Plasana Medical, founded in 2022 by Yves Matton, an entrepreneur in the Technofounders startup studio, and co-founded by Antoine Rousseau, Director of Research at the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*) at École polytechnique, has won recognition for its innovative cold plasma technology. This innovation earned the company a place in Le Point's Palmarès des Inventeurs 2025, a prestigious award for entrepreneurs whose technological advances are transforming everyday life.
Co-founded by Antoine Moissenot (X2014) and Alexandre Pasquiou (Centrale Supélec, PhD in neuroscience), Neuralk-AI specializes in structured data AI, a new field of AI research and application. The Deeptech start-up, housed at Station F, has raised $4 million from investors.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE START-UP. Philippe Le Borgne, co-founder and CEO of RunBlind, has a multi entrepreneurial background in different fields such...
The founders of two start-ups incubated at École Polytechnique’s incubator, X-Up, took part in the European Venture Program organized once a year as part of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, which includes École Polytechnique. This year’s edition of this entrepreneurship boot camp took place from August 2 to 9, 2023. It embarked the participants on a journey to discover the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
Gustave Ronteix (X 2014), leader of the Orakl project (1st prize), Léonie Schröder (Télécom SudParis), leader of the HUVY project (2nd prize ex aequo), Hugo Weidmann (M 2021) and Alexander Dmoch (M 2022), leaders of the Noctua Care project (2nd prize ex aequo) won the 2023 Bertrand Pivin Awards. They were rewarded for their innovations in the healthcare field, which the jury choosed to highlight this year.
Launched in 2020, Polytechnique Ventures is the venture capital fund financed by École Polytechniqu’s alumni and dedicated to the School’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. With nine investments already made, it aims to build a portfolio of 15 to 20 investments in the deep tech field within two years.
Edmond Baratte, a recent doctor from the Plasma Physics Laboratory, is leading a project combining plasma technologies to produce methane from carbon dioxide in the most carbon-neutral way possible. Thanks to funding from SATT Paris-Saclay, the aim is to design a prototype showing the process's efficiency
The start-ups included in the 2023 Next40 /FrenchTech 120 lists were unveiled on February 19th. Ten of tte 40 Next 40 start-ups were created or co-founded by École polytechnique alumni. One out of five French unicorns - start-ups valued at more than $1 billion - also originated from the X entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.
The Engineering for Health (E4H) Interdisciplinary Center of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which École polytechnique is a founding member, is opening a new creative and collaborative space dedicated to bioengineering projects’ prototyping.
The 2023 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, the world's largest tech exhibition, took place from January 5 to 8 with a smaller delegation of French start-ups, including three young companies supported by the Drahi-X Novation Center, the incubator of the École Polytechnique, as well as Valeo's R&D center, which has been working on safer, cleaner, smarter mobility for several years.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE START-UP. Philippe Le Borgne, co-founder and CEO of RunBlind, has a multi entrepreneurial background in different fields such...
After the success of Ilog, created in 1987 under the aegis of INRIA and then bought by IBM, Pierre Haren (X73) co-founded Causality Link, a start-up that uses AI and machine learning to better understand the causal links between various economic indicators and market events. Pierre Haren, a start-up pioneer, explains why he decided to get back into the start-up game and draws some lessons from his experiences for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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