Looking back at May at Future4care: A month of exchanges, co-creation and major events
Between SantExpo, welcoming the startups from the Go-to-Market Program, hands-on workshops full of insights, and a Breakfast Club edition dedicated to prevention, here’s a look back at our highlights from May.
Managing More Effectively in Complex and Highly Regulated Sectors with Groupe BPCE
We were delighted to welcome the teams from Groupe BPCE for a seminar dedicated to managing complexity in highly regulated environments. Organized by Greenworking, the event provided an opportunity to showcase the Future4care Paris campus and bring together three startup leaders accelerated within our ecosystem: PSYNARIOS, Remedee Labs, and Welleat,for a roundtable discussion.
The conversations highlighted the specific challenges of management in healthcare, balancing startup agility with the structure of large corporations, while exploring the conditions required for leadership capable of uniting multidisciplinary teams around a shared vision.
Breakfast Club on Mental Health in Healthcare Organizations with Christophe Nguyen
The May edition of the Breakfast Club focused on mental health within healthcare organizations. By welcoming Christophe Nguyen, occupational psychologist and President of Empreinte Humaine, Jeanne Tieu Benichou opened up a discussion around a topic that remains underexplored within the ecosystem.
Through an interview followed by a masterclass, discussions emphasized that stress only becomes problematic when it persists over time, and that organizations play a decisive role by either activating or mitigating risk and protective factors. One strong takeaway emerged: management is now a direct lever for mental health prevention.
Welcoming the Startups from the Second Cohort of the Go-to-Market Program and Learning Expedition at SantExpo
Future4care invited the international startups from the second cohort of our Go-to-Market Program to explore the realities of the French healthcare market during SantExpo.
Over three days, founders alternated between workshops, meetings with experts, and immersive experiences within the French hospital and institutional ecosystem. Discussions with AP-HP, UniHA, the French Digital Health Agency, and several private-sector stakeholders helped challenge common misconceptions: reimbursement alone is not enough to guarantee market access, and a deep understanding of hospital decision-making processes remains a key success factor.
This sequence laid the foundations for concrete roadmaps, extended by discussions around entering the German market.
Future4care Joins the Aion Consortium Ecosystem Supporting a French Bid for a European AI Gigafactory
Future4care also announced its commitment alongside the Aion consortium as part of a French bid for a European AI Gigafactory.
This initiative brings together major industrial and technology players including Ardian, Artefact, Bull, Capgemini, EDF, Groupe iliad, Orange, and Scaleway around a shared ambition: strengthening European capabilities in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and sovereign infrastructure.
Within this context, healthcare plays a central role, both because of its advanced computing needs and emerging applications in medical imaging, clinical research, and personalized medicine. Future4care advocates the belief that the true value of these infrastructures lies above all in their ability to accelerate concrete use cases serving healthcare systems.
Workshop: “From Experimentation to Deployment: What Really Makes Prevention Strategies Take Off?”
A workshop dedicated to prevention in healthcare and occupational health brought together several experts around a shared observation: the success of prevention initiatives depends less on technology itself than on its real-world adoption.
Speakers highlighted the importance of co-construction with healthcare professionals, the need for change management support, and the limitations of an ecosystem that remains overly centralized. Through concrete feedback and case studies, discussions emphasized the importance of viewing prevention as a systemic process rooted in actual use cases and local realities.
A special thank you to the speakers for their participation:
▪️ Geoffrey Kretz, CEO of Kwit, a smoking cessation app now recommended by the WHO and used by more than 4.5 million people, a textbook example of what scaling truly means.
▪️ Camy Puech, Founder and President of Qualisocial, a pioneer in psychosocial risk prevention for HR departments at a time when the topic was still taboo, who successfully built the company into a thriving SME.
▪️ Rafael Andreotti, Director of Prevention at the Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers (MNH). At MNH, prevention initiatives are not tested simply to tick a box: they are co-designed with field professionals, evaluated thoroughly, and only deployed when they address a genuine need.
Future4care Speaks at the Launch of BLOOMUP Connect: Healthcare Innovation in the AI Era
Clarissa Guengant Del Pup, VP Partnerships & Alliances, represented Future4care at the launch of BLOOMUP Connect alongside Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France.
This intervention provided an opportunity to share our vision and expertise regarding both the opportunities and challenges brought by artificial intelligence in healthcare, as well as the conditions necessary for developing useful and deployable solutions.
Discussions emphasized the importance of collaboration between public and private stakeholders to transform innovation into tangible impact for patients.
Future4care in Lyon for an Event Organized by La French Tech Saint-Étienne Lyon and Orange
Finally, Future4care took part in an event organized by La French Tech Saint-Étienne Lyon and Orange, dedicated to innovation ecosystems.
The event was an opportunity to reaffirm Future4care’s mission and explain how we work daily to support healthcare startups through their growth and scaling challenges, in close collaboration with industrial partners, investors, and institutions.
The testimony of Kevin Carvalho, Director of Scientific Partnerships at Deep Life - a Future4care member startup - concretely illustrated this collaborative approach, where startup success relies on the strength of the collective ecosystem.
Launch of Our Third Call for Applications for the Go-to-Market Program: Join Us!
To close this eventful month, we launched our third call for applications aimed at startups worldwide looking to successfully implement their market access strategy in the French and German markets.
Find all application details on our dedicated page.
A Shared Momentum Across the Ecosystem
May reflected a common underlying dynamic: an ecosystem that is structuring itself, connecting stakeholders, and projecting itself on a European scale.
Between organizational transformation, startup acceleration, and the construction of tomorrow’s infrastructures, Future4care continues to play its role as a catalyst for practical, collaborative, and sustainable healthcare innovation.
