Name

SATT Sud-Est

Legal name

SATT PACA Corse SAS

Website

https://sattse.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marseille

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Licensing Royalties: SATT Sud-Est generates revenue through licensing agreements with companies for exploitation of technologies developed from public research. Revenue is generated via license fees, royalties, and milestone payments from licensees.
2. Maturation Investment Returns: The company invests public funds (PIA - Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir, FEDER, Bpifrance) in technology maturation projects. While the primary objective is economic impact rather than direct financial return, investment decisions are made around 5 strategic priority axes to maximize transfer outcomes.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

SATT Sud-Est (legally SATT PACA Corse SAS) is a Technology Transfer Acceleration Company (Société d'Accélération du Transfert de Technologies) that serves as the interface between public research laboratories and industry in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) and Corsica regions of France. Its core activity is the maturation of inventions from public research on three dimensions: legal (intellectual property), economic (market), and technological (proof-of-concept). It generates revenue primarily by granting exploitation licenses to companies, with 112 license agreements signed and 11M€ in licensing revenue generated by end of 2020.

Product overview

SATT Sud-Est operates as a Technology Transfer Acceleration Company serving as the interface between public research laboratories in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Corsica regions and industry. The company offers a comprehensive service portfolio centered on technology maturation, intellectual property protection, and licensing facilitation. Core services include Technology Transfer Services (invention declaration, patent filing, market analysis), Maturation Programs (financial/technical support from proof of concept to market readiness), Intellectual Property Management (portfolio protection and strategy), and Licensing Services (marketing and license agreement negotiation). Supporting services include Start-up Incubation Support through partnerships with regional incubators, Marketing & Communication Services for ecosystem mapping and events, and Corporate Profile Documents for stakeholder communications. The company focuses on five strategic axes: Connected Information Society, Environment/Energy/Territories, Health/Life Technologies, Industrial Processes, and Culture/Heritage/Digital Humanities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Technology Transfer Services
• Maturation Programs
• Intellectual Property Management
• Start-up Incubation Support Partnership-based support for the creation of innovative startups from public research, delivered via partnerships with Incubateurs Belle de Mai, Impulse, Inizià, and Provence Côte d'Azur.
• Licensing Services Marketing, negotiation, and signing of exploitation license agreements for protected technologies originating from PACA and Corsica public research. 112 firm licenses signed by end of 2020, generating €11M in licensing revenue.

Quantifiable outcome

• 112 licensing agreements generating 11M€ in total revenue by end of 2020
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Incubateur INIZIÀcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2023SATT Sud-Est and Incubateur INIZIÀ signed a partnership convention on July 7, 2023, in Ajaccio. The partnership aims to work together to drive projects into incubation leading to the creation and development of innovative companies in Corsica. SATT will identify commercially viable technologies from public research labs while INIZIÀ provides entrepreneurship support, business planning, and development strategy. Both structures share expertise and networks to maximize innovation impact on the Corsican territory.
• Marseille Immunology Biocluster (MIB) ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2023The Marseille Immunology Biocluster project led by Aix-Marseille Université and including SATT Sud-Est was selected as a laureate of the Bioclusters France 2030 call for projects. With €97 million in state investment, MIB brings together major research, health, innovation, and industrial actors to accelerate development of new immunotherapy antibodies against incurable diseases. SATT will support the creation of ~40 startups in immunology by 2030.
• Incubateur Provence Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 May 2023Renewal of partnership convention signed May 4, 2023, in Sophia Antipolis. SATT Sud-Est will leverage the incubator for all entrepreneurial creation support in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var regions, while the incubator relies on SATT for technology transfer to existing or new companies. The partnership includes clear role division: SATT handles IP and valorization, the incubator provides business project design and entrepreneur advisory services.
• OurDigitalFuture (Technoriat Program, Tunisia)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 April 2023Collaboration protocol signed April 21, 2023, in Marseille with Tunisian structure OurDigitalFuture, which carries the Technoriat program. The partnership aims to contribute to strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem through valorization of research results and development of technology startups. SATT Sud-Est shares its expertise in technology maturation and innovation valorization to support selected projects with international development potential.
• COMS@N and COMBio Consortia (Inserm Transfert Co-lead)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2023Two consortia (COMS@N with 24 members and COMBio with 25 members) led by Inserm Transfert and SATT Sud-Est were designated as laureates of the 4th Investment for the Future Program (PIA 4) maturation pre-maturation call for projects. These collective structures in the French innovation ecosystem aim to accelerate technology maturation from public research.
• Incubateur Belle de MaicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 October 2021Partnership convention signed October 22, 2021, to strengthen the economic potential of multimedia projects and accompany teams in transforming their research into viable companies. SATT and Belle de Mai collaborated on creating the Entreprendre AMU platform for Aix-Marseille Université to inform researchers about pathways to entrepreneurship.
• French Tech Seed Provence Corse ConsortiumcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 17 January 2019SATT Sud-Est leads a consortium with Incubateurs Belle de Mai, Impulse, and Inizià, designated as a French Tech Seed business introducer on January 17, 2019. The consortium mobilizes investment for young innovative companies in the Provence-Corse territory and finances pre-seed funding at scale. As of the data, the consortium has: 20 labeled dossiers, 12 funded dossiers, and €8.75M raised by startups.
• Réseau SATTcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 January 2012SATT Sud-Est is a member of the national SATT Network (Réseau SATT), which federates all 14 SATTs in France with the mission of simplifying and professionalizing the transformation of research inventions into innovations and their transfer to companies. Laurent Baly, President of SATT Sud-Est, served as President of the Réseau SATT from 2016.
• Canceropôle Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSATT Sud-Est collaborates with Canceropôle PACA on cancer research and innovation initiatives, including joint events such as the Plan Cancer Research & Innovation Day held February 4, 2020.
• EurobiomedminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSATT Sud-Est works with Eurobiomed competitiveness cluster to offer services for welcoming and supporting company development on the territory and facilitate international outreach, particularly within the Marseille Immunology Biocluster project.
• VB-TechcoreOthersSATT Sud-Est granted VB-Tech an exclusive worldwide license for the Virtual Brain technology (TVB) developed at INS/Aix-Marseille Université. SATT invested approximately €1 million over 4 years in maturation and holds an equity stake in VB-Tech SAS.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SATT AxLR: Sister SATT for the former Languedoc-Roussillon region operating the identical national technology-transfer model (PIA-funded maturation, patent filing, licensing, startup creation). Direct comparison because both serve as regional interfaces between public research and industry under the same Réseau SATT framework.
• SATT Paris-Saclay: One of the largest SATTs in the national network covering the Île-de-France research ecosystem around Paris-Saclay. Directly comparable because it performs the same maturation-to-licensing pipeline on a much larger research catchment, setting the upper bound for what a SATT can deploy commercially.
• SATT Toulouse Tech Transfer: Sister SATT serving the Occitanie region. Comparable because it applies the same model (PIA endowment, technology maturation, IP commercialisation, seed-stage startup support) from a different regional research base, making it a benchmark for south-France operating economics.
• SATT Lutech: Sister SATT in the Paris region anchored to Sorbonne Université, with the same mandate for IP commercialisation and startup spin-outs from public research. A directly comparable technology-transfer intermediary within Réseau SATT.
• SATT Ouest Valorisation: Sister SATT serving western France (Brittany / Pays de la Loire). Comparable because it executes the same federal R&D transfer model — patent filing, maturation funding, licensing, startup creation — from a regional perspective, providing a benchmark for Atlantic-France deal flow.

Broad incumbents

• Inserm Transfert: France's specialised technology-transfer subsidiary of Inserm for health and life-science research. Comparable because it operates the same maturation-to-licensing pipeline for the same shareholder (Inserm is a SATT Sud-Est shareholder), and co-leads the COMS@N / COMBio pre-maturation consortia with SATT Sud-Est.
• CNRS Innovation: The CNRS-owned technology-transfer entity (successor to the pre-2022 CNRS corporate vehicles). Comparable because CNRS is one of SATT Sud-Est's principal shareholders and CNRS Innovation operates the same value-chain at the national level for CNRS labs.
• Bpifrance: France's national public investment bank that administers the PIA funding SATT Sud-Est runs on and operates the French Tech Seed fund. Comparable because Bpifrance sits upstream (capital) and downstream (DeepTech labels, growth financing) of the same deep-tech transfer value chain.
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Germany's largest applied-research organisation with €3B+ contracted research and a parallel IP-licensing / spinout infrastructure. Comparable as a much larger international reference point for the public-research-to-industry transfer model.

Others

• France Brevets: France's national IP monetisation entity that aggregates, defends, and licenses patents. Related because it operates at the same IP-rights-monetisation stage of the value chain but at a national-aggregation level rather than regionally, making it an adjacent ecosystem player.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments4 records

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