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Innovation Servicing Efficiency in Housing
Introduction The current context puts energy sobriety at the heart of the real estate industry's challenges. For several years now, the challenge of designing more sustainable buildings that consume less energy and anticipating their renovation has been a challenge...
Impulse Partners wishes you happy end of the year holidays!
🤝 A big thank you to clients, partners, start-ups and our collaborators for this year 2022 full of innovation dynamics! 👉 +100 innovation meetings 📝 57 consulting missions conducted in France, Belgium, Canada, the USA, Germany, the Middle East, Japan and Israel 🚀 172...
Immowell-Lab selection committee results
🚀 [Startup news] // Geothermal simulation, urban agriculture and urban art exhibition 💡 Discover the 3 innovations that our partners have chosen to integrate into our Immowell-Lab platform! 👉 Geosophy offers energy simulation tools to simulate the geothermal potential...
Digital Design & Manufacturing selection committee results
🚀 [Startup news] // Digital construction, design tools, cloud manufacturing, ... 💡 Discover the 4 innovations that our partners have chosen to integrate into our Digital Design and Manufacturing platform! 👉 Beelse develops a BCM (Beelse Cloud Manufacturing) software...
Smart City selection committee results
🚀 [Startup news] // Inclusive signage, simulation of flows in urban spaces, optimized bicycle parking and vertical agriculture 💡 Discover the 5 innovations that our partners have chosen to integrate into our Smart City platform! 👉 Picto Access par APF France...
Innovative Housing selection committee results
🚀 [Startup news] // Gamification, tenant support, individual consumption optimization and energy renovation 💡 Discover the 5 innovations that our partners have chosen to integrate into our Innovative Housing platform! 👉 Energic organizes environmental challenges to...
Impulse Partners & Saint-Gobain at Station F!
🚀 [Event] // Impulse Partners was delighted to welcome Saint-Gobain's CFO, Sreedhar N. and the Saint-Gobain Nova team at STATION F today Key issues and innovations in the construction field were discussed such as low-carbon building, upcycling, operational...
Circular Cities and Territories selection committee results
🚀 [Startup news] // We are delighted to welcome 5 new startups to our Circular Cities and Territories platform! 👉 Congratulations to Arqlite, Circular11, Kertalg, NEOLITIK and POOLP - for plastic loop who convinced our partners! 👉 Arqlite proposes an industrial tool...
Impulse Partners at the 24h hours of buildings
📢 [Event] // Live from the #24hduBâtiment FFB - Fédération Française du Bâtiment and the Impulse startup village! 🚀 Delighted to animate the innovation village, and to make building companies and construction actors discover innovative solutions that are transforming...
Construction & Building selection committee results
🚀 [Start-up news] // Low-carbon construction and renovation, energy performance, energy storage... 💡 Discover the 5 solutions that our partners have chosen to integrate into our Construction & Building innovation platform! 👏 Congratulations to BOREALES Energy,...
Le Catalyseur
[Partnership] // We are proud to accompany the innovative pilots of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Catalyst! đź’ˇ We piloted the launch of the experimentation between the City of Levallois and the start-up Kabin, which offers self-service mobile offices to nomadic...
News from our startups
Fundraising and Acquisitions BATIS is a software dedicated to the construction industry which allows to create, gather, control and sign administrative and contractual documents. The startup is looking to raise €600,000 before the end of the fourth quarter 2022, to...
Startup news
Fundraising and Acquisitions Thermosphr has announced a fundraising round in November 2021. Thermosphr closed a pre-seed funding round with Wi Venture, seed + speed Ventures, High Rise Ventures GmbH, Entrepreneur First, and other investors. Click here to learn more....
News from our ecosystem!
INDUSTRY Impulse Partners was at VivaTech with Total Energies to host the Plant 4.0 startup innovation program selection committee. 7 startups presented their solutions, related to the decarbonization of industry: Jellybot (chatbot for industry...
New Hydrogen Club and More
More than 500 people registered and more than 300 attended our event "Let's build tomorrow's hydrogen together" organized with John Cockerill and with the support of France Hydrogène, MEDEF International and Industrya at Station F on Wednesday, March 30. Industrial...
Industrializing construction in order to optimize all of your construction projects!
Dear all, Today, we would like to address the issue of the industrialization of construction which includes off site construction. This construction method reduces the environmental impact of buildings, secures the production chain, and limits the nuisance of...
Government funded construction, a new Eldorado for construction startups?
Dear friends, As you know, our sectors of activity are facing unprecedented societal, environmental and economic challenges. These are tremendous opportunities for all the players in place, and in particular startups, who are trying to provide solutions to help their...
Decoding the Promise of Hydrogen
European countries have decided to invest massively in hydrogen to create a clean and renewable hydrogen industry. These political initiatives - and the associated financing - stimulate the larger ecosystem: Industrial stakeholders, major users, investors and...
Investigate the potential of your solution on the French market.
In recent years, the French construction industry has been experiencing a certain dynamism due to major regional, national and international operations and according to the Q4 2021 Global Construction Survey, the construction industry in France is expected to grow by...
Predictive Maintenance for Building and Infrastructure
In construction, as in all industrial sectors, equipment maintenance is a key component of the sustainability of production, logistics, transport, etc. On average, predictive maintenance increases jobsite productivity by 25%, reduces breakdowns by 70% and lowers...
September – January 2022: Discover Our Growing Ecosystem!
Here is a short summary of what happened in the last 6 months focusing on our startup ecosystem – fully available in the newsletter below. The Impulse Partners ecosystem currently has 813 startups in the city, energy and industry sectors. Since June 2021, 84 startups...
September – January 2022: What a Semester!
Here is a short summary of what happened in our corporate ecosystem in the last 6 months – the link for the full newsletter is below. Impulse Partners launched a Construction Innovation Observatory on October 21, 2021, which gathered companies in the construction...
Renov’up laureates
Saint-Gobain, ArcelorMittal Construction, ADEME, Artelia, FNAIM, LafargeHolcim, PĂ´le Habitat FFB, Schneider Electric, TotalEnergies, UNSFA and USH, partners in the Renov'UP program, have named four winners of the major call for solutions, which attracted nearly one...
The 81st Hlm Congress Highlights
After two years waiting, the 81st Hlm Congress was marked by the Union Social Habitat's stated desire to strongly defend social housing and allowed the actors of the Hlm movement to meet again. Impulse Partners was pleased to see that innovation was mentioned more...
Funding round with leading investors announcement
Pleased and excited to announce our funding round with leading investors. Accelerating our mission to bring innovation to market for smarter territories
Water valuation and management
The earth water reserves are rapidly dwindling, and the urbanization is developing way much faster than the drinkable water treatment and distribution construction. The UN values that 4 people out of 10 suffers directly from the water rarefaction in the world....
Urban cleanliness
The agency of Cities for Urban Cleanliness (AVPU) estimates that the cost of urban cleanliness will be €56 per year per citizen in 2019, compared to €42 in 2017. Whether it is waste thrown on the public highway or waste from economic activities, urban cleanliness and...
C-Capture raises ÂŁ8 million
C-Capture raises £8 million (approx €9 million) existing shareholders IP Group, Drax Group, and BP Ventures, with additional funding from the British Business Bank’s Future Fund. The startup from the United Kingdom designs energy efficient chemical processes...
ROBOPLANET signs a multi-year collaboration agreement with TotalEnergies
ROBOPLANET signs a multi-year collaboration agreement with TotalEnergies to develop inspection solutions for difficult-to-access areas. This agreement will allow the deployment of robotic solutions to digitalize visual, thickness and geometry monitoring at heights,...
Vestack raises funds and more
Vestack announces that its new production line will be installed within a 30,000m2 former industrial land plot with up to 30 related jobs The startup, proptech dedicated to offsite construction, also raises €2.6 million to boost development, increase production...
Start-up news: fundraising and aquisitions
Our startups are growing, finding investors, developing new offers, diversifying... Here are a few illustrations : Altaroad, a start-up dedicated to road traffic measurement, raises €10M and opens its capital to PRO BTP. This fundraising completes the financing...
New and renewed partners
The Impulse Partners teams are continuing their work of monitoring and qualifying the innovations that arrive on our markets. This work is carried out in order to better respond to the challenges of our partners, members of our innovation platforms, and to help them...
Accompanying a delegation of Quebec start-ups in Paris
We are delighted to accompany the City of Montreal and the Quebec Delegation in Paris to create gateways between Quebec start-ups (smart cities, mobility, green tech and artificial intelligence) and our ecosystem of European players. The meetings will take place in...
The attractiveness of jobs in the construction industry
Construction jobs are changing and demand is also accelerating, as more than 250,000 people will need to be recruited between now and 2023 simply to meet the energy renovation targets for buildings. Despite the health crisis and the drop in the number of building...
Semana raise funds of €600,000
Semana have recently finalised their fundraising process with a pre-seed round of more than €600,000 obtained with Business Angels and BPI. This fundraising will allow the startup to accelerate their product and commercial development in France and across...
Causeway Technologies acquires Ermeo
Causeway Technologies acquires mobile development startup Ermeo today as part of its strategy to create a powerful digital platform for the Construction Industry. Ermeo offers a collaborative web and mobile solution enabling industrial companies to ensure better...
Impulse Talks- let’s talk about hydrogen
For our 10th edition of our live Impulse Talks sessions, we discussed the development of the hydrogen industry with major corporates, investors & startups. This one-hour event covered an introduction by Impulse Partners Manager Jérôme Pasquier, corporate testimony...
One Click LCA collaborates with Bouygues Bâtiment International
One Click LCA collaborates with Bouygues Bâtiment International, the international arm of Bouygues Construction The partnership aims to reduce the group’s embodied carbon emissions by 30% by 2030. One Click LCA offers a software for environmental impact calculation...
Hydrogen opportunities for a low carbon future
The idea of combustion of dihydrogen (H2) as an energy carrier has existed for years, an idea which regularly comes back in the energy transition debate. Hydrogen can be either derived from hydrocarbons ("hydrogen from dirty sources", causing the release of CO2) or...
Resilient solutions for resilient cities
With the increase of climate risks, the notion of urban and territorial resilience is a major issue today. Applied to the city, urban resilience can be defined as the capacity of an urban system to absorb a disturbance and to recover its functions following this...
SEKOYA’s workshop on biomimicry
On April 6, the partners of the SEKOYA industrial club, dedicated to low carbon, met to discuss the theme of biomimicry. The objective of the workshop was to provide the partners of this club initiated by the Eiffage Group with avenues and examples of integrating...
WeMaintain acquires Shokly and signs key contract with London Docklands Light Railway
WeMaintain, a proud member of our PropTech ecosystem, acquires Shokly to expand their offer. Shokly combines business expertise and innovative solutions for the maintenance of fire safety systems . For WeMaintain, this acquisition will result in the implementation of...
LafargeHolcim invests in XtreeE
LafargeHolcim has invested in XtreeE, the French start-up pioneering large-scale 3D printing for construction, alongside Vinci Construction and the investment fund Shibumi International. LafargeHolcim and XtreeE are involved in several joint industrial projects and...
Impulse Talks – March 2021
On Wednesday March 10th we were delighted to invite you to the 9th edition of "Impulse Talks, a digital & low carbon future” where we talked about Industry 4.0 This one-hour event in English covered: Introduction by Jérôme Pasquier, Impulse expert on the topic...
Transformations in the engineering sector
The engineering sector is currently undergoing major transformations linked to macroeconomic and social evolutions, but also linked to innovations that are transforming the engineering profession on a daily basis. The engineering players will therefore have to modify...
Rehabilitation in occupied areas
Access to decent and less energy-intensive housing is a national priority, so the authorities have set up mechanisms to encourage social landlords to renovate their housing stock (Climate Plan, quality of company with a mission for social landlords introduced in the...
Opsealog secures contract with ADNOC Logistics and Services
Opsealog has secured a multi-year contract with ADNOC Logistics and Services’ offshore fleet, the maritime arm of ADNOC, to apply its fleetwide performance optimisation services. Opsealog is a french startup integrated to EVOLEN’ UP, startup accelerator in the energy...
Smart thermostat Ween bought by Atlantic Group
Impulse Partners is proud to announce the union between the Aix-en-Provence-based start-up and the Vendée-based Group that it has put together as part of its innovation platforms. The Atlantic Group, a manufacturer of HVAC systems, has joined forces with the start-up...
Innovation in the rehabilitation in occupied environments
How to meet the imperatives of rehabilitation in an occupied environment? The social landlord Elogie-Siemp wishes to identify the best start-ups to give satisfaction to the tenants and to ensure the valorisation of the patrimony. As part of its Climate Plan,...
Retrospective on the Air Quality Challenge organised with Covivio and EDF
In partnership with Covivo , and EDF’s R&D department, Impulse Partners launched and led a European call to project « Air Quality Challenge » The objectif ? Identify then test the innovative and sustainable solutions to improve inside air...
BulldozAIR raises €4M from ProBTP Innovation and Anaxago
BulldozAIR is the very first start-up accompanied by Impulse ! So we are very proud to announce a new fund raising of 4 million euro from ProBTP Innovation and Anaxago Created in 2013, BulldozAIR developped a co-working/collaborative app for professionals in...
Boosting female entrepeneurship
Women account for less than a third of startups in France. Yet more than two-thirds of them say they are tempted by entrepreneurship. In the Impulse Partners ecosystem, only 10% of our startups are headed or co-headed by women. In fact, we have two additional biases:...
Quality of life in working from home
Although it was already a common practice for 7% of French employees, teleworking has become widespread since the first confinement was announced: between March and April, 95% of organizations* used it for eligible employees. This new way of working, which has become...
Water recovery and management
Our planet's water resources are dwindling, and urbanization is occurring at a faster rate than the construction of infrastructure to treat and distribute drinking water. The UN estimates that today 4 out of 10 people suffer directly from the scarcity of water in the...
Combating urban heat islands
Climate change and extreme heat waves, combined with population growth, urban densification, and the artificialization of land, are all factors in the multiplication of "urban heat islands" - an expression that appeared in the middle of the 20th century. These...
Energy retrofitting
The energy retrofitting of the building stock has become a national priority. The ambition is to reduce energy consumption by 38% in 2025 and 67% in 2050 compared to 2010. This will notably involve renovating 20 million housing units by 2050 - a market worth 14...
Startups that are pivoting
In order to better respond to changing customer needs, many start-ups evolve during their development and their confrontation with their market. They "pivot" in the language of entrepreneurship. This "pivot" translates the idea of an evolution around a central axis,...
Syslor raises €1M to speed up the launch of its solutions
The startup Syslor raised 1million euro in funds from Fayat Acceleration Startups, Eurovia Innovation Venture and Institut Lorrain de Participations, with the support of Bpifrance and other public partners. Syslor offers a solution which allows mapping of buried...
My Car Spot raises €1.2M from Irdi Soridec Gestion
MyCarSpot raises €1.2M from Irdi Soridec Gestion. This news reflects a good implantation on the french market et announces the beginning of international expansion. The fund raising will allow the allow the startup to strengthen its sales team and to finance its...
Why and how to innovate in the maritime sector
European states, including France, are promoting "green" recovery plans. The challenge for industrial players is now to deepen and accelerate actions that will contribute to a new model that is sustainable, economically, socially and ecologically. The maritime world...