2024-2025 Activity Report: A necessary evolution for our movement as we approach our 10th anniversary of collaboration

Almost ten years ago, MAIN launched a movement. A call to come together, collaborate, and pool our strengths to create a more vibrant, better aligned, and above all, human entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Today, this movement is entering a new phase. A phase that is opening up more widely and aims to be more determined and more daring.

He now has a clear mission: we must give entrepreneurs the courage to take risks.

Because creating, undertaking, and building something new requires courage, not only individual courage, but also collective courage. The courage to take the plunge, of course, but also the courage to persevere, to pivot, to learn, to fail, and finally, to start again.

And to do that, entrepreneurs need an ecosystem that supports them without directing them.

A mission rooted in experience

This renewed mission is based on solid foundations: doing good, sustainably, and collectively. Over the years, we have developed in-depth knowledge of innovative entrepreneurship support services, who holds the information, and what we don't yet know.

We spoke to hundreds of support professionals to best guide the entrepreneurs who contact us—and who share their frustrations with an ecosystem that can sometimes be difficult to navigate.

Our new mission is based on three simple but powerful principles:

1. First, an ecosystem centered on entrepreneurs. In a healthy ecosystem, all actions converge on a single point: the entrepreneur, whose needs must guide priorities and structure.
2. Second, a sustainable and autonomous infrastructure. This infrastructure cannot depend solely on public funding: it must be resistant to political upheavals, capable of largely financing itself, and serving the entrepreneurial community in the long term.
3. Finally, decentralized collective intelligence. Only a decentralized networked approach that values local expertise while strengthening interconnections and driven by trust can pave the way for genuine collaboration. On this point, we have a long way to go, rivalries to calm and wounds to heal. But this path is inevitable.

A solid foundation for the future

This year, we laid concrete groundwork for this transformation. The new portal.mainqc.com represents the first milestone in a digital infrastructure that aims to make the ecosystem more readable, navigable, and fluid. This is just the beginning—the first sum of what we know, transformed into a practical tool.

A committee of independent entrepreneurs is quietly organizing to speak loudly and clearly on behalf of those we serve and to guide the movement's next steps. Because, as Brad Feld, co-founder of Techstars and author of Startup Communities and Give First, often says, the true leaders of an ecosystem can be none other than the entrepreneurs themselves.

Our board of directors continues to grow stronger with the arrival of two entrepreneurs at the heart of the action, Daniel Valois (ProgressionLIVE) and Simon Boulet (Stay22), setting the tone for this desire to align with the realities on the ground.

A change in stance

In November 2024, we officially abandoned the term " innovation accelerator movement " in the public sphere. This term, which was never intended to refer exclusively to technology accelerators, caused confusion and no longer reflected our broader mission.

This change symbolizes a deeper transformation. MAIN. no longer acts as a conductor, but as an attentive chronicler and committed facilitator of our ecosystem.

A movement does not impose itself; it is woven together. It does not build alone; it brings together those who, through their actions, convictions, daily commitment, and mutual trust, are already working to build a stronger, fairer, and freer entrepreneurial world.

This is where MAIN's unique contribution lies: not in the solutions we impose, but in the infrastructure, which is above all social, that allows everyone to find their own path.