Six Deeptech projects led by École Polytechnique researchers have been selected as winners of the 2024 call for premature projects issued by IP Paris, of which École Polytechnique is a founding member.
On November 26 and 27, the 32nd edition of X-Forum, the annual event bringing together students from l'X and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and over 150 international companies, schools and universities on the X campus, attracted almost 2,000 participants, including 1,000 Polytechnique students. Students from the Cycle ingénieur polytechnicien program, Master's and PhD students from École Polytechnique and other Schools came to meet their future employers.
École Polytechnique ranks 26th in THE world ranking of universities for the employability of their graduates, and 3rd in France. École Polytechnique gained two places in this worldwide ranking of 250 higher education and research institutions.
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École Polytechnique’s Foundation (FX) is launching its third fund-raising campaign with a strong commitment to “Serving Science”. It aims to raise 200 million euros over the next 5 years from private individuals and companies, and has announced that it has already raised over 40% of this target.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE START-UP. Philippe Le Borgne, co-founder and CEO of RunBlind, has a multi entrepreneurial background in different fields such...
Six start-ups created or run by X alumni or incubated at École Polytechique are among the winners of the I-Lab 2024 competition, including two in the Grand Prix category. They illustrate the entrepreneurial dynamism of X researchers and graduates, the now well-established multi-curricular nature of the School and the wide range of its research.
X-UP, École Polytechnique’s incubator, has won the “Booster” prize awarded by the Talent Awards jury of France Digitale, the association for the promotion of digital innovation in France and Europe. This year, X-UP presented a new support offer for Deeptech start-ups.
Sonio, the result of mathematical research carried out at the Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), is developing a solution to support practitioners in the conduct of fetal ultrasound and antenatal diagnosis. Automated with the help of artificial intelligence, this tool aims to detect anomalies in real time, or after the examination to remove any doubt. Launched in 2020, its acquisition by the medical subsidiary of Korean giant Samsung has just been finalized.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 68 innovative European companies for combined grant and equity funding. Inspek and Omini, two start-ups from École polytechnique's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, are among them.
Launched by two X alumni brothers, C12, a pioneer in the use of carbon nanotubes to build a universal quantum computer, has completed its second round of financing, raising 18 million euros. The start-up is one of five selected by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces as part of the Proqcima program to develop two prototypes of quantum computers.
The winners of this 13th edition of the Gerondeau - Safran Prize convinced the jury with their innovations in the fields of health and construction. They each received 15,000 euros to develop their projects.
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