Innorobo 2018, 15-17 May, Paris, France

Why a Call For Startups?

The huge variety of robotics applications available today are already impacting many diverse fields of activity and changing the game in most industrial sectors. In this fast-changing sector, a multitude of start-ups are being set up, and these young companies need to generate greater awareness of their projects as well as funding.

This call encourages young companies from all over the world to send in their application in order to present their project or prototype to an international panel of high-tech investors coming together at the summit.

Who can participate?

Our Call for Robotics Start-ups is open to any company:

  • founded in the past 5 years
  • having raised less than US$ 2 million since creation
  • not affiliated with or belonging to a larger group

The 2015 Finalists on stage

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  • aruco
    La startup britannique Reach Robotics a remporté le concours de startups organisé par le salon Innorobo, qui se tient du 1er au 2 Juillet à Lyon. Le concept de robots de combats, connectés et évolutifs, a séduit le jury d’investisseurs. Dans l’univers emprunt de sciences fiction qui règne actuellement dans les allées du salon Innorobo, l’idée folle de Reach Robotics parait totalement géniale. Le salon qui se tient à Lyon jusqu’au 3 Juillet accueillait une compétition de startups, remportée à la mi-journée par la startup de Silas Adekunle, installée à Bristol, UK.

    Geoffray Sylvain / Aruco /

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    C’est important d’être à Innorobo. C’est très utile d’avoir du feedback de tous, des professionnels ou bien du public.

    Arnaud Didey / Reach Robotics /

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    Thank you very much for having us there – it was a great event. We have gathered a lot of business cards and now we are working hard on following up with the interested people.

    Akos Domotor / Optoforce /

  • empire_robotics_logo_color_clear_resultat
    Thanks again for this great opportunity to be a part of Innorobo. It was a great mix of industry people and general public who showed an interest in our technology and robotics in general. I was able to make a few very good connections that hopefully will prove valuable for us. The pitch event was enjoyable too, I found the judges to be well qualified and engaged in their questions and review. All around, I was very satisfied with the event.

    Bill Culley / Empire Robotics /

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    We had a great time and made good contacts.

    Simone Schürle / Magnebotix /

Call for startup news

Our investor panel

Malgosia

Malgosia Iwankowska is Co-founder & Partner at TerionSuisse GmbH and SamanTree Medical SA, and a private investor and investor in business angels “Go Beyond”. Shehas been active in the field of medical devices for the last 25+ years, and brings extensive experience in sales, marketing, training and clinical trials in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

Malgosia Iwankowska

Co founder & board member of KB Medical SA
anastasia-emmanuel
Anastasia Emmanuel is Director of UK Tech & Design for Indiegogo. She is responsible for encouraging crowdfunding growth within technology and design in the UK. Anastasia also manages social media for Indiegogo UK, where you will regularly find her tweeting the brightest and the best UK crowdfunding campaigns.

Anastasia Emmanuel

UK Hardware, Technology & Design at Indiegogo
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Baybars Altuntas is a global entrepreneur, best-selling author, angel investor, columnist, star of the television show Dragons’ Den on Bloomberg HT, President of the Business Angels Association of Turkey, President of Deulcom International…

Baybars Altuntas

Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, VP of EBAN-Belgium
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Since 2008, within the Safran Group’s Strategy division, Jean-Philippe has headed the Group’s business diversification through technology cooperation ventures. Having developed UAVs, Safran Group is already involved in robotics and recently decided to set up a corporate venture fund.

Jean-Philippe Olier

VP Business Development – Safran
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Alexandre uses various dedicated vehicles to fund a number of ambitious projects run by talented teams. Passionate about robotics, he is currently head of a robotics engineering firm, and did set up the Robot Lab, the first incubator dedicated to robotics and the IOT, in the very heart of Paris.

Alexandre Ichai

Founder – RobotCapital
Directeur – RobotLab
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Oussama is co-founder of TheFamily, a company nurturing Entrepreneurs with Intelligence, Unfair Advantages and Capital. Oussama also teaches entrepreneurship at Sciences Po Paris.

Oussama Ammar

Co-founder and Partner – TheFamily

The 2014 Finalists on stage

  • Fahad Azad, Robosoft Systems (India)
  • Thierry Claudel, Tyva Energie (France)
  • Kai Sim, CTRLWorks (Singapore)
  • Alban Guyot, MyKompany (France)
  • Francesca Iannibelli, Hands Company (Italy)