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French Tech Funding Wire December 13: Aqemia, Deeplife, ION-X & More!

French startups that raised money the week of December 9 to December 13 also include Yampa, Ecosystem Restoration Standard, Biomemory, Syroco, Wecasa, Growl, Bsport, DashBook, Uptale, Bitstack, DFNS, Artifeel, and Glyss.

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📇 Company: Yampa
🔍 Description: Reinventing customer service standards with autonomous AI agents, available 24/7, to manage end-to-end customer processes across multiple communication channels.
💻 Website: https://yampa.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Partech; Business Angels, including Arthur Waller (Co-founder of Pennylane) and Guillaume Desloges (Co-founder of Alma); Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) experts
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Marin Huet; Baptiste Saintot; Patrice Mazoyer
🗞️ News: https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/12/hello-can-i-help-you-yampas-ai-customer-service-is-ready-to-turn-heads-with-new-funding/


📇 Company: Deeplife
🔍 Description: Designs and builds incredibly complex mechanical engines and biological systems, such as cells.
💻 Website: http://deeplife.co
📍 HQ City: Vernon
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €9.09M
🏦 Investors: Beiersdorf; Relyens; YZR Capital; Groupe Prunay
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jonathan Baptista; Jean-Baptiste Morlot
🗞️ News: https://sifted.eu/articles/deeplife-10m-series-a-news


📇 Company: ION-X
🔍 Description: Next-gen high-performance satellite propulsion.
💻 Website: https://ionx-propulsion.com
📍 HQ City: Boulogne-Billancourt
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €13.00M
🏦 Investors: Ile-de-France (Paris Region); EIC Fund; Expansion Ventures; Tf Participations
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Yves Matton
🗞️ News: https://europeanspaceflight.com/french-propulsion-startup-ion-x-secures-e13m-in-new-funding


📇 Company: Ecosystem Restoration Standard
🔍 Description: A new carbon standard designed to measure and verify impacts on climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
💻 Website: https://ers.org/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5.00M
🏦 Investors: LocalGlobe; noa; AENU
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibault Sorret
🗞️ News: https://carbonherald.com/ers-to-scale-operations-with-new-5m-funding-in-answer-to-rising-certification-demand/


📇 Company: Aqemia
🔍 Description: A next-gen pharmatech company generating one of the world’s fastest-growing drug discovery pipelines.
💻 Website: http://www.aqemia.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €35.98M
🏦 Investors: Elaia Partners; Bpifrance; Eurazeo; Cathay Innovation; Wendel
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emmanuelle Martiano Rolland; Maximilien Levesque
🗞️ News: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/aqemia-raises-38m-to-find-new-drugs-by-meshing-theoretical-physics-with-genai/


📇 Company: Biomemory
🔍 Description: Provides biodigital data storage for large companies and administrations.
💻 Website: https://www.biomemory.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €16.36M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; Paris Business Angels; Prunay Impact; Blast Club; Crédit Mutuel Innovation; Adnexus; Sorbonne Venture
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Erfane Arwani; Stephane Lemaire; Pierre Crozet; Stéphane Lemaire
🗞️ News: https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/10/dna-based-data-storage-company-biomemory-raises-18m/


📇 Company: Syroco
🔍 Description: Syroco EfficientShip is a software platform that builds digital twins of ships by leveraging physics modeling, data, and AI.
💻 Website: https://syro.co
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €7.50M
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners; Alter Equity
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Florent Boutellier; Bertrand Diard; Yves de Montcheuil; Olivier Taillard
🗞️ News: https://www.bunkerspot.com/europe/63837-syroco-series-a-funding-round-alter-equity-seventure-partners


📇 Company: Wecasa
🔍 Description: Platform for local cleaning and handiwork services.
💻 Website: https://www.wecasa.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Growth Equity VC
💰 Amount Raised: €17.26M
🏦 Investors: iXO Private Equity
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Julien Lestavel; Antoine Chatelain; Pierre André; Anne-Emilie Prévot; Fabien Nendaz
🗞️ News: https://www.maddyness.com/2024/12/06/services-a-domicile-wecasa-accelere-et-veut-se-deployer-dans-toute-la-france/


📇 Company: Growl
🔍 Description: Growl develops connected boxing bags to revolutionize fitness and training experiences.
💻 Website: https://www.joingrowl.com
📍 HQ City: Paris and Austin
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4.5M
🏦 Investors: Christophe Raynaud; Kima Ventures; Nicolas Béraud; Jonathan Cherki; Charles Gorintin; Skip Capital; Jean Lafleur; Teampact Ventures; Ciryl Gane; David Gane; Cyril Benzaquen; Gaël Fickou; Julien Marchand
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Léo Desrumaux; Nicolas de Maubeuge
🗞️ News: Growl raises €4.5M to fund the launch of its connected boxing bag


📇 Company: Bsport
🔍 Description: Provider of software to digitize gyms and wellness centers, focusing on operational efficiency, revenue maximization, and sustainability.
💻 Website: https://bsport.io/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €30M
🏦 Investors: Base10 Partners; Octopus Ventures; Seed4Soft; Stanford University
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Zakaria Mansour
🗞️ News: https://www.frenchweb.fr/la-startup-bsport-leve-30-millions-deuros-pour-digitaliser-les-salles-de-sport/450323


📇 Company: DashBook
🔍 Description: AI platform transforming online content into books.
💻 Website: https://dashbook.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris and Barcelona
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M (including €1M debt)
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners; Bpifrance (debt)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Botvinik and David Poirson
🗞️ News: https://www.maddyness.com/2024/12/10/dashbook-veut-devenir-la-maison-dedition-de-reference-pour-les-createurs-de-contenus/


📇 Company: Uptale
🔍 Description: Immersive and experiential virtual reality training platform for workforce development and skill enhancement.
💻 Website: http://www.uptale.io
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €9M
🏦 Investors: Arkéa Capital (We Positive Invest 2); Go Capital (OV4 and LVI2); Business Angels including Karim Jouini, Karim Beguir, and Guillaume Amblard
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Ristagno; Sébastien Leang; Aurélie Truchet; Dwayne Iserief
🗞️ News: https://www.maddyness.com/2024/12/12/uptale-leve-9-millions-deuros-pour-deployer-ses-formations-virtuelles-immersives/


📇 Company: Bitstack
🔍 Description: Bitcoin savings solution provider offering tools for seamless cryptocurrency investments.
💻 Website: https://www.bitstack-app.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €5M
🏦 Investors: Stillmark; Serena; Plug and Play; Y Combinator; Founders Future; Station F
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alexandre Roubaud, Kabir Sethi
🗞️ News: Bitstack aims to expand its services to become a Bitcoin neobank.


📇 Company: DFNS
🔍 Description: Cryptocurrency secured wallet-as-a-service provider.
💻 Website: http://dfns.co
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €15M
🏦 Investors: Wintermute Ventures; White Star Capital; SIG; Semantic Ventures; Motive Partners; Motier Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Christopher des Fontaines; Nore Eckerberg
🗞️ News: https://www.frenchweb.fr/dfns-leve-16-millions-deuros-pour-democratiser-lacces-a-des-portefeuilles-crypto-ultra-securises/450318


📇 Company: Artifeel
🔍 Description: The design and commercialization of intelligent security and monitoring systems based on in-vehicle AI and IoT technologies.
💻 Website: https://artifeel.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.2M
🏦 Investors: Graines de Boss; Side Angels; Welikeangels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alain Staron
🗞️ News: https://artifeel.com/levee-de-fonds-2024/


📇 Company: Glyss
🔍 Description: Glyss guides you to discover the most beautiful places that ski areas have to offer.
💻 Website: http://glyss.fr
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Pre-Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €100K
🏦 Investors: Business Angels; Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emma Sahin; Annie Horeczko
🗞️ News: https://www.ledauphine.com/skichrono/2024/12/12/glyss-l-application-pour-decouvrir-les-stations-en-mode-plaisir

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