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On October 14, 2025, at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, France celebrated its future tech champions during the 2025 Innovation Competition awards ceremony. Driven by France 2030 and operated by Bpifrance and ADEME, this competition is one of the most powerful deeptech startup catalysts in ...

STATION F has just unveiled the 2025 edition of the Future 40 ranking, highlighting the most promising early-stage companies on its campus. Once again, startups originating from the HEC Paris entrepreneurial ecosystem are highly represented, accounting for 22% of the entire cohort.

The Mission French Tech has announced the 2025 promotion of the French Tech 2030 program, featuring 80 emerging companies selected for their strategic potential in critical technological sectors. Once again, startups originating from the HEC entrepreneurial ecosystem are strongly represented ...

“Courage: Bold Move for A Better World” was the theme of this year’s Women's Forum Global Meeting, a fitting backdrop for recognizing entrepreneurs who take audacious action to drive real impact. This is exactly the kind of entrepreneurs the Women Entrepreneurs 4 Good (WE4G) program supports ...

Every year, at the start of the academic year, the MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs program begins with an extraordinary experience: the X-HEC ENT'RAID seminar. This year, from September 2 to 6, 2025, the seminar took the new class of 2025-2026 on a five-day expedition to the heart of the Jura Mountains ...

When you hear about circular fashion, what’s the first platform that comes to mind? Vinted? Vestiaire Collective? Now, what about circular fashion in Africa? Probably nothing, and that’s completely normal. It’s still nascent.

That gap is precisely what Fatou Dieng, a fashionista and entrepreneur ...

After 11 intense weeks of ideation, iteration, and a pure early-stage entrepreneurial adventure, the 2025 cohort of the HEC Paris Startup Launchpad brought their A-game for the program’s grand finale: Demo Day. With energy buzzing through Station F and a crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors ...

A visual revolution in the fashion industry is on its way, and it is powered by Veeton, an all-in-one platform designed for the creation of AI-generated ultra-realistic fashion imagery. Why is it a game-changer? Because it addresses the ever-increasing demand for visual content in e-commerce. Is ...

A new wave of energy and electricity startups is joining TotalEnergies On. The startup acceleration program powered by TotalEnergies and HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute through the HEC Paris Incubateur, designed to support innovators driving the energy transition. On September 29 ...

Genomines, a deep tech startup leveraging biotechnology to reinvent the mining industry, has announced a $45 million Series A funding round. Congratulations to the team, whose hard work has brought them to this new milestone! This capital infusion will help Genomines move from laboratory success to ...