...
On Thursday, June 27, majamaja, the autonomous French-Finnish housing solution for sustainable land development projects discreetly took place in front of Station F!
For the third consecutive year, HEC Innovation, the Alumni community in Silicon Valley has mobilized to support our most promising start-ups in the HEC network. On Monday 24 June the Awards were presented...
On Tuesday June 11th, the last Final Jury of the MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs batch 2018-2019 took place in the premises of the Medef, in Paris
Last Thursday was held the HEC Challenge Plus Forum, the traditional final jury of the current promotion rewarding the best business plans! Three projects were awarded.
HEC Incubator closes a deal with Urban Odyssey, the urban start-up studio by Icade to co-create start-ups with passionate entrepreneurs and reinvent the city of tomorrow.
For the third consecutive year and for three days, HEC Paris was represented at VivaTech, an international convention for start-ups & leaders, co-organized by Publicis and Les Echos.
A record number of participants enjoyed the 2019 Seed Entrepreneurship Summit on April 30 this year focusing on “investing in good”. The second edition at Station F “was bigger, broader and younger,”...
The HEC Incubator launches its new call for application: join one of the largest entrepreneurship network at Station F!
Call to innovative & early stage startups from the HEC ecosystem: $25,000 prize to be won.
The Start'HEC student club organized a unique technology trip to Israel. 17 students left for 6 days during the February break to discover Israel's formidable entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem.
After the very successful experience of Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux who tested their Italian Big Mamma catering concept on the HEC Paris campus in 2014, it is now Fadel Bennani (H19) and Othman...
The 2019 X-HEC Entrepreneurs master is in Silicon Valley! The LEX - or "Learning Expedition" is a study trip that takes place just after the final jury of the development mission and lasts one week.
We have already presented you with 4 projects out of the 8 that joined the HEC Incubator on the 3rd of January. Today, meet the other 4 new projects that are currently benefiting from a tailor-made...
Read this interview of Cyprien Geze, H2014, CEO of Toutes Mes Aides, a french startup enabling people to search for all the social benefits and subsidies they are eligible for, thanks to an Artificial...
Data Soluce, the fast-growing start-up hosted at the HEC Incubator gets the French Tech Brest + Pass
The HEC Incubator presents its Winter 2019 cohort : 8 selected projects that are currently benefitting from a tailor-made program at the heart of Station F.
Learn more about Alain, his background, his links to the HEC Community and his promising start-up!
HEC Paris signed in January 2019 a partnership with Ecole de Guerre to share a program involving mixed teams of students from both schools.
The Mercure HEC 2018 awards ceremony took place last month, January 23rd in Wework Lafayette, with the support of Banque Populaire.
The Region and its partners support through this program the major players in a more inclusive and sustainable Parisian economy.
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