🏝️ Terra incognita, the trip of a lifetime
Entrepreneurship is a journey. As you sail through the years, carried by headwinds and new opportunities, you reach uncharted land
🏝️ Terra incognita, the trip of a lifetime
📖 A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in men everywhere. He said: “They have a propensity for laziness.” To others, it seems that he should have said: “They are all fearful. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.” Nietzsche
At the crossroad of cultures, we discover the unknown and we begin our journey.
Openness to the world and to experiences is fundamental to revealing our full potential. If tomorrow you go to a country that is exotic to you, how can you adapt without opening yourself up? When I reach the end of the world, how can I move forward where the sea disappears? The journey cannot be without the discovery, it cannot be in the laziness of immobility.
Today, cultures travel and live in harmony. Today, we can become this harmonious community and thereby succeed, succeed better than the secular, better than the closed ones. Today we conquer the unknown .. perhaps if we have the courage.
Entrepreneurship is a journey. As you sail through the years, carried by headwinds and new opportunities, you reach uncharted land, a land thats yours, far away from your goal but where the air is fresh. Embrace the journey, be the traveler.
With nostalgia I remember our Korean entrepreneur friends, the travelers, I remember lunches with them at La Felicita, I remember Monday breakfasts with them and I remember working with them. More than anything I remember that they left last week but I also remember that we will see them again soon, that they will come back and that this is just a goodbye.
The richness of fragility 💎
💗 For the fifth consecutive year, the HEC Foundation participates in the global day of solidarity and generosity, "Giving Tuesday" on 29 November. You too join this movement to celebrate donation in all its forms.
🤝 What are the links between diversity and performance in startups? An analysis of more than 5000 startups by HEC professors Thomas Astebro and Carlos Javier Serrano
🎙️ **I’m The Voice Of The Vulnerable : How can society be more inclusive? Why does promoting diversity matter for individuals and businesses? Listen to HEC professor Matteo Winkler on HEC’s Podcast : Tomorrow is our business
🔥 Our Future 40 startups 🔥
Station F just released their Future40 list of the most promising companies on campus! 🏆
⭐️ This year, the Incubateur HEC Paris is proud to announce that 7 of its startups are among the Future 40:
🧠 Clarity Digital brain clinic, that provides digital solutions to help patients and families undergoing dementia and brain disorders.
🍎 Alpagga, the marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling of used professional equipment in the food industry.
💰 Fygr that makes monitoring and forecasting your cash flow easier than ever.
🎥 Jamble (YC 2022) is creating a fashion resale marketplace powered by short videos and live streaming
♻️From our agritech program with Hectar:
🌱 Alvie that supports farmers in their efforts to optimise the use of plant protection products
💄 From our beautytech program with L’Oréal:
♻️ IMPACT Plus which is measuring and reducing the environmental impact of digital advertising.
🧬 CREW³ is helping companies understand, activate and grow their tokenized communities
✨ The art of femininity✨
🎨 The Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel hotel is exhibiting the works of the new generation gallery Artpoint, specialist in digital art.
We are very proud to have Laure Bonin and Julie Corver at the Incubateur HEC Paris at Station F. What a pleasure to see digital art being born in the heart of Paris thanks to them. Each month, discover the video art works of four of the most cutting-edge digital artists of the moment on the sumptuous wall of screens located in the lobby.
⭐️ Don't hesitate to go and live this immersive artistic experience, led by two avant-garde businesswomen. Welcome to the future.
⭐️ Women’s Forum Global Meeting
♻️ Yesterday we came to support Canari, Ost, Nelson, FINGREEN AI, 38-60, Mercati & More, Impacti SDG, terr-estre, AI for Sustanability, Seeds of Colour, Fix That Shirt for their pitch at the Women's Forum for the Economy & Society Global Meeting!
🏆 Where FINGREEN AI was awarded the jury’s prize, and Nelson the People’s Choice by Marlène Schiappa, Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner and Inge Kerkloh-Devif. Congratulations!
A community at the forefront of female entrepreneurs support
🏆 The French Women Entrepreneurs 40: In parallel with the Future40 list, we have launched with the Women's Forum and BNP Paribas, the first ranking of 40 French growth companies run by women, and we will support the winners.
🤝 Inge Kerkloh-Devif, Senior Executive Director at the d'HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center on **female leadership** and how women can reveal their entrepreneurial potential
⭐️ Brighter Ventures’ article on why procurement is a critical enabler for women-led startups with high growth potential
A little spotlight never hurt anyone ✨
Our community recent achievements 🏆
📖 An article from our partner Woog&Associés on “How to protect the shape or appearance of a product” in French Law
🧬 Nature’s Fynd found a micro-organism theoretically capable of feeding a large part of humanity. The food of tomorrow?
💚 Yacon&Co raised funds to integrate 300 organic retailers by 2023 🌱and to grow its first 30,000 yacon plants in Vichy
⚡️ Quandela Partners with French Energy Company EDF for Simulating Hydroelectric Dam Structures
🚀 The Creative Destruction Lab launched in partnership with Toronto’s Rotman School and Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, a nine-month programme with 40 start-ups as it seeks to lend scientific space research an entrepreneurial perspective.
📺 ”L’entretien HEC” welcomed last week Nicolas Dufourcq, Director General of BPI France to talk about the entrepreneurial ecosystem on TV
⚡️ The Creative Destruction Lab is recruiting
Creative Destruction Lab is our deeptech program at HEC Paris. They are helping international entrepreneurs on topics such as Climate or Space, by connecting them with world-class mentors and scientists through in-person and online sessions.
The CDL is currently looking for an intern to help the team on events and session operations, and with the relationship with the ventures founders. Don't miss out!
Join the community ! Where is your dream job? 🎯
Revyze is looking for its new Growth and Community lead to help high-schoolers have a totally different approach to learning!
OneFlash team is growing! Change retail one battery at a time by entering one of their 8 different position.
Phagos is looking for 4 scientific profiles to help them build evolutionary pharmaceuticals
Nudj wants to build the first brand of plant-based alternatives made from 100% natural ingredients. You can join them by entering one of their 4 different positions.
Crew3 is building the most powerful platform to analyze, engage and scale tokenized communities. They are hiring on 4 different positions.
Ynstant is looking for 4 different profiles able to help them develop the first instant carpooling application.
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