Deadline Date: May 04, 2026
The VivaTech is seeking applications to develop digital asset solutions that improve institutional financial processes, strengthen security, and advance European market autonomy.
The challenge focuses on platforms, services, and technology solutions designed for financial institutions, asset managers, and market infrastructures, addressing real institutional needs across the value chain from issuance and investment to post-trade, servicing, and infrastructure. Priorities include tokenization of cash and securities, custody, asset servicing, distribution, compliance, reporting, workflow integration, improving front-to-back processes, enabling new products, strengthening interoperability, and supporting European strategic autonomy.
This Startup Challenge seeks projects that bring concrete value to professional use cases while excluding retail or speculative solutions. Eligible startups are those incorporated within the last eight years and employing fewer than 100 people. Applications will be evaluated based on relevance to institutional needs, strategic alignment with Caisse des Dépôts priorities, maturity and readiness for deployment, business value in creating measurable efficiency or market opportunities, and their contribution to European technological sovereignty.
Selected solutions will have the opportunity to contribute to the next generation of financial market infrastructures in Europe, helping financial institutions adopt innovative digital asset technologies while maintaining secure, efficient, and sovereign market operations.
For more information, visit VivaTech.
