INPI partners with Tech For Future 2025: for start-ups, for innovation!

This Tuesday, April 1st, the INPI participated in the grand finale of the Tech for Future competition: the European tech event organized by La Tribune, which travels the world to discover the French startups that will shine a spotlight on tomorrow's technology ecosystem. For the second year in a row, the INPI was a partner of the event and a member of the Jury, alongside La French Tech, Business France, and Bpifrance, to select these gems from all over France and across all sectors. This was an opportunity for the Institute, which presented the Industry Prize to the winner, Wormsensing, to highlight the major role played by industrial property in the innovation strategies implemented by tech players.

During two months, La Tribune and its jury of innovation experts traveled throughout all French regions in search of start-ups capable of meeting the economic, societal, climatic and geopolitical challenges of tomorrow's world. 

51 gems from all regions and in all fields (energy, environment, industry, AI, health, user innovations, etc.) were identified and invited to participate in the major competition which took place this Tuesday, April 1, at Terminal 7, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

It is Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Investment of France 2030, President of the Jury of INPI Trophies 2024, which opened the day. During the ceremony that followed, hosted by journalist Nicolas Rossignol, the names of the ten winning companies – “the must-sees of 2025” – were revealed on the stage of Terminal 7.

They were named the national winners in the categories “Data & AI”, “Environment & Energy”, “Industry”, “Health”, “Start”, “Smart Tech”.

Four special prizes: "Outremer", "Coup de Cœur", "Impact" (which rewards a start-up having a positive impact on the world) and "International" (which promotes a start-up with good international prospects) were also awarded.

Paul Perpère, Director of the National Network at INPI, presented the “Industry” prize to the start-up Wormsensing, represented by its CEO, Jean-Sébastien Moulet.

Specializing in vibration sensors, this start-up, created 5 years ago, opened its first production line in early 2024.

"With 40 patents filed, Wormsensing is a good INPI client!”, Jean-Sébastien Moulet was keen to point out. 

Contribution to the round table "Industry, the future of French Tech?"

The event, which was attended by numerous business leaders and prominent figures from the economic, political, and research sectors, also provided ample opportunity for debate. Paul Perpère participated in a roundtable discussion moderated by Simon Prigent, a journalist from La Tribune, entitled "Industry, the future of French Tech?" alongside Bertrand Nachbaur, Director of Information Systems and Digital at Dalkia, Lucie Finet, Deputy Director of French Tech, and Jean-Sébastien Moulet, CEO of Wormsensing. 

"In the race for innovation, the winner is the one who files a patent." recalled Paul Perpère. Indeed, "filing a patent allows you to have a monopoly for 20 years and block your competitors, increase the value of your balance sheet assets, and facilitate fundraising..."

And the 10 Tech For Future big winners are:

• Environment & Energy Prize: HSL Technologies, European spearhead of green hydrogen

• Industry Prize: Wormsensing, the world's finest vibration sensors serving industry

• Data & AI Prize: Pearcode, the revolution in DNA data storage

• Smart tech prize (useful innovations): Yoo Soft, low-code enterprise software within everyone's reach

• Health Prize: SurgiMab helps surgeons remove cancers by making diseased cells fluoresce

• Start Price: Alpha Impulse invents a rocket that burns up in orbit

• Favorite Prize: Reptik, the natural mosquito repellent with ancestral origins

• International Prize: Carbon Saver or AI in the service of sustainable building design

• Impact Award: Vaxinano, the biotech company that is shaking up the world of vaccines
  Overseas Prize: Feelbat, connected sensors that protect civil engineering structures from climatic hazards