Programme for Early Stage startups who mean business
For 6 months, take up residence at Le Palace in Nantes, completely free of charge, with all the great perks that come with it:
- free accommodation in the heart of Nantes (Le Palace)
- structuring workshops (offer, business model, go-to-market…)
- feedback from entrepreneurs who have scaled across Europe
- mentoring
Who is it for?
La Piscine is aimed at early-stage startups that are ambitious, think about Europe and the world from day one, and defend sovereignty.
Once the application is submitted, the _icilundi team evaluates the project against these criteria:
- execution capability combined with a willingness to remove barriers
- the motivation of the project leaders (who must be full-time on their company’s development)
- the stage of development (we favour projects with an MVP or early traction)
- the project’s fit with the community
The lifeguards
It’s always good to have role models who have been swimming in the deep end for a long time.
We have brought together two of Nantes Tech’s finest.
Crisp and Clever Cloud are the Mentor Partners of Batch #10 of La Piscine. They will bring their expertise and experience to the startups during the Programme.
Founded in 2010 in Nantes, Clever Cloud is a European cloud platform specialising in automated deployment and application hosting. Its PaaS enables rapid production deployment without managing infrastructure, with built-in scalability, security and monitoring. Designed and operated in Europe, the platform is built around technical control and data sovereignty. Clever Cloud supports startups through its UP programme and offers a certification programme to master deployment and automation.
Crisp is a multichannel, collaborative customer support platform designed to help growing companies centralise their conversations, customer data and knowledge in a single workspace. Founded in France, Crisp supports teams around the world, particularly in SaaS, e-commerce and financial services. Its promise: help teams respond faster, collaborate better in real time and maintain control over every customer interaction — with AI where it's useful, and humans where they matter.
