Launchbase: Another Platform for Entrepreneurs?

🔍 A Rich but Fragmented Ecosystem

Today, an entrepreneur seeking support must navigate a jungle of scattered resources:

✅ Specialized media that simplify entrepreneurship (Maddyness, Les Échos Entrepreneurs, etc.)

✅ Influencers and experts sharing advice and strategies on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube

✅ Specific mappings: financing, impact-driven initiatives, incubators, accelerators...

✅ Platforms dedicated to investors or startup-partner matchmaking

Each of these tools plays a key role, but there is no single guidance hub where entrepreneurs can find all the right partners in one place to develop their project.

A platform that would allow entrepreneurs to quickly identify the right support structures based on their project, needs, and stage of development.

This is precisely the realization that led to the creation of Launchbase.

📖 From an Editorial Initiative to a Comprehensive Platform

It all started with a simple need: understanding who does what in the entrepreneurial support ecosystem.

In 2020, this goal took shape with the publication of the first incubator guide (Download here), followed in 2021 by the accelerator guide (Download here).

These tools met real success, with over 8,000 cumulative downloads, and even today, these guides continue to be widely consulted by entrepreneurs looking for landmarks in the ecosystem.

But over time, it became clear:

📌 The entrepreneurial ecosystem remains dense and complex to navigate

📌 Updating static guides was no longer enough to meet entrepreneurs’ needs

📌 A more advanced solution was required—a platform that centralizes and structures all the key actors in the support ecosystem

Launchbase was born out of this necessity: simplifying navigation within the entrepreneurial ecosystem by enabling every entrepreneur to quickly find the right incubators, accelerators, and partners.

🚀 A Clear Mission: Making Entrepreneurship More Accessible

Why this platform? Because finding the right support structures should not be an obstacle course.

Contrary to what some might think, knowing the ecosystem doesn’t make you a better entrepreneur. However, having access to the right resources and the right people, at the right time, can make all the difference.

And that is precisely Launchbase’s role:

🔹 Mapping and listing all the key players in the entrepreneurial support ecosystem

🔹 Simplifying access to information based on project type and stage of development

🔹 Facilitating connections between entrepreneurs and relevant support structures

👀 The Next Steps Are Coming Soon…

The project is just beginning, but early feedback has been very encouraging.

And because nothing is built alone, a huge thank you to our historical partners who made the first guides possible: Estimeo, Banque Populaire, Blackfoot - Laboratoire d'Innovation, EY, Numbr, KissKissBankBank, Tiime, Forinov.

🚀 Launchbase is coming… and it just might change the game. Stay tuned!