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#GPACF 2025
Automobile Club de France and ESSEC Automobile Club are partnering to set up the 7th Edition of the Grand Prix ACF AutoTech rewarding most innovative international and French startups devoted to automotive sector.
REPLAY of GPACF 2024
DPlease click here to access the Replay (in french) of Grand Prix ACF Autotech 2024, splitted in sequences
Three Prize Categories
Grand Prix ACF
For startups that are most advanced in their development (Series A and +)
Prix Pionnier ACF
For youngest startups, at the early stages of their development (Seed)
Mention GPACF GreenTech
For finalist startup with the most eco-friendly product
WHO ?
For startups in automotive sector providing innovative solutions in:
- Use
- Design
- Manufacturing
- Commercialization
WHY ?
Up to € 200 000 worth of rewards including:
- € 35 000 money reward split between two prizes
- Personalized financial and law advisory
- Pitch & booth during the prize giving event
- Meetings with automotive, entrepreneurship and finance executives
ELIGIBILITY
Companies which have registered their activity statutes on January 1st 2014 at the earliest in France or in another country.
Shareholding of at least 50% of the capital by one or several of its individual associates.
Service or technological development companies which can apply their activities to the automotive sector whether in its use, design, manufacturing or commercialization.
Timeline
29 November 2024
Deadline of startup applications for #GPACF 2025
April 2nd 2025
Final of #GPACF 2025 at the Automobile Club de France with Jury and 250 guests, Prize Giving Ceremony
Jury
Eric BOURDAIS
de CHARBONNIERE
ACF
President of Donation Fund
Yann
de PONTBRIAND
ACF
President
Thierry PEUGEOT
ESSEC Automobile Club
President
Patrick BLAIN
Renault-Nissan
Ex-Excom
Félicie BURELLE
OP Mobility
Managing Director
Patrice GRAILLAT
FIDAL
Paris Director
Patrick KOLLER
FORVIA
CEO
Philippe KRIEF
RENAULT GROUP
Chief Technical Officer
Christophe LACROIX
MOTUL
Chief Innovation and Sustainability Officer
Stéphane PRIAMI
CREDIT AGRICOLE Personal Finance & Mobility
CEO
Anne ASENSIO
Dassault Systems
Vice-President Design
Yann BODERE
Iot.Bzh
Managing Director
Grand Prix ACF
2020
Claire CANO
HiFlow
CEO
Grand Prix ACF
2019
Ehsan EMAMI
Qovoltis
President
Grand Prix ACF 2021
Jean Philippe GIBAUD
GEOLITH
CEO
Grand Prix ACF
2022
Elisabeth LECUYER
Paris Business Angels
President
Maya NOEL
France Digitale
CEO
Dali RASHID
Genomines
CTO
Grand Prix ACF
2024
Elisabeth YOUNG
WAVE
Présidente
Application Process
Call for international and French projects until November 29th
1Please prepare a slide deck in English or French (9 slides maximum + appendices if needed) + Founders' CVs
2Please fill the short application below
3Send before November 29th 11h59pm
We will contact you afterwards when results will be given
PLEASE NOTE
The 9 slide deck (English or French) must include the following information :
> Team, Shareholders, Product or Service, Solved Problem, Pricing or Business Model, Market, Competitors (3-5 major competitors), Potential Coopération Ideas with GPACF Partners, your environmental/human impact
> As well as an executive summary in the opening of the presentation
Without this information, the Jury will not be able to rate your efforts for related criteria.
If you develop a disruptive technology that needs to be explained, please do not hesitate to use appendicies to a avoid a "beleive me" effect. We will read it if the first 9 slides are good enough.
If you encounter troubles with the application process, please do not hesitate to send your deck and the CVs of the Founders to essecautomobile@gmail.com. Please specify in your mail your contact details, which prize you are applying for (Grand Prix or Prix Pionnier).
Personnal information (Name, email, phone number, postal address, name of the company, CV and decks) within the purpose of your application to the Grand Prix ACF AutoTech 2025, are mandatory in order to organize properly the challenge. They belong to the organizers: Automobile Club de France and ESSEC Automobile Club and Jury members. Organizers won't make any use of those information for promotional purpose without prior notification to the user. They remain confidential and kept by the organizers only. In accordance to the articles 38, 39 and 40 from french law "Informatique et Libertés" n°78-17 of 6 january 1978 modified by the law n°2004-801 of 6 august 2004, you have access and modification right to modify your data and a right to delete your data by contacting us with the following email: gpacfstartupauto@automobileclubdefrance.fr
- Rewards
Grand Prix ACF AutoTech 2025
€25,000 without counterpart, allotted by the Automobile Club de France
1 environmental impact assessment carried out by Meridiam, related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals1 year membership to the non-profit organisation France AutoTechIndividualized counselling provided by the venture capital fund Aster, to optimize a business plan, in preparation for possible fund raising
Professional assistance on an international level, provided by Forvia. On a case-by-case basis, it could include: access to local work teams, temporary provision of work premises, and advice on the local specificities of the target country
Grand Prix ACF AutoTech 2025 Jury seat for one of the founders of the award winning startup the year following its victory
Identification of a target foreign country and administrative support to help implementation in this country by the Forum Francophone des AffairesBusiness Expert Coaching (Strategy & fund raising experts Business Experts of Next Move) & one year subscription to Minutes Europe & Innovation newsletter written in Bruxelles by Next Move
The equivalent of a €5,000 excl tax budget fee awarded by Fidal for legal assistance particularly in preparing possible fund-raising
Prix Pionnier ACF 2025
€10,000 without counterpart, allotted by the Automobile Club de France
1 year membership to the non-profit organisation France AutoTechCoaching by community of experts of SIA in order to address real needs of automotive sector
Personalized assistance to address innovation support processes (region, national and european scale) by automotive innovation cluster & one year subscription to Minutes Europe & Innovation newsletter written in Bruxelles by Next Move
The equivalent of a €10,000 excl tax budget fee awarded by Fidal for legal assistance particularly in preparing possible fund-raising
Mention GPACF GreenTech 2025
Personalized assistance to address innovation support processes (region, national and european scale) by automotive innovation cluster & one year subscription to Minutes Europe & Innovation newsletter written in Bruxelles by Next Move
Personalized coaching by the environmental impact venture capital fund Shift4Good, for the optimization of the investor pitch document
Assess the opportunity of a CrowdFunding operation, using Aster Crowd platform, for the startup as well as complete management of the relation with the subscribing investors if the operation is launched
The equivalent of a €5,000 excl tax budget fee awarded by Fidal for legal assistance particularly in preparing possible fund-raising
For the 6 finalists
1 booth during the Grand Prix ACF AutoTech cocktail, April 2nd 2025 at the Automobile Club de France
Identification of a target local french authorities to help implementation in France, if the opportunity rises with PFA - Plateforme Filière Automobile
1 meeting of investment assessment with partner funds of Grand Prix ACF AutoTech: Aster, Meridiam, Speedinvest & Shift4Good
Invitation to meet students of leading computer and web development school EPITECHChoose Paris Region will support the international finalists in their development in Paris Region. In 2023, international startups will be invited to participate in a speed dating startup/large corporations meeting dedicated to mobility.
The winners will be directly pre-selected to pitch in front of the Ville de Demain jury in order to have the opportunity to be incubated in STATION F, the world's largest incubator.
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