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Bpifrance, 2016 to 2018

Before the award, a process: WiseReader and France's public investment bank, in five points.

Apr 2016 · The form

Through the front door

Before any program or award, WiseReader goes in the way anyone can: Bpifrance's standard form for innovation projects. A reference number, a project description, a funding ask.

May 2016 · Boulevard Haussmann

A meeting in Paris

An advisor from the Île-de-France network picks up the file. A morning meeting at Bpifrance's Paris office: the product, the numbers, what French public funding could do for it.

Dec 2016 · The thread holds

Waitlisted, not discouraged

WiseReader sits on the French Tech Ticket waiting list. The conversation with Bpifrance continues, by phone and at innovation events around Paris.

Mar 2017 · The contract

Bpifrance signs the grant

WiseReader makes it into Season 2, and the grant contract is signed with Bpifrance, which manages the French Tech Ticket subvention for the French State.

How the program was funded ↗

2018 · Accounts settled

Public money, properly closed

End of program: Bpifrance reviews the expense file line by line and pays out the final balance. A process that started with a web form ends with a settled public grant.

The FTT story ↗