Clubster NSL

What Clubster NSL does

Clubster NSL (Nutrition Santé Longévite) is a French non-profit association (Association Loi 1901, SIRENE 441 487 063) headquartered in Loos, in the Lille metropolitan area, Hauts-de-France region. Established in July 2019 through the merger of Clubster Santé and Pôle Nutrition Santé Longévite, the organization operates as the only nationally-labelled French competitiveness cluster (pôle de compétitivité) sitting at the interface of nutrition and health. It aggregates 300+ member organizations — startups, mid-market and large companies, research institutions, healthcare facilities, and silver economy actors — across five verticals: agro-nutrition, medtech-hospitech, biotech-pharma, silver economy, and e-health.

The cluster's service portfolio spans project labelling (which unlocks regional, national, and European non-dilutive funding), annual animation programming (50+ workshops and events), privileged access to four European business conventions (BioFIT, MedFIT, MEDigIT, NutrEvent), export accompaniment, and a growing set of dedicated innovation infrastructure products — Concept Room (co-designed hospital rooms with CHU de Lille), IN CITU (experimentation third-place), Match Silver and HIPÂ (silver economy experimentation), Ma Box Autonomie (senior equipment testing), and Secuweb (secure data exchange). It also manages funding platforms Invest'Innove (pitch-to-investor events) and Captech Santé Nutrition (regional investment fund), and runs co-funded projects including PEPS (sustainability barometer), Step4Nam (animal-testing alternatives), and NEXAGRO (agri-food/health crossover, DINAII 2024 selection).

Revenue is generated through annual membership fees (entity-based, validated by the Administrative Council), public grants from regional (Hauts-de-France Région), national (French Ministry of Economy, ANR), and European (Interreg, ADEME) sources, and convention-related commercial activity. Geographic scope is Hauts-de-France-anchored with European extension; the cluster does not claim a global footprint. The operating model is community-led B2B with relationship-based acquisition rather than transactional sales.

Name

Clubster NSL

Legal name

Clubster NSL

Website

https://clubster-nsl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Clubster NSL is a French non-profit competitiveness cluster uniting 300+ member organizations across nutrition, health, biotech-pharma, medtech, e-health, and silver economy sectors, offering project labelling, networking events, innovation infrastructure, and funding access in the Hauts-de-France region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Loos

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: Clubster NSL generates revenue through membership fees from companies, startups, research institutions, and healthcare organizations that join the network. Membership provides access to networking opportunities, project financing support, and collaborative innovation programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Clubster NSL is a French competitiveness cluster (pôle de compétitivité) operating as a membership-based professional network at the interface of nutrition and health. It connects 300+ companies, startups, research institutions, and healthcare facilities, providing project labeling to access public funding, networking events, collaborative innovation programs, and export/business-convention support.

Product overview

Clubster NSL is a professional networking association (Loi 1901) structured as a unified platform combining networking services, financing support tools, and collective innovation programs. The core offering brings together 300+ member structures across agro-nutrition, medtech-hospitech, biotech-pharma, silver economy, and e-health sectors. Key product modules include: Invest'Innove (investment platform) and Captech Santé Nutrition (investment fund) for financing; Concept Room and IN CITU for collective innovation; Match Silver and HIPÂ for silver economy experimentation; Ma Box Autonomie for senior autonomy testing; PEPS and Secuweb for sector support projects; and NEXAGRO for agri-food/health crossover. The network also delivers programmatic services including training labeling, export accompaniment, and 50+ annual workshops and events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Invest'Innove: Investment platform for innovative project holders who pitch before potential investors in the health innovation sector
• Captech Santé Nutrition
• Concept Room
• HIPÂ
• Match Silver
• Ma Box Autonomie
• IN CITU
• NEXAGRO

Products and services

• Clubster NSL Membership Network Entity-based membership in a professional network association (Loi 1901) for industries, research, and care actors in health, nutrition, and longevity. Provides networking, R&D project financing support, and collaborative innovation programs across agro-nutrition, medtech-hospitech, biotech-pharma, silver economy, and e-health sectors.
• Invest'Innove Investment platform connecting innovative project holders with investors, facilitating pitch events and funding opportunities in the health innovation sector.
• Captech Santé Nutrition Investment fund complementing Invest'Innove, providing financial support for innovative projects in the Hauts-de-France nutrition-health sector.
• Concept Room Collective innovation project with CHU de Lille to co-design ecological and sanitary hospital products/rooms, involving both designers and users.
• Ma Box Autonomie Box service allowing people over 65 to test free of charge, for 15 days, innovative equipment designed to improve comfort and quality of life at home.
• Match Silver Experimentation platform connecting innovative project holders for well-aging with medico-social structures, supporting testing and validation of silver economy innovations.
• HIPÂ (Showrooms d'innovation bien-vieillir) Showroom apartments in Marles-les-Mines and Harnes showcasing well-aging and autonomy-preservation innovations from silver economy sector members.
• IN CITU (Tiers-lieu d'expérimentation) Generalist experimentation third-place facility enabling innovation project holders to test and validate health innovations with end users.
• NEXAGRO Project (Next Generation Agri-food and Health) selected under the DINAII 2024 call for projects by Région Hauts-de-France, exploring the intersection of agri-food and health innovation.
• PEPS Study-action project on ecological and energy performance of the Hauts-de-France health sector, providing a regional eco-energy barometer and supporting environmental transition.
• Programme d'animations Annual program of over 50 workshops and events covering sector topics (biotech, pharma, nutrition, e-health) and professional functions (commercial, finance, HR, communication) for members.
• Labellisation des formations Training labeling service that validates formations aligned with the network's thematic areas through Clubster NSL's governance bodies.
• Accompagnement à l'export Export support service giving members privileged access to four specialized European business conventions (BioFIT, MedFIT, MEDigIT, NutrEvent) and international partner connections.

Quantifiable outcome

• Labellisation facilitates access to non-dilutive national and regional financing

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• EurasantécoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Co-development partnership on multiple innovation projects including PEPS (Performance Ecologique et Energétique de Produits de Santé), a study-action on ecological and energy performance of the health sector in Hauts-de-France. Shared initiative for environmental transition in the health industry.
• CHU de LillecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the University Hospital of Lille for collaborative innovation projects including the Concept Room initiative to co-design ecological and sanitary hospital rooms, and the IN CITU experimentation space for innovation testing.
• WeloopsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the PEPS project providing expertise for environmental performance assessment and sustainability methodologies in the health sector.
• NutrisenssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerInvestment and industrial partnership with BellyCare startup, providing financial support and manufacturing capabilities. Partnership exemplifies collaboration between established health nutrition groups and innovative startups through Clubster NSL networking.
• UniLaSallesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEngineering school partnership for nutrition and health research collaboration, student placements, and joint innovation projects in the agri-food and health sectors.
• France BiotechsupportingGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for HealthTech financial surveys and industry representation, collaborating on annual financial health assessments and advocacy for innovation financing.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• BPI France: French public investment bank providing innovation financing, project-labeling-equivalent support, and ecosystem services across all French industries including health. Operates as a much larger, state-backed incumbent that partially substitutes for the project-labeling and funding-bridge services that Clubster NSL provides to its members.
• Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO): Largest US-based biotechnology trade association with global membership, organizing the BIO Convention. Comparable as a scale-benchmark: an industry association running a flagship international convention (akin to Clubster NSL's BioFIT/MedFIT) and providing member services in health innovation — though operating at a much larger commercial scale.
• Cap Digital: French competitiveness cluster for digital and ecological transformation, headquartered in Île-de-France. Comparable as a national-level pôle de compétitivité using the same Phase 5 government labeling framework, though focused on digital rather than nutrition-health. Useful benchmark for peer-cluster scale and operating model.

Direct peers

• Eurobiomed: Competitiveness cluster focused on health sectors in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions. Directly comparable as a French pôle de compétitivité in the health innovation space with similar member-driven structure, project-labeling workflow, and European project participation.
• Lyonbiopôle: French competitiveness cluster dedicated to human and animal health biotech, headquartered in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Closely comparable in mission (innovation network in health), governance (non-profit association), and member services (labeling, networking, international support) — the most natural sibling cluster to Clubster NSL outside its own region.
• BioValley France: French health and biotech competitiveness cluster based in Alsace (part of the tri-national Upper Rhine BioValley with German and Swiss counterparts). Comparable in size, structure, and service offering (labeling, networking, project support) and serves an analogous member base of startups, research labs, and pharma companies.
• Medicen Paris Region: French competitiveness cluster (pôle de compétitivité) focused on healthtech, biotherapies, and digital health in the Île-de-France region. Operates as a membership-based innovation network with the same non-profit governance model as Clubster NSL, with a comparable mix of project labeling, member services, and European convention activity.

Emerging players

• France Biotech: French independent non-profit association representing healthtech and biotech startups, investors, and industry partners. Overlaps with Clubster NSL as an industry-association peer (membership model, advocacy, networking events) and is already listed as a Clubster NSL partner — but operates at national scope rather than regional.
• Eurasanté: French health-business incubator and economic development agency based in the same Lille metropolitan area as Clubster NSL. Co-develops the PEPS project with Clubster NSL and shares the same regional nutrition-health focus; offers overlapping but more commercially oriented services (incubation, real estate, business support).

Regional players

• BIO Deutschland: German biotechnology industry association representing companies, service providers, and research institutions. Functions as the German analog of Clubster NSL's industry-association role, with comparable membership model, advocacy, networking events, and policy interface — but operates in a different national ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments1 record

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