French Tech Funding Wire May 9: Kalent, WeMet, Raidium & Softway Medical
Only 4 startups raised from May 5 to May 9 amid the slow French holiday season.
Only 4 startups raised from May 5 to May 9 amid the slow French holiday season.
The native of Sète has risen from this seaside fishing town to become one of the top players at tech's most influential company. As CEO of applications, she also now stands as one of the most prominent Frenchies in tech.
Topics: AI breakthroughs across medicine, law, and engineering—from outperforming neurologists in diagnosis to smart energy systems, legal term extraction, and translation—plus philosophical and cultural reflections on AI, media, fairness, and ethics.
Also: With a fresh €36.36 million late-stage funding round and a bold new AI chip ready for market, VSORA is emerging as a flagship of Europe’s deep tech ecosystem, poised to challenge industry giants in performance and efficiency.
Startups that raised from April 28 to May 2 also include: Chipiron, Dark, Reelevant, Next Generation, Inicio, Chenevia, Sitowie, Aéronde, Chloé in the Sky, Ogalo, and Cooloc.
Poppins fresh €5m round to treat Dyslexia with a musical video game; Bpifrance CEO refuses to bend the regulatory knee.
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.