
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.
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.
Startups that raised from April 21 to April 25 also include: Technologies & Habitats, Yacon & Co, CleanMob, Peripheral, Inflowpay, Versant, Sylcast, and Argon & Co.
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?
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
CEO Pierre de la Grand'rive: "Our ambition is to offer generative AI that is truly useful to employees."
Startups that raised from April 14 to April 18 also include: Febus Optics, Brink Therapeutics, Circular, CustomsBridge, Celest Science, Klaimy, Ecklo, H’ability, Clikodoc, and BARY.
News reports reinforce the US lead in startup funding; Pennylane CEO explains how AI and new regulations will drive the next wave of growth; France's Digital Minister criticizes US tech dominance.
Riding a new round of funding at a €2bn valuation, the 5-year-old fintech has already seen rapid growth. CEO Arthur Waller explains how new invoicing regulations and AI could catalyze the company's ambitions.
Startups lead the country’s AI adoption, while corporates lag behind; Germany and France remain divided over taxing US Big Tech but united behind the Eurostack initiative to build sovereign EU tech infrastructure; SeqOne acquired Paris-based Life-Soft to expand its genomic medicine platform.
CEO Geoffroy Martin: "We are in the middle of two revolutions, one which is purely within ad tech, which is that shift of privacy first and loss of signal on the open internet, which is going to be further accelerated and compounded by the very, very fast rise of AI."
Startups that raised from April 7 to April 4 also include: Okeiro, Klara, qevlar ai, Pyannote, Faume, Nowos, Diagnoly, Sim&Cure, Connektica, Goliaths.io, Poppins, Qperfect, Klaro, Ed AI, Monde Singulier, Lyzi, smartTrade Technologies, La Première Brique, and Ekoscan Integrity.
Fairmat Founder and CEO Ben Saada breaks down the Deep Tech company's strategy; France 2030 will still spend billions on innovation; Ÿnsect gets a stay of execution; funds are still closing -- and so are startups.
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
Startups that raised from March 31 to April 4 also include: Ecoat, Fairly Made, Aquassay, Willow, Ma boîte à Moustique, Feedae, Spareka, Parallel, Tremau, Grace, Underdog, MaaT Pharma, Fairly Made, Ecoat, and WeeFin.
VCs talk funding famine; US is doing better, but not by much; exits are dead; Revaia closes its €250 fund; and what's the Deel with Rippling?
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.