Dear Sir, Madam,
Cap Digital is the French Digital Innovation Hub for digital and ecological transformation in Paris and Hauts-de-France regions and the largest business cluster in Europe with more than 1.000 members.
Our mission is to make them work collectively to bring their visions, prototypes, projects, technologies and services beyond everyone’s expectations. To achieve this, we offer our services in support of innovation, acceleration and digital transformation in 6 different sectors: Sustainable City, Health, ICT, Retail, Cultural and Creative Industries, Education.
We are pleased to share today with you our third European newsletter disclosing latest news of our European projects and members.
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Other futures can be possible so let’s uphold a responsible and inclusive innovation model!
Cap Digital’s business model, for a sustainable economic and social recovery, based on resilience and inclusion of our society, is to bring together citizens, researchers, startupers, at the most local level, but also in a dynamic development on a European scale.
The health crisis has revealed many vulnerabilities: social inequality, wide disparities in companies and public services to find digital solutions, serious concern regarding the growing dependency on products made outside Europe, a weak advocacy strategy to make a European collective to face the pandemic in a coordinated way.
But we will also learn from this crisis that it represented a way of speeding up the deployment of trends and experimentations to continue to communicate, to work, to buy, to learn, to distract us…
For Cap Digital’s members, building the future means developing innovations that produce a real and positive impact in satisfying the needs of citizens, territories in France and in Europe, by working closely with the socio-economic stakeholders, local authorities and the academic world.
To act for a responsible innovation, open to territories and their habitants, open on Europe, it is to act with Cap Digital. The Ile-de-France Region, the Hauts-de-France Region, the French State and Europe can rely on Cap Digital and its thousand companies and research and training centers to make the changes necessary for the evolution of our economy and our society. We are voluntary to work towards a future that gives confidence!
> Check all our lastest news and events here
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ACCELERATING CARBON NEUTRALITY
Registration to AI4Cities Bootcamp open until 11 Sept
Startups, SMEs, bigger companies, climate change experts and other relevant stakeholders interested in designing innovative solutions applying the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and motivated to participate in the pre-commercial procurement (PCP) process can register to the “Get Ready: AI4Cities Bootcamp” taking place online on 23-24 September. This event aims at coaching motivated participants to write their best applications for the upcoming AI4Cities tender (expected to be launched by December 1st).
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MEET THE BEST-IN-CLASS EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE STARTUPS
Don’t miss EIT Health Catapult semi-finals on 21-23 October
Every year the programme, coordinated by Cap Digital since 2017, sources and accelerates 42 European start-ups in biotech, medtech and digital health that get high-quality training in business modelling and planning, investment deal negotiation and pitch training, as well as a facilitated access to top level experts and investors. In 2020, the EIT Health Catapult will hold virtual events to showcase young European innovators & game-changes to investor community and prominent health players:
- Biotech pitch event: 21 October
- Medtech pitch event: 22 October
- Digital Health pitch event: 23 October
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🔎 Our European Projects 🔎
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GET PREPARED FOR THE 1st OPEN CALL
DigiCirc
In our last newsletter, we proudly announced the start of DigiCirc, a H2020 INNOSUP-01 project aiming to boost the circular economy using digital tools. Since then, the website has been released! Bookmark it to check the opening of the 1st open call on Circular City on November 1st and try your luck to get up to 60k€ per SME and to participate in the acceleration program.
In the meantime, your input is need to help us to identify the key Circular Cities challenges for this call. Contribute to our survey before 4 September.
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EUROPEAN DIGITAL INNOVATION HUB
The EDIH for a SustAInable & Human City
Cap Digital and its partners are building SUMITY, the European Digital Innovation Hub dedicated to Sustainable and Human City in the framework of Digital Europe Programme. Supported by a unique alliance of the largest universities, research laboratories, major companies, innovators' networks, SMEs associations and local authorities, SUMITY brings together the skills and technical, human and financial resources to accelerate the digital and ecological transformation of companies and territories in the Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France regions.
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- Discover how French start-ups and SMEs face the crisis: Turnovers, cash flow, staff… What are the economic impacts? How and why do start-ups and SMEs turn to their banks? And what vision for the future? Find the answers in this second edition of the barometer.
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Congratulations to ROLINER project officially recognised as one of 2019 EIT success stories for its real impact on people life thanks to an adaptive fitting device that brings comfort to prosthetic limbs and many other wearables.
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👏 Successes from our community 👏
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- Congratulations to Libheros and Grapheal selected in Headstart, one of EIT Health Accelerator programme. They will receive mentoring and financial support to accelerate the development of their promising health solutions.
- Cibiltech and TRIBVN Healthcare are among the 15 start-ups joining Bridgehead Europe programme to get support to grow beyond their home markets
- Contestsquare, specialized in the analysis of Internet behaviors on sites and applications, joins the very closed list of French unicorns by announcing a $190 million fundraising and a new valuation of more than $ 1 billion.
- Invenis raised €3M to make business intelligence accessible to all SMEs in France. The start-up publishes a business intelligence software for SMEs to support them in the predictive analysis of all their data and in autonomy.
- Glowee is one of the winners of the highly competitive EIC Accelerator competition special Green Deal whose aim is to contribute to the transition to a circular economy and to the energy sector in Europe. It will obtain mixed funding (equity & grant) for its project.
- Voodoo opens its capital to Tencent for a valorization of 1,4 million dollars. This will help Voodoo – which develops and edits mobiles games for the general public since 2013 – to develop its growth strategy and to adapt its games to the Asian market.
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