Biography
Jean-Michel Dalle is the Managing Director of Agoranov, a science-based incubator in Paris co-founded by several leading universities and research centers. Agoranov has helped launch over 600 innovative, mostly deeptech startups, including five unicorns, that together have raised €6 billion in private funding. A co-founder of Rise Europe, Jean-Michel Dalle also currently chairs the Committee for the “Pôles Universitaires d’Innovation” (University Innovation Clusters), a new framework program to help French universities scale up their innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. He graduated from École Polytechnique, ENSAE, and EHESS, and holds a PhD in Economics from École Polytechnique.