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Caisse des Dépôts
Caisse des Dépôts
Finance of tomorrow: Digital assets
Finance of tomorrow: Digital assets
Why this Challenge?

Digital assets are moving from experimentation to strategic relevance for financial institutions. For Caisse des Dépôts, this challenge is an opportunity to identify French and European solutions that can help shape the next generation of financial markets. We are looking for projects that bring concrete value to professional use cases across the value chain, from issuance and investment to post-trade, servicing and infrastructure.

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The Startup Challenge
Digital assets for financial institutions

The Startup Challenge's Context:
Caisse des Dépôts is exploring how digital assets can support more efficient, secure and sovereign financial market infrastructures. This includes the tokenization of cash and securities, as well as the related services needed to operate them at scale: custody, asset servicing, distribution, compliance, reporting and workflow integration. The focus is strictly institutional, with no retail or speculative use cases.


What we are looking for:
We are seeking platforms, services and technology solutions designed for financial institutions, asset managers and market infrastructures. We welcome mature or emerging offerings that enable new products, improve front-to-back processes, strengthen interoperability and support European strategic autonomy. Solutions must address real institutional needs and exclude retail-focused solutions.


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Digital assets for financial institutions

The Startup Challenge's Context:
Caisse des Dépôts is exploring how digital assets can support more efficient, secure and sovereign financial market infrastructures. This includes the tokenization of cash and securities, as well as the related services needed to operate them at scale: custody, asset servicing, distribution, compliance, reporting and workflow integration. The focus is strictly institutional, with no retail or speculative use cases.


What we are looking for:
We are seeking platforms, services and technology solutions designed for financial institutions, asset managers and market infrastructures. We welcome mature or emerging offerings that enable new products, improve front-to-back processes, strengthen interoperability and support European strategic autonomy. Solutions must address real institutional needs and exclude retail-focused solutions.


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Selection Criteria
Relevance

Solves a concrete institutional need for financial market participants

Strategic Fit

Aligns with Caisse des Dépôts priorities and ambitions

Maturity

Demonstrates credible execution, real traction, and deployment readiness

Business Value

Creates measurable efficiency, new services, or market opportunities

Sovereignty

Strengthens European autonomy, resilience, and strategic technological control

Rewards
  • For the Grand Winner

    Join Innovea Accelerator, our incubation/acceleration programme for startups for six months.

  • For the Second Price

    Get 20 000 € in experimentation grant to test or run your product with our business unit.

  • For the Three Winners

    • One-day booth at Vivatech: present your solution for one day on our corporate booth at Vivatech 2026.

    • Join our ecosystem of partners, including invites to events in Europe, pitching your solution in our think tank, meeting our ecosystem of partners, etc

Play an active role in our six business sectors

Your solution, product or service demonstrates that you can play an active role in LVMH's ecosystem and deliver on a large scale. Whether it be the creation process, the omnichannel customer journey, or operation and manufacturing, you support the Group's legacy of excellence and innovation in all areas of its 6 business sectors.

  • Fashion & Leather Goods

  • Wines & Spirits

  • Perfumes & Cosmetics

  • Watches & Jewelry

  • Other Activities

  • Selective Retailing

Timeline

30 Days 15 Hours

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  • Applications open

  • Applications close

  • The winners are announced

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    20/06/2026

    10th edition of VivaTech

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Your personal data is collected by Crédit Agricole S.A., 12 Place des Etats-Unis, 92120 Montrouge, as the data controller, so that you can participate in the Challenge organized from 18/03/2026 during the Vivatech event, called: “Digital Sustainability Training Modules”. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right, under the conditions provided by law, to access your personal data at any time, to exercise your right to data portability, to have it rectified, to request its erasure in compliance with legal obligations, to object to its processing, to define general or specific instructions regarding the fate of your personal data after your death, or to restrict its processing for legitimate reasons. You can access more detailed information on the protection of your personal data by consulting, in particular, Article 13: “Personal data protection” of the challenge rules.

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