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💬 « La transparence salariale va devenir un enjeu majeur de marque employeur et de communication » Virgile Raingeard, CEO de Figures 🇫🇷 Or en France, seules deux entreprises sur cinq communiquent sur leur politique salariale ℹ La transparence des salaires devient cruciale pour une rémunération plus juste et influence positivement les processus de recrutement. Une directive européenne, à transposer en droit français d'ici 2026, va imposer de nouvelles pratiques sur la transparence salariale 👉 D'ici 2026, les entreprises françaises devront en effet : • Améliorer la transparence salariale • Faciliter l'application des principes de rémunération. • Appliquer des sanctions pour non-conformité. Alors, comment anticiper dès aujourd’hui ce changement ? 👀 Figures, la plateforme de gestion de la rémunération pour aider les entreprises à intégrer et centraliser les données liées aux salaires, propose son 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝗶 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 👉 Découvrez notre article pour télécharger le guide de Figures et tout savoir sur la transparence salariale et ses implications pour votre entreprise 👇 https://bit.ly/46lqWBi #startup #RH #remuneration

La prochaine Inclusive Hour SISTA x Bpifrance Le Hub c'est le 10 septembre ! Cette table ronde se déroulera dans le cadre des Catch'Up du Hub, des sessions de rencontres entre pairs pour partager des bonnes pratiques, des expertises et des retours d'expérience concrets autour d'une même thématique. Pour aborder la thématique des Etapes pour Préparer la Levée de Fonds, nous aurons le plaisir de réunir autour de la table : - Julia Néel Biz, cofondatrice de teale - Thomas Reynaud, fondateur et CEO de Garantme - Gwenaël Hamon, directeur des investissements Bpifrance Digital Venture Réservez votre place dès maintenant par ici : https://lnkd.in/gGwNRs5n Romane Sitbon Alexia Reiss Véronique Jacq Claire Castel Clémentine Cazenave

💥 New Deal 💥 We are super excited to lead Cognyx's 1,7m€ Pre-Seed round alongside OSS Ventures and some of the most prominent business angels of the French & German startup scene 🔥   As they say, “Hardware is hard”! Cognyx's mission is to make it easier and faster to design. The company identified a huge opportunity in the manufacturing sector: outdated systems have scattered essential engineering and product data, creating significant inefficiencies. The industry’s key R&D output, the Bill of Materials (BOM), often faces alignment issues across departments, slowing innovation and impacting product quality. Cognyx is revolutionizing this space by integrating the latest technologies, such as knowledge graphs, to unify existing manufacturing softwares. Engineers can now collaborate in real-time on a single BOM, speeding up workflows and enhancing product optimization 🔧 And this is just the beginning—AI advancements are on the horizon! 🌟 Stay tuned. We are delighted to support Matthias Berahya-Lazarus & Deon van der Vyver in this very first stage of development to build the future of hardware engineering   ⬇️ Les Echos article in comments   Quentin Mayolle Ugo Varrasso Véronique Jacq Paul-François Fournier #frenchtech #industrie4.0 #hardware #startups

📝 New Blog Post Circular Economy Mapping 2024 🌟 At Bpifrance Digital Venture, we’re committed to driving innovation that tackles pressing social and environmental issues. Today, we’re excited to kick off a series of deep dives into impact sectors where groundbreaking ideas are flourishing. 🚀💫 🌱 Our inaugural focus is on the circular economy—a transformative model that prioritizes resource efficiency and waste reduction. By emphasizing recycling, reuse, and intelligent design, we’re reshaping our society toward a more resilient future. 🌎 💡📚 In France, the AGEC law (anti-waste and circular economy law) has sparked a wave of initiatives. Five key objectives drive this movement: reducing disposable plastic, educating consumers, promoting reuse, combating planned obsolescence, and enhancing production practices. Today, the circular economy takes various forms, including: ♻️ Recycling: Reintegrating waste into production cycles after treatment. ♻️ Reuse: Giving products a second life beyond their initial purpose. ♻️ Refurbishment: Breathing new life into used items. ♻️ Rental Services: Enabling access without ownership. At Bpifrance Digital Venture, we actively invest in circular economy pioneers like Recommerce Group (refurbished smartphones) and FAUME (second-hand clothing solutions for retail brands). 🌐 Mapping Circular Economy Startups in France: (Help us complete it if you spot any missing companies!) Full post in comments ⬇️ Clémentine Cazenave Gabrielle Thin Claire Castel Adrien Neel Véronique Jacq #impactinvesting #sustainability #frenchtech #circulareconomy #impact

💥 Portfolio News 💥 We’re thrilled to announce that C12 has successfully closed its second financing round, securing an impressive €18 million. The round is led by Varsity, alongside Verve Ventures, European Investment Bank (EIB), 360 Capital, Bpifrance Digital Venture and BNP Paribas Développement. 🚀💫 This significant milestone enables C12’s to accelerate the design of quantum processors using carbon nanotube technology. 🔬 💡 Scientific Breakthroughs: After raising $10 million in 2021, C12 achieved a remarkable breakthrough in materials for large-scale quantum computers. Their architecture, the closest realization of a single spin in vacuum, minimizes noise, ensuring high-quality qubits. 🏭 Quantum Fab: In 2023, C12 inaugurated the Quantum Fab in the heart of Paris. This unique production line, equipped with cleanrooms for semiconductor chips, enables C12 to produce its first quantum products. 🌌 Mission Ahead: C12’s mission remains clear: design and build a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Their unique approach prioritizes qubit quality, positioning them as leaders in the emergence of quantum computing. Congrats to the team Pierre Desjardins and Matthieu Desjardins, for all their achievements since our seed investment back in 2021! Clémentine Cazenave Véronique Jacq Paul-François Fournier Nicolas Dufourcq Didier Valet Florent T. Nader Sabbaghian Thomas Nivard Xavier Mesnier Thomas Bourlot Sébastien REIX

💥 Portfolio News 💥 "Jamais deux sans trois" 💨 Proud to participate in Mistral AI's 600m€ round, the biggest yet for a start-up building large general-purpose #AI models that is based outside Silicon Valley 🔥 This is the 3rd time in a year we invest in the company to support its incredible growth, with more than €1bn in financial firepower raised 🚀 Just a year after it was launched as an unlikely challenger to OpenAI, Mistral AI is graduating from a European champion to a global contender as its state-of-the-art, efficient and customizable models are used by millions of people around the globe 🤖 Congrats to the team Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix! Joy Boustani Véronique Jacq Paul-François Fournier Nicolas Dufourcq #frenchtech #LLM #GenAI

💥 Portfolio News 💥 We are proud to announce Continuity’s €10M Series A led by 115K alongside Elaia & Bpifrance Digital Venture ! 💰🚀 With a track record of partnering with the main insurers in Europe like AXA, Groupama or ENTORIA 💪, Benoît Pastorelli, Pierre Beauhaire, Antoine Sinton and their team are on a mission to help insurers improve underwriting for SMEs using Open Data and AI 🔍. As of today, Continuity's tools are used by over 500 underwriters and enable better monitoring of one million contracts, representing 2 billion in premiums 🔥 Kudos to them for all their achievements since our seed investment back in 2021!   Clarisse Blandin Quentin Mayolle Véronique Jacq Paul-François Fournier 115K Elaia Kamet Ventures Sébastien Lefebvre Stephane Guinet Damien Launoy Benoît Descoqs

We are proud to support the 4th Flagship Report from European Women in VC: "BEYOND RETURNS: Venture and growth investing fuel sustainability & societal change". 📚 We are convinced that increased diversity in venture capital leads to better investment decisions, and that the diversity of founding teams is very important. 👩🏼🤝👨🏿 Here are the key findings and you can find the link to the full report in the comment section ⬇️ Véronique Jacq 🚀Kinga Stanislawska Kasia Piasecki

💥 Portfolio News 💥 Proud to have our portfolio company Callyope joining Google's AI for Health incubator 🎉 It's an excellent news for this start-up looking to use AI to monitor psychiatric patients by analysing their voices 🩺 Congrats to the whole team! Martin Denais, Xuan-Nga Cao, Rachid Riad Gwenaël Hamon

🚀 Congratulations to our portfolio companies who have been selected to take part in the 2024 French Tech Next40/120 class, which aims to support the most successful French scale-ups and help them become global technology leaders.   ManoMano Mistral AI Exotrail Flowdesk Planity SINGULART Swan WeMaintain | Certified B Corp #frenchtech #startups #scaleups