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Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs
Pépite France is a national network established in 2014 that connects student and recent graduate entrepreneurial projects with businesses and funding opportunities across France.
Overview
What Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs does
What Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs is
Pépite France is a national network established in 2014 that connects student and recent graduate entrepreneurial projects with businesses and funding opportunities across France.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2014
- Approximate age
- About 12 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 13, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs as a community
Community overview
Pépite France, initiated by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation in 2014, is a network that federates Pépite (Pôles Étudiants pour l’Innovation, le Transfert et l’Entrepreneuriat) across France. Its mission is to enhance entrepreneurial culture and innovation within higher education through awareness, training, and support initiatives. Péite France connects student and recent graduate entrepreneurial projects with businesses and support and funding structures.
Community focus
Pépite France focuses on fostering entrepreneurship among students and recent graduates. It provides support through the Statut National d'Étudiant-Entrepreneur (SNEE), which allows individuals to develop their entrepreneurial projects alongside their academic studies. The organization emphasizes collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance the entrepreneurial mindset and support impactful projects.
Member value
Members benefit from access to intensive training, dedicated spaces, expert meetings, workshops, and community-building events such as Bootcamps and a National Demo Day.
Membership
- Recorded members
- 5,503
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- hybrid
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Students · Founders
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- accelerator and community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed
- Sectors
- Social Networks
- Regions
- France
Community activity
Events and activity
Pépite Starter includes community-building events such as Bootcamps and a National Demo Day.
Notable members
Pépite France collaborates with numerous public and private partners, including Banque Populaire and BPI France, as well as operational partners like Enactus and the Wild Code School.
Common questions
What to know about Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs
Upseed classifies Pépite France - Le réseau des Étudiants-Entrepreneurs under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
March 13, 2026
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