The vision
Born in France. Built for the world.
Starting a startup in France today means living in a Drive, four WhatsApp groups, a Notion and two newsletters. onefive puts that in one place. The ambition, if it holds, is a register of the startup economy: the companies, the investors, the programs, kept current, searchable, and owned by the people who make it.
The problem
A founder is looking for a peer, an investor, an incubator, a term-sheet template. That lives in five tools that do not talk to each other. The investor, on the other side, gets decks by email and has no context. This is not a shortage of software. It is a shortage of a shared home.
What it becomes
Not one more tool, and not a global system announced before France holds. A register first: who is raising, who is investing, which programs exist, each with a source and a date. If that register is useful here, it can travel. Not before.
Four layers
Each layer feeds the next. We do not build the fourth by skipping the first.
Relationship
Here now
The network, discussions between founders at the same stage, Spotlight. That is where trust starts.
Structure
Here now
The permissioned dataroom, the startup page, the team. That is where a company becomes readable to someone who was not in the room.
Capital
Later
A capitalisation table in the product, deal flow for people who invest, a raise that is no longer a chain of emails. A startup page can already show a cap table. The rest is not in the product yet.
Culture
Under way
The studio, Le Tour de Table, the stories. Media only makes sense if it leads back to real profiles, documents and programs.
The studio
Others cover the ecosystem from the sidelines. onefive lives inside it. An interview, an episode, a Friday edition should point to something real on the platform, not to an orphan page.
France first
We start where we know the rules: BSPCE, Bpifrance, Station F, French as a working language. Then the French-speaking world, then English. One more country only when the previous one holds, and through the product, not a translation.
Today
If it holds, we will go further. Other countries, a more ambitious studio, tools the graph makes possible. That is not the promise of this page. The promise is to hold the foundation.
