Whether your company is 3 months old or 15 years old, Clermont Auvergne Métropole can help you grow your business, take it to the next level, and even go international! Financing, labels, support for the specific ecosystem of social innovation companies, networking and help to join the right network, growth gas pedals: in Clermont, there’s bound to be a solution for you and the right contact to activate it.
Personalized support
- Identify with you the mechanisms to activate and the assistance to apply for,
- find new premises,
- put you in touch with the right people,
- organize B2B meetings to accelerate networking and help you conquer new markets.
- A project, an idea, a question: the right thing to do is contact them!
Growing up in the SSE
France Active (France’s1st SSE funding organization in Auvergne)
The Regional SSE Chamber
The Regional Union of Cooperative Societies
The Métropole works with each of them to encourage the development of positive-impact initiatives. Those that do good for the region, the planet and the people. Depending on your needs, we can direct you to the right partner.
Métropole can also take shares in cooperatives, financing part of your operating or investment budget to help you grow your project, sustain your business and the jobs you create.
Would you like to set up a scop to take over a business? Would you like to open a third-location center? Are you looking for funding to launch a new socially useful project? Your project is unique, and the Métropole and its partners can help you make it a reality.
Turning the corner with Territoires d’industrie
Clermont Auvergne Métropole has its own Territoire d’Industries project manager to coordinate the scheme at local level. His mission is clear: to ensure the success of your virtuous industrial project.
In practical terms, this means helping you to put together applications and find the right public funding bodies (BPI France, Ademe, Region, Banque des territoires, etc.). Working with you, he will remove any bottlenecks and activate his network to help your application move forward. He works with theAgence nationale de la cohésion des territoires (ANCT) to respond to your very specific engineering requests.
At the same time, it organizes industry meetings around common issues: flood risks and contractual obligations, professional integration and retraining, etc. We also organize events for the general public to help them discover our businesses, such as visits organized with local schools to encourage secondary school students to take up industrial vocations.
Gas pedals
Busi, by Clermont Auvergne Innovation: located on the Cézeaux university campus, for business projects with a technical, scientific or technological component,
The Village by CA: comprehensive support, provided at the Turing 22 coworking center, to help you move from an innovative project to a real, growing company.
FrenchTech, start-ups have their own network
Its ambition for the coming years is to focus on disruptive innovation, the ecological transition and to give women a real place in the ecosystem. Do you have an innovative project in the pipeline and are wondering how solid it is?
You need :
– a clearer understanding of the grants and financing you need?
– an expert eye to help you establish your business model?
Looking for specific skills to consolidate your team?
On the lookout for B2B events to pitch your project and meet, who knows, your future allies?
Clermont Auvergne Métropole’s digital project manager is your gateway. And if she doesn’t have the answer to your question, she’s bound to know someone who does. That’s the power of the Clermont network!
The venture capital company Métropoles Innovations
Are you the head of a flourishing small business or an SME in transition? Are your order books full, is your business expanding rapidly, and are you seriously considering recruiting? This hyper-growth is characterized by profound changes and necessary adaptations: new investments, changes in legal status and taxation, fund-raising… To help you turn this corner and secure the jobs you’ve created, you can apply for financing from SCR Métropoles Innovations.
Events to connect
To encourage networking, Clermont Auvergne Métropole relies on its partners such as Frenchtech, the CCI, incubators, Village By CA gas pedals and Clermont Auvergne Innovation to organize events that bring the ecosystem together. It facilitates your participation in trade shows, and organizes industry meetings. In short, we work hard to multiply networking opportunities with potential partners.
