In partnership with Jaberson In 2026, raising funds no longer relies on the charm of a pitch or the promise of rapid hypergrowth. After a period of frenzy (2021–2022) followed by caution (2023–2024), 2025 marked a return to a certain realism. Funding rounds were fewer, more selective, but also healthier. In this context, founders...
MyFit Solutions, a start-up specializing in 3D capture and measurement via smartphone for the medical and retail sectors, announces a €2 million fund-raising round. Co-founder Xavier Deshayes shares his experience of convincing investors. Trained as an engineer, Xavier Deshayes has always had a taste for innovation and concrete action. After more than ten years ...
With the aim of promoting financial inclusion in Morocco, start-up Joro Cash is developing a mobile money solution accessible to all. Supported by a simple application and a network of local agents, it aims to transform everyday practices and facilitate access to essential financial services. After several years spent in France, Malik Qadiri returns to Morocco, his home ...
Faced with the challenges of post-baccalaureate guidance in French-speaking Africa, start-up Esseyi aims to revolutionize access to information for young people. Founded by Emeric Koda, Esseyi relies on digital technology to connect students, schools and companies, and rethink the continent's educational future. Esseyi is a start-up born in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Co-founder Emeric Koda is taking advantage of this period ...
What if tech enabled thousands of African restaurants to manage their supplies sustainably, transparently and efficiently? This is the ambitious goal of Mafalia, a Senegalese start-up founded by Pape Amadou Kane Diop. Today, according to Mafalia, 85% of restaurants in some sub-Saharan African countries do not have access to digital tools to manage their business. This ...
A few months ago, the Lyon Bar Association and H7 joined forces to discover, coach and support the LegalTech of tomorrow. Over the course of a day, the selected projects benefited from coaching and mentoring by legal and entrepreneurial experts. Discover Nemitis, Lawxer and Avocappli, winners of the 2nd edition of the competition. Nemitis - Optimizing lawyers' time ...
La Belle Histoire is a series of articles highlighting entrepreneurs and their teams, starting from where it all began. They share with you the stages they went through. What's next? They're still writing it. One third of the world's food depends on pollination: that's the starting point for ...
Meet the four winners of 13M, the first nationwide digital inclusion gas pedal created by Banque des Territoires, Groupe SOS, H7 and Pulse. Hello Arthur, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Arthur, I'm 21 and I'm the founder of SOStech. SOStech's mission is to give everyone in the ...
One satisfied user is worth two. Bookinou understands this - since the beginning of June, the Lyon-based start-up has been running a loan campaign for teachers. The aim is to give them the opportunity to test the Bookinou reading device and validate its pedagogical virtues, to help 3-8 year-olds learn to read. Since its creation, Bookinou has ...
La Belle Histoire is a series of articles highlighting entrepreneurs and their teams, starting from where it all began. They share with you the stages they went through. What's next? They're still writing it. April 2023, Arnaud Gracieux, founder of PrepAcademy, announces that he has raised ...
