Montpellier metropolis, a springboard for digital and ICT players

Montpellier is a great city to live in, with its Mediterranean climate, cultural heritage and green spaces, the metropolis offers a pleasant living environment for digital entrepreneurs and their employees.

Strategically located for digital companies wishing to set up in the South of France, the Metropolis of Montpellier is close to major southern cities such as Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon, Nice, which gives ICT entrepreneurs easy access to a vast business network in the region.

The city also has an international airport as well as a TGV train station, making it easily accessible from major French and European cities.

As a digital company, locating in Montpellier also allows you to benefit from the economic dynamics of the Occitanie region, which has been growing steadily for several years and is particularly favourable to the development of start-ups and growing SMEs. As a digital company, setting up in Montpellier also means benefiting from a dynamic and innovative ecosystem, with high-quality higher education and research facilities.

Montpellier's innovative companies are recognised both nationally and internationally in various sectors such as

the Internet of Things
cybersecurity
blockchain,
artificial intelligence,
e-health,
agritech,
responsible digital technology (green IT).

The digital ecosystem in Montpellier and the support offered

In addition to the Hotel French Tech, which, on 4 floors and 35,000 m², provides information to project leaders and welcomes digital companies coming out of incubation, the city has also set up the Cap Oméga business incubator and, in the heart of the Eureka, Millénaire and Mermoz parks, the Montpellier International Business Incubator, which offers accommodation and services adapted to foreign groups. Finally, the Business & Innovation Centre (BIC), a real catalyst for innovation made in Montpellier, counts nearly 75% of digital players among its incubated companies each year.

Emblematic places for digital actors at the service of the local ecosystem which includes associations (French Tech Mediteranée, Digital 113, La Mêlée...), competitiveness clusters (Aérospace Valley, Optitec...) but also the Medo@LR skills centre which offers companies and academic, public and private actors shared resources and cutting-edge architectures for intensive computing (High Performance Computing - HPC) and massive data processing.

Emphasis has also been placed on training. Digital technology thus plays a large part in the programmes offered by universities (Masters in Science and Digital Health, Digital Humanities, etc.), higher education schools (Epitech, Digital Campus, etc.) and, of course, digital schools with the GEN label and complementary training courses (Up To, Diginamic, etc.) or digital workshops given by Google specialists in the French Tech Hotel.

In Montpellier, digital is also a feminine word. Numerous initiatives are being carried out in cooperation with all the local players to promote gender equality in the digital sector.

Some initiatives: La Mêlée's Women & Digital Commission, "Le Numérique au Féminin", DigiFilles, Inspire, WI-FILLES...

Digital companies based in Montpellier

In all, nearly 4,000 digital companies have chosen Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole to boost their growth.

IBM, Dell, Capgemini, Openium, Talentsoft, Ubisoft... there are countless large groups that have chosen to set up in the region. This trend has also been adopted by numerous start-ups that have been joining the region for several years: Expernova (Big Data), Awox (IoT), Virdys (3D animation), Authentic Industries (AI), etc.