Public services

A startup cannot hope to grow without the trust of its investors, customers, employees and market. This trust must be cultivated. The AFNOR group supports you in this work of valorization and conviction, in France and abroad:

• Awakening to the culture of standardization, advice and support to get involved in writing voluntary standards, list and monitor those of your target market, develop interoperability and co-design… to make your innovations the standards of tomorrow;

• Third party evaluation and certification, to enhance your compliance with quality criteria, your progress approaches and structure your activities over time;

• Training and solutions for standard and regulatory monitoring, to gain in understanding, competence and responsiveness, put yourself in “integrated management system” mode;

• Collective support and networking (clusters, thematic clubs, benchmarks), thanks to our territorial network in France and in 39 foreign countries.

All the information on https://www.afnor.org/

The French Frequency Agency (ANFR) provides the planning and the radio frequencies management as well as the delivery of certain authorizations. It offers you :

• a visibility on the new opportunities of markets that use frequencies : the 5G era, autonomous vehicles and the harmonization of frequencies on a European level to facilitate the internationalization,
• a conform initiative with the marking EC « the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) » and a sharing of expertise on choices of frequencies (the most adapted frequency bands to your needs),
• a radio waves exposure test and an identification of testing grounds and beta-tester “amateur radio, researchers …” : railways, subway station (if you are in the testing phase).

https://www.anfr.fr/accueil/

Architect and guardian of Internet Exchange Networks, fixed, mobile and postal telecoms, the Arcep (the French Telecommunications Regulation Authority for electronic and post communications) ensure the deployment of digital networks on the territory, their interconnection and their opening. It encourages market-opening to new actors and to all forms of innovation. For entrepreneurs, it offers :

• A ” statutory sandbox “ : under certain conditions, the Arcep can reduce your obligations as operator,
• A help in the appropriate steps for the obtaining of long-lasting authorizations (in particular with regard to frequencies),
• A detailed information about the evolution of connectivity standards and the international regulatory framework regarding frequencies and numbers to anticipate the future of your activity.

https://www.arcep.fr/

The Banque de France is a public entity, asked to ensure monetary and financial stability of the French economy that can accompany you to look for information, contacts and funding solutions. The correspondence for very small companies (TPE) of the Banque de France offers you:

• a linking with funding bodies of (bank, crowdfunding, micro-credit, credit mediation),
• an orientation towards professional networks (Institutions, consular chambers, employers’ federations, associative networks...).

https://www.banque-france.fr/

In every stage of their development, Bpifrance finances companies in credit, for their coverage and in equity. It offers you:

• a support in your innovation projects and an international accompaniment,
• appropriate advice and networking,
• acceleration programs,
• a close interlocutor through its 48 regional embeddings.

https://www.bpifrance.fr/

Business France is mainly charged with supporting startups, French small and medium-sized companies in their international development. This public body offers you:

• information and advice to prepare your international development strategy (country to prioritize; internal organization of your startup…),
• support programs to develop startups at international level (Ignition, Immersion, Acceleration),
• information to help you to identify the most relevant international events (CES, Web summit, IFA, Slush…).

https://export.businessfrance.fr/default.html

Business France offers free guidance to make your new business in France a success, regardless of your plans.

We help the foreign companies and investors make decisions and offer support throughout their project, calling not only upon Business France inward investment advisors but also its network of regional partners.

Welcome to la French Tech / Business France

Have you decided to move to France for career reasons and you are looking for information on formalities to be completed and how best to settle in? The Welcome Office is here to help you!

A question regarding visas, residence permits, personal tax and/or social protection? Our website contains all the information you may require upon arrival. Have a look at www.welcometofrance.com.

You would like to meet in person? Book an appointment, let’s meet and talk!

You can also contact us by email: welcometolafrenchtech@businessfrance.fr

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The CCI Paris supports the development of companies from their creation to their transfer. It offers you:

• information and advice on the development of your startup: legal aspects and formalities of constitution, business plan, initial funding,
• advice on your recruitments (internships, work-study contracts…) and available support,
• a support in the development of your activity in France (financial aids and subsidies, access to procurement contract, innovation funding, fundraising, external growth) and on the international stage.

http://www.cci-paris-idf.fr/

The French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) is responsible for the development and implementation of the French spatial program. It offers you:

• a raising awareness about the interest of using data and spatial technologies,
• a support in the qualification of your needs regarding technologies and spatial data (Healthtech; AgriTech; Tourism; Mobility; Security…),
• an expertise in the integration of innovative technologies or spatial solutions in your activity,
• a technical feasibility analysis of your services and sharing of expertise in the field of spatial technologies,
• an access to technical platforms of the CNES to test your services that use geolocalization, telecommunication, Earth observation data,
• the possibility of financial support and getting in touch with partners, in France or abroad.

https://cnes.fr/

The Direccte is the interlocutor of French companies and supports economic activity, the development of employment and employee skills.

It offers you information and advice on:

• The development of your startup, accessible financing and tax credits
  (CIR, CII, JEI, etc.)
• Support for the management of your human resources, especially if you are recruiting foreign talent
• Labour law

http://idf.direccte.gouv.fr/

The French Customs are in charge of the collection of taxes due to the entry of the goods into the territory. Their unit ” advice to companies ” has for mission to help you to secure and to simplify your import/export procedures, fluidify your exchanges, lower your costs and support your competitiveness.

It offers you a support for:

• your customs procedures : EORI, HS Code, customs declaration,
• your customs duties,
• the optimization of your financial management : reverse-charges of VAT; information about countries with few customs duties (South Korea, Canada, Morocco…),
• the optimization of your flows : returns and repairs processing.

http://www.douane.gouv.fr/

Brexit information :

http://www.douane.gouv.fr/fiche/brexit-operateurs-vos-questions-les-plus-frequentes

http://www.douane.gouv.fr/les-cellules-conseil-aux-entreprises

GENCI is the French national HighPerformance Computing organization. It allows researchers and industrialists to access supercomputers for their leading-edge works that require a more and more important computing power; the simulation approximates big data and Artificial Intelligence in the supercomputing.

At French Tech Central, within the framework of our national program SiMSEO, we offer to startups and SMEs:

• A custom-made support for your projects of digital simulation and massive data processing

• An access to a network of academic experts specialized in digital simulation and supercomputing that are able to understand your business needs and translate it in a concrete proof of concept that uses these new tools

• An access to supercomputers and successful storage tools to boost your performances and to accelerate the scale-up of your company

• A 50 % subsidy from public authorities for this support that corresponds to your needs.

Just do as the 900 companies that are already sensitized and the 50 that are being structured and supported! Join the SiMSEO program.

Contact us : elise.quentel@genci.fr

The French National Institute of Geographical and forest Information is responsible for producing, maintaining and broadcasting geographical information in France.

It offers you:

• An access to data of the territory description and to various related services to respond to challenges in geolocalization markets(Mobility; Security; Green-Tech; AgriTech; Gaming, Tourism, Healthtech…),
• An expertise in geomatics and geodata services,
• A support in the development of your startup, including guidance on your experiments.

http://www.ign.fr/

The Ile-de-France Region supportscompanies of Ile-de-France on several growth vectors.

It offers information on:

• its development and innovation aids,
• its economic development policies (support for poles of competitiveness, incubators, university laboratories…).

https://www.iledefrance.fr/

The French National Institute of Industrial Property is a public body in charge of the recording and the delivery of industrial property titles. It also supports the economic development of companies by facilitating the protection and the valuation of their innovations.

The INPI offers you a support in:

• intellectual property,
• the integration of industrial property (brands, patents, designs and models) and intellectual property (copyright, software, databases) in your business,
• the management of intellectual property in your international development (trade shows, export...).

https://www.inpi.fr/fr

Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, coordinates and develops links between public research and startups within French Tech Central.

It offers you:

• a support in the qualification of your needs (technology, expertise...) from the technological obstacles encountered,
• an identification of laboratories and scientists that can respond to your needs,
• technology transfers, knowledge and skills drawn from public research,
• Inria Tech Talks: a program of meetings in the field of technologies with strong digital component and that results from public research.

https://www.inria.fr/

The role of Pôle Emploi is to support enterprises in their recruitments and job-seekers to find posts or to create their own company. It also provides job-seekers with an assistance in the creation of businesses.

https://www.pole-emploi.fr/accueil/

The UGAP is the only public and general purchasing station in France.

It particularly offers :

• a presentation of the public procurement,
• advice on the access to the public procurement,
• an appreciation of the economic model regarding the rules of public accounting.

https://www.ugap.fr/

The Urssaf Ile-de-France has for first mission to recover social contributions.

It offers you information on:

• the procedures to build your business or acquire the status of self-employed person,
• the declarations and the payment of your employees’ social contributions, trainees and apprentices,
• the declarations and the payment of the non-salaried workers’s social contributions: managers, micro-entrepreneurs, self-employed people,
• your on-line accounts and digitised procedures.

https://www.urssaf.fr/portail/home/votre-urssaf/urssaf-ile-de-france.html

The Association for the Employment of Executives (Apec) supports startups in their recruitment, development and retention of their executive skills.

It offers you:

• Personalized advice to analyse your needs and develop with you your sourcing and recruitment strategy (trainee, employee, freelance,…), our consultants welcome you in the French Tech Central area.

• Information to enable you to monitor and decode the latest HR developments, to help you improve your practices and share with peers.

• Advice dedicated to future entrepreneurs to identify their potential and transform their idea into a project tailored to them.

• Partnership opportunities, especially if you offer an innovative service, content or technology that can renew the candidate or recruiter experience and invent tomorrow’s networking in the executive skills market.

The National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) manages a resources and information pole on the business world (PRISME) for project leaders, entrepreneurs and investors. It offers:

• Information on markets in France and abroad (within the BnF that is situated near French Tech Central).

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

The Ministry of the Armed Forces, with the Defence Innovation Agency, joins French Tech Central, within Station F. This partnership is part of the Ministry of the Armed Forces’ SME Action Plan, and participates in the opening of the Ministry of the Armed Forces to start-ups, incubators and accelerators.

The Defence Innovation Agency was created on 1 September 2018 by the Minister of Defence to bring together the Ministry’s innovation initiatives (whether upstream research or use and opportunity innovation). Reporting to the General Delegate for Armaments, its mission is to capture innovation and accelerate its deployment for the benefit of all end-users, whatever their field: operations management, equipment, support, operations, administration. It provides a single point of contact for any innovation project owner as well as new tools such as the Innovation Defense Lab, designed to accelerate the experimentation, prototyping and deployment of innovation.

Noa (Nous Orienter dans l’Administration = Guiding us in the Administraton) is a chatbot born from listening to the needs of startups to facilitate administrative procedures.

It allows startups and entrepreneurs to facilitate their exchanges with administrations and to quickly access precise information, to help them in their administrative procedures 24 hours a day in french and in english.

Available on our website, it is also available on the websites of the Préfecture de région Ile-de-France and Pôle Emploi Ile-de-France, and soon on those of other partners.

http://www.prefectures-regions.gouv.fr/ile-de-france/Region-et-institutions/L-action-de-l-Etat/Economie-entreprises-emploi-et-finances-publiques/Le-chatbot-NOA-une-nouvelle-offre-de-service-pour-les-start-up

Getinlabs est le portail du Réseau C.U.R.I.E dédié aux entreprises incluant notamment une offre spéciale startup qui a pour but de leur faire découvrir comment accélérer en innovant grâce à la recherche publique tout en bénéficiant de l’accompagnement des valorisateurs.

Il vous propose :

• D’en savoir plus sur vos potentialités d’innovation grâce à la recherche publique
• De vous donner accès à un réseau de plus de 180 structures de recherche représentant plus de 3 000 professionnels de la valorisation de la recherche publique et à un catalogue de plus de 800 technologies disponibles
• De vous permettre de d’identifier et de vous mettre en relation avec les bons interlocuteurs grâce à ses services dédiés

https://www.getinlabs.fr/

The French Deposit Office and its subsidiaries constitute a public group, a long-term investor in the service of general interest and the economic development of territories. Its mission has been reaffirmed by the Economic Modernisation Act of August 4th, 2008.

Recognized for its expertise in management of mandates, the Group concentrates its action on four strategic transitions on the France’s long-term development: territorial, ecological, energy, digital, demographic and social transitions.

http://www.caissedesdepots.fr/

The ACPR is the French authority of banking and insurance supervision. It gives you information to exercise a regulated financial activity as Fintech or Assurtech and assists you in these steps, in particular through its Fintech-Innovation pole, on :

• regulation : payment services, banking insurance activities, cryptocurrency activities, crowdfunding regulations, the rules to get a European passport for financial services concerned by an ACPR approval,
• the market : business model, projects maturity,
• the cases concerned by specific technologies : blockchain, IA, Big Data, Cloud Computing and the stakes linked to it.

https://acpr.banque-france.fr/

The CNIL is a public authority responsible for the protection of personal data. It aims to sensitize professionals at the earliest possible stage of their products and services design. It also supports them in their privacy by design procedures. The CNIL’s digital innovation laboratory offers you workshops on:

• the general framework that is applicable to personal data (GDPR): portability, safety, privacy by design, contractual relations for subcontractors;
• the sectorial stakes, particularly in the fields of Healthtech, EdTech, FinTech, IoT…

https://www.cnil.fr/

The French Police Prefecture is particularly responsible for the safety and the guarantee of the liberties of all individuals that live or visit Paris and Ile-de-France. It gives you information on residence permits for foreign entrepreneurs.

The French Tech Visa aims at attracting international talents of Tech and facilitating their welcome in France, whether they are entrepreneurs, employees or investors.

Check if you can benefit from the French Tech Visa by clicking you here – > https://visa.lafrenchtech.com

https://www.prefecturedepolice.interieur.gouv.fr/

The DRIEE is a regional service of the Ministry of the ecological and sustainable Transition.

It gives you information on:

• the regulations regarding the environment;
• public aids to finance projects with an environmental dimension;
• the access to public procurement for projects with an environmental dimension.

http://www.driee.ile-de-france.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/

The DRFIP is particularly responsible for the processing, the calculation and the collection of business taxes.

It gives you information on:

• business taxation, including the new forms of activity (ICO, crypto-currencies...),
• the fiscal devices in favour of your development: fiscal rescript, tax credits (innovation tax credit, research tax credit, ” Young innovative enterprise “status...).

The Prefecture of Paris and Ile-de-France coordinates the presence of public regional services and the public policies that are implemented in the region.

Within French Tech central, it represents:

• a special interlocutor to give you visibility over the State’s actions in the Ile-de-France Region and to direct you Towards the regional services that could respond your needs,
• an actor that favors the relation between administrations and entrepreneurs, in particular by the development of a chatbot on administrative and fiscal procedures for entrepreneurs.

The objective is to bring artificial intelligence and automation in their exchanges.

http://www.prefectures-regions.gouv.fr/ile-de-france