ODDO BHF Young Entrepreneurs Awards
Recognising and supporting
YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
Présentation
Celebrating and supporting those who make the future of tomorrow
At ODDO BHF Private Banking, we believe in the potential of tomorrow’s young leaders. That is why we created the ODDO BHF Young Entrepreneurs Awards in 2022, a competition aimed at encouraging young entrepreneurs from France and French-speaking Switzerland. This award rewards the most promising and innovative entrepreneurial projects, by opening the doors to a unique network of decision-makers and investors.
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WINNERS
2024 Winners
Congratulations to Istya, Wyes, Qweeko, Beink Dream et Alternative Innovation!
2022 Winners
Congratulations to PostExo, Broke and Abroad, Protème, Twiice et Rea Diagnostics!
ODDO BHF Young Entrepreneurs Awards, Talent, revealed
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Jury's award
Rewards the favorite startup of our final jury. The prize will be awarded to the most appealing project to this demanding panel.
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Innovation award
Rewards the most disruptive startup for its ability to stay ahead of the game thanks to its advanced problem-solving capabilities.
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Social and environmental award
Rewards a project for its social and/or environmental commitment and whose business model is designed to address current issues with measurable impact.
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Public award
Rewards the startup selected by the audience present at the Awards ceremony, out of the ten final pitching entrepreneurs.
2025 Final Jury
Hélène Auriol Potier
Corporate director and senior advisor at Warburg Pincus in digital technologies
Caroline Bois
COO of Andromède
Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Rémy Cointreau
Frédéric Mazzella
President-Founder of BlaBlaCar and Dift
Entrepreneur Co-President of France Digitale
TIMELINE OYEA 2026
October / December 2025
January / May 2026
01.06.2026
09.06.2026
our partners
4Elements
4Elements is a high-impact deeptech start-up studio dedicated to the ecological transition. Their mission is to set up and finance start-ups based on technologies developed in research laboratories, or to join early-stage startups as partners.
Antler
Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness.
Antler
Arts et Métiers Incubator.
Arts et Métiers
The first venture capital company designed to support impact entrepreneurs from seed and over the long term. We finance innovations that generate lasting change by driving an entire industry towards better practices.
Biotech'InnLab
The Biotech’InnLab hosts projects in the field of biotechnology (the use of living organisms – bacteria, yeast, fungi, plant cells – to produce molecules of interest), which have an impact and are responsible, sharing strong common values: from local to zero waste, or the valorization of agricultural or industrial by-products in a circular economy approach.
Ecole Polytechnique
X-UP
EDHEC
EDHEC Entrepreneurs.
EM Lyon
EM Lyon Business School Incubator.
EPFL
EPFL Innovation Park.
ESCP
Blue Factory.
ESSEC
ESSEC Ventures.
Farm'InnLab
The Farm’InnLab supports startups and companies in the AgTech sector, innovating in animal production, plant production or on-farm energy production. It enables them to test, trial and improve new equipment (machines, robots, tools, buildings, sensors), inputs (fertilizers, active ingredients, feed, additives) or models/software to support agricultural production.
Food'InnLab
The Food’InnLab is a third-party space dedicated to FoodTech, hosting innovative projects in the field of food or sustainable nutrition. Hosted structures have access to workspaces to stimulate their creativity, as well as an experimental kitchen and a laboratory equipped with analysis instruments to prototype and test their products.
Fondation Inartis
Fondation Inartis runs different programmes such as the labs & coworking spaces UniverCité and Espace Creation, the startup accelerator MassChallenge Switzerland, the life science cluster of the Health Valley, and Inartis Network which is supported by the Swiss Confederation.
Forest'InnLab
The Forest’InnLab is a collaborative laboratory for creating, experimenting and deploying innovative solutions focused on the user, the territory and the environment, to meet forestry challenges. The Forest’InnLab is based on the living lab model (user-centered design) and the open innovation model, with players from the quadruple helix (government, civil society, industry, academia).
Greenpact
Greenpact is a Startup Studio founded by a passionate team of entrepreneurs and experts and focused on the creation and development of innovative projects in the field of ecological transition such as Ener-Pacte, Solar Care, Bluefins and 4Elements.
HEC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Centre – HEC Paris
HUB
The HUB Entrepreneurship and Innovation of UNIL has one mission : to support the entrepreneurial spirit at the service of the ecological, economic and social transition.
Incubateur du Barreau de Paris
The Incubateur du Barreau de Paris supports selected lawyers in the development of their innovative legal solutions by providing them with an intensive, personalised three-month programme. The program is combining training, mentoring and collaboration. Its aim is to transform innovative ideas into practical solutions adapted to the new challenges faced by the law and the needs of litigants.
Incubateur PACA Est
Paca-Est advises innovative entrepreneurs in the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var.
Le Perqo
Perqo is the incubator of the Ile-de-France region, in partnership with Schoolab and 21 Croix-Rouge Française. It supports projects with a social and environmental impact in the fields of sport, disability and ecological transition.
Le Village by CA
PACA / Paris
L'Escalator
The incubator created by Maurice Lévy for all entrepreneurs who lack a network, training or financing
Les Déterminés
The Les Déterminés association promotes initiative and entrepreneurship in suburban and rural areas. It trains and supports entrepreneurs from the idea to the first euros of sales.
Les premières Sud
The 1st incubator dedicated to making women entrepreneurs and inclusive/joint teams succeed.
NeuillyLab
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Ile de France.
Science Po
Science Po Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Skema
SKEMA Entrepreneurs, is SKEMA Business School incubator, providing support to students and alumni who want to start a business.
Starburst
First and only global aerospace accelerator, offering a variety of programs for entrepreneurs at different stages of growth.
Start You Up
Start You Up, an emblematic initiative of August Debouzy’s commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship, offers one year’s personalised legal assistance to support young innovative companies.
Telecom SudParis
IMT Starter – Business through Innovation
The School Lab
Schoolab is an innovation studio that helps you design brighter future.
Time2Start
The Time2Start incubator helps entrepreneurs, mainly from diverse backgrounds, to structure their projects and accelerate their activities. Time2start offers various support programs and a financing fund.
Tomcat
Founded by former entrepreneurs, Tomcat is an investment fund and accelerator. It aims to invest in promising projects and offer entrepreneurs everything they need: support, financing, community, recruitment.
Université Paris Dauphine
Paris-Dauphine Incubator.
Willa
To support women, all women, in their desire to undertake and innovate. To inspire, motivate and train them.