🤖 La Machine #27: Hugging Face Embraces Pollen Robotics 🤖
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
How Delos Is Building an AI Operating System for Business
CEO Pierre de la Grand'rive: "Our ambition is to offer generative AI that is truly useful to employees."
French Tech Funding Wire April 18: Mila, Ensol, Dolphin Semiconductor & More!
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.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Silicon Valley Extends Its Funding Domination
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.
How Pennylane Plans To Become France's Accounting Superhero
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.
🤖 La Machine #26: How Ogury Is Navigating The AI AdTech Revolution 🤖
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.
How Ogury Is Navigating The AI AdTech Revolution
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."
French Tech Funding Wire April 11: Pennylane, Sekoia.io, Roof & More!
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.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Fairmat's Blueprint For Green Tech
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.
🤖 La Machine #25: France’s Nuclear Mojo Powers AI Edge Over The UK 🤖
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
French Tech Funding Wire April 4: Intact, Groupe Archipel, Fairmat & More!
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.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Remain Calm...Or Time To Panic?
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?
New French AI Company Radar: March 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
French Tech Funding Wire March 28: GravitHy, RockFi, Epsor & More!
Startups that raised from March 24 to March 28 also include: DeepIP, Opsima, Neold, Jool, CR-Industry, Luchrome, Anemon, and BuyCo.
🤖 La Machine #24: Inside FlexAI's Ambitions 🤖
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
FlexAI: Pioneering Universal AI Compute Infrastructure
Modern AI workloads were being forced to run on computing architectures designed decades ago. FlexAI wants to create a faster, more flexible system that enables rapid scaling.