OUR MISSION

Accelerate, consolidate and secure your international development
INNOVATIVE 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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • International experts (diplomats)

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)

Startups :

  • Intervention de l’EBA en aval des incubateurs ou des offices d’accélération de transfert de technologies
  • Pas de prise de participation en phase de dé-risquage

OUR EXPERTISE

An accompaniment throughout all your growth cycles

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

LEADERSHIP

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 Agri-Food I FinTech I Finance

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 (Industry -Finance - IT - Services) Academics & Scientists

Entrepreneurs-Investors Worldwide

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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
  • Long-term partner relationship
  • Commitment and confidentiality
  • Maintenance of R&D in the country of origin of the accelerated company
  • Startups: no equity participation of the EBA during the de-risking phase
  • Due to the confidential and competitive nature of the projects entrusted to us, we do not communicate the list of companies we work with
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

  • More than thirty enterprises in acceleration (startups I SMEs I Large companies Business Units up to 5 billion dollars turnover)
  • A combined expertise in startups, large companies and capital development