Business France at the French Embassy in Israel

Supporting the international development of French companies, Business France prepares and helps businesses to find commercial partners in target markets, paving the way for them to sign trading and strategic agreements and generate sustainable export growth.

Promoting foreign investments in France, Business France guides decision makers from all over the world towards success on the French market from setting up or expanding their business to takeovers, technology partnerships and portfolio investments, calling not only upon Business France investment advisors but also its network of regional partners.

Business France Tech Hub in Israel is focused on assisting corporates and technology companies, facilitating their access to both French and Israeli markets, and therefore bringing strategic added value, a strong network of contacts and a lifetime of experience in bilateral business partnerships.

Website: www.businessfrance.fr/en/home

Bpifrance

Bpifrance, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et de l’Etat and a preferred partner for entrepreneurs, assists companies from their start-up phase through to listing on the stock exchange through offerings of credit, guarantees and its own capital. Bpifrance, in partnership with Business France, provides a variety of services focused on supporting innovation and strong export growth. Bpifrance offers companies a range of financing options for each step in their development.

It also provides financial products adapted to regional needs. With 47 regional offices and 90% of its decisions taken in the regions, Bpifrance is a useful tool in helping entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness.

Website : www.bpifrance.fr – @bpifrance

The AER-BFC & its regional ecosystem

The Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional economic agency (AER BFC) supports and develops economic activity, innovation, eco-innovation and employment in its territory and promotes the regional identity, in collaboration with key organizations of the agri-food ecosystem.

Website: www.aer-bfc.com/en/

AgrOnov, which enables companies related to the agriculture sector to develop their network by providing them a business nursery with offices, greenhouses, laboratories and experimental fields.

Website: www.agronov.com/?lang=en

Vitagora, which is one of Europe's leading agri-food clusters, gathering together more than 550 members (startups, SMEs, large companies and R&D labs) to make innovation the growth driver of agri-food business. Vitagora initiated and manages ToasterLAB, an international acceleration program. In the sector of AgTech and FoodTech, this program is dedicated to start-ups (including Israeli ones), SMEs, and large groups willing to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the integration of new technologies (digital and life sciences) in all the agri-food value chain.

Website : www.vitagora.com/en

LaFoodTech Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté promotes and supports the emergence and development of innovative initiatives (ie digital, technological or entrepreneurial), from farm to fork, by gathering and connecting startups and other players in the sector.

Its actions are motivated by three goals: bring together this array of partners with a joint project to develop foodtech in France, promote initiatives and demonstrate the remarkable contribution made by digital, technologies and innovation for the food industry, and support the acceleration of foodtech projets.

The AgriFoodNEST’s program

The AgriFoodNEST is a six-month acceleration program that started in the beginning of 2021 and aimed to boost the six following French start-ups:

• Mellisphera, a precision beekeeping platform. Launched in 2019 Mellisphera can assess honeybee health and productivity in real time and is currently extending its capabilities to pollination monitoring services.
• Nbread Process specializing in the valorization of the food industry byproducts, by transforming fruits, vegetables, ready-prepared dishes into a textured product, easy to eat, looking like honeycombed sliced bread.
• Vegetal Signals, data from plant electrical activity. Thanks to hardware devices, AI trained models of the plant behavior and optimization algorithms, the technology follows in real time the plant environmental and biological status.
• SAUREA (for "Solar AUtonomous REliable Applications"). The company designs, develops and manufactures the first solar motor in the world, a disruptive technology promoted by 5 patents, 100% ecological, 0% electronic, 100% mechanical.
• Vibrafloor, the innovative silo reclaiming solution using modular vibrating floors. This unique emptying system allows the extraction of many bulk products such as cereals, agro-food products, biomass, stored in metal silos or concrete silos, containers, etc.

These start-ups got prepared in March 2021 and immersed during the French AgriFoodTech week of May 3 to 6, 2021, to make a first virtual step in the vibrant ecosystem of the Start-up Nation, meet Israeli and international investors and initiate strong valued partnerships with Israeli companies.

The AgriFoodNEST Israel 2021 program is supported by key players in the innovation field in France and Israel such as AXA Climate Corporate Venture, Netafim France irrigation company, Shibolet Israeli Law firm and Vcita digital platform.