Our vision
Our starting point
This project emerged from field experience.
As an open innovation manager, I had to analyze hundreds of startups to address very concrete technological and technical needs.
These needs spanned both aerospace and logistics, within a demanding industrial environment.
To identify suitable solutions, I had to work with ill-suited tools: search engines, social networks, scattered articles, incomplete databases.
Identifying a startup was one thing.
Analyzing its product, maturity, and real positioning was another.
Too often, invisible details—such as the project’s origin, its maturity level, or its actual fit with the need—blocked collaborations after weeks of analysis.
That’s when the idea of InnovLens became obvious.
If a tool existed to structure this analysis, compare solutions, understand their evolution and real alignment with needs, the work would have been faster, more reliable, and above all, more relevant.
InnovLens was born from the reality of being an engineer and innovation manager.
Our analysis
The French innovation ecosystem is rich, dynamic, and creative.
But it has become difficult to analyze.
Too many actors.
Too much heterogeneous information.
Too many partial, static, or disconnected sources.
Identifying startups or projects is no longer the main problem.
Understanding what they truly do, where they stand, and how they evolve over time has become the challenge.
At InnovLens, we believe an ecosystem should not merely be visible.
It must be analyzable, comparable, and actionable.
Our conviction
Innovation does not need more tools. It needs connections, structure, and trust.
- more transparent,
- more connected,
- more fare,
- more collaborative,
- more readable for everyone,
And that shared analysis can multiply collective impact.
Our Mission is to make innovation easier to analyze and understand
- identify what is relevant for a given need,
- understand who does what and at what maturity level,
- find the right partners,
- seize opportunities at the right time,
- and collaborate seamlessly.
We aspire to make France one of the world’s most visible, effective, and unified innovation ecosystems.
How we work
We rely on three simple principles:
Clarity
Transform scattered information into structured information.
Enable analysis and comparison of actors, projects, and technologies.
Structure
Organize information where it was previously scattered.
Put actors, projects, and technologies into perspective so they can be understood and compared.
Usefulness
Offer concrete, essential features.
Avoid the superfluous.
Build what truly simplifies actors’ lives.
Our long-term vision
We believe it is possible and necessary to:
- intelligently centralize,
- sustainably structure,
- and massively streamline.
Our vision is not to replace existing networks.
It is to give them a common, compatible, and sustainable reading.
We want to build an ecosystem where every actor can say:
"I know where to go, who to talk to, and how to move forward."
Why we do this
Because every missed connection slows down innovation.
Because every invisible call for projects deprives a startup of an opportunity.
Because a company should not spend three months searching for what it can find in three minutes.
Because an incubator should not sort through 400 misaligned applications.
Because French innovation deserves better.
We believe that by simplifying the ecosystem, we can multiply its impact.
The principles we uphold
Simplicity over complexity
Inclusivity over elitism
Transparency over opacity
Analysis over dispersion
Collaboration over isolation
This is our compass.
We are not building a platform.
We are building shared infrastructure.
A place where French innovation can meet, connect with, and strengthen itself.
Unified innovation is greater innovation.
That is the entire purpose of InnovLens.