Mission-driven company · women's entrepreneurship
The incubator-accelerator for women who build
What if you too deserved a real accelerator?
The rigour and trajectory of a startup accelerator, open to every woman who builds. Whatever your sector, from your first client through to fundraising.
The first French-speaking network that measures what it truly returns.
The manifesto · the four pillars
What guides each of our decisions
Aligned boldness
Make more ambitious decisions, in tune with who you truly are.
Regenerative leadership
Reconcile impact, commitment and personal sustainability, to perform over the long run.
Collective intelligence
Mutual support as a deliberate strategy, French as a shared space of power.
Measurable impact
Anchor every action in concrete results and lasting transformation.
The method
Three engines that move every woman forward
The manifesto sets the direction, the four pillars set the values. The method rests on three engines that every program sets in motion, together and at the same pace.
Engine 1
Relational
The Art of Referral
Turn every relationship into measurable opportunity. The network becomes a strategic, living, revenue-generating asset.
Engine 2
Business
SparkGenius® & Cockpit
Structure, validate and steer your project with tools that measure what truly matters. Impact is built and steered.
Engine 3
Human
Circles & development
Develop a sovereign leadership, rooted in your singular nature. Boldness becomes a living, embodied practice.
The journey and the programs
From the first step to fundraising
Four steps that credit one another, like the phases of an accelerator. You join them through the Pionnières Network.
The Hackathon
48h sprint powered by SparkGenius®
You leave with a clear trajectory, validated in 48 hours.
The Network
Annual membership
Your network becomes a source of measurable revenue.
The Circles
Transformation program
You become the leader you have chosen to be.
The Territorial License
Deploy the mission
You open the path for every woman in your territory.
Startup founders
Do you run a startup?
Preparing a fundraising round changes the founder's job. You carry your story in front of investors, you decide quickly without losing yourself, and you keep your energy over long months of talks. This is exactly where dedicated support earns its place.
Then comes team growth. Hiring without diluting your culture, learning to delegate, bringing in your first managers: you move from founder to leader. Les Pionnières walks that path with you, alongside Claire Lecarpentier, executive coach for women founders and leadership teams.
Executive coaching for foundersAcceleration pillar
AI for speed, humans for meaning
What makes Les Pionnières a true accelerator: the best technology in the hands of entrepreneurs, in service of what happens between human beings.
Provide
Ready-to-use tools
SparkGenius®, AI agents and the Cockpit, built into the journey. From day one, every woman has tools once reserved for the best-funded startups.
Build in real time
Always one step ahead
New capabilities as technology evolves, with and for entrepreneurs. You work with the latest generation of AI.
Keep the human at the centre
What stays deeply human
Conversations, strategic decisions, mentoring and trust. AI accelerates and multiplies; humans orient and decide.
The speed of AI, the discernment of humans.
The ecosystem
The resources that fuel the engines
Four brand assets, serving the journey.
The Pionnières Network®
The French-speaking women's professional network that measures what it returns.
Relational engine
SparkGenius®
The AI-powered business ideation and validation tool.
Business engine
The Pionnières Cockpit
The straight-to-the-point steering dashboard.
Business · human · relational
The Art of Referral
The method and tool to track and monetise your network.
Relational engine
Brand license
Deploy Les Pionnières in your territory
Do you run, or want to create, a network of women entrepreneurs? The license passes on the brand, the method and the three engines, with the freedom to fuel each engine with the tools suited to your territory.
Apply for the license
The founder
Claire Lecarpentier
Executive coach, speaker, strategist and architect of the Pionnières ecosystem, she built the first French-speaking network of women entrepreneurs that measures what it truly returns.
« We build better together. »
The French-speaking world as our ground
A shared space of power, where the French language connects women who build big, from one territory to the next.
Frequently asked questions
What you may want to know
- What is Les Pionnières?
- Les Pionnières is a mission-driven company (SASU, Paris) and the parent company of the ecosystem: the brand, the method and the license. Its purpose is to support the entrepreneurial boldness of women across the French-speaking world, turning their potential into lasting, embodied leadership.
- How do I join the Les Pionnières ecosystem?
- The ecosystem is joined in 4 steps: the 48h Hackathon Sprint via SparkGenius®, The Pionnières Network, the transformation Circles, and the Territorial License to deploy the system in your territory. Membership and pricing for the Network and Circles are on lereseaudespionnieres.com.
- What is a mission-driven company?
- A mission-driven company (société à mission) is a French legal status (PACTE law, 2019) that lets a company enshrine a purpose and binding social objectives in its bylaws. Les Pionnières has set 4 objectives: aligned boldness, regenerative leadership, collective intelligence and measurable impact.
- What is SparkGenius®?
- SparkGenius® is a proprietary technology developed by Les Pionnières: an AI-powered business ideation and validation platform designed to help women entrepreneurs structure their project and accelerate their growth.
- Is Les Pionnières an incubator or an accelerator?
- Both, brought together in a single journey. You get the support of an incubator to structure your project, and the trajectory of an accelerator to aim for growth and fundraising. It is open to women entrepreneurs, whatever their sector.
- Do you support startup founders through their fundraising?
- Yes. Claire Lecarpentier, executive coach, supports founders before and during the round: posture with investors, clarity of story, decisions under pressure. The support continues afterwards, on structuring and growing the team.
- Is Les Pionnières linked to Les Premières or Willa?
- These are separate and independent organisations. Les Pionnières is a mission-driven company founded in 2024 by Claire Lecarpentier. It carries its own brand, its own method and its own ecosystem.