Description
Nicolas Bellego is Innovation Director at the Icade Group and leads Urban Odyssey, the start-up studio dedicated to the city of 2050. At the intersection of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, he helps launch start-ups that address Icade’s strategic priorities and major urban challenges — environmental and social impact, new uses, and the transformation of business models — while investing in those destined to become benchmarks in the sector.
His approach is to combine the business expertise of an established player with the agility of an entrepreneurial team, united around a shared high-potential project.
Icade and Urban Odyssey activities:
Icade is an integrated real estate company, both a property investment company and a developer operating throughout France. As a long-term partner, Icade responds to changing uses and places climate challenges and biodiversity preservation at the heart of its model to reinvent real estate and contribute to a more sustainable city. Listed as a SIIC on Euronext Paris, Icade’s reference shareholder is the Caisse des Dépôts Group.
Its start-up studio, Urban Odyssey, embodies this innovation strategy by investing in the creation of impact-driven start-ups. By combining the business expertise of an established player with entrepreneurial agility, Urban Odyssey helps bring forward and invest in concrete solutions to build the city of 2050, in areas such as low-carbon construction, new housing and office models, mixed-use development, and the technology needed to make it happen.
