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ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION CENTER
A comprehensive and unique system serving innovation
The entrepreneurship & innovation center of École Polytechnique supports students, researchers, project leaders, entrepreneurs, companies in structuring, developing and accelerating their technologyprojects. Thanks to the support provided, startups are able to plan for their future development in an environment of excellence.
The Drahi X-Novation Center, which is open to everyone, allows technology project leaders and very young companies, as well as more mature ones, to benefit from Ecole Polytechnique's leading position in science and technology.
Our mission is to meet all the needs of innovation players with an incubation program and a booster program for VSEs/SMEs. We also promote open innovation with large companies, host projects and events in our co-working spaces and support hardware projects in our 1,000 m² FabLab.
The X-Up incubation program made us concentrate on sales issues which were critical for our project to be marketed. The program helped us set key targets to be reached during the incubation period. The Ecole Polytechnique network is extremely valuable in accessing the market and talking to leading executives in all industry sectors.
We joined X-Tech Booster. We came here for office space but we got so much more than that. Staff are very engaged in our project development and we attend lots of workshops on prototyping, accountancy, legal issues and so on.
Being able to produce a prototype is critical for any company with a hardware component. Without it, you would end up spending your time hunting down resources in various places. Here, we are lucky enough to be able to do everything in a single location and we really have all the materials we need for a first prototype.
When we joined the Ecole Polytechnique Innovation Center in 2017, we were a team of four and had about €100k. When we left a year and a half later, we had raised more than €6m and there were more than 20 of us. We went from a small, early-stage project to a series A startup with its first prototype.
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