IP Paris Demo Day 2025: The Must-Attend Stage for Tomorrow’s Innovations
From the opening remarks, Thierry Coulhon, President of the Executive Board of IP Paris, and Roxanne Varza, Director of Station F, reaffirmed the ambition of this now-essential event: to create a unique space fostering strategic connections between entrepreneurs, investors, and partners. Throughout the afternoon, startups took turns on stage for a challenging one-minute pitch exercise, split into two sessions, showcasing the high level of ambition, technological rigor, and user relevance of the supported projects.
In total, 160 B2B meetings were scheduled via a dedicated platform, complementing the spontaneous discussions held at the startups’ booths.
The strategic roundtable “Fundraising and Then What?”, featuring Rémi Dangla (founder of Stilla Technologies), Claire Nouet (COO of Pathway), and Jean Schmitt (VC at Jolt Capital), offered valuable insights into post-funding challenges, investor-founder relations, and growth hurdles. The day concluded with a networking cocktail, a good opportunity to create synergies and strengthen collaborations.
40 High-Potential Startups Reflecting the Strategic Sectors of IP Paris
The 40 highlighted startups reflect the richness, diversity, and maturity of the projects supported by the IP Paris ecosystem, which backs more than 100 new early-stage ventures each year. Coming from four of its incubators, they cover all the strategic sectors identified by IP Paris: HealthTech & MedTech, Greentech & Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, and Defense.
Other sectors were also represented, including Biotech, Cyber, Quantum, and PropTech.
These highly promising startups, whether from recent cohorts or already in the fundraising phase, were able to meet directly with investors and partners to receive immediate feedback on their value proposition, business model, market positioning, and commercial strategy, with the objective of accelerating their go-to-market.
Incubators Mobilized to Support Growth
At Institut Polytechnique de Paris, innovation is driven by a collective dynamic supported by a unified and complementary incubation framework. The four represented incubators—X-UP (École Polytechnique), IMT Starter, the Télécom Paris Incubator, and the Ponts Alumni Incubator—form a unique continuum of support.
They offer project leaders—students, researchers, alumni, or external entrepreneurs—a coherent, progressive, and tailored path for every stage of development: from ideation to scale-up, including R&D, early market testing, and access to financing.
Each structure provides specific expertise: multidisciplinary support, technological experimentation, industrial matchmaking, access to cutting-edge labs and technological infrastructure, engineering methodologies, alumni networks, and fundraising assistance.