Let's bringgame changing ideas to life

Open innovation is part of EDF's DNA. We are convinced that energy transition should be co-constructed and we collaborate every day with those who innovate for an electric future.
Are you a start-up, a SOHO, or a SME? Are you developing solutions for sustainable mobility, a responsible city, and/or an efficient industry? Do you want to access new markets, benefit from financing, make your business known, test or experiment with new solutions?
EDF Pulse offers several open innovation programs. Don't wait to find the one for you. Together, let's bring game changing ideas to life.

EDF Pulse, the network speeding up innovation

EDF Pulse Croissance

Our corporate venture and incubator has invested more than €250 million in around 20 start-ups and employee projects. Its mission? Help new business and future business lines emerge within the Group in France and internationally.
EDF launch several calls for projects each year to develop potential activities within the group and ensure always having the best answers to our customers' present and future energy needs.

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EDF Pulse startup Awards

Our contest rewards French and European startups innovating for our society and the energy transition. In 6 years, more than sixty startups were helped and 29 startups rewarded (in the fields of the smart city, electric mobility, connected housing, smart business, smart health, etc.) among more than 1,800 candidating startups. The winners benefit from a communication campaign and a financial endowment to support their development.

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EDF Pulse & You

Our participatory innovation platform connects startups to customer needs. Its goal? Imagine or improve the most innovative products and services for individuals, and for energy and ecological transitions.

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EDF Pulse Explorer

Our laboratory of trends, Design Lab and network of connections between early-stage startups and innovative ecosystems, helps you going from idea to project. More than 8,000 start-ups have been targeted and qualified since its creation in 2012.

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Local programs

EDF Pulse Lab AuRA

Located in Lyon, EDF Pulse Lab AuRA is a place of innovation where individuals, businesses, and communities in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes can experiment tomorrow’s solutions as proper customer experiences. Taking advantage of its proximity to the territory, the diversity of its customers, and the dynamism of the innovation ecosystem, EDF Pulse Lab AuRA has the best driving forces and tools to test the ideas and technologies of the future in real conditions and on a large scale.

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EDF PulseStart-up Awards
Local editions

The EDF Pulse start-up Awards are now taking place in regions where the EDF Group and its subsidiaries are implanted. Worldwide and local editions of the awards are therefore highlighting local technological gems. Since their launch in 2014, the EDF Pulse start-up Awards expanded with local editions in France, one edition in United Kingdom, one in the African continent, one in Brazil and recently one in India​.

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Find the one for you

Trends exploration / Technologies
EDF Pulse Explorer

Trend and Design Lab

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Mentoring / Coaching / Incubation
EDF Pulse Croissance

Investment fund and incubator

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Trends exploration / Technologies
EDF Pulse and You

Participatory innovation platform

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Experimentation / Market access
EDF Pulse Prix start-up

French and European contest

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Co-creation and conception
EDF Pulse Lab AuRA

a place of innovation and experimentation

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Discover the EDF Pulse success stories

McPhy

EDF Pulse Croissance has invested 16 million euros in McPhy. This partnership agreement aims to develop low carbon hydrogen in France and internationally.

HySiLabs

Identified and evaluated by EDF Pulse Explorer, winner of the start-up awards in the PACA region in 2016, finalist in the 2016 edition in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Hysilabs team was rewarded with the EDF Pulse start-up awards in 2018 , in the Smart City category, for its hydrogen storage and transport solution using a vector.

Perfesco

Founded with EDF Pulse Croissance, Perfesco finances the professionals' energy efficiency projects.

Howz

This connected housing development for seniors, developed by the English start-up Intelesant, was first awarded an EDF Energy Pulse award and incubated at EDF Energy Blue Lab, before winning the EDF Pulse start-up awards in 2017, in the Smart Health category.

Kawantech

Rewarded by the EDF Pulse 2016 start-up Awards, in the Smart City category, Kawantech's smart lighting solution is now integrated into the smart public lighting devices deployed by our subsidiary Citelum.

Hydrao

Hydrao launched the first intelligent shower head that reduces water consumption. A beta-tested innovation on EDF Pulse & You.

Agregio

Agregio is a subsidiary of the Group, supported by EDF Pulse Croissance. It's a real-time generator of renewable energy production and consumption erasure.