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On October 17, 2024, the IMPACT 40/120 prizewinners reached a key milestone in their journey, joining the 3rd promotion of Impact Lab Acceleration. For five months, these impact structures benefited from tailor-made support to take up a major challenge: to become the impact unicorns of tomorrow.

The committed entrepreneurs and managers of Mouvement Impact France offer you their analysis of the economic programmes of the candidates in the European elections!

The election period for Impact France's regional ambassadors came to an end this Thursday, November 9, 2023. In the final weeks of voting, members of the movement were asked to decide on their regional representatives for the next two years.

Cyril Noury, CEO of Informatruck, shares with Mouvement Impact France his vision of impact enterprises, whose status as SSE commercial companies enables them to put utility before profitability!

Mouvement Impact France was present in The Hague to contribute to the structuring and development of impact entrepreneurship in Europe!

Find out why SSE status is at the heart of Digital4Better's business model.

For Anne-Sophie Thomas (Gestia Solidaire), social economy companies are the pioneers of the impact economy, which needs to be supported and developed on a massive scale.

On February 1, 2024 in Brussels, 15 European and national business networks representing nearly 100,000 companies across Europe announce the official launch of the Business for a Better Tomorrow coalition ahead of the 2024 European elections.

While AI brings pragmatic and promising solutions to crucial issues such as health, safety and the ecological transition, which drive us to explore its applications ever further, it is imperative to beware of the risks and the danger of rebound effect inherent in its intensive use!

On April 16, Margot Chaptal de Chanteloup and Laurent Devemy, co-director and co-leader of Club Ideo, launched the movement's new dynamic in French Polynesia at an event bringing together players in the Impact economy in Papeete on the island of Tahiti. 

Currently being drafted by Parliament, the bill to boost business financing and France's attractiveness proposes a series of measures designed to facilitate company IPOs.

At Carbo, we're convinced that the 4-day week is a great way to reclaim time for a better connection to ourselves, to others and to life.

Come and discover the future unicorns of impact at the launch of the IMPACT40/120 index on Tuesday March 26 at 6.30pm at ChangeNOW!

After the show aired, the company achieved sales of 150,000 euros in just one hour (the amount initially requested from investors), and raised 3.6 million euros in financing! 

On Friday February 2, an Academy led by France's leading Impact experts was launched to help the entire start-up ecosystem become more professional in this area. For these well-known and recognized pioneers, Impact can no longer be an option or a marketing argument, but must become a core part of support programs to improve the economic, ecological and social robustness of start-ups and scale-ups. 

Greetings from the co-presidents of Mouvement Impact France

1 year after the launch of the #1 Impact Lab Acceleration class, the 2nd class began in November 2023 to support 20 social impact entrepreneurs as they scale up. Perhaps the unicorns of tomorrow? Discover them!

France Digitale, Bpifrance Le Hub and Mouvement Impact France have worked together to produce this year's 4th edition of the mapping of French impact startups!

Meeting for the first time in plenary session on Monday November 20, 2023, and made up of 13 standards and impact experts, the committee will focus on defining the main strategic priorities to make the tool more robust, user-friendly and aligned with new European regulations (CSRD). 

Finance bill for 2024, discover our proposals for fair taxation!

Dual materiality: combining financial materiality and impact materiality

Mouvement Impact France was in Amsterdam for the Social World Enterprise Forum 2023!

The Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Directive (CSRD) is one of the flagship texts of the Green Deal.

There are now almost 2,000 ESUS-accredited companies. What were their motivations? How did they obtain this accreditation?

Start Up à Impact, you put your Social and Ecological Impact at the heart of your strategy: to benefit from advantages and greater recognition, you can become a 'SSE commercial enterprise': but why? But why? How?

Jean Moreau (Phenix) and the SSE Business Enterprise: making social, ecological and solidarity-based entrepreneurship the new reference model.

Spearheading the definition of our way of life, tech innovation is struggling to establish itself as a systematic tool in the service of a desirable future for all. Between the absurd and the beneficial, it is possible - and recommended! - to be critical and take sides.

The list and the project led by Pascal Demurger (MAIF) and Julia Faure (LOOM) have been widely acclaimed by the members who have given them their confidence at 86%.

Press release: Impact France renews its governance on May 24

Green industry: before the debates on the bill, the pioneer actors formulate their proposals to combine reindustrialization and sobriety!

Discover the BCG, ESSEC and Mouvement Impact France study on Impact Unicorns and the new criterion to identify them: avoided costs for society.

Discover the editorial of Théo Alves da Costa, Tech for Good France ambassador: Tech for Good in the age of artificial intelligence

In Bordeaux: a Night Session to bring together the tech and tech for good ecosystem and move forward together to advance impact and place it at the heart of business models.

What are the next Unicorns at Impact? Discover TOWT, the Breton company that allows the decarbonization of long-distance freight transport!

A fourth Night Session of Tech for Good France to address the success of companies and a new horizon for the valuation of startups: the Unicorn at Impact!

At the Universités de l'Economie de Demain: Vita Dx, artificial intelligence at the service of the health system to improve cancer screening.

Discover COol Roof, an upcoming impact unicorn unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Rennes: a goal, repainting roofs to eliminate the use of air conditioners.

Tech for Good France gathered the Tech ecosystem, investors, France Digitale, La French Tech to discuss with FAIR the funding crisis of startups and the opportunity it represents for tech for good.

A Fond Gaston, the next sober unicorn? The Lyon-based company presented at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain wants to make sure of its impact before going to scale.

Lyon-based start-up Biomede unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain as the next unicorn with an impact, decontaminating soils of heavy metals in a circular economy approach

For a region spearheading the sobriety economy: participate in the Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Lyon on November 29!

Discover the Naked Drive, the first zero waste drive that aims to avoid a billion unnecessary packaging: a future unicorn with impact?

Discover Ecomatelas, the next impact unicorn unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Montpellier!

On October 18, the Universités de l'Economie de Demain will return to Montpellier: a day to put economic sobriety, a source of prosperity, at the heart of the debates and businesses in the region.

Discover the 3 impact unicorns unveiled at the Universités de l'Economie de Demain in Montpellier!

2023 Finance Bill: Impact France calls for a greener budget by focusing on business transformation

Unveiled exclusively at the Universités d'Eté de l'Economie de Demain, discover who will be the 10 future sober unicorns!

At the Summer University of the Economy of Tomorrow, visionary entrepreneurs formulate their 10 proposals to the Government for an economy of sobriety!

In order for each company to progress and commit to the path of sobriety, the 10 commandments of the sober company were presented at the Summer University of the Economy of Tomorrow

Sobriety, I write your name! The fourth edition of the Universités de l'Economie de Demain is coming up

The IPCC has reminded us that we have three years to act. The companies in the Impact France Movement are mobilising and making progress together.

Eighty-four French business leaders are calling for sobriety to become a collective choice. Here is their statement: "Moving from 'emergency sobriety' to organised sobriety. This is the challenge that we, business leaders, have decided to collectively face.

For this second Tech for Good Night Session, entrepreneurs met at Station F to discuss sobriety issues and new sober tech models.

After 6 months of PFUE and mobilisation of committed entrepreneurs, what concrete progress has been made to transform businesses? What projects have been opened and will be pursued?

On the occasion of the legislative elections, the Impact France Movement is calling on the various candidates to engage them on the proposals of impact entrepreneurs.

The Territoires & Logement community unveils its mapping of solutions for tomorrow's mobility during an event to invent a more sober sector compatible with the Paris Agreements.

What if the Unicorn that will make all start-ups dream was an Impact Unicorn? With BCG and Ipsos, Impact France unveils its major study to accelerate the impact economy.

During our General Assembly, more than 200 members were present for this high point in the democratic (and convivial!) life of our movement

By publishing its Impact Score in full transparency, EDF has become the first major French group to take a stand against green and social washing and to commit to a process of measurable progress.

On the eve of the appointment of the new Prime Minister, committed entrepreneurs send an open letter to Emmanuel Macron: 100 days for impact

Faced with the threat to fundamental freedoms posed by the extreme right, Impact France, the employers' organisation for committed entrepreneurs, calls for a clear choice by voting for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election.

Common to 30 business networks, the Impact Score is the tool already adopted by more than 2,000 companies to situate and improve their impact on the 5 pillars of the impact enterprise.

Commitment, what do the French expect from companies? Harris Interactive conducted a survey for the Impact France Movement to find out.

On 7 April at the Morning de Concorde, the Tech for Good France community is organising an AgoraTech to define the Unicorn with Impact.

The territories and housing community is proposing a meeting on zero-carbon housing, an exceptional digital meeting on 6 April.

On the eve of the presidential election, entrepreneurs and committed leaders are gathering in Rennes to make their voices heard in the final stretch of the election.

While the Impact Score aims to provide a 360° mapping of its impact in order to make progress, other leaders have integrated the tool into the heart of their strategy.

The Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow in Marseille: a day to influence the debates and set the framework for social and ecological competitiveness!

The actors of the accompaniment are gathering on March 1st in Paris for a first meeting of the Accompagnateurs community.

The committed entrepreneurs and leaders who are signatories of the Manifesto are deploying their mobilisation in all regions with 8 meetings.

What do the candidates propose to put the economy back at the service of the common good? Committed entrepreneurs decipher the programmes.

More than 6,500 committed entrepreneurs and leaders support the proposals presented in the Manifesto for the Economy of Tomorrow.

The thematic communities are formulating their proposals so that all sectors of the economy can take the turn towards ecological and social transformation.

Presidential elections 2022: what are employers asking for? More social and ecological justice, more room for the impact economy!

The European Commission has unveiled its proposal for a "Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence" directive which aims to impose a duty of care on companies

To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Finance community is organising a meeting on 17 February at Morning Concorde.

To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Tech for Good France community is organising a virtual meeting on 25 January at 18:00

To prepare 2022 and to meet each other, the Territories community is organising a first virtual meeting on 20 January at 6 pm.

To prepare for 2022 and to meet each other, the Education and Employment community is organising a first virtual meeting on 18 January at 6 pm.

On the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union, the EU must more than ever take the path of ecological and social transformation, the Impact France Movement is mobilising.

Before the end of the year celebrations, the Movement and the Consumption community are offering their offers to Impact France members for responsible gifts! This is an opportunity to rediscover the actors of responsible consumption and to propose gifts in line with its values.

According to an ELABE survey for BFM TV published on 20 October 2021, purchasing power is now the number one concern of the French.

Faced with repeated crises and the ecological and social emergency, we need to change our model. But to be up to the challenge and fight against the green & social washing that is developing, we need clarity and political will: unfortunately, this is not what is being presented today by the (re)launch of the Impact.gouv platform

On 12 October, Emmanuel Macron unveiled the broad lines of the "France 2030" investment plan. This represents a budget of 30 billion euros

More and more start-ups are claiming to be Tech for Good, but what is it?

Organised by the #WeAreTomorrow coalition, which brings together more than 25 networks of committed entrepreneurs (from the CJD to the Christian Entrepreneurs, from B-Corp to the Community of Companies with a Mission), the third Summer Universities of the Economy of Tomorrow brought together more than 2,000 entrepreneurs on 26 and 27 August!

The committed entrepreneurs of the Impact France Movement have worked on drafting 30 proposals for scaling up the impact economy and accelerating the ecological and social transformation of all businesses.

The bill "aimed at accelerating economic and professional equality", put forward by LREM MP Marie-Pierre Rixain, President of the Delegation for Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities between Men and Women, was debated at the National Assembly. The Impact France Movement was able to contribute positively to this text by proposing 3 amendments to go further.

The Impact France Movement currently brings together more than 250 ESUS-approved companies out of the 1,700 listed by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.