Meet Jerome and Pierre

Who are Jerome and Pierre?

Jerome Delamare (on the left) and Pierre Coulombeau (on the right) are the managers of the startup EnerBee. Jerome was Professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology (G2Eab). He has founded EnerBee after several years of research in Grenoble and he is now the CTO. Pierre has co-founded several startups as TRANGO (Virtual Processors) or IDEOL (offshore windmill), before becoming EnerBee’s CEO.

During lunch, Jerome and Pierre speak about their startup and their experience in Grenoble

Grenoble, July, Brasserie du carré, 01:00 p.m.

The story of EnerBee

EnerBee (www.enerbee.fr) is a startup developing and industrializing patented energy generators, which create electricity from motion and replace batteries and wires in a wide range of applications.

EnerBee‘s story began three years ago in Grenoble with Jerome, Orphée, Leticia, Bernard and their Labs (G2ELab and CEA Leti). They developed together the technology and Jerome took the lead in order to create a business. Thus, Jerome worked with a technology transfer company called Gravit*, and then with the incubator called GRAIN*. At that moment he met Pierre thanks to his network. Now Pierre and Jerome complement one other, share a vision and decisions.

The concept has been well-received by companies and markets. Today, EnerBee has also won many prices, among which the I-Lab price for creation and development, and a price in the energy storage category of the worldwide innovation challenge (organized by the French government), both in July 2014.

Update:

EnerBee awarded by French President François Hollande for the worldwide innovation challenge. (click here for more details)

"When I came to Santa Clara, I was surprised that so many people know Grenoble!" (Jerome)

Jerome explains that point by the influence of the Grenoble ecosystem. People, laboratories, companies, universities are all linked together. This is especially true for micro and nano technologies, where Grenoble have a lot of experts and international exchanges.

"France supports well startups creation for technological innovation." (Pierre)

France offers one of the world most attractive place to innovate, develop and fund startups in their early stages. Thanks to tax benefits, research and development costs in France are among the most competitive in Europe and North America. Grenoble is a city both very attractive for its living and working environment, and for its network of public and private players supporting innovation and startups, including world-leading research institutes, investors, banks, entrepreneurs, business angels, incubators that are instrumental to develop world-class innovative companies. These points make France, and Grenoble, extremely attractive for R&D.

* These institutes have now merged into the same public company, Gate 1. See Alexandre Delorme and Carole Silvy interviews for more information

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