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Top 25 Innovation hubs based in France
RevenueBase identified 830 innovation hubs headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 8,316 professional contacts across them, including 1,301 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers innovation hubs headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest innovation hubs based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Soutien à la création reprise d'entreprise - Accompagnement des porteurs de projets - Formation modulaire, Etude de Marché, Stratégie commerciale, business plan, Comptabilité…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GARAGE est un lieu et un écosystème de Commerce et d’Innovation sur 3500m2 ultra-modulables, situés en plein cœur de Lille.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TALIS est une véritable communauté éducative qui cultive une forte culture entrepreneuriale et qui s'engage à offrir une expertise de proximité à ses publics, aux étudiants et aux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STATION F is the world's biggest startup campus based in Paris, gathering a whole entrepreneurial ecosystem under one roof.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009 by three historical stakeholders-the European Metropolis of Lille, the Hauts-de-France Region, and the City of Lille-EuraTechnologies is a leading startup and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ENSEMBLE, CO-AVANÇONS!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Live for Good est une association qui vient en aide, depuis 8 ans, aux jeunes entrepreneur·es à impact positif développant des projets innovants au service du monde de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Première coopérative d’activité et d’emploi de France née en 1995, CAP Services accompagne les entrepreneur·e·s dans le développement de leur activité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello Tomorrow was created in 2011 by a group of individuals convinced that science and technology need to form part of a toolkit of solutions to change our industries, sustain a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nous donnons plus d’ampleur à l’innovation sociale pour répondre aux fragilités de nos territoires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leonard is the VINCI Group's innovation and foresight platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “we are_ c'est une communauté active et généreuse de créateurs, d’entrepreneurs, de talents, de décisionnaires désireux au sein d'un même lieu de soutenir la création, partager…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Envisageons un nouvel art de vivre le travail, un espace de travail inspirant, un cocon feutré comme à la maison, décoré à la manière d’un lobby d’hôtel, un lieu de rencontres…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovation wide open: reveal innovative ideas, and turn them into outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au service des startups et entreprises technologiques innovantes d’Ille-et-Vilaine, Le a pour mission de favoriser leur émergence, maximiser le nombre de créations, soutenir leur…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Créé en 2016, Matrice est un centre d’innovation technologique et sociale qui pense, opère et accompagne des projets engagés au service d’un monde plus juste, efficient et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Big Bloom is a global initiative that aims to accelerate social innovations from impact organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Un environnement qui encourage l’épanouissement et favorise la réussite.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PÉPITE Provence représente le Pôle Étudiant pour l'Innovation, le Transfert et l'Entrepreneuriat sur le territoire des Bouches-du-Rhône et du Vaucluse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trop de porteur·euses de projets se lancent sans filet : l'admin à gérer seul·e, les doutes qui s'accumulent, l'isolement qui s'installe, la peur de se tromper… Et au bout du…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Axé sur le renouveau créatif, Le Cube Garges est un pôle d’innovation culturelle interdisciplinaire et numérique de 10 m², situé dans le Nord-Est parisien à Garges-lès-Gonesse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Design Crew is an all-round design hub, located in the heart of Paris and born in 2018.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lab RH is a not-for-profit organisation born in 2015 from the grouping together of innovative players in the field of Human Resources with the aim of federating, energising and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Cantine X La French Tech Nantes is an association that has been welcoming, supporting and energizing the innovation and tech ecosystem of Nantes and its region since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H7, accélérateur responsable et lieu totem du numérique de la Métropole de Lyon, a pour mission d'accompagner les start-up dans leur croissance et leur impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: innovation hubs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names innovation hubs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of innovation hubs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name innovation hubs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Innovation hubs based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 830 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among innovation hubs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “innovation hubs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names innovation hubs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among innovation hubs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,301 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Innovation hubs by metro
- Innovation hubs in Paris165
- Innovation hubs in Lyon27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names innovation hubs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many innovation hubs are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 830 innovation hubs headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
BGE, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most innovation hubs?
Paris leads with 165 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (27) and Lille (22).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,301 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 830 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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