Orange Partner taking part in the 2009 Startup Academy

The second Startup Academy will be taking place in Paris from April 21 to June 16, offering an excellent opportunity for many French internet and mobile internet startups to present their projects to a panel of experts from the telecommunications industry.
Three of these projects will be selected by a panel of judges, made up of bloggers, journalists, entrepreneurs, experts and investors. Following its deliberations, three startups will receive awards at the Startup Academy evening on June 16, and will be offered an opportunity to be supported by a team of experts over three months.

Orange Partner is proud to be associated with this original operation and in this way support enterprising and innovating French startups. In addition, Raphaël Goumot, head of Orange Partner's Startup Program, will be a member of the panel.
The Orange Partner program is designed for third parties who are already partnering with Orange or would like to do so. It provides them with free access to a range of services and benefits for developing their mobile and non-mobile solutions: training, free access to a vast selection of development and test-support tools, support for releasing solutions on the market, and so on. It also enables them to access numerous APIs as well as a platform for developing widgets.

which projects and which businesses?
To be able to take part in this initiative, businesses must meet three conditions: they must be less than three years old, be focused on the web and/or mobile web, and be in a startup phase.
To validate their application, innovative startups will need to answer seven questions online from April 21 until midnight on May 24.

Startup Academy schedule
 start date for applications: April 21
 deadline for applications: midnight on May 24
 June 16: evening with the participants/panel/bloggers/investors, announcement of winners
 June/ July / August: support sessions



find out more

the Startup Academy operation's official site (in French)
the Orange Partner program