Featured
From Innovation to Adaptation: Rethinking Sustainability For Resilient Cities
VivaTech 2025 put the spotlight on the ways climate risks are forcing cities to prioritize new approaches to green design. The goal: future-proof urban life for the next generation.
Superhuman Founder Rahul Vohra On Reverse Engineering Product Market Fit
Speaking at Viva Technology 2025, Vohra breaks down his Product Market Fit Engine, a data-driven framework that leverages the right user feedback to build products that users love.
#37 France's AI Crossroads: Accelerate, Regulate…or Stall?
France pushes AI adoption with “Osez l’IA” as usage lags behind Europe. Regulators call for tighter rules, VCs and founders push back on the EU AI Act, and OVHcloud unveils a sovereign AI stack. Meanwhile, Primelis acquires Omny AI, and French defense embraces agile tech.
French AI Paradox: Speed Up or Slow Down?
France is racing to lead in AI...and also tapping the brakes. Between public fear, political urgency, and calls to pause regulation, the country’s AI strategy is anything but straightforward.
🤖 La Machine #36: Tilt Energy + Altertable Target Smarter Grids And Data Stacks With AI 🤖
Altertable emerges from stealth to build an AI-native data stack; Tilt Energy wants to use AI to bring 'flexibility' to the grid. Plus, Genesis Robotics raises $85M, Asterion backs deeptech AI, H Company COO exits, France targets AI in justice and music, and Google eyes a French data hub.
From Innovation to Adaptation: Rethinking Sustainability For Resilient Cities
VivaTech 2025 put the spotlight on the ways climate risks are forcing cities to prioritize new approaches to green design. The goal: future-proof urban life for the next generation.
France And Europe Caught In H1 2025 Global VC Slump
French startups raised $3.5 billion in the first six months. That's on par with the last six months of 2024. But it's down sharply from $4.4 billion raised in the first half of 2024.
How Tilt Energy Uses AI to Cut Power Costs and Emissions by Optimizing Grid Flexibility
The startup wants to transform how France manages electricity demand with AI-powered software that enables flexible energy use to avoid costly infrastructure upgrades. Tilt recently raised a €5M seed round led by Daphni to accelerate its development.
Skeepers: Building a European SaaS Powerhouse with American Capital
As many SaaS startups tighten their belts, Skeepers is a case study in how Private Equity can drive cross-border consolidation and pragmatic growth. Its bet on Europe’s slower adoption of user-generated content tools may not yet be proven, but it’s a strategy worth watching.
Spotlight Video Interview: Director Julie Huguet on La French Tech Mission
"What we want to do is help entrepreneurs have the best ecosystem to create, to scale, and to go abroad."
Spotlight Interview: ChangeNOW CEO Santiago Lefebvre Wants You To Believe Again
ChangeNOW 2025, the "world expo of solutions for the planet," is in full swing this week. Ahead of the Paris opening, I spoke with Lefebvre about how a bold idea born at COP21 became a global gathering, and why, in a divided world, hope and action still matter.
Spotlight Interview: Keles' Laurent Van Lerberghe On Digital Health Investing
"The region between the UK, France, and Benelux is becoming something like a new Palo Alto. Everything is reachable within two and a half hours, creating a concentrated ecosystem of talent, capital, and market opportunities."
Spotlight Interview: Fly Ventures' Marie Brayer
"What's really exciting is seeing the emergence of academic entrepreneurship in France."
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Rethinking Sustainability For Resilient Cities
VivaTech spotlights climate-resilient cities, Superhuman's Rahul Vohra decodes product-market fit, SXSW bets big on European startups, and French gaming scores a $40M win. Plus: Meta’s billion-euro eyewear play, a medtech breakthrough down under, and turbulence at EuraTechnologies.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: French Startups Face Funding Famine
French startup funding is down sharply down YoY. But Omnes and Otium are making bigger VC bets. Ÿnsect scrambles to survive.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Scaling, SaaS, and Spurs
Director Julie Huguet lays out La French Tech mission's mission in a VivaTech video interview, Skeepers bets on pragmatic SaaS growth with U.S. PE backing, Zama hits unicorn status with encrypted computing, Ledger partners with the Spurs, and new moves in HR tech, semiconductors, and search.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: VivaTech 2025 Bows Before Our New Robotic Overlords
Union activism hits startups, Nabla and Descartes raise big rounds, agri-robotics stumbles, and Nantes bets on healthtech. Plus: VivaTech 2025 brings humanoid robots to life, raising bold questions about AI, work, and the future.