OUR MISSION
Accelerate, consolidate and secure your international developmentINNOVATIVE STARTUPS WITH STRONG GROWTH POTENTIAL
De-risk and accelerate your growth, secure your hyper-growth
- Articulate / Re-articulate your business model
- De-risk and consolidate your key processes (industrial / logistic / marketing / commercial / financial, …)
- Structure and prioritize your portfolio of activities
- Commercialize / Pre-Commercialize your products and services
- Prepare your access to global markets
- Open key accounts worldwide and accelerate your access to global markets (USA / EMEA / China / Asia / Russia)
- Develop your global presence and achieve worldwide visibility
- Scale up and secure your development without hiccups: from startup to SME
- De-risk and secure your hyper growth
- Reduce dependence on large companies through a diversification of your commercial channels
- We support you in the financing of your development
- We support you in your restructuring operations, build-ups, M&A, etc.
De-risk and accelerate your growth, secure your hyper-growth
SMEs WITH STRONG GROWTH POTENTIAL
Accelerate, consolidate and secure your international development
- Re-articulate your business model
- Implement a strong strategic and competitive positioning
- Conduire des études concurrentielles très ciblées : positionnement marchés, pricing produits ou services concurrents worldwide
- Re-articulate the processes underlying the value of your offer: operational processes, industrial, marketing, commercial, financial, design, communication…
- Strengthen the digitalization of your organization in order to improve your margins and your profitability
- Diversify your portfolio of activities
- Open key accounts worldwide and accelerate your access to global markets (USA / EMEA / China / Asia / Russia)
- Develop your global presence and achieve worldwide visibility
- We support you in the financing of your growth
- De-risk and secure your hyper growth
- We support you in your restructuring operations, build-ups, M&A, etc.
- Strengthen your teams with the integration of new expertise
Accelerate, consolidate and secure your international development
LARGE COMPANIES AND BUSINESS UNITS
Accelerate and secure the management of your innovative projects in a startup operating mode (launching of new activities / go-to-market)
- Accelerate and secure the integration of new processes or technologies in the sectors of your business units (global sourcing / digitalization of key processes in your value chain / prototyping of new products and services to diversify your offer)
- Accelerate and secure the integration of new processes or technologies in the sectors of your business units (global sourcing / digitalization of key processes in your value chain / prototyping of new products and services to diversify your offer)
- Accelerate and secure the integration of startups, technologies or innovative processes
- Accelerate and secure your “spin-off” operations
Accelerate and secure the integration of startups, technologies or innovative processes
OUR ADVANTAGES
A powerful worldwide network made up of
- Entrepreneurs-investors from Harvard (industrial, financial)
- Senior advisors from large multinational groups
- Diplomats (International Public network and negotiation support)
Full-time experts with a combined experience in startups, large companies and capital development
- Startups / SMEs / small businesses
- Large companies
- Capital development
Intervention during significant turning points of your activities: launching, growth, restructuring
Dual piloting of the development, the internationalization and the financing of your company
Pre-commercialization and commercialization of your innovative technologies worldwide in line with « in-depth technology, IP & market analysis» done by our US based experts (30 years of experience and a worldwide track record in the research and commercialization of technological and scientific innovations in the American and global markets)
An operational backing throughout all your growth cycle
SOURCING
- French, European and international research laboratories
- Business Innovation Centers
- Tech Transfer Centers
- Technology Transfer Acceleration Companies
- Incubators
- Investment funds
- Banks
- Consulting firms
- Startups Business contests
- Money Talks
AUDIT
The audit is resolutely consistent with the logic of de-risking and rearticulating the strategy of your company in order to accelerate its growth, de-risk and secure its hyper-growth
Management and team Audit
- Professional and personal positioning
- Difficulties encountered
- Operating mode
- Own perception of your company
- Perception of changes in your market segments and impacts on the evolution of your activities
- Strategic objectives: short, medium, long-term
- …
Operational Audit
- Market & competitive assessment
- Marketing & Commercial assessment
- Tech & Innovation assessment
- Process / Operations / Logistics assessment
- Organisation assessment
- Management & Team (combined requisite skills & key employees assessment)
- …
Financial Audit
- Fundamentals and financial balances of your company
- Financial management and operational organization
- Activity and functioning
- …
DE-RISKING
- Dé-risquage I Prototypage I Re-prototypage et consolidation de business model
- De-risking of the phases of growth, hyper-growth, stagnation and rebounds
- De-risking of the processes:
- Tech
- Industrial
- Marketing
- Sales
- Finance
- Organisation
- Human Resources
- …
- De-risking of your operational management tools
COMMERCIALIZATION
- Strategic and competitive positioning
- Structuration I Restructuration of your portfolio of activities
- Prioritization of your products and services
- Preparation of access to markets
- Opening of key accounts worldwide
- Support for the negotiation of industrial and commercial contracts
- Securing of the phases of Pre-commercialization I Commercialization
FINANCING
- Global financial visibility
- Access to our global network (Investors / Family Offices I VC’s I Corporate Funds I Investment banks I Private and commercial banks I Civil and Défense industrials I Governments and international Institutions)
- Strengthening of your equity capital
- Financing Support (Funding / Strategic alliances / IPO)
GLOBAL LAUNCHPAD
- Development of global presence
- Support in international expansion
- Support in worldwide operational piloting
- Controlling your growth and your internal and external development
- Search for new markets
- Securing invested capital
- Interface between management and investors
TEAM
CEO
- CEO Executive Business Accelerator / Paris – Boston
- Harvard Business School I Sciences Po Paris I Military Engineering School I Former VP Harvard Angels
- Entrepreneur – Investor: support over 250 international businesses (startups I SMEs I Business Units)
- Sponsor of the Mines – Telecom Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Board member of several companies / Administrator of the Planet & Ocean endowment fund
- 12 years in the digital industry: creation of 8 companies (USA / Europe / Asia)
- 16 years in finance with operational and executive positions in large groups
- Expertise: Business Development I Marketing I Commercial I Restructuring (65 missions) I M&A I Finance I Information Systems
- Practices: ITech I Industry I Services I Biotech I FinTech I Finance I Defense
TEAM
A team at the heart of business made up of full-time experts with a triple experience
- Startups / SMEs / small businesses
- Large Groups
- Capital development
Reinforced by dedicated experts according to
- the size of the accelerated structures
- the length of the development acceleration
- their location or their target markets: EMEA / USA / ASIA
A powerful worldwide network made up of
- entrepreneurs-investors from Harvard (industry, finance)
- senior advisors from large global companies
- diplomats (network and negotiation support)
EBA ADVISORY BOARD
Executives (Tech - Biotech - Industry - Finance - IT - Services) Academics & Scientists
Entrepreneurs-Investors Worldwide
BUSINESS MODEL
- Fixed fees during the de-risking phase
- Success fees for signing of industrial and commercial contracts
- Success fees on capital transactions (fund raising I mergers I acquisitions I partnerships…)
VALUES
- Commitment & Long-term partner relationship
- Maintenance of R&D in the country of origin of the accelerated company
- Confidentiality: due to the confidential and competitive nature of the projects entrusted to us, we do not communicate the list of companies we work with
- Startups: no equity participation of the EBA during the de-risking phase
GOVERNANCE
A specific model of governance adapted to the acceleration of your development
- Integration and concentration of EBA expertise in the piloting of the acceleration
- Continuous involvement in the existing environment of your activities
- Fluidity in reflection and decision making
- Rapidity in action and negotiation
Secured
- Dual piloting of the acceleration (management + EBA experts) = sharing of difficulties and of daily results
- De-risking and permanent improvement of processes = Growth conditions without hiccups and a hyper-growth under control
- No equity participation = No risk of de facto management
Proven
- A permanent flow of about twenty companies in acceleration or restructuring process
- A combined expertise in startups, large companies and capital development