International expansion doesn’t begin at the airport. ✈️
It starts long before the first meeting, the first customer, or the first pitch.
Preparing founders to enter a new market takes more than ambition. It takes practical experience, local networks, and an understanding of how that market actually works.
That’s the idea behind a new partnership between Terminal 11, HEC Paris, HEC Paris Incubation and Acceleration Center and STATION F.
Officially announced at the Élysée, the four-month program will support 10 Omani technology startups preparing to expand into European markets.
Throughout the program, participants will also gain access to the international resources and networks of HEC Paris and STATION F, helping them better understand the European entrepreneurship ecosystem. 🇪🇺
The goal is simple: turn international expansion into a practical pathway!
The countdown is on.
Startups across Australia & New Zealand and the Middle East have five days left to apply for the L'Oréal SAPMENA Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program 2026. L'Oréal is looking for solutions across AI, data & analytics, creator economy, customer experience, retail & e-commerce, marketing tech, sustainability, and supply chain.
📅 Deadline July 15.
👉 Apply now
Applications are still open for the next HEC Challenge+ cohort.
Below, entrepreneurs from the 2025-2 cohort look back on their journey, new vision, stronger network, better project structuring.
What can the program bring to your project?
👉 Apply here
Today's the last day to submit your project to Mission Création 2026–2027, led by X-HEC Entrepreneurs. Over four weeks, teams of three MSc students test your market intuition through customer interviews and field research, not to validate, but to challenge your assumptions.
📅 Deadline July 10 (end of the day).
👉 Submit your project.
The #TotalEnergiesOn Program has welcomed its seventh cohort at STATION F, where ten startups will spend the next six months working alongside TotalEnergies business units while receiving mentoring from HEC Paris Incubation and Acceleration Center.
🌟 This year's selected startups include:
⚡ChargeViz | A Yield Management platform that helps EV charging operators optimize pricing through data and algorithms.
☀️Engramiq | An AI platform that digitizes and validates solar engineering diagrams to onboard new sites in minutes instead of days.
🔌 eRoots Analytics | Advanced software and simulation technologies for the analysis, control and operation of modern power systems.
🤖 Invertix | AI Workers for renewable energy companies that monitor plants, draft reports, reconcile revenue, track contracts and triage alarms.
📍Lumion | Interconnection Readiness Reviews that help energy developers keep active interconnection projects moving.
📈 Permutable | Plug-and-play LLM tools delivering AI-driven market insights for traders and financial institutions.
🌐 Piq Energy | Grid studies that help energy developers find better sites, design better projects and connect to the grid faster.
🌱Tierra Climate | AI-powered software for trading and managing clean energy portfolios in dynamic power markets.
📊 Volatile | Probabilistic forecasts for European day-ahead and intraday power markets, giving traders visibility into price spikes, negative prices and volatility.
📷 Wematics | AI-powered short-term solar forecasts combining sky-camera networks and satellite imagery to help energy operators make better decisions.
👏 Congratulations to the entire Batch #7 cohort!
🚀 Think your startup belongs in Batch #8?
Applications are open. With the selection process beginning in November 2026, now is the perfect time to sharpen your application and submit it.
👉 Apply now.
The Climate You’re Planning For No Longer Exists 🌡️
As heatwaves intensify across Europe, Callendar's new ClimateVision introduces the Virtual Climatologist. An AI assistant that helps engineers and infrastructure managers plan for tomorrow's climate, not yesterday's.
👉 Discover more.
Last week, we hosted the 2nd IndiaAI Demo Day!
European VCs, corporate leaders, Indian diplomats, and 10 deep tech founders who flew across the world to prove they belong here.
Not a cocktail.
Real conversations with the people who decide. 💯
👉 Read more
Tsuga, from the Winter 2024 cohort, has raised a $35 million Series A to accelerate its AI-native observability platform, helping organizations monitor AI-specific data alongside traditional application data while optimizing cloud costs.
👏 Congrats to Gabriel-James Safar | Sébastien Deprez
👉 Discover more.
Eagr has raised €1M to help sales teams move beyond traditional KPIs and focus on what truly drives performance. By analyzing sales conversations, identifying winning behaviors, and delivering actionable coaching in real time, Eagr enables managers to understand why top performers succeed and how to replicate those behaviors across their teams.
👏 Congrats to Gaultier Beauchesne | Thibault Beauchesne,
👉Discover more.
After building the company from the ground up, Sami Gomez, founder of Gustave and a HEC alumnus, announces he is stepping down as CEO.
From launching the startup with his associate Heickel Ben Naceur to scaling its operations, Gustave has grown into a company managing 9,809 vehicles, operating in 5 cities, and bringing together thousands of partner drivers and mechanics.
Behind these numbers is the reality of entrepreneurship: creating a product, building a team, overcoming operational challenges, and constantly adapting along the way. Sami’s journey highlights the ambition, resilience, and dedication required to build a company.
👏 Congrats to Sami Gomez for this great achievement.
Funding isn’t shaped by founders alone.
Investors, funding ecosystem players, and policymakers all play a role in deciding who gets funded and who doesn’t.
That’s the idea behind InvestHer Podcast, hosted by Anne Ravanona.
For more than a decade, Anne has worked to improve access to funding for women entrepreneurs, speaking at TEDx, the United Nations, the European Parliament, and other global forums.
Her mission is ambitious: Help one million women entrepreneurs get funded by 2030.
MSc X-HEC Entrepreneurs arrive on the market with a very specific positioning.
👉 CEO’s right-hand / C-level roles
👉 Venture Capital Analyst
👉 High-impact entrepreneurial roles
SkyReve is an all-in-one POS and QR ordering solution designed for restaurants and hospitality businesses.
👉 France Market Development Intern
Wilo is building a trusted AI companion designed to support the mental well-being of young people.
👉 Founding Engineer
Daisy helps creative studios manage bookings, payments and operations — all in one place.
👉 Customer Care Manager & Technical Specialist (Alternance)
👉 Customer Success & Account Manager
👉 Customer Care Manager & Technical Specialist (Internship)
Aquila Systems Japanese healthcare startup optimizing hospital workflows, now expanding into Europe.
👉 Business Development Intern – Internship
VetAlly AI that saves vets up to 2 hours a day on admin, so they can focus on patients.
👉 CEO’s Right-hand – Internship
👉 Product & Tech Engineer - Internship
PredCo AI-driven compliance and process efficiency for manufacturing enterprises.
👉 Sales / Bizdev – Internship
Lowpital Design thinking initiative connecting patients and healthcare professionals to innovate for hospitals.
👉 Learning Innovation Builder (GenAI)
👉 CEO’s right-hand - Internship
Yolo B2E platform supporting working mothers and caregivers by reducing their mental load.
👉 CEO’s Right-Hand person - Sales & Growth
Buddy is the startup that simplifies the administrative .
👉 Social Media Manager - Internship
👉 CEO’s right-hand
Mon Cab Flexible medical space rentals.
👉 CMO’s right-hand intern
👉 Sales / Business Development intern
Eledone automates the processing of B2B quotes and sales orders.
👉 Business Developer intern
Paradigme Platform for second-hand fashion
👉 Customer Success Manager AI & second hand on permanent contract
For years, the rules of digital visibility were straightforward: rank higher on Google, earn more clicks, grow your business.
With the rollout of Google AI Overviews in France, that equation is beginning to change. Search is evolving from a list of links into a list of answers.
Instead of directing users to websites, Google increasingly provides AI-generated summaries, selecting only a handful of sources to build its responses. For many businesses, this could mean fewer clicks, even if their content continues to appear in search results.
The real challenge is no longer “How do I rank first?” but “Will AI choose my content?”
As AI-generated search becomes the new interface, companies will need to shift their focus from producing more content to building more authority. Some call it Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Whatever the label, the objective remains the same: creating credible, expert, and original content that AI systems trust enough to surface.
“We’re no longer fighting to be first. We’re fighting to be chosen.”
For founders and business leaders, this is more than an SEO update. It’s a reminder that in the age of AI, visibility is no longer earned by ranking alone, it is earned by becoming a trusted source.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Actress
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