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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center

Our Center supports innovators and entrepreneurs from all walks of life! Whatever your profile is, we will help you grow with ambition, efficiency and impact!

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Discover the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center

Within the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, we have set up an unparalleled concentration of entrepreneurial energy! Whatever your profile is, a start-up in its infancy or a unicorn, SME in acceleration or corporate in transformation, Social or environmental entrepreneur, whether you come from Paris, Séoul or New York, if you are driven by the desire to move the lines, we will help you grow with ambition, efficiency and impact! Find the fast-tracks to success. Grow beyond what you thought you could.

Make it happen Make it big!

482

startups supported in 2022
168 Tech Startups

100

social and environmental projects

800+

business experts

€1,9B

raised by HEC Paris entrepreneurs in 2022

of the leading unicorns worldwide were founded by HEC Paris alumni

+40%

of the cofounders of startups supported by the Incubateur HEC Paris in 2022 are women

Fundraisings 2021

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News

Sep 22, 2023

Incubateur HEC Paris: Welcome to the Autumn batch!

The Incubateur HEC Paris has just welcomed its September batch made of 12 startups. What makes this batch so special is the selection of five startups coming from one of our acceleration programs: the HEC...

Doers to Doers Paris Saclay Spring - Vignette

Jun 28, 2023

Entrepreneurial acceleration as the year draws to a close

What's happened over the past two months at the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center? As the academic year draws to a close, the Center offers a retrospective of its flourishing activity. Here's...

Jun 26, 2023

HEC Paris marks its place in the French Tech 2030 promotion with 25 winning companies

The French Tech 2030 program has just announced the list of 125 winning companies, including some from the HEC Paris community. This government index aims to promote forward-looking technological and...

Jun 16, 2023

Meet the 2023 finalists of the WomenEntrepreneurs4Good program

The 10 finalists' projects of the WomenEntrepreneurs4Good program have just been announced. The Women's Forum for the Economy & Society, in collaboration with HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship...

May 22, 2023

Jaafar Elalamy, portrait of an entrepreneur passionate about Mobility and Data

The Media, Real Estate, Retail, and Smart Cities sectors can now rely on SEIKI for their decision-making. How? By trusting the latest company founded by Jaafar Elalamy, a passionate entrepreneur who aims...

Apr 28, 2023

New Spring batch ready to flourish

Congratulations to the startups which made it to the Incubateur HEC Paris! The Spring batch, composed of eleven startups, has just been selected and will start their program at Station F on May 5. With...

Mar 28, 2023

Demystifying the VC Bootcamp: When students take the lead

Our students never lack creativity! At HEC Paris, we teach them how to become problem solvers but also disruptors. Amine Athamena checks all the boxes. He created in just a couple of months a whole...

Mar 17, 2023

The French Tech Next40/120, a promotion committed on all fronts

The 2023 promotion of the French Tech Next40/120 program has just been released. And once again this year, HEC Paris is pleased and proud to discover the exceptional results of the winning startups, and...

Mar 01, 2023

Spotlight on the Lab2Biz Grand Jury, the highlight of the HEC Paris MBA Entrepreneurship Track

Every program or specialization at HEC Paris has its momentum. Since 2014, for the MBA Entrepreneurship Specialization, it is the Grand Jury - the chance for the student participants to showcase the...

Incubateur HEC Paris 2023 Winter Intake vignette

Jan 24, 2023

12 new startups ready to reach the next level at the Incubateur HEC Paris

With new startups joining the Incubateur HEC Paris comes even more acceleration potential! This month, 12 startups have joined our flagship program at Station F with the hope of making both their...

Jan 17, 2023

Giving Back to Egypt to Develop Fintech Talent in Cairo

For their very first interview of the year, the HEC United team takes us to Egypt to meet up with one of our Executive MBA alumni, Rama El Safty. Working for the Central Bank of Egypt, Rama has been...

Jan 16, 2023

The class of 2022-23 of the Master of Science X-HEC Entrepreneurs has reached a new milestone!

The recent Entr'aide 2 seminar in the Jura region of France marks the end of a pivotal period for the 120 students of the Master's program, with a week of testimonies and reflections on the vision of...

Dec 05, 2022

Bringing innovative Beauty and Health services to the Middle East market

If you like successful entrepreneurship stories, you may enjoy the story of Elsa Aoun and Wassim Kari, brought to us by HEC United. HEC United is a student-led project, which allows current HEC Paris...

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2022 France

Nov 07, 2022

Join the world's largest gathering of innovators and entrepreneurs

HEC Paris is taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week, the movement that celebrates entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial spirit, from November 14th to November 20! For its fifteenth edition, the event...

CDL Space - International Astronautical Congress - Sept. 2022 - Group Photo

Oct 18, 2022

Space Startups in the HEC Paris Starting Blocks

HEC Paris’ first-ever European CDL Space Stream – co-organized by the HEC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center and the Creative Destruction Lab, CDL - is set to start on October 20. A taste of the...

Events

Dec 08

2023

An Introduction to Contextual (Stochastic) Optimization

11:15 am

Jouy-En-Josas

English

Information Systems and Operations Management

Speaker: Erick Delage (HEC Montreal)

Room Bernard Ramanantsoa

Dec 07

2023

Joseph A. Clougherty

1:30 pm

Jouy-En-Josas

English

Strategy & Business Policy

Speaker: Joseph A. Clougherty

Professor - UIUC

Conference Jouy-en-Josas T015

Feb 06

2024

AG du futur: on the road to post-growth

7:00 pm

Paris

French

Nearly 5 years after the first edition of the "AG du Futur", we are delighted to once again partner with Prophil for the second season on February 6, 2024, at the Théâtre des Variétés. Following season 1 dedicated to the mission-driven company, Prophil has chosen a theme as exciting as it is divisive: the path of post-growth and the new narrative of value.

Success Stories

Behind every great idea is a great entrepreneurial team. Discover our success stories.

BACKGROUND Founded in 2014, DAMAE Medical offers a medical imaging device capable of examining biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level, through simple contact with the surface of the skin. This innovative optical technology allows...

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...

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...

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...

François Pelen is the co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Groupe Point Vision. The company boasts 23 ophthalmologists centers in France, and hopes to expand to 50 over the next five years. Background Almost 6 out of 10 French people have, at one...