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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Saint-Gobain, ArcelorMittal Construction, ADEME, Artelia, FNAIM, LafargeHolcim, Pôle 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...

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...

Pleased and excited to announce our funding round with leading investors. Accelerating our mission to bring innovation to market for smarter territories

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....

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 £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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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, 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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Robots are mechatronic devices (combining mechanics, electronics and computers) designed to automatically perform tasks that imitate or reproduce human actions. If their use can replace the human, in the construction sector or industry, they are often used in addition...

The second edition of Moniteur Innovation Day took place on October 19th at the Seine Musicale in Paris. Project managers, architects, professionals from construction et housing and start-ups participated in the day of reflexion and discovery of new...

Impulse Partners is delighted and proud to be a signatory of the SISTA charter alongside more than 50 gas pedals and 20 venture capital funds. The objective? To enable the support and financing respectively of 50% and 25% of start-ups (co)founded by women by 2025....

The Elan law, introduced in 2018, aims to improve the living environment, promote access to housing and the construction of new housing. One of the levers provided for by the law is the sale of social housing, with the objective of increasing the number of homes sold...

We spend nearly 80% of our time in enclosed spaces and breathe an average of more than 13,000L of air every day. Indoor air quality (IAQ), exposed to various harmful pollutants (furniture, coatings...) or health threats that are transmitted through the air, is then a...

Biomimicry is a process of innovation and engineering which consists of taking inspiration from living organisms. Its forms, structures, properties or even modes of organization are studied, and used in solutions to solve human problems. The biomimetic approach is a...

We have talked about these innovative maintenance systems, mainly based on data recording, to enable predictive maintenance. Innovation and technology can be at the service of understanding equipment, but also of sharing information and expertise between operators....

Among the trends of this year's Propel by MIPIM, our teams highlighted sustainability and quality of life, biodiversity and vegetalization, energy savings, as well as making it easier for users to buy, rent, build and manage real estate. We had the pleasure of...

Every year, the building sector emits more than 123 million tons of CO2, which is more than 25% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the national territory. Faced with this fact, governments have put in place a number of regulations and measures applicable to new...

This fund-raising from the Banque des Territoires and A/O Proptech will enable them to consolidate their technological advance, to structure their teams but also to move up a gear in terms of marketing and presence, first on the French market, then in the medium term...

The CEA and Impulse Partners are joining forces to accelerate the development of young technology start-ups in the energy and industry sectors. The "Tech Boost for Smart Energy/Industry" consortium, led by the CEA, has been approved by BpiFrance, operator of the...

Congratulations to H4D for this great fundraiser of 15M€. This investment will enable the company to multiply its health projects and its territorial location to support access to care. For more information, click here 👉 https://www.h4d.com/levee-15-millions-2020/...

In partnership with Covivio and EDF, we are launching the #AirQualityChallenge: a European call for projects to improve indoor air quality. 👉 <a...

💡 Start-ups in our ecosystem are mobilizing to help homeowners cope with the new constraints.

Congratulations to Qarnot computing ( https://qarnot.com/en/home/ ) for this nice fundraising of 6M€ 🚀 This makes it possible to accelerate the development of ecological heating: based on the use of fatal heat emitted by computers.

For this second part of our newsletter, we would like to inform you about our startups , their developments, and their offers. We have put together a more targeted format, with specific topics, to highlight the contribution of our startups to the selected themes,...

In the current situation of uncertainty and restrictions on travel and gatherings, our role is to help you continue to innovate. More than usual, entrepreneurship needs to be encouraged! We remain mobilized and active alongside our partners and startups. Here is the...