In order to succeed in the energy transition and benefit from future innovations, we are reinventing ourselves. Latest development, the creation of a company backed by the Group: EDF Pulse Croissance. Our goal? Accelerate innovation by investing 40 million euros in 10 startup projects in just ... 2 years! Our mission? Develop new activities and professions of tomorrow within the Group in France and abroad to better meet the present and future energy needs of our customers, individuals, and local authorities.
Make your innovative ideas a reality!
Innovation Hub, EDF Pulse award, Pulse & You, equity investments in investment funds such as Electranova Capital, etc. EDF's recent innovation initiatives are not new. For more than 10 years, we have been working with startups to explore new avenues and prepare for the future.So what’s different about EDF Pulse Croissance? Gone are the customer-supplier relationships between EDF and startups: now we work together as real partners! The goal is to go beyond the experimental stage, to bring innovative ideas to life by making real businesses. Whether they come from our employees or external startups.
We clearly identify the activities to be explored, we launch them, we support them and ensure their development, until their maturity allows them to link to an EDF business. Or even to create one! This approach is a source of transformation and growth for the Group, and always serving our customers.
Our action plan
To take a step ahead, EDF Nouveaux Business has three key areas.
Partnerships
The creation of strategic partnerships with external startups.
Investment
Direct investment in innovative startups or via investments funds such as Electranova Capital.
Incubation
The incubation of projects led by our employees. In other words, the development of intrapreneurship to develop ideas that emerge internally and to turn them into startups.
What can EDF Pulse Croissance bring to your startup?
EDF Pulse Croissance is an innovation incubator that offers advantages for our customers, for our employees, for the Group, but especially for startups!| The + for your startup |
+ A true partnership with EDF + A budget and a dedicated team, with complementary skills + A privileged point of contact within the Group + Agile process aligned with your modes of operation: quick experiment loops, test & learn. + Collaborative work with the entire ecosystem of startup, with the possibility to develop a network + Increased visibility because of the reputation of EDF + A structure to accompany projects to help you emerge and develop + An opening to International markets |
"We are both an investment fund and an incubator. We are going to invest 40 million euros over 2 years and focus our efforts on 10 startup projects. We want to build ecosystems that bring together intrapreneurs and partner startups,”
MICHEL VANHAESBROUCKE,
MANAGER OF EDF NOUVEAUX BUSINESS
MANAGER OF EDF NOUVEAUX BUSINESS
A subject of predilection: the multifaceted energy transition
The energy transition covers many topics! In order to anticipate the changes in the world of tomorrow, EDF Pulse Croissance is working on different strategic axes.
Energy efficiency
Alongside residential customers, businesses or industries.
Connected home
Durable comfort in the home.
Energy cloud
The energy cloud: managing decentralised energy systems (storage, management of intermittence in energy production, flexibility)
Smart cities
Smart cities and proposals for territories.
Electrical Mobility and intelligent refills
Intelligent charging terminals, flexibility, financing, batteries.
Decommissioning power plants
Dismantling of nuclear power plants.
Agregio, is one example of a successful partnership
This startup, now part of the EDF Group, provides aggregation offers. Agregio is aimed at renewable energy producers and industrial or service customers to help them optimize production, erasure and the capacity of their facilities in the electricity markets.
Are you a startup or do you have an idea? Do you want to contact EDF Pulse Croissance? And to be informed of our calls for projects?
- As of October 2017, we will regularly launch calls for projects on specific themes.
- You can also contact us directly to present your project to the following email address: edfpulsecroissance@edf.fr, or by filling the form below: