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Responsible AI, tangible value
Responsible AI, tangible value
The context of the challenges

Orange develops and supports responsible, sustainable, and secure digital technology that creates value for its ecosystem and customers, paired with a commitment to empowering women leaders to co-drive the evolution of our digital world. This digital environment combines the best of technology and innovation for customer experiences, integrates cybersecurity by design, leverages technological performance for the greater good, and fosters collaborative and open innovation.

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Our Startup Challenges
Live Intelligence ecosystem: GenAI for business

What is the Startup Challenge's context?
Orange Business launched Live Intelligence to accelerate GenAI adoption for businesses of all sizes worldwide. With an intuitive interface, it simplifies onboarding, prevents shadow IT, and enhances efficiency via intelligent agents. This SaaS platform supports multiple LLMs for both beginners and experts, hosted securely within Orange infrastructure. Orange seeks innovative startups to develop solutions for a dedicated AI store, focusing on SMBs, customer and employee experience, operations, and digital infrastructure, driving value and innovation.

What are we looking for?
Participants are invited to propose innovative AI Agents or SaaS applications using LLMs to solve business challenges. Using the Live Intelligence platform, they will develop scalable, user-friendly solutions that enhance operational efficiency and deliver value. Focus areas include software engineering, legal negotiations, contracts, industrial maintenance, and legacy IT automation. Solutions will be evaluated on robustness, sovereignty, strategic alignment, and business potential. Finalists will showcase their solutions to potential customers and partners.

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Live Intelligence ecosystem: GenAI for business

What is the Startup Challenge's context?
Orange Business launched Live Intelligence to accelerate GenAI adoption for businesses of all sizes worldwide. With an intuitive interface, it simplifies onboarding, prevents shadow IT, and enhances efficiency via intelligent agents. This SaaS platform supports multiple LLMs for both beginners and experts, hosted securely within Orange infrastructure. Orange seeks innovative startups to develop solutions for a dedicated AI store, focusing on SMBs, customer and employee experience, operations, and digital infrastructure, driving value and innovation.

What are we looking for?
Participants are invited to propose innovative AI Agents or SaaS applications using LLMs to solve business challenges. Using the Live Intelligence platform, they will develop scalable, user-friendly solutions that enhance operational efficiency and deliver value. Focus areas include software engineering, legal negotiations, contracts, industrial maintenance, and legacy IT automation. Solutions will be evaluated on robustness, sovereignty, strategic alignment, and business potential. Finalists will showcase their solutions to potential customers and partners.

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Home platform experience: our Livebox is yours

What is the Startup Challenge's context?
prplOS is an open-source OS for Fiber and Fixed Wireless Access gateways, enabling rapid service development on a standardized platform. Many manufacturers, including Orange’s Livebox, are adopting it, creating a unified path for innovators to build native, scalable services. Orange is expanding prplOS as the main software for its gateways across France, Europe, and the MEA region. Its flexible “containers” allow third-party apps, fostering innovation with benefits like low latency, local data processing, privacy, and reliability, driving seamless ecosystem integration.

What are we looking for?
We seek innovative startups developing new services for the Livebox prpl OS. Solutions can be local, standalone, or hybrid, with some functions on the gateway and others on the cloud, accessible via smartphone or web. Focus areas include connectivity, IoT, security, safety, privacy, entertainment, content streaming, elderly care, network improvements, and customer support. The goal is to enhance broadband experiences for consumers and SOHO markets, demonstrating the value of on-device or hybrid execution, with an emphasis on user-friendly interfaces and innovative use cases.

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Cybersecurity & quantum

What is the Startup Challenge's context?
Orange, a leader in secure networks, employs over 4,000 cyber experts to ensure compliance, protection, and response. Integrating AI adds value but also expands the attack surface, including data, prompts, models, and agents. To secure AI adoption, Orange needs advanced real-time monitoring and penetration testing. As a multinational, it also faces the challenge of transitioning to post-quantum cryptography, requiring all solutions to meet next-generation security standards by 2035 across diverse regions and complex systems.

What are we looking for?
Orange has established strategic partnerships and seeks solutions to accelerate AI and PQC adoption with minimal disruption. We aim for secure governance of AI and agents, AI-assisted penetration testing, automated cryptographic discovery and inventory with monitoring, and cryptographic agility for seamless algorithm updates. Solutions must use standardized algorithms and protocols (IETF, 3GPP, ETSI, ISO/IEC) for interoperability, security, and compliance. Preference is given to European applicants for cryptographic inventory solutions.

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Selection Criteria
Market differentiation

How unique and forward-thinking your offering is, setting it apart from competitors

Execution performance

How well you turn strategies into results, reflecting efficiency in achieving goals

Business potential

Opportunities for growth and collaboration with Orange's team

Quality of the team

Your skills, expertise, and collaboration effectiveness of your team members

Rewards
  • Global Marketing, Tech Events

    • Winners will be showcased at prominent global marketing and tech events.

    • They will be invited to exhibit at VivaTech 2026 and will get two 4-day passes for the event.

  • Orange start-up program

    Access to Orange Open Innovation start-up acceleration facilities, offering infrastructure expert support to qualify business opportunities with Orange and with its customers.

  • Strategic Distribution

    Potential distribution agreement with our business units in Europe and MEA.

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

02 Days 12 Hours

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  • 27/01/2026

    Applications open

  • 16/03/2026

    Applications close

  • 13/04/2026

    Winners announcement

  • 17/06/2026

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    20/06/2026

    10th edition of VivaTech

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Jury

Laurent Geffroy

Laurent Geffroy

Market Intelligence & Open Innovation Director

Market Intelligence & Open Innovation Director

Orange Innovation

Orange Innovation

Vivien Mura

Vivien Mura

Group CTO

Group CTO

Orange cyberdefense

Orange cyberdefense

Angie Añazgo

Angie Añazgo

Director of B2C Products

Director of B2C Products

Orange Innovation

Orange Innovation

Mathieu Ducrot

Mathieu Ducrot

Director of AI Products

Director of AI Products

Orange Business

Orange Business

Frederic Le Mounier

Frederic Le Mounier

Chief Product Officer

Chief Product Officer

Orange Innovation

Orange Innovation

Philippine Horak

Philippine Horak

Senior Principal

Senior Principal

Orange Ventures

Orange Ventures

Jean-François Audenard

Jean-François Audenard

Orange Security expert

Orange Security expert

Orange

Orange

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