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.
The thirteen X start-ups are among the 28 high-impact start-ups from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris' innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem presented on the IP Paris stand at Vivatech 2024.
Mistral AI, the French Artificial Intelligence nugget, co-founded in February by two X2011s, Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample, and a graduate of École Normale Supérieure, Timothée Lacroix, has raised almost 500 million euros since itslauch, eight months ago, fueled by the craze surrounding AI since the appearance of ChatGPT in November 2022.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE START-UP. Philippe Le Borgne, co-founder and CEO of RunBlind, has a multi entrepreneurial background in different fields such...
Michel Bastide, CEO of the start-up Synaplus worked in transformation through IT (or by IT) for over 30 years before joining Synaplus in 2018 specializing in artificial intelligence technology. He shares his entrepreneurial experience, challenges, goals and ambitions.
Jimmy Energy, co-founded by Antoine Guyot (X2013) and Mathilde Grivet (HEC 2014), designs and operates mini-nuclear reactors supplying heat to industrial sites, without greenhouse gas emissions. It has raised €2.2 million in seed funding. It’s the fourth investment of Polytechnique Ventures, the seed fund created and funded by X alumni.
On Monday, January 24 and Tuesday, January 25, nearly 2,000 students from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, including 1,000 Polytechniciens, 160 companies, and international Schools and universities came together for a Forum in a hybrid format. The program included workshops, conferences, interviews and virtual networking.
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