2020 highlights - Incubator

BHealthCare - a former startup of the Centrale-Audencia-ensa business incubator - is a medtech company specializing in the development of next-generation robotic solutions for more reliable peripheral vascular access. It has just announced seed funding of €1.5 million secured in June 2020, together with other public funds. This supplements several funding mechanisms and grants to the tune of €2.8 million obtained since the creation of the company in 2016. The operation was carried out exclusively with leading biologists and renowned specialists in the medical field.

Centrale Nantes is a partner of the event and as such, Frédéric Meslin, Director of Development, presented the Centrale Nantes Innovation Prize to the startup Hera-Mi, which has been supported by the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator since July 2017.

Nextflow Software, a Centrale Nantes spin-off, just completed a first round of funding to the tune of three million euros. This round will allow Nextflow to ramp up the sales of its innovative numerical simulation software and pursue its international development.

Farwind – a startup in the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator - is developing a solution for converting offshore hydroelectric energy into renewable fuel, a project that won the In Extenso prize at the 20th edition of Start West.

For its first long solar-powered flight, XSun recorded an impressive 12-hour carbon-free and 100% autonomous flight covering 600km!

InVirtus Technologies, which specialises in geolocation in industrial environments, has just successfully completed a new round of financing. Investors include BACS-Innov, an investment company bringing together alumni from Centrale Supélec and Ecole Centrale Group - alongside private investors from the startup's own professional network.

AKRYVIA, a Deep Tech start-up in the Pays de la Loire Region is delighted to announce its award in the French Fab category in the third round of the i-Nov innovation competition.

AKRYVIA, start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-ensa Nantes incubator, raises funding to the tune of €900k.