The computer giant Dell continues to hire staff for its Montpellier site, which will soon exceed 1,000 employees. Dell is also giving mid-sized companies a chance to benefit from this vitality by offering to help them with their development.
By the end of 2015, twenty-two years after setting up operations in Montpellier, Dell will have over 1,000 employees at its Montpellier site.
The site has even been recognized as being the best Dell site in Europe for assistance to startups via its Center For Entrepreneurs (CFE) program. “This adventure is something desired by Michael Dell, founder of Dell,” explains Thomas Delloye, one of the managing directors of the Montpellier site.“He wants Dell to open itself to others and has made it possible for Dell employees, who so desire, to offer their skills to help startups that could benefit from the support.”
Dell has already assisted some fifty companies, mainly based in Montpellier, and would like to double that number for next year.
“We work with innovative companies that are already assisted by incubation structures. Montpellier Métropole helps us identify them. The projects must already have a certain level of maturity so that our teams can offer them real value,” explains Thomas Delloye.
Dell helps companies elaborate their business plans, expand their commercial and legal networks, and gives them access to office space at Dell centers around the world.
“We try to be creative. The only common thread to everything we offer is that zero budget is required! Only our skills and our networks are involved.”
For example, Dell helped Soledge, a Montpellier company assisted by the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Business and Innovation Centre, with its service license in the United States. The young Montpellier company was thus able to define its contracts for international markets.
Dell’s teamwork with Montpellier startups has been recognized at a Group level. In Spring 2015, the site won two prizes internally within the Group: a prize for the site with the greatest social commitment (Best Practice); and the prize for Entrepreneurship, which recognizes the CFE effort in Montpellier.
Dell’s involvement with the Montpellier ecosystem also played a role in helping to obtain the French Tech label in November 2014. Montpellier has startups and recognized incubator structures, and can also count on support from major groups.
Caption: Stéphane Reboud, Executive Director EMEA Services Sales for Dell Europe, during a CFE meeting in Montpellier.
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The site has even been recognized as being the best Dell site in Europe for assistance to startups via its Center For Entrepreneurs (CFE) program. “This adventure is something desired by Michael Dell, founder of Dell,” explains Thomas Delloye, one of the managing directors of the Montpellier site.“He wants Dell to open itself to others and has made it possible for Dell employees, who so desire, to offer their skills to help startups that could benefit from the support.”
Dell has already assisted some fifty companies, mainly based in Montpellier, and would like to double that number for next year.
“We work with innovative companies that are already assisted by incubation structures. Montpellier Métropole helps us identify them. The projects must already have a certain level of maturity so that our teams can offer them real value,” explains Thomas Delloye.
Dell helps companies elaborate their business plans, expand their commercial and legal networks, and gives them access to office space at Dell centers around the world.
“We try to be creative. The only common thread to everything we offer is that zero budget is required! Only our skills and our networks are involved.”
For example, Dell helped Soledge, a Montpellier company assisted by the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Business and Innovation Centre, with its service license in the United States. The young Montpellier company was thus able to define its contracts for international markets.
Dell’s teamwork with Montpellier startups has been recognized at a Group level. In Spring 2015, the site won two prizes internally within the Group: a prize for the site with the greatest social commitment (Best Practice); and the prize for Entrepreneurship, which recognizes the CFE effort in Montpellier.
Dell’s involvement with the Montpellier ecosystem also played a role in helping to obtain the French Tech label in November 2014. Montpellier has startups and recognized incubator structures, and can also count on support from major groups.
Caption: Stéphane Reboud, Executive Director EMEA Services Sales for Dell Europe, during a CFE meeting in Montpellier.
Find out more:- Dell - Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Business and Innovation Centre (BIC)- Montpellier French Tech
