It was an intense, enriching, full of insights, discoveries, discussions and quality networking business visit to Paris co-organized with our partners Lithuanian Business Angel Network LitBAN. The visit was tailored to establish new business connections with the French startup ecosystem, network with French Business Angels, meet and discuss with key players in the biggest innovation hubs in France.
One of the days was dedicated to visiting STATION F, the biggest startup hub in the world. The joint delegation of BMI Executive Institute and a group of Angel Investors from Lithuanian Business Angel Network LitBAN had a chance to:
✅ participate in a round-table discussion and hear the insights directly from Alain Pujol, Managing Partner at APHC Consulting, Gaston Khoury, Senior Advisor, and Alain Dumont, Strategic Advisor;
✅ go on tour of STATION F;
✅ get insights directly from Antoine Lepretre, Incubateur HEC Paris Director as well as Jean-François Drewski, an ex-Managing partner at 50 partners;
✅ meet with startups, such as Tilt, Harvy, Noota, V-Art, Nefture.
The second part of this business visit was focused on exploring Bpifrance, a public bank for investment in France and the agency for innovation, including:
✅ Bpifrance visit;
✅ engaging presentations on digital venture #seedfunds, #deeptech and #euroquity platform that were delivered by Christian Dubarry, Sylvie Cogneau, Clémentine Cazenave, Sonia Falourd, Fannie Delavelle;
✅ networking with Paris Business Angel Network representatives Patrick Mole, Hoang Lehuy, Sylvain Godard, Alain Pujol.
Our sincere thank you to Dominique Rouziès, Jean-Paul Michel Larçon, CHETCUTI-KIRKILAITE Daiva, Antoine Lepretre and all of the participants who were together with us and made these several days so productive!
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