Discover INSEAD LaunchPad
The INSEAD LaunchPad is our first alumni start-up accelerator, and it is located inside the world’s largest start-up campus – STATION F in Paris. More than just a workspace, alumni-led start-ups from all sectors and industries can take their ventures to the next stage through LaunchPad events and connections, and the many resources in the STATION F ecosystem. The LaunchPad actively promotes the vision of a connected global INSEAD start-up community and raises the profile of Paris as a leading centre for entrepreneurship.
Peter Zemsky
Deputy Dean, Dean of Innovation
Professor of Strategy
The INSEAD LaunchPad Program
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Key Dates
Intakes twice per year starting in January and July.
Application deadline: 30 November
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Start of January Intake: 3 January
Eligibility
Startups founded by INSEAD alumni that are ready for or have a MVP. All industries are welcomed and at least 1 INSEAD alum must be onsite at STATION F.
INSEAD LaunchPad @ STATION F
Residents
Getkey
Getkey is a real estate platform which allows vendors to optimize their property visibility, increase the accuracy of potential buyers and reduce fees.
Cocentris
Softomaton is a low code solutions that provides automated high standard codes for the most recurring features in a developer's work. Foundation is delivering e-government products and services.
Digitaika
DIGITAIKA develops automate.video. Create and share videos in minutes by converting automatically your presentations, documents, audio recordings into engaging online videos.
Smarter Plan
SmarterPlan is a technology platform offering two products based on 3D digitization of real estate and cultural heritage sites: Building Intelligence 3D, for real estate portfolios and facility management, and immersive virtual tours for cultural institutions.
Headline
Information impacts your life. HEADLINE is a multimedia platform connecting content producers and audience for in-depth journalism.
Automi
Automi is an edge computing platform for factory automation.
Bien Sûr
Bien Sûr is developing France's first fully digital and automated self-storage centres.
Sama Sidekicks
Sama Sidekicks offers parental assistance to busy parents of toddlers and preschoolers through curated inspiration and reduced admin work.
Tremau
Tremau is a technology start-up focused on developing innovative solutions to assist actors across the digital industry mitigate their regulatory and operational risks.
NBS Factory
The NBS factory is the ESG-Yuka for Brands. It evaluates how brands ESG activities are perceived by their external stakeholders, and advice on improvements by allowing them to adjust their portfolio of products, of services, their communication & marketing to inspire positivity and change towards a better consumption.
Streeme
Streeme.io is a SaaS career and job search coaching platform. It helps business schools digitize their career development journeys and centralize all their tools and resources in one place offering their users a digital experience.
Ormex
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.
Metavonics
Metavonics delivers the first open modular avionics platform specifically tailored to eVTOLs.
Carom
Carom is a mobile app that empowers professionals to socialize through real-life member-hosted experiences.
Nabook
Nabook is the streaming reading platform that converts children's screen time (7 to 14 yo) into reading time through an engaging experience.
Mundo Novo
Mundo Novo designs, develops and sells pourover coffee machines that replicates the pourover process while allowing users to customize their recipes.
Curto News
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we access and consume content, and Curto News is embracing AI as an essential tool to democratize quality journalism. We will develop AI-powered tools for producing and consuming content.
Cloud Fence
Cloud-fence helps organizations boost their Cloud Security and Visibility in minutes by seamlessly bringing Cloud Network Security and Continuous Posture Management into the same dashboard.
Optistream
Optistream proposes an innovative solution to help CIO, Business & CISO to jointly steer cybersecurity at strategic level : balancing security, economics & performance.
Taqa Me
At Taqa.me, we are on a mission to make MENA healthy through personalized nutrition.
Ultra Motors
Ultra Motors builds a sustainable hybrid-electric truck with a 1,400km range. (The vehicle is fuel-agnostic and works on electricity, hydrogen, biogas, methanol, and other zero emission and carbon-neutral fuels and features an unrivalled life of 2 mln km and lowest cost of ownership. Each vehicle cuts 100 metric tons CO2 emissions per year.)
The Team
Professor of Strategy
Nancy Hsieh
Executive Director, INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship
Valérie Demay
INSEAD LaunchPad Programme Manager
Co-founder, Propertyfinder Group
Head of Strategy – France, Amazon Web Services
General Manager, Equisign and ActionCapital Private Equity
Partner, Alpha Capital and 3T Capital
Professor of Information Technology
Professor of Strategy
Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Senior Affiliate Professor of Marketing
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Strategic Management
Professor of Economics
Affiliate Professor of Economics
Professor of Decision Sciences and Technology Management
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
