The Lafayette Plug and Play accelerator has unveiled the 17 start-ups selected for its fifth promotion. Selected from 213 projects submitted in response to the call for applications, 12 of the start-ups are French and five are international, from the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. They are particularly focused on four key themes of the retail transformation: customer experience, logistics, predictive analytics and geo-localized services. Start-ups will benefit from an exclusive three-month programme, punctuated by weekly meetings and mentoring sessions with industry experts, corporate partners and investors such as Serena Capital, Alven Capital or Elaia Partners. It will close with a "Winter Expo Day", the culmination of the acceleration programme, on November 22nd in the presence of European investors and senior executives from major partner companies.

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