Face Up has been selected as a winner of Money Time, the competition run by Bpifrance, the French public investment bank. The acceleration programme identifies the most promising French startups in their sector each year. For us, it is a strong endorsement of our mission: making people genuinely practise customer-facing skills through realistic AI role-play.
Money Time is Bpifrance's flagship programme for startups in their growth phase. Out of hundreds of applications, a jury of investors, executives and sector experts selects the companies that combine genuine innovation, a solid business model and the ability to scale. Winners gain media exposure, strategic support and privileged access to the Bpifrance ecosystem.
For Face Up, the selection validates something we see repeatedly with our clients: conventional interpersonal-skills training lacks practice. Quizzes and videos are not enough to build customer-facing reflexes. People need to practise, get concrete feedback, and go again.
We showed the jury how Face Up turns interpersonal-skills training into three concrete steps:
What convinced the jury was Face Up's ability to address a large market need — practical, on-the-job training for customer-facing teams — with a solution that keeps the trainer at the centre of the process, not the AI.
Following the selection, Mame Fall (CEO) and Jasper Desmet (CTO) were invited onto business news channel B SMART to introduce Face Up and explain how AI-driven conversational learning is changing the picture for training providers and L&D departments.
The recognition from Bpifrance is part of a wider momentum. Face Up already works with organisations such as Cegos, Getlink, Liebherr and SKEMA Business School. The results measured with our clients are concrete: 95% learner satisfaction, 50% reduction in onboarding time and up to 45% improvement in closing rates after practising in role-play.
Money Time gives us additional visibility with training providers and L&D teams looking to modernise their programmes without starting from scratch. Our promise is unchanged: turn existing training content into measurable practice.
Our thanks to Bpifrance, to the jury, and to the partners and clients who test, challenge and build alongside us every day.
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