Start-up Creation

 

Start-up creation is a privileged way to rapidly transform research into innovation.

The technology companies stemming from INRIA

The technology companies stemming from INRIA are bringing products based on INRIA research prototypes to industrial standards or are spreading the Institute's know-how. Since the creation of Simulog in 1984, the first company to come out of INRIA, more than eighty other companies have followed its example. One of the most significant successes is that of ILOG, a world leader in software components that is listed on the Nasdaq and the New Market.

In 2007, 9 companies were started :4D View Solutions, ActiveEon, Intuitive Machine, Milpix, MoveNPlay, Realtime-at-Work, Scalable Graphics, Siderion Technologies,Technosens. As a whole, the corporate gains and inventory for these companies resulted in gross sales of over 145 Meuro, and count near 1,500 employees.

Creations in 2007 4D View Solutions ActiveEon Intuitive Machine Milpix MoveNPlay RealTime-at-Work Scalable Graphics Siderion Technologies Technosens

INRIA supports technology company creation

By encouraging individual initiative of all its scientists

Whether they are researchers, engineers or young PhD graduates, INRIA supports technology company creation by all its scientists through a privileged access to its networks and its specialised subsidiary : INRIA Transfert.

Moreover, staff researchers and engineers may benefit from the very auspicious provisions of the French law on innovation and reserach. Young PhD graduates who have prepared their thesis within the INRIA may benefit from company creation grants by the Institute.

By structuring its action within the framework of a specialised subsidiary : INRIA-Transfert

INRIA Transfert, specializes in guiding, evaluating, qualifying, and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies, with the goal of identifying the best projects and promoting their development.

INRIA-Transfert is interested in projects whose technology comes under the field of INRIA's expertise, whether or not they originate from the Institute.

At the end of its guidance and evaluation process, INRIA-Transfert qualifies the best company creation or development projects by assigning the Pertinence IT ® or Croissance IT ® label. The companies with label become ipso facto members of the INRIA-Transfert Club.

INRIA-Transfert was founded in 1998, as a corporation with capital stock of € 195 million, a wholly owned subsidiary of the INRIA.

By promoting seed-capital financing

I-Source Gestion, whose primary shareholder is INRIA Transfert is the leading French capital investment organization specialized in seed-funding of innovative companies based on information and communication technologies.

INRIA-Transfert, as sponsor, is one of the top subscribers to each of the four funds managed by I-Source Gestion - I-Source 1 & 2, C-Source and T-Source-which today total some € 100 million.

INRIA created I-Source Gestion in 1999, in the framework of a close partnership with AXA-Private Equity and CDC PME.

By working in partnership and networking

INRIA and INRIA-Transfert have built close relationships with various French an European players in the field of creation of technology companies (financial organizations, venture-capital funds, manufacturers, incubators, support and advice organizations…).

INRIA and INRIA-Transfert have also permanent concern for promoting networking between companies whose creation or development was supported by INRIA, in the framework of the assembly of technology companies stemming from INRIA or the INRIA-Transfert Club.