Agoranov

What they do

Agoranov is a public Science & Tech incubator that provides mentorship, office space, funding, and consultancy services to startups. The company is based in Paris. Agoranov has supported more than 380 startups that have already created more than 7,000 direct jobs and raised €700 million from private funds. Among them Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), Anevia, Biophytis, Gensight and Pixium listed on Alternext, or Aldebaran, Dataiku, Doctolib, Point Vision and Ynsect. Agoranov, founded by the Universities Pierre and Marie Curie and Paris-Dauphine, Ecole Normale Supérieure, ParisTech, and INRIA, is supported by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education, the Ile de France Region, the City of Paris and the European Social Fund. Agoranov provides its 60 incubated with personalized support, a state-of-the-art acceleration program, quality accommodation in the center of Paris and a rich community of several hundred entrepreneurs.

What they look for

Agoranov’s mission is to transform innovative scientific and technological ideas into viable, high-growth businesses. They focus on bridging the gap between public research and the private sector by connecting technical founders with world-class academic, technical, and financial resources. They explicitly look for early-stage, highly innovative, science- and tech-driven projects (DeepTech) across three core verticals: Industry & Greentech, Digital, and Health, favoring academic spin-offs, patented technologies, and founders with strong technical or scientific backgrounds.

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed

Sectors

Deeptech, Healthcare, Climate, SaaS, AI, Food and agriculture, Fintech

Based

Paris, FR