Participate in a business project
chrysalink,The Aquitaine Science Transfer (AST) start-up incubator promotes the creation of deep tech start-ups based on breakthrough technologies, promised to high-potential markets, and we support all entrepreneurial initiatives, issues or backing to the work of neo-Aquitaine researchers.
This is how we supported from the start a few nuggets: Treefrog Therapeutics, Poietis, Carbon Waters, Argolight, ByThe Wave, Irisiôme, NFC-i, ... INCUBATION START-UP PROJECTS
Aquitaine Science Transfert has been the winner and leader of the French Tech Seed fund for the Aquitaine region since 2019, with its partners (the Agence de Développement et d'Innovation de Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the local technopoles Agropole, Hélioparc, Technopole Pays Basque, Bordeaux Technowest and Unitec).
Put us in charge of your project!
- Your project is based on a breakthrough technological innovation (DeepTech).
- Two scenarios are possible:
- Your technology originates from a public research laboratory in the Aquitaine region.
- You have independently developed a technological solution and need the expertise of public research laboratories in Aquitaine to further develop it.
- You have already engaged with potential customers who have confirmed that your technology addresses a genuine market need.
- Your company is, or will be, established in the Aquitaine region.
- Your project delivers a positive societal and/or environmental impact.
Our team
Cécile FABRE
Start-up Manager
Marie-Laure TOUSSAINT
Start-up Manager
Daniel DIEZ
Entrepreneurship Project Officer
PUI Bordeaux
Emeline FOUCHE
Entrepreneurship Project Officer
PUI La Rochelle
Pierre DELFORNO
Entrepreneurship Project Officer
PUI Pau
Marie-Line LAGARDE
Administrative assistant for incubation
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The chrysa-link start-up incubator
We support the creation of your DeepTech startup from 18 to 21 months before incorporation. Our approach combines personalized support, training, and coaching to provide you with the essential tools needed to successfully develop your project.
There is just one requirement: a strong connection with a public research laboratory in the Aquitaine region.
To join the chrysa-link incubator, you must either: originate from a public research environment, or carry a project that can be linked to the expertise and competencies of a public research laboratory. This close collaboration with research enables innovative technologies to mature, validate their market potential, and lay the foundations for sustainable business growth.
Our incubation service offer
Accompagnement
Our incubator supports you in a lean Start-up approach and draws on all of the skills of our organization to understand with you the dimensions of the market, intellectual property, legal, business, financing, ... and supports you to:
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Defining your business model -
The constitution of your team -
Looking for partners -
Getting in touch with investors -
Getting in touch with investors -
Your locations,...
AWARENESS / TRAINING
To offer the best chances to your Start-up, the AST incubator allows you to improve your skills on essential aspects.
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Training pack: 7 compulsory modules: Lean start-up, Team, Market, Intellectual Property, Finance, roadmap & fundraising, implemented several times a year.
They break down on principle in:-
A first initial collective awareness session with an external stakeholder -
Personal work sessions in real situations in the field -
Individual coaching sessions by the Start-up team and AST business experts -
A collective session of feedback and experience sharing (in the presence of mentors and / or industrialists)
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Collaborative lunches: 2 hours per month, feedback from experience in the presence of a guest (expert, former incubators, startupper, ...) Event co-constructed with the promotion in progress according to his needs.
Funding
Aquitaine Science Transfert is the first investor in your start-up! Our financial support of € 20k in advance, repayable at 0% in the event of success, is concentrated on the fundamental services at the launch of your start-up.
Get involved in a start-up project!
The team is the most important factor in the success of a business project. For certain start-up projects, Aquitaine Science Transfert wishes, as soon as possible, to set up a balanced founding team, competent with complementary profiles and an advisory board.
We are basically looking for three types of profiles:
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Holders to found or co-found the start-up (CEO, CTO, ...)
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Professionals to strengthen or co-found the company (business, but also technical, marketing, finance…)
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Experts with a senior profile who have a good network to form an "advisory board"
Join our start-ups
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You want to get involved in a start-up project, -
You have start-up experience, a commercial or technical profile, -
You have a good network
Fund you
Aquitaine Science Transfert is the first investor in your start-up! Our financial support is focused on:
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Maturation: the development of your technology to bring it to the proof of concept (from 10K € to + 400K €). -
Incubation: the fundamental services for launching your start-up (20K €)
This incubation budget will allow you to finance, among other things:
- Market studies, technical feasibility, ...
- The call for legal, accounting, communication advice, ...
- Access to specific training