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Seven services designed to simplify your set-up and boost your projects.

ONLYLYON Invest supports you at every stage of your project.

Whatever the nature of your project, our experienced teams guide you to a successful set-up in Lyon and the surrounding area. We offer our free services as part of our public-interest mission, because our goal is to support companies and organizations that contribute to the plan for the region: to make the Lyon area into Europe’s “impact factory”, a place where economic performance and positive impact come together, particularly in industry.

We support all projects, French or international, on behalf of companies that do not yet have a base in the Lyon region, guiding you from start to finish through all the stages of your installation and acting as a trusted third party.

Complete, personalized, free support to guarantee the success of your company in Lyon and the surrounding region.

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Human resources

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Business & partnerships

Real estate solutions

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Employee mobility

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Legal & tax

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Funding & grants

Communication & networking

Do you have a project? Let’s discuss it.

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Discover our areas of operation

We offer a full range of custom services designed to meet your specific needs. Our expertise encompasses essential areas such as securing your funding plan, connecting with strategic business networks, and personalized help with your administrative obligations. That way, you can focus on what’s most important: growing your business. Our ambition is for your project to converge with the unique strengths of the Lyon region, creating a dynamic conducive to innovation and sustainable growth.

Companies that have chosen the Lyon region.

Many companies have chosen to develop their projects in the Lyon region. Discover their inspiring journeys and the keys to their success.

ONLYLYON Invest played a key role in helping us set up in Lyon, providing us with effective support and a valuable local network from the start of the project.

Frédéric Stuckelberger

Chief Executive – France

The Italian group Cembre, founded in 1969, is an international company specializing in electrical connectors, industrial tools for cable termination and wiring, as well as marking and identification systems. Its new base in Lyon consists of over 1,000 m² in Saint-Priest and 390 m² in Part-Dieu.

Yci Enfance benefited from high-quality support in recruiting its Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. Responsiveness, the relevance of advice and tools, and involvement at every stage—all contributed to successfully hiring an outstanding candidate.

Cécile Cristia-Leroy

Chief Executive

Yci Enfance develops new community and non-profit kindergartens in deprived areas, combining a long-term investment model supported by Meridiam and ANRU with the commitment of public education managers to ensure quality and integration with public services.

Community kindergartens

SSE

Social impact

We take advantage of the attractiveness of the Lyon region and its universities and schools to attract talent directly to our Lyon site.

Stéphanie Parisse-Faux

Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Internal Communications

Global player in technology solutions for the oil, chemical and energy industries. The company has benefited from our mobility assistance and relocation service for its employees.

Chemicals and environment

Industrial processes

Energy transition

The biomanufacturing of the future is being built in Lyon. Support from ONLYLYON Invest has strengthened our partnerships to accelerate the industrialization of innovative therapies, working closely with patients. Here, the industry of life is taking shape.

Hervé de Malliard

President

MGA Technologies designs bespoke machinery and equipment that transform healthcare and industry: robots, smart machines, breakthrough innovations. Located in Roanne, the company makes the most of its valuable technical skills to accelerate innovations, from the lab to the factory.

Support from ONLYLYON Invest made setting up in Lyon simple and effective. Their communications gave us valuable visibility, and their network opened up key opportunities. Thanks to them, we were quickly able to join the industrial fabric of the Lyon region.

Christophe Desrumeaux

Partner

Demeter provides funding support for the energy and ecological transition for innovative start-ups, fast-growing SMEs and mid-sized companies, as well as for infrastructure projects. It has managed the impact seed fund for the Lyon and Saint-Étienne metropolitan authorities since 2021.

Impact funding

Energy transition

Industry