French Tech Funding Wire May 16: Tinubu Square, Orasio, Riverse & More!
Other startups that raised a round between May 12 and May 16 include: Plakar, Alta Ares, and Legapass.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Dero’s Mission to Transform France’s Circular Economy
Devialet faces severe financial losses, while Alice & Bob plans a $50M quantum lab. Younited acquires eco-friendly neobank Helios, and BlaBlaCar expands into train ticket sales.
🤖 La Machine #30: Is France Losing Its AI Funding Mojo? 🤖
Also: Meet Gigi, an AI matchmaker that scrapes your digital footprint to recommend connections for business, networking, and dating -- whether you asked it to or not. The Black Mirror-esque platform, already backed by Sequoia, OpenAI, and Monashees.
Is France Losing Its AI Funding Mojo?
Despite government initiatives and the Paris Summit, France's AI startup ecosystem is struggling to secure funding in 2025, raising just $372 million so far compared to $2.8 billion in 2024. With fewer big rounds and declining deal volume, France lags behind the UK and Germany in AI investment.
French Tech Funding Wire May 9: Kalent, WeMet, Raidium & Softway Medical
Only 4 startups raised from May 5 to May 9 amid the slow French holiday season.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: OpenAI Makes French Connection With Fidji Simo
The native of Sète has risen from this seaside fishing town to become one of the top players at tech's most influential company. As CEO of applications, she also now stands as one of the most prominent Frenchies in tech.
French AI Research: April Synthesis
Topics: AI breakthroughs across medicine, law, and engineering—from outperforming neurologists in diagnosis to smart energy systems, legal term extraction, and translation—plus philosophical and cultural reflections on AI, media, fairness, and ethics.
🤖 La Machine #29: The France AI Radar 🤖
Also: With a fresh €36.36 million late-stage funding round and a bold new AI chip ready for market, VSORA is emerging as a flagship of Europe’s deep tech ecosystem, poised to challenge industry giants in performance and efficiency.
French Tech Funding Wire May 2: VSORA, SafeHeal, Via Sana & More!
Startups that raised from April 28 to May 2 also include: Chipiron, Dark, Reelevant, Next Generation, Inicio, Chenevia, Sitowie, Aéronde, Chloé in the Sky, Ogalo, and Cooloc.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Swile + Doctolib Pull Back The Financial Curtain
Poppins fresh €5m round to treat Dyslexia with a musical video game; Bpifrance CEO refuses to bend the regulatory knee.
🤖 La Machine #28: Alan Goes All-In On AI 🤖
Six months after announcing a Series F funding round of €173 million at a €4 billion valuation, the French insurtech is accelerating its embrace of AI to transform its operations and products.
Alan Goes All-In on AI
Six months after announcing a Series F funding round of €173 million at a €4 billion valuation, the French insurtech is accelerating its embrace of AI to transform its operations and products.
French Tech Funding Wire April 25: Didomi, MirSense, Poppins & More!
Startups that raised from April 21 to April 25 also include: Technologies & Habitats, Yacon & Co, CleanMob, Peripheral, Inflowpay, Versant, Sylcast, and Argon & Co.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Defense Tech Answers A Call To Arms
This special edition takes a Deep Dive into France's Defense Tech sector, a small but emerging market that is gaining attention and momentum as a wary country -- and continent -- adjusts to a new global reality where traditional alliances may be splintering. Will French startups rally to the cause?
🤖 La Machine #27: Hugging Face Embraces Pollen Robotics 🤖
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
How Delos Is Building an AI Operating System for Business
CEO Pierre de la Grand'rive: "Our ambition is to offer generative AI that is truly useful to employees."