French Tech Week: Business Angel Boom, Presidential Pitches, And Gender Gaps
To go even bigger, France will increasingly focusing on smaller venture investors.
Funding News: Fifteen, Alice&Bob, Synapse Medicine, Shares, Convelio
Fifteen, the bike-sharing startup formed by the merger of Zoov and Smoove, led the week with a €40M round.
Seed Of The Week: Delpha
Delpha is a human augmentation solution that uses AI to improve data quality for Salesforce users.
How French Tech Is Supporting Ukraine
From housing to work to refugee aid, France's tech community is addressing the impact of Russia's invasion.
Seed Of The Week: Qobra
Qobra has developed a sales compensation platform to help companies automate the calculation of commissions.
Podcast: Seyna CEO Stephen Leguillon On The InsurTech Revolution
On being a serial entrepreneur: "When you're an entrepreneur, it's hard to stay away from entrepreneurship."
French Tech News: Infrastructure Insights, Sigfox Saviors, Snoop Dog Decacorn
Did the legendary rapper inadvertently create France's first decacorn? Plus: U.S. companies go French Tech shopping.
Seed Of The Week: Specify
Specify is a design API that allows organizations to centralize management of their branding across their products and platforms, ranging from a basic website to SaaS applications to mobile devices.
Podcast: Ÿnsect CEO Antoine Hubert On The Insect Nutrient Revolution
"We are reaching tipping points on very big topics like climate change and biodiversity."
Campus Craze: Cyber, Hectar, And Albert
France loves a good campus. Three new education and research facilities target Cyber, AgTech, and Data.
Funding News: Boxy, LaCollection, Intercloud, Gatewatcher, Multis
Gatewatcher led the week with a €100M round, but NFT startups Multis and LaCollection showed France making some Web3 noise.
NFT And Metaverse Lessons From France's Web3 Week
La Collection, Exclusible, and Multis offer examples of how French entrepreneurs are defining these distributed and virtual markets.
Seed Of The Week: Gouach
The Bordeaux-based startup raised €4.5M for its repairable micro-mobility battery.
Podcast: Front CEO Mathilde Collin On The Future Of Customer Communication
"It's definitely crazy making sure that all the stars align and keep grinding...this is wild, but I love it."
French Tech News: Eurogasm, Facebook Freakout, And Non-Fungible Fungi
A new set of Europe Scale-up proposals seem to be addressing problems that may be too late to fix.
French Tech Funding News: Traxens, Elicit Plant, Seyna, Silvr, And Rolling Funds
Rounds raised in AgriTech, FinTech, InsurTech, Logistics, and Web Content showed the ecosystem's diversity.