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Inside: Growl hopes its AI Boxing Bag will be a hit; the French army hops on the AI bandwagon; more AI events than you can shake a stick at.
Inside: Growl hopes its AI Boxing Bag will be a hit; the French army hops on the AI bandwagon; more AI events than you can shake a stick at.
A pair of French entrepreneurs in Texas have launched Growl, a connected fitness startup that reimagines the traditional boxing bag as an AI-powered, interactive home coach. As the company moves towards commercialization, CEO and co-founder Léo Desrumaux explains the vision.
Startups that raised from March 3 to March 7 also include: Satisfy, Osivax, Comet, Agriodor, Wealthcome, Faks, Kleio, Spash, Terratis, Papkot, and Cherico.
👋 Welcome to our weekly recap of the big news + funding in the French tech ecosystem this week. In this week's French Tech Wire, 👀 Deep Dive: Why Europe Needs Its Own AI Infrastructure: Arnaud Muller, Founder & CEO of Cleyrop and vocal advocate for European technological independence, explores how
U.S. Startups are reaching $100M ARR with less than 50 employees. French startups risk being squeezed if they don’t adapt.
Inside: A look at the future of AI and Video with Aive; Paris gets a fancy new AI center.
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."
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.
In this edition: VirtualiSurg is using VR to train surgeons; an Ÿnsect bankruptcy breakdown; plus all the fun headlines and funding news.
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.
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?