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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

  • Premium Partners

  • Official Partners

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  • GPACF 2024 Winners

    Grand Prix ACF AutoTech, powered by ESSEC Automobile Club

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    Diamfab

    PRIX PIONNIER ACF 2024

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    Genomines

    GRAND PRIX ACF 2024

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    Cylib

    MENTION GPACF GREENTECH 2024

  • 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

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    Eric BOURDAIS

    de CHARBONNIERE

    ACF

    President of Donation Fund

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    Yann

    de PONTBRIAND

    ACF

    President

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    Thierry PEUGEOT

    ESSEC Automobile Club

    President

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    Patrick BLAIN

    Renault-Nissan

    Ex-Excom

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    Félicie BURELLE

    OP Mobility

    Managing Director

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    Patrice GRAILLAT

    FIDAL

    Paris Director

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    Patrick KOLLER

    FORVIA

    CEO

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    Philippe KRIEF

    RENAULT GROUP

    Chief Technical Officer

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    Christophe LACROIX

    MOTUL

    Chief Innovation and Sustainability Officer

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    Stéphane PRIAMI

    CREDIT AGRICOLE Personal Finance & Mobility

    CEO

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    Anne ASENSIO

    Dassault Systems

    Vice-President Design

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    Yann BODERE

    Iot.Bzh

    Managing Director

    Grand Prix ACF

    2020

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    Claire CANO

    HiFlow

    CEO

    Grand Prix ACF

    2019

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    Ehsan EMAMI

    Qovoltis

    President

    Grand Prix ACF 2021

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    Jean Philippe GIBAUD

    GEOLITH

    CEO

    Grand Prix ACF

    2022

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    Elisabeth LECUYER

    Paris Business Angels

    President

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    Maya NOEL

    France Digitale

    CEO

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    Dali RASHID

    Genomines

    CTO

    Grand Prix ACF

    2024

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    Elisabeth YOUNG

    WAVE

    Présidente

  • Application Process

    Call for international and French projects until November 29th

    1

    Please prepare a slide deck in English or French (9 slides maximum + appendices if needed) + Founders' CVs

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    Please fill the short application below

    3

    Send 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

  • Previous Editions

    Rediscover Grand Prix ACF AutoTech 2018 - 2022 editions

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    Grand Prix ACF 2018

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    Grand Prix ACF 2019

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    Grand Prix ACF 2020

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    Grand Prix ACF 2022

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    Grand Prix ACF 2023

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    Grand Prix ACF 2024

  • 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 Goals
    1 year membership to the non-profit organisation France AutoTech

    Individualized 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 Affaires

    Business 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 AutoTech

    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 EPITECH

    Choose 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.

  • Contact us

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    Richard de Cabrol

    Grand Prix ACF AutoTech Managing Director

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