New French AI Company Radar: March 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
French Tech Funding Wire March 28: GravitHy, RockFi, Epsor & More!
Startups that raised from March 24 to March 28 also include: DeepIP, Opsima, Neold, Jool, CR-Industry, Luchrome, Anemon, and BuyCo.
🤖 La Machine #24: Inside FlexAI's Ambitions 🤖
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
FlexAI: Pioneering Universal AI Compute Infrastructure
Modern AI workloads were being forced to run on computing architectures designed decades ago. FlexAI wants to create a faster, more flexible system that enables rapid scaling.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Oh, Good Grief! The Great Funding Famine Deepens
VC funding remains in freefall as French startups go hungry; MSInsight offers hope to the future of cancer detection; Yubo offers hope to companies that want to be profitable.
How Yubo Achieved Profitability By Breaking Social Media's Ad Addiction
Yubo CEO and co-founder Sacha Lazimi: "The goal is to create authentic and meaningful new connections that are not based on followers or likes or comments."
🤖 La Machine #23: Silicon Valley's Protectionist AI Pivot Embraces Europe's Playbook 🤖
Mistral says no no no IPO; Meta AI invades Europe; Frenchies take a stand against data centers.
French Tech Funding Wire March 21: Dalma, Galam Robotics, Siteflow & More!
Startups that raised from March 1 7 to March 21 also include: Extracadabbra, Spring, Aletiq, Valuesed, Flagcat, Evera, OpenStone, Sharesub, and TheraPPI Bioscience.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Spy Games Feature Honeypots And Unicorns
Rippling asks: What's the Deel?; Descartes explains its climate risk philosophy; and the battle to protect the startup ecosystem from budget cuts rages on.
Stealth AI Founders Of France: March Edition
What lurks behind 6 mysterious "Stealth" LinkedIn profiles? Our paid subscribers will know.
🤖 La Machine #22: French AI Shines Light on Microbes 🤖
Spore.bio wages germ-testing warfare; Wandercraft wins a prize for its AI exoskeleton; French publishers tell Meta where to stick its algorithms.
Spore.Bio's AI Slices Bacteria Testing From Days to Minutes
The startup has raised $31.3 million for its light-based AI technology to disrupt centuries-old testing methods across food, pharma, and cosmetics industries.
French Tech Funding Wire March 14: Ambos Energy, OpusMajor, Fizimed & More!
Startups that raised from March 10 to March 14 also include: Fizimed, DashBook, Ateliers HeritageBike, DrugOptimal, MSInsight, Beyond Green, NOIISE, and Sootenir.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Venus Williams Helps WeWard Take A Big Step 🎾
WeWard CEO Yves Benchimol serves up some lessons; Edumapper founders hit the repeat button; Deep Tech's annual checkup gets mixed results.
How WeWard Convinced Venus Williams To Put Her Money Where Your Feet Are
CEO Yves Benchimol: "She definitely understood how a startup works. She said, 'Okay, I want to be a shareholder of this company. I trust it in terms of its image and business. It can be huge, especially in the US and in terms of impact.'"
French AI Research: February Synthesis
Topics: AI-Generated Meteorological Risks, Bioethical challenges, How AI will impact women at work, and more.