Toulouse. These companies were dredged to settle in the Pink City in 2021
Through Anthony Assemat
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On the economic front, Toulouse quickly went green. While the darkest period of Covid-19 appears to be in the rearview mirror, the recovery is good. “2021 is a year that ends very well. We do not think that it would come back so quickly, ”summarizes Jean-Claude Dardelet, CEO of the Toulouse Métropole Attractiveness Agency, which acts on tourism and the reputation of the Pink City internationally.
A thousand jobs within three years
Among the members of this attractiveness agency, figure Invest in Toulouse, a body that prospecting in France and internationally to encourage companies to set up in Toulouse’s ecosystems, such as artificial intelligence, the mobility of the future, green aeronautics, space...
Despite the crisis, Toulouse continues to “hunt” emerging talents and start-ups that will be at the forefront of the sectors of tomorrow. Because competition between Metropolises continues to rage. “By the end of 2021, we will have succeeded in bringing in around thirty companies and start-ups. That is as much as in 2019 while we were at 17 companies in 2020, over the worst possible period. And within three years, these 2021 projects should create a thousand jobs, ”analyzes Jean-Claude Dardelet.
Twenty names unveiled in early 2022
But who are these 30 companies seduced by Toulouse to the detriment of other large European or global metropolises? For about twenty of them, most of them foreigners, the attractiveness agency is dependent on the green light from the state to reveal their name. See you at the end of winter 2022.
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But for ten of them, the installation is either in progress or already carried out. This is the case of Infrared biotechnology. This young company chose Toulouse to develop its cellular immunity tests, one of the innovative solutions in the fight against Covid-19. She is currently housed at the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (IPBS).
The Village By CA, the business incubator of Crédit Agricole installed allées Jules-Guesde in the former premises of the Regional Chamber of Accounts, houses Cognitive design systems, “Which specializes in artificial intelligence for Industry 4.0 on product design”, specifies Silvia Ferrari, deputy director for economic development of investment in Toulouse.
NATO Space Center to ramp up in 2022
In February 2021, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced that NATO would soon set up its space center of excellence in Toulouse. Concretely, Toulouse will host by 2023 several dozen expert officers from many NATO countries, even those who benefit from skills in space operations. This space center will be responsible for protecting the satellites of the Alliance countries against possible enemy attacks. Its mission will be to share the information gathered on threats against satellites and to coordinate the activities of these satellites.
This project was approved during the NATO summit in December 2019 in London, but it was originally to be installed at the base of the NATO air force high command in Ramstein, in the Land of Rhineland. -Palatinate in southwestern Germany. “This NATO space center will ramp up in 2022. Around 40 people should be working on site by 2025,” said Silvia Ferrari, deputy director for economic development and investment in Toulouse. But there is still the question of where this center of excellence will be installed (within CNES?).
Remember that this same National Center for Space Studies will host the future Military Space Command by 2025, which will host nearly 450 people.
Invest ethically
Alygne, it is an American company, from California more precisely, whose job is to enlighten consumers and investors on the values and ethics of the company in which they wish to buy or invest. All thanks to artificial intelligence.
According to figures from the Ad’Occ agency, the economic development agency of the Occitanie Region, artificial intelligence employed 1,500 people in Toulouse and has no less than 150 companies. “For now, they are focusing on investment funds,” says Silvia Ferrari.
A Danish solution to prevent the flooding of his house
Toulouse even shines as far as Denmark! The Cité de Montaudran has been hosting since the start of the 2021 school year Flood frame, which offers solutions to protect homes from flooding. This is how the leaders of the start-up learn their process:
“The FloodFrame system consists of a sturdy and waterproof tarpaulin adapted to the geometry of your frame. It is wrapped around a floating coil, integrated into a block, and concealed in a trench that goes around your house, to approx. 1 meter from the building. Floodframe is an invisible protection, respecting the aesthetics of your construction. If a flood occurs and could damage your house, a mechanism automatically ejects the tarpaulin from the trench., the pressure unrolls the tarpaulin on along the walls of your house, on the outskirts “.
The Danish company should even recruit to expand its teams in the coming weeks.
Two Singapore companies
In the space sector, Infinite Orbits offer a range of services based on software and computer technologies, to provide space engines with knowledge of their immediate environment and allow them, for example, autonomous navigation in orbit. “It’s a start-up from Singapore located at B612. CNES really liked their sector, ”says Silvia Ferrari.
In spring 2021, Silina, specialized in curved sensor technology, an integrated the Nubbo incubator, which was created, in partnership with CNES, the TechTheMoon incubator, with five start-ups selected to work on the economy around the conquest of the Moon.
With the pioneer of the hydrogen drone
Pioneer of the hydrogen drone, the Singapore company H3Dynamics announced, in May 2021, the establishment of a research and development center in Toulouse. Installed in the B612, she recently raised $ 26 million in funds. “We met him for the first time in 2017. The final project, with H3Dynamics, is the hydrogen airplane,” indicates the Invest agency in Toulouse.
A CAF Spanish design office
The Spanish group FAC will build the future trains of the Parisian RER B. But it is in Occitania and the Pink City that it will develop with the creation of an engineering design office. In the next three years, 80 to 100 people are expected to increase the workforce of the Spanish company. CAF already manages a production site in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
The Oncopole in full boom
In addition to the arrival of these international start-ups, several sites are booming, like the Oncopole. On the spot, the German pharmaceutical research group Evotec had announced, in April 2021, the creation of a biomedicines factory in 2023. The Pink City was in strong competition with Great Britain on this file. Two nuggets are also incubated on site: Therapeutic Flash and Easy cell, which should create around fifty jobs each.
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