Aurélien Fleurot, edited by Gauthier Delomez
Health, climate transition, aeronautics… France has nearly 1,900 industrial startups in various sectors, notes Bpifrance in a latest unpublished study. These young companies raised nearly four billion euros in fundraising in 2022, up 36% year-on-year. An industrial success.
This is an area where France is ahead of Germany! Industrial startups raised nearly four billion euros in fundraising in 2022, up 36% year-on-year. A European leader position acquired thanks to future factories such as that of Verkor, which will manufacture batteries for electric cars in Dunkirk in the North, but also robots from Exotec or vaccines from Valneva.
The success of a start-up in aeronautics
Among these future greats, Flying Whales will go to the industrial stage in 2024 to manufacture, following years of engineering, the largest airship in the world, capable of transporting up to 60 tonnes of material. “Our goal is to be an aircraft manufacturer,” said company spokesman Romain Schalck. “It obviously goes through the construction of a factory which will be a rather incredible industrial site north of Bordeaux, and which will create jobs locally”, he promises at the microphone of Europe 1.
Indeed, this site in Gironde should accommodate up to 300 employees when it runs at full speed, while the startup will still recruit 80 people this year.
1,900 industrial startups in France
In total, it is a reindustrialization made possible in France thanks to the young industrial shoots that are born and above all grow, in sectors such as health or climate transition. In a latest unpublished study, the public investment bank Bpifrance counts 1,900 industrial startups, whose leitmotif is production in France.
Still according to Bpifrance, the 76 new industrial sites inaugurated in 2022 have created 3,000 direct jobs.