31/08/2026
🇫🇷 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺: 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 #𝗥𝗘𝗙𝟮𝟲.
Last week, Solal attended La Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France, organised by MEDEF International at Roland-Garros in Paris.
Two days of conversations around issues central to what we build: entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, funding, industrialisation, competitiveness and international growth.
Several themes particularly resonated with us.
🇪🇺 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲.
Ursula von der Leyen, the first President of the European Commission to address the REF, placed competitiveness at the heart of Europe’s agenda: simplification, the Single Market, investment, energy, AI, skills and greater European preference in strategic sectors.
The proposed EU Inc. / 28th regime is particularly relevant: making it easier to start a business matters, but enabling companies to operate across borders and scale throughout Europe matters just as much.
🤖 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀.
This challenge was at the heart of “L’Europe n’a pas dit son dernier prompt”, with Octave Klaba of OVHcloud, Frédéric Mazzella of BlaBlaCar and France Digitale, alongside leaders from Revolut, AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence and Euroclear.
Europe has world-class talent, research and entrepreneurs. The challenge here is to turn more of these strengths into companies able to scale and compete globally.
🏭 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.
Discussions around industry, energy, skills and sovereignty highlighted a fundamental reality: innovation creates its full value when it becomes a product, finds its market and can be deployed at scale.
🌍 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗲𝘁.
The discussions on international expansion and financing, including with MEDEF International, also strongly resonated with our approach. Markets, partners, funding, talent and international operations can be considered from the earliest stages of a company’s development.
This guides our work at Solal: not simply creating companies, but building the conditions for them to grow, scale and expand internationally.
Thank you to Patrick Martin, MEDEF International, the speakers and everyone we met for two days of valuable exchanges.
𝗪𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀, 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.