Excellence with passion
"WE SPARK THE FUTURE": A NEW LABEL FOR ISAE-SUPAERO STARTUPS
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Convinced that innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, combined with a strong technical culture, are essential levers for tackling the major challenges of today, ISAE-SUPAERO develops the innovative spirit of its students and supports the creation of companies. Today, the Institute is launching its “We spark the future” label, awarded to startups “by ISAE-SUPAERO”.
PROMOTING INNOVATION DYNAMICS
ISAE-SUPAERO aims to develop a spirit of innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship among its students, and to support the creation of companies within its community.
A department is primarily dedicated to this activity and engages in several areas:
- Identifying problems to be solved to provide students and teachers with ideas and to identity potential solutions;
- Selecting projects likely to create value;
- Support for project leaders from training onwards
- Up to the transformation of the idea into a company, providing personalized advice, organizing interventions by technical and professional experts, promoting local networking with investors, partners, customers, beta testers, etc.
- Planning, by teaching project leaders to develop a strategic vision for the development of their company.
THE “WE SPARK THE FUTURE” LABEL, A SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE AND PASSION
The “We spark the future” label is primarily aimed at creating a common identity and bringing together all the companies founded by the ISAE-SUPAERO community: alumni, students, teacher-researchers and staff.
It also refers to all of the Institute’s values of excellence and passion.
This label is officially awarded to each new company arising from ISAE-SUPAERO that complies with the entrepreneurial criteria specific to the Institute: falling within the field of impact deep tech, and concerning the Aeronautics/space/defense domain.
THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE “WE SPARK THE FUTURE” LABEL
Viraj H2
Development of a hybrid power train using a fuel cell
OUR START-UPS TESTIFY
Charlotte Brenac, COO - ELDA TECHNOLOGY
«"We Spark the Future" is more than just a label; it gives us valuable support, visibility, networking opportunities and expertise that light up our path to success..»
Anne-Alice Faure - SNAPACCESS
«"We spark the future" allows us to benefit from ISAE-SUPAERO’s radiance and reputation for excellence, while facilitating the search for partners and integration into the start-up ecosystem».
François Dorgeret, CEO - Tacita Dynamics
« As “new entrants to a market”, start-ups occasionally suffer from a lack of image and struggle to present their expertise to the competition. For a DeepTech start-up like TACITA Dynamics, the image of ISAE-SUPAERO and its “We spark the future” start-up label provide a guarantee of credibility that helps us to convince our partners, customers and even financiers.»
ALUMNI & ENTREPRENEURSHIP: SOME SUCCESS STORIES
Exotec, the first industrial unicorn in France, Verkor, which has just raised record funds (€2 billion) for its electric battery gigafactory, and Beyond Aero, Ascendence Flight and Blue Spirit Aero, which were recently selected from among the top 9 winners of the France 2030 “Producing low-carbon aircraft in France” call for projects.
