What is a French visa "FRENCH TECH VISA" that favors start-up companies and talented technicians?

ByJpmatth

The world's largest appliance fairCES 2017About "All the startup scenes were brought to France"CerevoThe founder of Takuma Iwasa said. France will attract foreign talents to their own countryI am putting my strength, Visa to support founder and employees of start-up companies and their families in 2016FRENCH TECH VISA (French Tech Visa)We started. It is believed that these influences are also in the shadows of French leap forward.

French Tech Visa
http://visa.lafrenchtech.com/


French Tech Visa is a talent passport system adopted by the French government. The talent passport system is a stay permit for investors, researchers, artists, skilled wage workers and their families, which integrates the six types of residence permits that existed so far. Promulgated in 2016A system newly established in the "Foreign Rights Law in France"The maximum stay duration is 4 years.

The purpose of French-Tec visa is as follows.

· Start-up outside FranceScale-upTo attract founder and employees
· Participating talent outside France to start up in France or scale up
· Invite investors outside France and angel investors to France

Since French-Tec visa is part of the talent passport system, the basic system structure is based on the talent passport system. Therefore, the expiration date is 4 years, the subject includes not only the person himself but also his / her family. The principal and family are not regulated as workers, and depending on the circumstances, priority procedures may be carried out.

There are three ways for the startup founder to obtain a French-Tec visa:

1: Apply for a program called "French Tech / Ticket"
French tech tickets are a way for general startups to acquire French-tec visas. However, it is not always possible to apply, and in 2016 applications were accepted from June 21 to September 23.

French Tech Ticket Second Phase Application acceptance start, Let's start in France! - La France au Japon
http://www.ambafrance-jp.org/article10233


According to the website of the French embassy in Japan, the contents of the provided package are as follows.

· Except for investment applications, for the purpose of first covering expenses, 45 thousand euros will be paid per project
· Incubation for 12 months with one of 41 partner incubators, with intermediate assessment for 6 months
· Accelerate and simplify the process of delivering residence permits for selected applicants (winners) and family members
· Dedicated support · activation program
Master's program, monthly networking event with ecosystem
Individual business / follow-up by acceptance / support organizations
Follow up with a guardian (entrepreneur representing the accepting ecosystem)
Twice a year demo day with investors and key business partners
· "Help Desk" helps winners on administrative procedures (residence permit, financing, taxes, insurance, social security)
· Practical assistance for starting a new life (find a new life convenience guide with a special offer in a residential area or a residential area)

In addition, the entry qualification is as follows.

· International team consisting of 2 to 3 co-founder speaking English (all programs are in English)
· Up to one French citizen can be included per team
· The team must be involved in the start-up or growth period of the start-up company
· Start-up companies already established in France are not eligible

In the first phase of the program, 23 startup candidates were selected from 722 entries received from over 100 countries.

2: Apply for start-up competition
French Tech is an international startup and FrenchAcceleratorWe are planning to hold a competition to tie together, and two partners will be able to receive French Tech Visa support.

3: Apply for a French-Tec visa as founder
I contact the French consulate in the place where I live and apply for a talent passport system according to the procedure.

Even if it is not the founder or the employee of a company, "find a job at a specified French startup" "contact the French Consulate and make a French tech visa based on" having a special talent " French Tech · Visa can be obtained by the method of "applying for acquisition".

ByRhodesj

In addition, how the French startup was outstanding at CES 2017 is told by Mr. Iwasa's blog as follows.

Do not write whether it is a major media, actual condition of CES 2017 (exhibitor's perspective) - go beyond the casm!
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/wa-ren/20170116/p1

Another point to note is that the point not widely mentioned in Japanese media is a surprising breakthrough in French startups. A group that supports French hardware startups such as La French Tech and Hardware club for several years ago was very enthusiastic and attracted attention, but this activity got a fruit in CES this time, and speaking of hardware startup I had given visitors the image to do what they would do without watching France. Even though China and South Korea were exhibiting active national pavilion at EureksPark, the strength of France was outstanding in all.

As for what was standing out, first of all these designs are cool in European taste, or fashionable. This is a place where Central and South Korea can not be managed. And every company has unique eyes of the product. It is not becoming "something something seemed somewhat something" that the Chinese pavilion tends to have. I think there are many parts of the design. Even a simple activity tracker, if there is a consistent design from the UI of the application to the design of the main body, is it OK? . And most of all, the people of La French Tech and Hardware club were firmly confident and seemed to be drawn into their team only for unique and high-design items (I do not know about it actually).

Although it is not so if it is said to be a net France, HAX, which is doing investment development business for hardware startup in Shenzhen, also announced the composition of a large 3rd fund just before CES. Even though it is an incubator fund that invests only in the center of the seed round, it is a 150 million (about 17 billion yen) fund. Their impression is that they are French people as well as their founding members, and they think that the hardware start-up in 2017 is considerably steered by French people. Of course HAX is mostly invested in the United States, but ...

Alas, the impression that Japanese newcomers had put their presence on the other side was not pear. Sevendreamers, WHILL, Primesap are somewhat good fighting, and after that they are handmade, but Cerevo. As a matter of course, major manufacturers such as Sony and Panasonic had a presence like usual, but newcomers like France and China appeared one after another, and it was not supposed to attract people with a big booth.

Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have completed the concept car for CES with equal power, but it is impressive that the European, US and South Korean automakers rarely put out the concept car. What is the concept of Toyota, this is whether the smell of the advertising company only. The impression that the advertising company issued using Toyota's budget rather than being issued by Toyota. A concept car that can not see the latest commitment seemed somewhat sad, in view of Japanese automobile manufacturers' negative passive solution. To the Japanese manufacturer's approach that we have technology but do not want to take risks, we said, "If you say something, you can sell it! I also want to say. Although it is not flashy like a concept car, I feel that Ford is so advanced and ambitious that it said that all commercial cars will correspond to Alexa sequentially. People who do not take risks should be killed by a risk taker and die.