Built with the CentraleSup\u00e9lec alumni community, this fund is in line with the School’s entrepreneurial DNA, which has led to numerous international success stories.<\/p>\n
– CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture’s mission is to finance innovation in the broadest sense of the term, with a particular focus on deeptech, healthcare, and industrial and environmental transitions.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n – With a funding target of 25 startups, the fund complements CentraleSup\u00e9lec’s existing support and acceleration programs.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Paris, May 10, 2023 – CentraleSup\u00e9lec today unveils CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture, its early-stage fund created by the School and its alumni. Having just completed its first closing, and aiming for a final target of \u20ac25M for the beginning of 2024, this new investment structure completes a rich support system for entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n A strong entrepreneurial DNA<\/strong><\/p>\n With entrepreneurship in its genes, the School has been a pioneer in this field on several occasions, being for example the first engineering school to set up an incubator as early as 2000.<\/p>\n With the support of its Foundation, CentraleSup\u00e9lec is now developing a broad program to support innovation and entrepreneurship with a societal dimension, 21st by CentraleSup\u00e9lec: grants, loans, business and scientific coaching, mentoring, experimentation areas, fablab, etc. CentraleSup\u00e9lec alumni have an impressive track record in business creation, both in France and abroad.<\/p>\n Today, CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture will support startups with at least one co-founder from the \u00c9cole’s community: graduates, post-docs, masters, PhDs, researchers from the \u00c9cole’s laboratories, etc. “With a strong focus on innovation and deeptech, CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture will make it possible to finance projects related to the institution’s strategic challenges: the environmental transition, health and industrial sovereignty. This fund completes an already rich support system for entrepreneurship, structured around the 21st innovation and support program,” says Romain Soubeyran, CentraleSup\u00e9lec’s Director General.<\/p>\n A virtuous relationship between the School and the alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n This investment structure is the embodiment of a virtuous marriage between the School and its alumni. The School offers alumni a new opportunity to get involved with CentraleSup\u00e9lec. By investing in this fund, they are contributing to the future success of these The CentraleSup\u00e9lec Foundation and the CentraleSup\u00e9lec Alumni Association are also subscribers to the fund and, by law, receive half of the carried interest. By allowing them to benefit from a significant part of the value creation, the fund wishes to strengthen the School’s resources and influence in order to create a virtuous circle beneficial to its entire ecosystem.<\/p>\n “Building an environment conducive to entrepreneurial development around its alumni can only strengthen the school’s aura. We, the CentraleSup\u00e9lec alumni, are helping it to acquire all the resources it needs to shine in France and abroad. The fund will now spearhead this strategy, placing disruptive innovations at the heart of this new chapter.<\/span><\/em>said Jean-Marc Patouillaud and Pierre Martini, both CentraleSup\u00e9lec alumni, who launched this initiative pro bono.<\/p>\n Operationally, the fund will be managed by a team led by C\u00e9dric Curtil, who has a wealth of experience in funds, large groups and start-ups. The fund will benefit from the School’s exceptional wealth of skills: 18 research laboratories, 4,000 students, including more than 1,000 who are made aware of entrepreneurship every year, 100 projects and startups supported every year, from the opportunity stage to scale-up, and hundreds of startups developed on all continents by alumni.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Built with the CentraleSup\u00e9lec alumni community, this fund is in line with the School’s entrepreneurial DNA, which has led to numerous international success stories. – CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture’s mission is to finance innovation in the broadest sense of the term, with a particular focus on deeptech, healthcare, and industrial and environmental transitions. – With a funding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-home-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWith the desire to invest in innovation in the broadest sense, the fund will pay particular attention to deeptech projects, health, and industrial and environmental transitions, by injecting initial tickets ranging from \u20ac150,000 to \u20ac500,000 in the seed phases, and this, in any geographical area.<\/p>\n
\ncompanies in the form of a venture capital investment. This is in addition to any other commitments they may have to the School, such as their contribution to the Foundation.<\/p>\nAbout CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture<\/h6>\n
Launched in May 2023, with CentraleSup\u00e9lec Alumni and the CentraleSup\u00e9lec Foundation, CentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture is the School’s alumni venture capital fund. With a first closing at \u20ac12 million and a final target of \u20ac25 million, the fund’s strategy is to invest initial tickets ranging from \u20ac150,000 to \u20ac500,000 in startups from its ecosystem, in the seed phase, and focusing on deeptech projects related to health or industrial and environmental transitions. A portion of the fund’s financial performance is reserved for the CentraleSup\u00e9lec Foundation and the CentraleSup\u00e9lec Alumni Association.
\nCentraleSup\u00e9lec Venture is managed by TyGrow, an AMF-accredited management company assisted by CS Venture Partners, a company partially owned by the \u00c9cole and sponsored pro bono by two leading figures in private equity: Jean-Marc Patouillaud (Sup\u00e9lec 81) and Pierre Martini (Centrale Paris 98). CS Venture will be operated by a team formed around C\u00e9dric Curtil, who has a wealth of experience in funds, large groups and start-ups.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"