IESA Incub' Reveals the Names of Its 2018 Winners

For its 2nd edition, IESA Incub’ selected two startups to join its cultural entrepreneurship accelerator. Since January 2018, IESA Incub’ has offered startups a tailor-made support program within its accelerator, for an 18-month incubation.

There were 15 entrepreneurs who submitted applications and in the end 5 were able to pitch in front of the jury. This selection committee, made up of professionals in the fields of culture and digital, selected two startups. The jury named one of its members as mentor for each of them. The jurors' mission is to help the startups reinvent the processes of design, production and management and to create companies in which innovations will facilitate both creativity and relationships with audiences.

The startup Life Atoa is a phygital marketplace dedicated to eco-friendly designers, created by its founder Antoine Louzon. The project will be supported and mentored by Giovanna Nino, partner attorney at Alto Avocats, and Thomas Fuster, Investment Director at Sowefund.

Arts Design Africa is the first digital art gallery dedicated to promoting and selling contemporary African or African-inspired works, created by Julie Abissegue. The mentor from the IESA Incub' Selection Committee who will mentor this project is Laurence Le Ny, Creative Industries Startup Ecosystem Director, Orange Group.

“We are delighted with the quality of the candidates in this second edition; the choice was truly difficult. Our jurors were really impressed by the pitches. They are very invested and honored to contribute their skills and share their network to ensure the winners' success,” says Isabelle Logeais, Director of IESA Incub'.

The IESA Incub' will close its call for applications from cultural entrepreneurship startups for the second cohort of IESA Incub' Paris on September 16, 2018.

The IESA Incub' Selection Committee will meet on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 to choose the next eight startups. It is notably made up of representatives of the Ministry of Culture, the Île-de-France Region, the Caisse des Dépôts, MEDEF, Orange, KPMG, Alto Avocats, Kalima PR, and SoweFund. The next 8 Parisian startups will join starting November 5, 2018 for 18 months of incubation.

IESA Incub' is expanding internationally with IESA Incub' Dakar, which will close its first call for applications from cultural entrepreneurship startups for the first cohort on November 18, 2018. The IESA Incub' Dakar Selection Committee will meet on Monday, December 3, 2018, just before the 3rd edition of the Dakar Digital Show organized by Orange Sonatel on December 5 & 6, 2018. The IESA Incub' Dakar selection committee is made up notably of representatives of the Ministry of Culture of Senegal, the French Embassy in Senegal, Orange Sonatel, Eiffage, British Council, Digital Virgo, KPMG, InTouch, among others. The 18-month incubation of the next 10 Dakar startups will begin on Monday, January 7, 2019.

Events

IESA Incub', the cultural entrepreneurship accelerator of IESA arts&culture, will be present on August 28 and 29, 2018 at the Medef Summer University for its 20th edition, which will take place, as every year, on the HEC Campus in Jouy-en-Josas with an Innovation space dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. As part of this event, a challenge to showcase the most promising startups will be organized. IESA Incub' is pleased to announce the presence of two of our startups at the Innovation Space of the SU, which is celebrating its tenth edition, including the participation of Oystr for the startup pitch competition prize as part of the startup challenge in the Innovation space, in the Mobility/Tourism category.

Taking part in the MEDEF Summer University provides great visibility, notably through a startup being featured each day on MEDEF’s Twitter account. It is the political and economic event of the back-to-work season, with 6,000 business leaders, senior executives, government representatives and 400+ journalists…

The creation by IESA arts&culture and Strate, school of design

IESA Incub' with the participation of Strate, school of design, two schools of the Studialis Galileo group, the 1st European private higher education group and the second worldwide, proposes and produces 4 trophies representing a 3D "word cloud", based on an idea from the Musée des nuages, a startup accelerated within IESA Incub' and sponsored by Patrick Schmitt, Innovation Director at MEDEF. The trophy will reflect the key concepts and themes related to artificial intelligence within the Innovation Space of the MEDEF Summer University 2018.

On August 29 at 17:00, these four trophies will be awarded for the startup pitch competition prize, organized at the Innovation Space during the MEDEF Summer University 2018.