The meeting between two worlds
For companies, organizations and startups, Innovation Labs are business gas pedals. We strengthen their ability to explore new avenues, experiment with new models, and invest in new businesses.
‘We believe that innovation comes through collaboration and encounters.
Stéphanie Bigeon-Bienvenu
Associate - Impulse Partners
Identify new levers for growth and inspiration
Discover
An international pool of innovative solutions is sourced and qualified to meet the needs of our customers.
Share
Regular meetings, presentation sessions and workshops between partners are organized to discuss the innovation challenges facing each.
Experiment
Innovation projects are launched jointly with some or all of our partners.
Support
Each partner benefits from the advice of innovation consultants for its own needs: collaboration, research, tailor-made advice.
Promote
Participation in an Innovation Lab is guaranteed to reinforce the innovative image of the players and the attractiveness of the sector.
Invest in innovative startups
Impulse Partners also boasts a network of more than 100 investors specializing in the sustainable city sector worldwide, all of whom are partners our customers can rely on for their investment operations.
Impulse's innovation Labs
Your innovation Labs
TotalEnergies - Plant 4.0
EllisDon
Barton Malow
Carbon Climat - SEKOYA
CRH Ventures
EVOLEN'UP
Industrya - John Cockerill
Startups transform the equilibrium
Entrepreneurs develop solutions that are likely to be sources of innovation: new technologies, new services, original business models.
For startups, Innovation Labs are opportunities for acceleration:
3 000
Startups
150
Partners
200
Experimentations
40
InvestmentsWe brought them together
Kompozite + Saint-Gobain
Kompozite is accelerating the low-carbon transition in the construction sector by disseminating environmental data on materials.
Akhantas + Bouygues Construction
The main objective was to optimise and automate the collection process for the various waste streams generated on the site, while identifying any sorting anomalies.
Circouleur + Eiffage - Covivio
Circouleur offers the general public and building professionals high-quality acrylic paints with a reduced ecological footprint.
SiteFlow + Orano
Backed by a team with experience in special works and the nuclear industry, Siteflow supports companies in their digital transformation.
Procivis + Saqara
The Procivis network uses the Saqara solution to optimise their calls for tender. Saqara speeds up referencing, encourages collaboration with unknown companies, and helps to optimise construction costs, which are crucial to project completion.
Hiboo + SUEZ
Faced with environmental challenges, SUEZ has teamed up with Hiboo to reduce its fleet's CO2 emissions by using data analysed via the startup's platform.
The Cross Product + SNCF
SNCF and The Cross Product have joined forces to work on software for the automatic analysis of track geometry using 3D LiDAR data. This pilot project generated geometry analyses in just 30 minutes.
Borobo + Eiffage
BOROBO is a start-up that designs and markets an autonomous robotic transport platform for private individuals and professionals.
Buildots + Leon Grosse
Buildots uses AI and computer vision to improve traditional project management methods, introducing a performance-based approach to construction project management.
Our clients and partners testify
‘For me, it brings 3 things to belong to the Lab:
The first is to be able to continuously monitor the issues that are important to us. It also means having access to a flow of qualified start-ups. Lastly, we're going to be able to give our employees a real sense of culture, so that innovation is everywhere in the Bouygues Construction company.‘
‘What makes the difference is the quality of the management team and the efficient consultants, their agility and responsiveness in adapting to our needs.
Impulse's support has been invaluable in immersing our intrapreneurs in the start-up ecosystem, acting as external mentors to the incubated team and to our internal governance bodies. They challenge us on our internal decision-making and operating methods. Our collaboration is fruitful and leads to the realization of projects.‘
‘Impulse Partners is both consulting and something very pragmatic.‘
"As an engineer at setec we have a lot of technical skills, but we didn't know much about setting up a whole new business.
Impulse's method is very interesting from that point of view. The studio's runs enable us to structure things and have precise objectives with measurable results as the project progresses."
‘We chose to turn to Impulse Partners to help us structure a roadmap that would be consistent with our strategic roadmap, and also enable us to go out and find start-ups that could offer us rapid solutions.’
‘It's a win-win situation, because for the start-ups it's a way of confronting their market. For us, the initial aim was to explore what could be done.‘
‘Sekoya is a French industrial club dedicated to Low Carbon, bringing together players who are contributing, through their capacity for innovation, to the urgent shift towards this new economy.’
‘The aim that we have is actually to be able to take the good ideas from the startups, but then integrate them into these large industrial companies to try and have pilots or tests to see if these ideas can help us with the challenges we have."
‘We were lucky enough to be accelerated at a very early stage, i.e. from 2019 at Upfactor, before our first fundraising round, which enabled us to become known to investors and to be able to try out our message.’
"This was perhaps the best roadway infrastructure event I have been to and I hope Impulse Partners is able to continue this tradition with CRH Ventures as thought leaders in this space."
Join Impulse Partners Innovation Labs
- A team of experts to shed light on your innovation strategies
- An international pool of innovative solutions
- A network of companies to share, exchange and set up projects
- A communication channel to promote your initiatives