How to test your activity in a company incubator?

The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.

The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:

• You are job seeker who has been compensated
• You're touching a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
• You are part-time employee

Your project must be at idea stage.

The incubator will allows you to :

• Build your project (market study, business plan, etc.)
• Test your idea at full scale: loan of a legal existence, actual billing, etc.
• Test your capacity to be head of company (real life situation)
• Access professional networks
• Be trained by experts

By integrating an incubator, you must sign one Cape contract.

You're committing follow a company creation, recovery or management program.

The incubator lends you a legal existence and one unique identification number (Siren) (temporary).

You can thus sell and bill your services or goods to customers.

This is a support over a period of 1 to 3 years maximum.

You test your business by cost-saving following:

• TEC (territorial economic contribution)
• Accountant
• Business bank account
• Professional indemnity insurance

You benefit from a social protection according to your status (employee, jobseeker or beneficiary of the RSA: titleContent). These are sickness benefits, unemployment insurance and pensions.

You must build a application dossier that presents your project.

It is analyzed by those responsible for the incubation structure.

You must defend and argue your project in maintenance.

As a result of this process, your file is selected or not.

The incubator takes a share on your turnover, on average of 10%.

Your turnover is paid directly into the incubator's bank account.

If you are a job seeker, you will keep your registration with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) and your allowances.

You may contact France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi).

You can also contact the national incubators network of France.