NETVA About our program

Deeptech North America - NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) is personalized support program that offers a personalized support, opportunity analysis and development of technological partnerships in the United States, for young and innovative French startups.

Managed by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States (Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles), NETVA aims to meet the internationalization needs of French startups developing innovative products with high added value. The winners of the competition will participate in a two-phase personalized program: (1) a training seminar in June in Paris focused on the approach to North American markets; (2) a week of immersion at the beginning of November in one of the seven most dynamic ecosystems in the United States:

• Atlanta and the Southeast (fintech, logistics, medical, smart cities);
• Boston and New England (biotechnology, medical and life sciences, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum, and low carbon energies);
• Chicago and the Great Lakes region (agri-agro, physics, chemistry, engineering, medical);
• Houston and Texas (energy, electronics-IT, medical, space);
• Los Angeles and Southern California (Life science, health, biotechnology, environment);
• San Francisco and Silicon Valley (artificial intelligence, digital, data, software);
• Washington D.C. (cybersecurity, defense, telecommunications, aerospace, federal regulations, govtech, social tech).