Skip to content

French Tech Funding Wire February 14: Germitec, ScorePlay, Smile Wanted & More!

Startups that raised from Feb. 10 to Feb. 14 also include: Ekstere, Speeral, ExtraJool, ENERSENS, ToumAI, Agri Lab Leverage, CountAct, AuraLIP, Freeda, Plantibodies, Wallace Technologies, EyePick, VCAST, Alterdiag, Oncodiag,and INOE.

Photo by Markus Winkler / Unsplash

📇 Company: Germitec
🔍 Description: Leading provider of chemical-free and ultra-fast automated high-level disinfection solutions for reprocessing ultrasound probes.
💻 Website: http://germitec.com
📍 HQ City: Ivry-sur-Seine
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €29M
🏦 Investors: Turenne Capital; Eurazeo; Financière Arbevel; Kurma Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Clément Deshays
🗞️ News: Maddyness, EU Startups


📇 Company: ScorePlay
🔍 Description: An AI-powered platform revolutionizing sports media management by automating the tagging, organization, and distribution of content for sports organizations.
💻 Website: https://www.scoreplay.io/
📍 HQ City: New York and Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €12.5M
🏦 Investors: 20VC; Seven Seven Six; APEX Capital; BYL Ventures; Trybe Ventures; FIBA; LORi6 Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Victorien Tixier; Xavier Green
🗞️ News: EU Startups


📇 Company: Smile Wanted
🔍 Description: An adtech company that has developed a marketplace connecting content publishers with advertisers through an algorithm that filters and categorizes high-performing advertising spaces using cookieless criteria.
💻 Website: https://www.smilewanted.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €10M
🏦 Investors: Elevation Capital Partners; Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jérémy Abitan (CEO)
🗞️ News: Maddyness


📇 Company: Alterdiag
🔍 Description: Developer of rapid diagnostic tests using single-domain antibodies
💻 Website: https://alterdiag.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2m
🏦 Investors: Forepont
👨💼👩💼 Founders: CEDRIC BECHET, Karine Mignon Godefroy
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: Ekstere
🔍 Description: A platform specializing in the sale of reconditioned electric bicycles, promoting sustainability and circular economy practices.
💻 Website: https://ekstere.eco/
📍 HQ City: Vélizy-Villacoublay
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.6M
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners; Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Philippe Masseau,
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: Oncodiag
🔍 Description: Developer of non-invasive diagnostic testing kits designed to help in the early detection of urological cancers
💻 Website: https://www.oncodiag.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €1.4m
🏦 Investors: Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Claude Hennion, Jean-Pierre Roperch


📇 Company: Speeral
🔍 Description: A marketplace connecting businesses with second-hand product sites, promoting a circular economy and sustainability.
💻 Website: https://speeral.io/
📍 HQ City: Nantes
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.2M
🏦 Investors: Aquiti; Emmanuel Grenier; Philippe Brochard; Guillaume Cavaroc; Antony Rode
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Julien Chevalier
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: ExtraJool
🔍 Description: Converts industrial waste heat into electricity, promoting energy efficiency in manufacturing.
💻 Website: https://extrajool.com/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Aquiti; SideAngels; One Green
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Euryale Chatelard


📇 Company: ENERSENS
🔍 Description: Develops best-in-class thermal barriers for batteries and aerospace applications.
💻 Website: https://enersens.eu/
📍 HQ City: Rochetoirin
🧗 Round: Convertible
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: European Innovation Council
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Denery Fenouil


📇 Company: ToumAI
🔍 Description: Provides local ESG data solutions for Africa, amplifying community voices to enhance sustainability.
💻 Website: https://toum.ai
📍 HQ City: Goetzenbruck
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; Orange Ventures; Digital Africa; Launch Africa Ventures; Go Ventures; Madica
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bruno Akpaka
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: Agri Lab Leverage
🔍 Description: Promotes the use of co-products and plant-based waste for sustainable agriculture.
💻 Website: http://agrilableverage.com
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.9M
🏦 Investors: Femmes Business Angels; SideAngels; Foodara; TimeToAct Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Céline Domerc, Michel Zuliani
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: CountAct
🔍 Description: An enterprise emergency management application designed to improve safety response times and coordination in the workplace.
💻 Website: http://countact.fr/
📍 HQ City: Grenoble
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €780K
🏦 Investors: Grenoble Angels; 50 Partners Capital; Kapa Invest; Grenoble Alpes Métropole; Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Lounis LAKHAL, Iliès LAKHAL,
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: AuraLIP
🔍 Description: Develops sustainable ingredients as meat alternatives.
💻 Website: https://auralip.com/
📍 HQ City: Évry-Courcouronnes
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.55M
🏦 Investors: Femmes Business Angels; BADGE
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Laetitia Halbeisen; Marine Messant
🗞️ News: New Food Finance


📇 Company: Plantibodies
🔍 Description: Develops a sustainable biotech platform to produce and deliver oral biologics with increased efficacy and fewer side effects.
💻 Website: http://plantibodies.tech
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.19M
🏦 Investors: BADGE
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Bauër


📇 Company: Wallace Technologies
🔍 Description: Provides alternative energy storage solutions.
💻 Website: http://wallace-technologies.com
📍 HQ City: Clermont-Ferrand
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: BADGE
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benjamin Dupas


📇 Company: EyePick
🔍 Description: Develops robotic and machine-learning technologies to enable automation in industries and increase productivity.
💻 Website: https://eyepick.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: Entrepreneur First
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mehdi Adjaoue; Florian Fontaine-Papion


📇 Company: VCAST
🔍 Description: Provides online and multichannel voting solutions for private sector businesses in industry, services, and distribution.
💻 Website: http://vcast.vote
📍 HQ City: Villers-lès-Nancy
🧗 Round: Spinout
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: INRIA; French National Centre for Scientific Research
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Michael Houalef, Stephane Glondu


📇 Company: INOE
🔍 Description: Wood energy development
💻 Website: https://inoe-idf.fr/
📍 HQ City: Orgeval
🧗 Round: Growth Equity VC
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: Meanings Capital Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Eric Walmé
🗞️ News: Fusacq




Comments

Latest

French AI Research: April Synthesis
AI

French AI Research: April Synthesis

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.

Members Public