Our innovation approach

Air Liquide has strongly strengthened its partnerships with startups to accelerate innovation and digital transformation for the benefit of the customer experience: the Group is working with more than 100 start-ups worldwide in different ways.

Through ALIAD, the Group’s Venture Capital, Air Liquide supports the growth of technology start-ups by taking minority stakes in them.

Thanks to many collaborations with incubators and accelerators, such as Techstars Paris, Greentown Labs or the Total startup accelerator, the Group has identified many start-ups to work with and develop new businesses.

Accelair, the Air Liquide deeptech start-up accelerator offers selected start-ups, access to experimental spaces as well as a support program with Air Liquide experts, all with the aim of accelerating time-to-market of their offer.

To enhance the value of the ecosystem of start-ups that work closely with the Group, Air Liquide has created the "trusted by Air Liquide" label. Talented start-ups can benefit from this label as long as they meet certain criteria and provide a solution or product to an Air Liquide operating entity or conduct co-development activities with a Group Innovation entity.

Group's innovation entities and Operations co-develop with start-ups digital offers, equipment or products in agile mode, to accelerate innovation

Stories of Air Liquide partners’ startups

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^{_{The Label “trusted by Air Liquide” only expresses the fact that Air Liquide (or one of its Affiliates) has chosen to carry out a co-development project with the Start-up, or has chosen the Start-up as a supplier. The Start-up undertakes not to give it any other interpretation, including (i) not to present the Label as a general value judgment about the Start-up, its activity, or the way in which it conducts its business, as an indication or advice for investing in the Start-up, or as a recommendation to purchase its products or services, and (ii) not to present the Label as implying the existence of an association or a joint venture or whatever partnership, de facto or de jure,  between Air Liquide (or one of its Affiliates) and the Start-up, nor as empowering it to act or speak on behalf of Air Liquide or any of its Affiliates.}}

^{_{The Start-up is not allowed to use the Label in the United States of America or on any medium  (physical or electronic, including, with no limitation, websites, social networks and e-mails) containing messages addressed to citizens or legal persons of United States nationality (USA). Any Affiliates or branches of the Start-up with headquarters in the USA is hereby expressly excluded from any rights  to use the Label.}}