Visamundi Joins Scale-Up Excellence 2026 French Tech Program
Visamundi has been selected for the exclusive Scale-Up Excellence 2026 program, validating its tech-driven approach to streamlining visa processes ahead of its French Tech 120 ambitions.
This isn’t about collecting badges. The Scale-Up Excellence program, designed as the gateway to the French Tech 120, rigorously selects winners based on traction metrics. Admission serves as mathematical validation of our core premise: rigorous software engineering can disrupt traditionally archaic and cumbersome industries. Advanced automation and modern technical architecture are the keys to transforming the visa process.
The Nantes French Tech capital proudly showcased its rising stars, from left to right: Pauline Trochu (Visamundi), Louise Le Bolay Desdoigts (French Tech Nantes), Marta Agrech (Toovalu), Matthieu Lardillet (Swiftask)
With proven traction, the startup phase is now behind us. The focus has shifted to hypergrowth. Transitioning from a reliable architecture to a sovereign infrastructure capable of handling international scale—including evaluating self-hosted solutions—can’t be improvised. The Scale-Up Excellence program isn’t an incubator for finding product-market fit; it’s an execution accelerator.
We’re here to unlock critical levers for our next operational phase.
— Sébastien Couix, CEO, Visamundi
The first lever is direct access to national and regional policymakers. In GovTech and TravelTech, this is everything. Our market relies on volatile government APIs and state regulations. A direct line to institutions is the best way to break through bureaucratic glass ceilings.
The second lever is stress-testing our structure. The program includes masterclasses with Next40 and FT120 CEOs to exchange growth strategies. The goal? Benchmark management methods, technical scalability, and capacity management against hard-won lessons from leaders handling heavy volumes.
The third lever is inter-regional reach. Backed by multiple French Tech capitals, the network unlocks national opportunities—a vital asset for structuring future B2B partnerships.
The network: heart of our growth
You can’t scale in a vacuum. The real value of such programs lies in their peer network. The program has already elevated businesses tackling challenges like ours—heavy regulation, high volumes, and B2B/B2C hybridization.
In Nantes and other capitals, selection favors sectors where tech meets regulation. The momentum echoes ventures like Allaw, a Nantes-based LegalTech that just raised €1.6M to digitize legal intermediation. Their challenge, like ours, is easing legal complexity through technology. The program has also supported travel-sector innovators like Côte d’Azur’s Matawan, which automates critical mobility data flows at scale.
Securing a place among France’s top scale-ups is validation—but the hardest work is just beginning. Our technical challenges: streamlining our codebase amid architectural debates, optimizing generative engine search across 1,000+ blog posts, and end-to-end infrastructure reliability. The French Tech network grants access to resources and decision-makers. Now it’s on us to deliver and recruit the right talent to match the load. |
Spécialiste de la veille réglementaire et experte en contenus destinations, elle analyse quotidiennement l’évolution des formalités d’entrée pour traduire la complexité administrative en guides pratiques. Son rôle combine expertise terrain et précision technique afin de garantir la fiabilité des informations délivrées aux voyageurs.