Digital Diplomats: AI is Making Silicon Valley Startups Leaner and Meaner. Can French Founders Keep Up?
U.S. Startups are reaching $100M ARR with less than 50 employees. French startups risk being squeezed if they don’t adapt.
🤖 La Machine #20: AI Making Videos Pixel Perfect 🤖
Inside: A look at the future of AI and Video with Aive; Paris gets a fancy new AI center.
Aive: Revolutionizing Video Production with AI
CEO Olivier Reynaud: "We created an AI product years before the current AI wave. We are an enterprise-ready solution and not something in the lab."
French Tech Funding Wire February 28: Adocia, Edumapper, Byzantine Finance & More!
Startups that raised from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28 also include: Activ’Inside, MoEa, BiOceanOr, Vegetal Food, Akidaia, CCE Group, Akira Technologies, MB Therapeutics, and WeWard.
French Tech Wire: Building the Mediverse and a Buggy Business Model
In this edition: VirtualiSurg is using VR to train surgeons; an Ÿnsect bankruptcy breakdown; plus all the fun headlines and funding news.
Ÿnsect Bankruptcy: Private Equity, Public Debt, and Bpifrance's Role
Public investment in the company has been substantial. Its failure will give new ammunition to the French government's extensive support for costly innovation programs.
New French AI Company Radar: February 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
🤖 La Machine #19: French Energy Grid Gets An AI Glow-Up 🤖
Inside: How Metroscope is optimizing power plants with AI; Mistral AI's Le Chat purrs; and funding news for AI startups Genial, Ochy, Spore, and 73 Strings.
French Tech Funding Wire February 21: 73 Strings, EG 427, Spore Biotechnologies & More!
Startups that raised from Feb. 17 to Feb. 21 also include: Circle Safe, Dametis, Cycloid, Wavo, SeaWeed Concept, AITHRA, Genial, Ochy, Pronoe, Allaw, Symexo, Naali, Terroe, and PulseSight Therapeutics.
French Tech Wire: Two Insect Startups Get Swatted, While One Keeps Flying High 🐛
In this edition: A look at France's fading insect protein hopes, and whether Innovafeed can resuscitate them. Plus: One last push to avoid government cuts to French tech programs; startups go to school.
Buggin' Out: Can Innovafeed Salvage France's Alternative Protein Dreams?
With Ÿnsect rolling toward bankruptcy and Agronutris seeking court protection, France's ambitions for the insect-based food market may have been squashed. But Innovafeed is still in the game thanks to a very different strategy.
🤖 La Machine #18: Mistral AI Shakes Its Moneymaker 🤖
Inside: The AI Summit for Action is over. But we have one final recap. Plus: Mistral AI says it's open for business. Will it be enough to claim a place on the global stage?
From Code to Commerce: Mistral AI Shows It Means Business at Paris Summit
CEO Arthur Mensch: "Our goal is to be a global market leader." France's Great LLM Hope announced a flood of business deals in the face of mounting skepticism that it can compete against rivals such as OpenAI and DeepSeek.
French Tech Funding Wire February 14: Germitec, ScorePlay, Smile Wanted & More!
Startups that raised from Feb. 10 to Feb. 14 also include: Ekstere, Speeral, ExtraJool, ENERSENS, ToumAI, Agri Lab Leverage, CountAct, AuraLIP, Freeda, Plantibodies, Wallace Technologies, EyePick, VCAST, Alterdiag, Oncodiag,and INOE.
French Tech Wire: Bpifrance's €60BN Innovation Money Spigot Slows
In this edition: France's innovation bank Bpifrance reduced investments last year, and could be looking at further reductions in 2025. AI and deeptech remain the exceptions. Also this week: Altaroad CEO Cécile Villette talks about climate resilience.
AI Summit For Action Day 2: US VP Tells Europe Where To Stick Tech Regulations
The two-day summit saw lots of biz announcements, but no consensus on an AI statement. The mood was decidedly more buoyant at the Business Day gathering at Station F.