Innovact collective and individual incubation

Innovact’s application criteria call for technical, technological, scientific, or usage innovation; a scalable idea addressing a high-potential national or international market; and a proof of concept validating feasibility and acceptance of the value proposition. Applicants must have the ambition to establish and grow the company in the Marne, regardless of their current local origin. For collective incubation, Innovact lists companies less than three years old or soon to be created as eligible. Its collective-incubation page also lists entry into experimentation and alignment with health, industry, bioeconomy, or digital territorial-development axes as selection criteria.

Innovact invites applications throughout the year and analyzes complete dossiers. Its official application route leads to a Quest for change page listing French and English forms; the forms’ contents were not verified. Innovact says eligible applicants will be called by a startup manager within eight days for a 30-minute phone interview. If both sides wish to proceed, the applicant is invited to give a ten-minute pitch to Innovact management and startup managers; that pitch and question-and-answer appointment is described as one hour. The application page also describes a ten-minute pitch for entry validation before an engagement jury of 15 to 25 members of the Marne ecosystem.

The collective Starter Class lasts three months, with two classes listed annually: a spring session from April through June and an autumn session from September through November. Innovact lists two days per week and ten places per class. The exact dates of the next class are not established by these recurring seasonal windows.