For the second year, the pitch competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Department and the ESSCA Incubator was held on Thursday April 25 at the ESSCA Incubator in Boulogne.

As a reminder, in 2023, this Pitch competition replaced the "bourse entreprendre", whose model was running out of steam.

It is part of the new dynamic that the school wants to give to entrepreneurship, and relies on the ad hoc structures set up on each campus.

This year's pitch competition was a great success, with 85 students from all ESSCA campuses submitting 47 projects.

An initial internal school phase selected the 12 projects competing in the finals.

All finalists came to pitch to a panel of judges made up of professionals, professors and alumni.

The 2024 winners

• GRAND PRIX: Nathan Assouline (SUNVER),
• Special Jury Prize: Alexandra Messager (ACT FEEL SECURE),
• Innovation Award: Elena Segreti (SMART LEGACY QUAY),
• Coup de Coeur Award: Léo Heylliard (KHEPRER),
• ESSCA ALUMNI Award: Marius Bouffant (WAYFE),
• INCUB'ESSCA Award: Jean-Charles Vignole (EZYVOLT),
• FEMMES ENTREPRENEURES" 2024award: Tiphaine Gaillot (ELLES AU SOMMET).

Delphine de Ghellinck for the Club ESSCA au Féminin and the Club Entrepreneur and Patrick Bouillet for the association represented the alumni at this Pitch competition.

ESSCA Alumni awarded 2 prizes of €2,500 this year:

• ESSCA ALUMNI AWARD: Marius Bouffant (class of 2024) - WAYFE: a community application to make journeys safer (especially between party venues and home).
  
  
• FEMMES ENTREPRENEURES" 2024 prize: Tiphaine Gaillot (class of 2024) ELLES AU SOMMET: A podcast side project featuring interviews with women working/living in the challenging mountain environment. The first issue will be out soon.

We wish them all the best for the future and the realization of their projects.