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Discover the many facets of entrepreneurship, get inspired by joining our great ecosystem!
Discover the many facets of entrepreneurship, get inspired by best practices by joining our great ecosystem!
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Let's talk entrepreneurship, innovation, positive impact, business, creativity... :
- Accelerateur ESS playlist (masterclass, interviews)
- HEC Stand Up playlist (inspirational interviews, masterclass)
- Incubateur HEC Paris (webinar serie and interviews)
"Let's Talk program", composed of 10 episodes that bring together a young woman entrepreneur and an experienced woman who is the boss or head of a start-up. Pitch, career path, advice during 5 minutes of complicity, dialogue, to allow young women to take example, to start a debate and to share with inspiring women.
Testimonies
Discover the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Ning Li - Entrepreneur
MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs Skydive 2020
News
Space, once reserved for government agencies and elite scientific institutions, is now rapidly transforming into a thriving arena for commercial innovation. As the space industry opens up to private...
From June 11 to 14, Viva Technology 2025 turned Paris Expo Porte de Versailles into the heartbeat of global innovation. With more than 180,000 attendees and 450 speakers, the event reaffirmed its status...
HEC Paris continues to solidify its position as a leading institution for nurturing entrepreneurial champions, as evidenced by our strong presence in the 2025 French Tech Next40/120 ranking. This year's...
Highlights from the 2025 JETRO – HEC Paris International Program: For the second year in a row, the HEC Paris Incubation & Acceleration Center, in collaboration with JETRO (Japan External Trade...
On the eve of each Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) session, the CDL Dinners bring together scientists, entrepreneurs, mentors, decision-makers, and members of the HEC Paris community to catalyze deep tech...
The payments industry is at a pivotal moment. As digital transformation accelerates, a new era driven by deep technologies - including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and agentic AI - is beginning to...
Many concepts can’t be just taught in classrooms, they have to be lived. This is the philosophy behind the MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs: pure ‘Learning By Doing’ and peer learning. The Leadership Seminar at...
What’s it really like to learn alongside the world’s most promising startups? From the classroom to the forefront of innovation, programs like the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) offer students a unique...
India is taking its AI ambitions global… and fast! Through a groundbreaking collaboration with Station F and HEC Paris, the IndiaAI Startups Global Program gives 10 selected Indian startups a unique...
In the race to decarbonize the planet, bold ideas aren’t enough. Today’s climate-solution founders must do more than invent — they must convince, navigate, and persevere through some of the most complex...
What if you could have dinner with some of the most promising entrepreneurs and CEOs from the HEC Paris ecosystem and beyond? Recognizing that meaningful connections are often lost in large networking...
Combining Deep Tech and Sustainability is the winning bet of Neurobus , an innovative startup founded by Florian Corgnou, an entrepreneur whose successive periods at HEC Paris have greatly impacted...
The world of toddlers welcomes a new invention: Fenycare (pronounced ‘funny-care’), the wash basin for children aged 1 to 7. Born from the audacious vision of Yassmina El Fene , an energy engineer turned...
From April 24th to 26th, ChangeNOW 2025 - the largest event dedicated to solutions for the planet - will take place, and HEC Paris will be at the heart of the action! Five GreenTech startups from the HEC...
While AI breakthroughs are happening faster than ever, turning scientific innovation into scalable businesses is rarely straightforward. This is especially true for deep tech ventures working with...
Sucess Stories
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...
HER 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...
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 of Groupe Point Vision. He is an ophthalmologist, pharmacologist, HEC graduate (EMBA.91) and Challenge + professor. After a career in pharmaceuticals that began at Sanofi and culminated in a position as Vice-President...