Thermal storage spearhead Wallace Technologies

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Benjamin Dupas founded the start-up Wallace Technologies in Clermont-Ferrand in 2020. He was joined in 2024 by Pauline Chanin Lambert, a researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, while he was working on a research contract there. These two professional engineers aim to revolutionize energy storage using thermal batteries, offering a model that is both efficient and sustainable.

Alhomna Systems promotes solar energy

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Thomas Delapierre lived in Australia for many years and witnessed the environmental devastation facing the country: forest fires, floods, and other natural disasters that are enough to cause eco-anxiety. This personal experience led him to set up a project "that would ensure a minimum standard of living for everyone," the start-up Alhomna Systems. Founded in 2023, it seeks to transform wet waste into valuable resources using solar energy technology: SolarDry.

Greenhouse gases: Mirega sets its sights on

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Invisible leaks, massive emissions: measuring greenhouse gases in the field remains a challenge. Mirega, a young start-up backed by high-level optical expertise, is developing a miniature infrared sensor designed to go where other instruments cannot. This technology is designed to meet growing demands in terms of detection, mobility, and climate.

From Fossil to Flexible: Joulzen Gives Old Oil Tanks a Future

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The countdown has started: by 2035, oil heating systems will be banned across many European countries. But what happens to the tanks left behind? In Austria, a team of young engineers saw this constraint as a resource. Their start-up incubated in TU Wien, Joulzen, wants to turn these dormant giants into heat storage systems—and maybe even into players in the European energy grid.

Oncoelectronics: A spark in the fight against brain tumors

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Electric fields to curb cancer? That's the bold approach of the Franco-International team at Oncoelectronics. Born in the heart of Provence, the start-up draws on the experience of scientists at Mines Saint-Etienne to design implantable devices to slow the progression of incurable brain tumors. A project at the crossroads of bioengineering, neurotechnology and microelectronics.

Stéphane Avril: When biomedical research crosses paths with entrepreneurship

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Stéphane Avril, Biomechanics professor at Mines Saint-Etienne, is exploring the route of entrepreneurship to take his research work to the next level. In co-founding PrediSurge in 2017 and then KaomX in 2024, he has been creating start-ups to take innovations from the laboratory into the economic sphere. Between technology, filing patents and improving technology readiness, let’s take a look back over his achievements as a researcher-entrepreneur.

shift89: using augmented reality to pass on industrial know-how

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Training plays a key role in industry, given productivity requirements and recruitment challenges facing the sector. The start-up shift89, incubated at IMT Starter and present at VivaTech 2023, uses augmented reality to help industrial companies…

Green4Cloud: greener, local cloud services

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The start-up Green4Cloud, incubated at IMT Mines Alès and present at VivaTech 2023, is addressing the challenge of making the cloud more environmentally-friendly. To do so, the company plans to install over one hundred local data centers,…

Lapala: a no-code platform to help SMEs digitize everyday tasks

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A company's everyday operations are often full of recurring tasks: selling a service, requesting paid time off, buying equipment, to name just a few examples. The start-up Lapala, incubated at IMT Atlantique and present at VivaTech 2023, allows…

DENV-R, a data center on water

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By continuously ensuring the seamless operation of the digital chain, data centers give off a considerable amount of heat and require additional energy to power their cooling systems. DENV-R, a start-up incubated at IMT Atlantique and present…