Orange Fab Innovation Lab

History

2021: Opening Orange Business Services of the Orange Fab Innovation and Demozone Laboratory in Skolkovo

2015

Search for startups in Russia

The Orange Fab Innovation Laboratory announced in December 2015 the opening of an international program, the purpose of which is to enable startups to present their ideas to the Orange group. The Orange Fab program is designed for small and medium-sized companies that, in partnership with Orange, can jointly develop innovative products. Thanks to this program, startups will have access to Orange's international expertise, an extensive base of company customers and distribution channels. Such an initiative will give new opportunities for startups, Orange customers and the company itself. Startups from Poland were invited to participate in the program; since the end of 2015, the program has been expanded for startups from Russia and the CIS countries. Acceptance of applications at Orange Fab will last until January 6, 2016.

When selecting Orange Fab participants, the following criteria will be taken into account - the potential of the business model, teams, the level of project development, the relationship of the proposed solution with the global strategy of Orange Group.

After a series of "immersion sessions" with specialists (Deep Dive Sessions) in mid-February 2016, a list of finalists will be announced. As part of the program, which will be held in the spring of 2016, it is planned:

• Workshops tailored to the project and team needs
• access to expertise by hundreds of experts from around the world
• access to Orange Lab APIs and testers
• access to customer base, including more than 500 million contacts, including partner contact base
• "pitching" sessions with decision makers in Paris
• visit key domestic and international events, led by famous leaders, which will increase the awareness of startups around the world

In addition, the most promising startups that will undergo this coaching program will be able to receive financial support in the amount of up to €10,000 and win a trip to Warsaw or Paris.

Possible formats for the further development of cooperation between Orange and startups:

• joint cooperation on a commercial basis between startup and Orange and/or Orange partners
• acquisition of exclusive rights to the solution developed under the program
• cooperation based on sharing of profits from joint activities
• investment and obtaining a stake in the company

About Orange Lab

According to December 2015, Orange Lab, part of which is Orange Fab in Poland, has 5,000 employees, 15 research centers, on 4 continents. The R&D line of the company is a center for the development of innovation and consists of 3,800 researchers in 18 laboratories around the world (USA, France, Poland, Japan and other countries). The Orange Fab team is interested in finding startups whose products or services have good potential for rapid deployment and wide distribution within the activities of the international Orange group, in such areas as B2B solutions (MDM , cybersecurity), cloud games and aggregation of game content, cloud services and technologies, smart home, Internet of things, mobile payments, etc.