Laura Carrere

Après avoir découvert que les flashs UV-C augmentent la résistance des plantes face à divers pathogènes, les chercheurs Laurent Urban et Jawad Aarrouf déposent un premier brevet en 2015. Ils rencontrent alors Yves Matton, co-fondateur de Technofounders, avec qui ils s’associent et créent ensemble UV Boosting en 2016. Cette technologie innovante consiste à stimuler les défenses naturelles de la plante grâce aux flashs UV-C, provoquant le déclenchement d’un mécanisme de défense : la plante est ainsi plus résistante aux attaques de pathogènes ou aux stress abiotiques (gel, sécheresse...). Les équipements proposés ont divers avantages et permettent notamment une cadence de traitement flexible, s’adaptent à l’essentiel des engins agricoles standards et ne nécessitent pas de consommable. Alors que les restrictions règlementaires se font de plus en plus strictes ces dernières années, UV Boosting ambitionne de réduire considérablement la dépendance des producteurs aux fongicides et de les aider à résister au changement climatique, principalement sur les cultures de la vigne, de la fraise, des vergers et sur lentretien des gazons sportifs.

Created in 1992, Lagardère is an international group with operations in more than 40 countries worldwide. It employs around 27,000 people and generated revenue of €5,130 million in 2021. The Group is structured around two priority divisions: Lagardère Publishing is the world’s third-largest book publisher for the general public and educational markets, and the leader in France. Alongside some 6,919 employees, it creates 16,000 original publications each year as well as contributing to their broader circulation by innovating with digital and mobile reading formats. Lagardère Publishing’s activities also extend to adjacent businesses such as Board Games and Mobile Games. Lagardère Travel Retail is the world’s fifth-largest travel retail merchant and number two in airports, with operations in three business segments: Travel Essentials, Duty Free & Fashion, and Foodservice. Lagardère Travel Retail has 19,337 employees across an international network of more than 4,800 points of sale in around one thousand airports, mainline and urban train stations. The Group’s business scope also includes Lagardère News (Paris Match, Le Journal du Dimanche, Europe 1, RFM, Virgin Radio and the Elle brand licence) together with Lagardère Live Entertainment (concerts, shows and venue management). Lagardère shares are listed on Euronext Paris.

Eiffel Investment Group is a third-party asset manager with ca €7 billion under management* with a focus on positive impact strategies and the financing of the ecological and energy transition. Eiffel Investment Group’s investor base consists of large institutional investors (insurance companies, mutual insurers, pension funds, banks, family offices, public investors, etc.) as well as retail investors via intermediated distribution. Backed by the Impala group founded by entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, Eiffel Investment Group cultivates a strong industrial expertise, in particular in the field of the energy transition, but also in the life sciences, agri-food and digital sectors. Eiffel finances companies and their assets through four main strategies: private debt, private equity, energy transition infrastructures and listed equities and credit. Eiffel Investment Group invests for a sustainable world. Its investment strategies aim to generate not only a strong financial performance but also positive social and environmental impacts. Eiffel Investment Group’s team counts more than 100 talented professionals*, in France (Paris), BeNeLux (Amsterdam), the United States of America (New York) and the UAE (Abu Dhabi). * as of 12/2024 ; for AUM, including uncalled commitments.

Blue Solutions, a Bolloré Group company, is the only manufacturer of all-solid-state batteries commercially available for transportation and stationary applications. As an industry pioneer, our solid-state lithium metal polymer (LMP®) batteries have been manufactured by us for over a decade following our proprietary design and process which we continuously improve. LMP® batteries are environmentally sustainable (recyclable, and contain no cobalt, nickel or cadmium) and have important application attributes: insensitive to external operating temperatures, safety, high-energy density, long life and ease of integration.

Après avoir découvert que les flashs UV-C augmentent la résistance des plantes face à divers pathogènes, les chercheurs Laurent Urban et Jawad Aarrouf déposent un premier brevet en 2015. Ils rencontrent alors Yves Matton, co-fondateur de Technofounders, avec qui ils s’associent et créent ensemble UV Boosting en 2016. Cette technologie innovante consiste à stimuler les défenses naturelles de la plante grâce aux flashs UV-C, provoquant le déclenchement d’un mécanisme de défense : la plante est ainsi plus résistante aux attaques de pathogènes ou aux stress abiotiques (gel, sécheresse...). Les équipements proposés ont divers avantages et permettent notamment une cadence de traitement flexible, s’adaptent à l’essentiel des engins agricoles standards et ne nécessitent pas de consommable. Alors que les restrictions règlementaires se font de plus en plus strictes ces dernières années, UV Boosting ambitionne de réduire considérablement la dépendance des producteurs aux fongicides et de les aider à résister au changement climatique, principalement sur les cultures de la vigne, de la fraise, des vergers et sur lentretien des gazons sportifs.

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,000 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses: - French Retail Banking which encompasses the SG and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation; - International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services, with networks in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets; - Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions. Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).