Be ambitious!
Throughout your project, your individual coach works with you to target your market effectively, elaborate your business model, plan your development phases, and fine-tune your financial strategy.
In parallel with your individual follow-up, Montpellier BIC:
Join the Montpellier BIC network
BIC offers you strategic advice

Challenge your project with Jump’In Creation
Test your project! Give it a critical and objective review by participating in our acceleration program, Jump’In Creation. This intensive 5-week mentoring program gives you a chance to challenge every aspect of your project.

Strategic questions? Ask the BIC Advisory Board.
Our seasoned mentors — founders of Montpellier BIC graduate startups, managers of major groups such as Orange, Sanofi, and Dell, and business angels— stand by your side to offer strategic advice and timely tactical tips.

Participate in workshops and thematic sessions...
Finance , human resources, digital marketing, design, business development, business news, and more. We regularly cover the topics that concern you most.
BIC helps you obtain the funding you need

Benefit from support by ESA BIC Sud France
The leading European Space Agency (ESA) incubator in France, ESA BIC Sud France is coordinated by the Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster in cooperation with CNES and the SAFE cluster, offering a specific program for projects related to space.

Get ready to raise your first funds with Jump’Invest
Montpellier BIC helps your company during its seed phase with a dedicated coaching program, an introduction to business angel networks, and seed capital funds. Based on working together in small groups for individual and collective coaching, this program helps people take on all the issues related to their first round of funding.

Benefit from an intensive program with Montpellier Venture Capital
Every year, fifteen regional companies in their series A and B funding phases are selected to participate in a four-month coaching program with fundraising professionals. The goal is to make a convincing pitch to sixty national investors from the Montpellier BIC network.
Montpellier BIC gets you started with networking

Exchange ideas with our expert committee
Montpellier BIC helps you benefit from privileged access to business networks, the key to truly integrating an entrepreneurial ecosystem: bankers, public financiers, accelerators, scientific and technical experts, experienced entrepreneurs, and more, offering advice during expert committees held 3 times a year.

Go international
In cooperation with Business France, BPI Export, customs authorities, and other stakeholders, Montpellier BIC workshops help you understand how to prepare your company for the international business arena. Missions and cooperation agreements with Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole’s International Department make it easier to access and establish your company in markets in China, the USA, Canada, and Russia...

Job dating
BIC Montpellier schedules thematic Job dating sessions. These offer you the opportunity to build new connections and to help your recruitment. Find our Job dating schedule here (FR).
Montpellier BIC speeds up your business development

Boost your sales with “Take Off”
Boost your growth and take advantage of our Take Off program, which gives you the benefit and experience of experts in strategy and business development working with you over the year to help you build market share.

Participate in Open Innovation events
EDF, Invivo, Clear Channel, SNCF, Orange, Enedis, Dell, and others come regularly to meet startups assisted by Montpellier BIC and establish partnerships together or integrated innovations developed by startups.

Benefit for co-assistance with WeSprint
Hosted at Cap Omega, the WeSprint accelerator offers companies, selected on the basis of their application form, a 4-month operational acceleration program that includes business development, communication, workshops, and more, as a complement to BIC assistance.
Specific Support Programs
Montpellier BIC develops Specific Supports Programs with dedicated partners
SPARX: Created in 2020 by BIC Montpellier in partnership with Schlumberger, aims to support new enterprises for their business and technological needs in the areas of IT and energy. Deepbloo & Inatysco are 2 startups that took advantage of this program and created 12 jobs in a year.
Montpellier Game Lab: Created in 2021 by BIC Montpellier in partnership with the association Push Start, this program supports 5 video game studios with mentoring & training, advise and playtest.
Zoom on…Montpellier Game Lab

A program dedicated to the video game industry
Montpellier & Video Game a “love affair”? For many years our area has been home of a large number of professionals and students who specialized in the video game industry. The Game Lab program offered by Push Start and BIC meets theirs needs! #ICC

Plan, Build & Grow
Started in 2021 Game Lab helps the startup studios to plan their development, build their team and arrange financing using both individual and team support.

5 startups have been selected
The first round of selection includes: BBlack Studio, Build the Light, Exalted Studio, Fireplace Games and Play Curious are the 5 ambitious & dedicated startups that Montpellier Game Lab has selected and is currently providing assistance to.
BIC Montpellier partners with French Tech Tremplin
BIC with French Tech Tremplin provides a supportive environment to startups that have been created within the last 3 years by founders issued from disadvantaged communities or with limited resources.
This is a 1-year multifaceted program providing support to access financing, training and mentoring and 42000 € (to be share with the program itself).