Qualify your potential.
Clarify uses, markets and priorities.
Your starting point: a diagnostic.Sovereignty · DefTech · DualTech
Bring out the technologies that strengthen our sovereignty.
Startups, SMEs and manufacturers: give your innovation a trajectory, from the first diagnostic to civil and defence markets.
A sovereign incubator. One method: HEXIS.
What is your next heading?
Startup · Incubation
→Grow my startup
Present your technology and apply for support.
Funding · Development
→Fund my project
Specify your need to identify the right avenues.
Advice · Companies
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Innovation, strategy, sovereignty or market access.
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1 methodHEXIS
10+ yearsof expertise
120defence industrial base companies audited
23startups
11events
9real military partnerships
+80expert contributors
BITD: French defence industrial and technological base.
Partnerships & accreditations
Concrete roots in defence and innovation.
Garde nationaleDefence PartnerCommitment alongside the armed forces.See the reference ↗
ProMilèsForces–business engagementLinks between companies and the military world.See the reference ↗
France NumAccredited activatorSupport for digital transformation.See the reference ↗
BpifranceInnovation Diagnostic ExpertExpertise available to scope your innovation.See the reference ↗
France InnovationNetwork memberInnovation, research and development.See the reference ↗Innovation Diagnostic · SMEs & mid-caps
Your know-how.
Your next
growth driver.
Identify the innovations worth the investment. Assess their potential. Leave with the priorities and the plan to move forward.
Check my eligibility →Discover the deliverables and funding ↗Bpifrance funds50%
of the cost of your diagnostic.
For eligible companies, after Bpifrance approval.
Qualified opportunitiesInformed investment choicesA prioritised roadmap
See how my share is calculated →The HEXIS method
A clear heading.
Steps to move forward.
We adapt support to your project’s stage, with decisions and deliverables defined from the start.
Organise the resources.
Build the project’s technical, financial and human trajectory.
Your next step: a roadmap.Prepare market access.
Identify the relevant experts, partners and first customers.
Your goal: take action.The Hexablock ecosystem
A clear function
for each block.
You start from a need. Hexablock helps you qualify it and identify the relevant expertise for what comes next.
Your entry point: Hexablock
Diagnostic, structuring and acceleration. We give your project a heading before identifying the useful relays.
Access markets
HexaLead
A specialised sales force to approach defence decision-makers and markets.
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Meet the right people
HDCC
Connecting qualified defence companies with targeted investors and partners.
Understand its role →
Unite around sovereign technologies
SouvTech Invest
An initiative to bring together the players investing in and developing sovereign technologies.
Understand its role →
Develop specialised funding
HexaDef Capital
A funding project dedicated to non-lethal and dual-use defence technologies.
Understand its role →
Structure and preserve capital
SouvPatrimoine
Support for wealth matters, capital structuring and long-term financial sovereignty.
Understand its role →
Connect qualified skills
HexaLink beta
Connecting qualified defence experts with contracting authorities: encrypted video calls, escrow payment, supervised assignments.
Understand its role →
Shed light on dual-use technologies
DualTech Defense
The think tank and the book “DUAL TECH, La guerre des architectures”: a reading grid for the new architectures of power.
Understand its role →Each initiative has its own perimeter. Support and funding options are assessed according to your project and its maturity.
Esprit de corps in action
Innovation moves forward
with the right people.
A committed team, complementary expertise and the will to advance projects together.
Our team
Thomas Leger.
Nadège Monneron.
Two complementary backgrounds, surrounded by 80+ expert contributors.
Meet the team →
ECI
Esprit de corps
of innovation.
Share, cooperate, support each other. A conviction turned into a collective commitment.
Discover the approach →Hexablock news
Our publications.
Straight from LinkedIn.
Dual-use innovation · Nadège Monneron
Forum Innovation Défense · Hexablock
Interview with Xavier Itard · Hexablock
Let’s take action
Let’s talk about your project.
And its next step.
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