A New Batch, A New Chapter! 💙
The sunny days are back! ☀️ And so are our rays of light: the brilliant new startups joining the Incubateur HEC Paris! 🙃
But What Are They Going to Get?
A new batch is here, bringing fresh energy, bold ideas, and innovations spanning AI-powered care, smarter sales execution, and employee well-being. But beyond the projects and pitches, one question often comes up: What does the Incubateur HEC Paris really bring to the entrepreneurs who join us?
It’s a fair question.
Arthur Tiar, founder of Savoir / Dessiner, recently answered with striking honesty on LinkedIn. Joining the Incubateur isn’t just about scaling fast or chasing growth metrics. It’s about being challenged. It’s about structuring your project, stepping out of your comfort zone, and gaining clarity on your mission.
For Arthur, and many others, what they found went far beyond traction.
It was transformation.
🧠 A clearer, stronger vision
🛠️ Sharper methods
🤝 Entrepreneurial instincts forged through collaboration
🔥 And the power of a rich, supportive ecosystem
Curious to see who’s joining the adventure this time?
Meet the startups shaping the future. 👇
🚀 EAGR - From Strategy to Scalable Sales Execution
Eagr is an AI-powered Go-to-Market platform that unifies strategy, training, and daily sales operations into a single seamless system. By transforming sales execution from guesswork into a repeatable, scalable process, Eagr empowers teams to close deals more efficiently and consistently.
Congrats to Thibault Beauchesne | Gaultier Beauchesne
💸 GetBill.io - smarter Debt Collection with Voice AI
GetBill.io is reshaping debt collection through AI-driven automation, tackling the inefficiencies and high costs of traditional methods. Their solution leverages cutting-edge technologies, including Voice AI, to streamline recovery processes and make debt collection smarter, faster, and more cost-effective.
Congrats to Joachim Mercier | Loreley Mac Donald
👩👧 Yolo - Supporting Working Mothers and Caregivers
Yolo is the first service dedicated to supporting the careers and well-being of working mothers and caregivers. By reducing their mental load through personal assistant matching, Yolo helps them focus on what truly matters — at work and at home.
Congrats to Rebecca Fischer-Bensoussan 🧿 Camille Agon
⚖️ Andy Legal - AI-Powered Support for French Lawyers
Andy Legal is the virtual associate every French lawyer needs. No ego, no delays, just results. It saves legal professionals hours every day by automating case management, billing, and legal drafting through AI.
Congrats to Jean-Bernard Prouvez | Ahmed Regragui | Julien Laurent | Guillaume Dumoulin | Kevin Ribot
💚 GreenLeaze – Turn Products into Subscriptions
GreenLeaze enables brands and e-commerce stores to offer long-term product rentals directly on their website, with insurance included. This subscription model boosts conversion rates, increases average basket size, and builds customer loyalty, all while promoting a circular economy.
Congrats to Hippolyte Bach | Stéphane Richard
🏋️ Hybrid - High-Performance Wellness for Everyone
HYBRID is a new kind of fitness and wellness studio built on a smart, structured method. It makes health, performance, and recovery protocols, once reserved for elite athletes and celebrities, accessible to the general public.
Congrats to Alix Chambaz | Céleste Ancel | Anais Ouzahir
🌊 WaveTech - Fighting Coastal Erosion with Innovation
WaveTech is tackling the urgent global issue of sandy coastline erosion — a growing threat that displaces communities and endangers coastal economies, accelerated by climate change. Through innovative engineering, WaveTech offers sustainable solutions to protect coastlines and preserve ecosystems.
Congrats to Javier Gonzalez Helly
🏥 Siva - Voice Technology to Support Better Elder Care
SIVA is an AI-powered voice assistant designed for caregivers in nursing homes. It transcribes care activities in real time and generates structured reports, helping reduce administrative workload, improve traceability, and support both care quality and funding. As a reminder, SIVA won the jury prize of the HEC Launchpad competition, which granted them access to the Incubateur HEC Paris.
Congrats to Samuel Mesguiche | Ruben Weinstein | Ugo Benazra
🧠 Keez - AI-Powered Compatibility Matching
Keez is an AI designed to assess deep compatibility between two individuals by analyzing their psychology, values, aspirations, personality, passions, and life stories. Its mission: build more meaningful, lasting connections through tech-enhanced emotional intelligence.
Congrats to Flavien PERROCHEAU | Dylan GARINEAUD
🛰️ Hyreveal - De-Risking Natural Hydrogen Exploration
HyReveal develops innovative tools, including measuring instruments and modeling software — for every key phase of natural hydrogen exploration.
Their mission: reduce uncertainty and increase the success rate of hydrogen projects across the energy industry.
Congrats to Jonathan Allard | Viacheslav Zgonnik
NEXT BATCH?
Thinking about joining the next cohort? Hit the “Keep in touch” button to get notified when applications open. (Rumor has it, applications will open on May 12)🤫
Your customers are not telling you the truth:
The Mom Test pt.1
You have an idea. You talk to customers. They smile, nod, and say it sounds great.
You feel good. But are you any closer to knowing if your startup will survive? Talking to customers is not enough. Asking the right questions is everything.
In this two-part session inspired by The Mom Test — the legendary guide to better customer conversations — Gerald Vanderpuye will teach you how to gather honest, actionable feedback without falling into the trap of polite compliments or misleading validation.
📍 Station F
🗓️ Wednesday, May 12 | 6:00PM
👉 Register now
🚀A New Chapter for Pollen Robotics
We’re proud to celebrate the acquisition of Pollen Robotics, an alum of the Meta open source AI program by Hugging Face !
Founded in 2016, Pollen Robotics is best known for Reachy 2, a modular humanoid robot designed for research, education, and AI interaction. With this acquisition, Hugging Face reinforces its vision of making robotics open, affordable, and privacy-focused. 👉 Read the article in “Les Echos”
“We believe robotics could be the next frontier unlocked by AI,
and it should be open, affordable, and private.”
Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face.
🥇 Revolty Wins the Impact Pitch Competition at ChangeNOW
As part of the global summit ChangeNOW, five impact-driven startups from the HEC ecosystem took the stage to pitch their solutions in front of a high-level jury composed of experts from daphni, Capgemini, Hi! PARIS Center, and HEC Paris.
A huge congratulations to Revolty and its co-founders, Mathilde Janicot and Valentin Heuzé, the big winners of the competition!
👉 More information
🎉 Opportunities to join our startups:
Corma is revolutionizing SaaS management by helping companies centralize their software stack, automate access control, and cut unnecessary software costs.
👉 Join Corma | Intern
Hermine is revolutionizing legal AI by helping legal professionals draft faster and more efficiently with AI.
👉 Join Hermine | Intern
Neuralk is enabling companies to build custom solutions that understand and interact with their data.
👉 Join Neuralk | Business Development Representative
Gen Z’s App Store Hack: $15.4M ARR with Zero Funding
Three mobile apps. $15.4 million in annual recurring revenue.
Not a single dollar raised from investors.
This is what a group of Gen Z founders, just out of college, managed to build: a profitable tech business grounded in a solid understanding of the App Store, thoughtful product design, and disciplined execution.
Their 3 apps:
RizzGPT: an AI-powered assistant designed to shine on dating apps.
Umax: a smart image coach that analyzes your personal style.
Cal AI: a nutrition app that decodes your meals from a simple photo.
🔍 A key insight: AI is at the heart of their strategy. These apps aren’t just riding the trend, they integrate artificial intelligence as a real driver of user experience. From generative AI (RizzGPT) to computer vision (Umax, Cal AI), each use is designed to meet simple, concrete, everyday needs, not just to say they use AI. It’s exactly this product-first approach that makes them stand out.
Instead of raising capital, they focused on rapid growth, viral content (with TikTok leading the charge), and constant user feedback. The result: $15M+ in revenue with an ultra-lean team — no VC dependency.
What does this say about our era? A new generation of entrepreneurs is rewriting the rules. They understand the tools, the platforms, and the culture. And they’re proving you can go very far… starting with almost nothing.
le “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen”
Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance
