Deep Dives — AI
Descartes Underwriting: Doubling Down On Climate Risk As Insurance Industry Retreats
Chief Science Officer Kévin Dedieu: "AI represents between 2-5% of our tech investments. Next year, we’re increasing that by 10%, with more resources dedicated to AI and using it for our core models. The cost of AI is relatively low, but its impact is huge.”
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VSORA: The French AI Chipmaker Taking on NVIDIA with High-Performance, Cost-Efficient AI Hardware
Backed by €40 million in funding, CEO Khaled Maalej believes the company is set to disrupt the AI hardware market with its Jotunn8 chip, leveraging a fabless model and advanced chiplet architecture to slash the cost of deploying large language models and generative AI at scale.
Secondhand Shopping Made Easy: Dero’s Mission to Transform France’s Circular Economy
Dero is reshaping secondhand shopping in France by aggregating 65+ trusted marketplaces into one interface. With 150,000 users and a new mobile app, Dero wants to make buying used simple, secure, better for your wallet -- and the planet.
How Reelevant’s Real-Time Personalization Redefines Martech with €6M Series A Led by Seventure Partners
Reelevant wants to revolutionize how brands engage customers by delivering hyper-personalized content at the perfect moment, adapting dynamically to user behavior.
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Didask Raises €10M to Reinvent Corporate Learning with AI and Cognitive Science
Didask just raised €10M to revamp the world of corporate training and make e-learning actually work. With AI that thinks like a teacher (not a robot) and lessons that stick, the French startup is out to prove that real learning beats pretty slides every time.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Will Diamond Dreams Power The Future?
DiamFab bets big on diamond semiconductors to power EVs and clean energy, Paris overtakes London as Europe’s top startup hub, 300 orgs push for digital sovereignty, Maya Noël honored for tech advocacy, and Veesion leads funding with a €38M AI theft detection raise.
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A pioneering startup is harnessing synthetic diamonds to revolutionize power electronics. With unmatched thermal and voltage properties, DiamFab aims to outperform silicon carbide, accelerating EVs, renewables, and the global energy transition.
New French AI Company Radar: April 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.