LaunchPad - INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship

40folds

Founder: Rares Rusu (MBA'09D)
40folds is an automated board advisor - the "AI management consultant" who understands the key drivers behind business performance and is able to provide world class advice, grounded in the company's own data and business knowledge. 

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Arts Mind Connections

Founder: Vaiva Kontrimaite (EMC'43)
Arts Mind Connections was created from the belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to specific places or audiences. Guided by this belief, we bring museum-quality art into everyday spaces through innovative presentation, design visual experiences that deepen engagement with art and support wellbeing through research-grounded curation.

Botnes

Founder: Moad Larabi (MIM'26) 
Botnes is an AI-powered platform that helps SMEs find the right industrial robot for their needs. Through an intelligent diagnostic, we match companies with vetted manufacturers and guide them through the entire automation journey.

Costory

Founder: Gregoire Blond (MBA'17)
ORMEX is the first digital platform in France, based on blockchain technology, helping farmers to calculate the carbon emissions that can be stored in their agricultural soils through regenerative practices, and then sell their carbon credits at a fair price to big industrial group and mid-size companies, willing to offset their carbon impact.

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Citera Tech

Founders: Cigdem Demirel (GEMBA'12)
Citera is the AI copilot that brings Lean discipline and your organisation's hard-won experience into every critical decision. Teams see risks earlier, eliminate waste, solve problems faster, and stop paying twice for the same lesson.

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EkologgIA

Founders: Eric Houdet (EMBA'22)
Turning documents into intelligence AI products (Homapi-Docapi) for regulated and complex industries

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Energie Partners (EP)

Founder: Vamo Soko (BFC'20)
Energie Partners (EP) is developing a digital, AI-enabled maritime platform designed to manage and optimize a fleet of vessels operating in Guinea and Senegal and Cote D'Ivoire.

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FlexUp

Founder: Fabrizio Nastri (EMBA'06)
FlexUp is an ecosystem that helps startups grow through fair collaboration. It combines an innovative economic model, a business management platform, and a network of partner services.

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Metavonics

Metavonics delivers the first open modular avionics platform specifically tailored to eVTOLs.

PetsGo!

Founder: Aline Andrelo (GEMBA'24)
A revolution in pet care, PetsGo is an innovative ecosystem that combines centralized digital pet records, personalized care services, travel support, and an integrated marketplace. We leverage AI and a B2B SaaS model to empower owners and veterinary providers to deliver smarter care, enhance pet well-being, and create positive social impact.

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Sifra Energy

Founders: Xuelu Wang (BFC'23)
Sifra Energy is a France-based climate tech startup specialized in second-life EV battery repurposing and intelligent energy storage systems. We extend battery life through whole-pack reuse, fast pulse-based SOH diagnostics, and AI-driven health monitoring, enabling safer, lower-cost, and more sustainable BESS deployment. Our mission is to accelerate the circular economy of electric mobility and unlock scalable energy storage for industrial and renewable applications.

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Tortley

Founder: Valerio Roriguez Robledo (GEMBA'25)
Tortley is a complete ecosystem designed to support your child's growth and development in a thoughtful and healthy way. In a world where we are constantly pressed to buy more, it can be hard to know what is best for them. Tortley helps you focus on the right things at the right time.

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Laboris

Founder: Camille Chauvin (MBA'23D)
Laboris is reshaping how legal intelligence is accessed and understood. Laboris is building the next generation of legal intelligence: a platform that combines trusted AI answers with document-level semantic search to reduce friction, errors, and time spent interpreting complex laws.

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Lumaverse

Founder: Ece Cakmak (MBA'19J)
Lumaverse builds screen-free audio products that support young children’s emotional and cognitive development, with a focus on imagination, confidence, and self-expression. Its first product, Luma, is an interactive audio player for kids, offering stories, music, and lullabies without screens or Wi-Fi.

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Monconseiller.ai

Founder: Isiaka Ganiyu (MBA'25J)
Home-ownership powered by AI - Monconseiller.ai help first-time homebuyers in France make better decisions faster using an AI copilot that clarifies the homeownership journey, provides step by step support, and prepares bank-grade mortgage application files.

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PinPoint Exploration

Founder: Hugo Scherrier (MBA'25D)
AI company that locates natural resources (oil, gas, geothermal, critical metals, c02 storage locations…)

PROPCONEX

Founders: Javier Gonzalez (EMBA'09) & Rafael Codina
"Simplify, track and enhance commercial asset performance creating a unique product to unify operational tasks and financial activities for global commercial property management industry. We streamline communication between commercial tenants, managers, and suppliers through voice-to-action, text-to-action, and image-to-action, while unifying internal communication systems and billing/accounting.  Adapt market and open source technology to specific proprietary AI agents enabling users to save time, automate repetitive tasks, increase operational capacity, and optimize all processes."

SeldonIA

Founder: Clement Rabourdin (ECOO'25)
SeldonIA provides on-premises AI solutions for enterprises that want to leverage AI without sacrificing data control or cost predictability. We deliver a private, enterprise-grade AI platform—similar to a private ChatGPT—augmented with secure knowledge retrieval and a marketplace of specialized AI agents. No cloud dependency, full data sovereignty, and predictable pricing.

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Vinsight

Founder: Michael Falkenstein (MBA'26J)
Vinsight applies AI and drone-based imaging to give European wine producers parcel-level intelligence on their vineyards, turning aerial and multispectral data into yield predictions, grape variety classification, and early disease detection. We replace slow, sampling-based vineyard scouting with a software-led system that reads the whole estate block by block, with Portuguese and French producers such as Sogrape as our first target customers.