Launched by SOFIMAC Innovation on June 8, the Pertinence Invest 2 fund will have €70 million to finance deep tech start-ups. Arts et Métiers, through its commercialization subsidiary AMVALOR, will be a partner alongside 19 engineering schools and universities and 11 industrial companies.
As a partner in this fund, through its subsidiary AMVALOR—also an operator ofthe Institut Carnot ARTS— Arts et Métiers thus Arts et Métiers the range of measures that the School has put in place to stimulate and support entrepreneurship and the development of technology start-ups and spin-offs from its research laboratories and incubators.
Dedicated to financing technological innovation in engineering sciences and health/nutrition, Pertinence Invest 2 aims to invest in deep tech start-ups that are primarily the result of research carried out by its academic partners or that are linked to such research. The goal is to transform cutting-edge technologies into innovative products.
AMVALOR, the promoter ofArts et Métiers partnership-based research activities, will continue to maintain ongoing contact with the teams at Sofimac Innovation and its partner Mérieux Equity Partners, enabling the best technology projects from the Arts et Métiers group Arts et Métiers find the financing they need to get started and then develop, thereby promoting the emergence and creation of start-ups from its research laboratories.
The Pertinence Invest 2 fund will also support international development projects, particularly in Europe, throughEIT Manufacturing, of which Arts et Métiers a member, and more specifically through its Business Acceleration program.
