French Tech Funding Wire February 7: Stockly, Riot & More!

📇 Company: Riot
🔍 Description: A cybersecurity software platform that helps businesses assess and improve employee cyber posture to protect against AI-driven threats.
💻 Website: https://tryriot.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €28.9M
🏦 Investors: Left Lane Capital; Y Combinator; Base10; FundersClub
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benjamin Netter; Louis Cibot
🗞️ News: EU Startups

📇 Company: Stockly
🔍 Description: The Global Inventory for Retail, helping retailers access and optimize stock availability.
💻 Website: https://www.stockly.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €26M
🏦 Investors: Eurazeo; 83North; Square Capital; Daphni; Anyma Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Eliott Jabès; Oscąr Wąlter
🗞️ News: Usine Digtale

📇 Company: ThePackengers
🔍 Description: A packing and shipping solution available with just one click.
💻 Website: https://thepackengers.com
📍 HQ City: Roissy-en-France
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €14M
🏦 Investors: Weber Investissement; Reflexion Capital; Transolution
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thierry Salah
🗞️ News: Maddyness

📇 Company: Wildsense
🔍 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: €5M
🏦 Investors: LocalGlobe; noa; AENU
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibault Sorret
🗞️ News: Carbon Herald

📇 Company: Circle Safe
🔍 Description: A medtech startup developing a next-generation catheter that reduces post-operative complications in atrial fibrillation procedures by threefold.
💻 Website: N/A
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €8M
🏦 Investors: Odyssée Venture; Région Sud Investissement; Bpifrance; Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bertrand Thiery (President & Founder)
🗞️ News: Les Echos

📇 Company: NETRI
🔍 Description: Develops organ-on-chip technology for neuroscience research.
💻 Website: https://netri.fr/
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €5M
🏦 Investors: N/A
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibault Honegger; Florian Larramendy; CA Netri Goel
🗞️ News: Bref Eco

📇 Company: Extracthive
🔍 Description: Provides a service to help businesses with value-added tax (VAT) management in the European Union.
💻 Website: https://extracthive.eu
📍 HQ City: Laudun-l'Ardoise
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €4.60M
🏦 Investors: CEA Investissement; Citizen Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Christophe Dondeyne

📇 Company: Sirius NeoSight
🔍 Description: AI-powered medical imaging for diagnostic enhancement.
💻 Website: https://sirius-neosight.com
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4.40M
🏦 Investors: Demeter Partners; Octalfa; GO Capital; Angels Santé; Evolem; Better Angle; Crédit Agricole Création
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arnaud Vigneron; Agnès Bastid
🗞️ News: Bref Eco

📇 Company: Histovery
🔍 Description: Augmented reality experiences for historical sites and museums.
💻 Website: http://histovery.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €4M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; MI3
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bruno De Sa Moreira; Edouard Lussan
🗞️ News: FrenchWeb

📇 Company: Neuralk AI
🔍 Description: Developing foundation AI models specialized for business needs.
💻 Website: https://www.neuralk-ai.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.80M
🏦 Investors: Fly Ventures; Station F; Philippe Corrot; Charles Gorintin; Vincent Luciani; Thomas Wolf; Nagi Letaifa; Jean-Louis Quéguiner; Saturnin Pugnet; Julien Launay; Xavier Perret
👨💼👩💼 Founders: N/A
🗞️ News: Maddyness

📇 Company: PAPAYA
🔍 Description: Gamification and engagement platform bringing fun challenges to users.
💻 Website: http://papaya.com
📍 HQ City: Isle
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €3.64M
🏦 Investors: Andrey Birman; Alex Liakhovetsky; Yonatan Yoni Zvik

📇 Company: NEO ECO
🔍 Description: Publisher of MonPortailRH, the first collaborative HR platform for SMEs to support talent development.
💻 Website: http://neo-eco.fr
📍 HQ City: Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Odyssée Venture; Business Angels Europe

📇 Company: Epyr
🔍 Description: Developer of thermal energy storage solutions for industrial decarbonization and renewable energy transition.
💻 Website: https://www.epyr.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Daphni; AENU; OVNI Capital; WEPA Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Léa Dardenne; Bastien Oggeri
🗞️ News: LinkedIn

📇 Company: Lyv Healthcare
🔍 Description: Digital healthcare platform facilitating access to medical services and patient support.
💻 Website: https://www.lyv.app
📍 HQ City: Nantes
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.60M
🏦 Investors: Investir & +; INCO Investissement; Mutuelles Impact; Abeille Assurances
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hélène Antier, Chloé Bonnet, Maïa Alexaline
🗞️ News: Maddyness

📇 Company: The QA Company
🔍 Description: AI-powered software enabling Question Answering systems over knowledge graphs.
💻 Website: https://qanswer.ai
📍 HQ City: Saint-Étienne
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €2.55M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; UI Investissement; Saint-Étienne Métropole; HEF; Crédit Agricole Loire Haute-Loire
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Maret
🗞️ News: LinkedIn

📇 Company: ASTRA IT
🔍 Description: Plug-and-play cybersecurity solution for websites and apps.
💻 Website: http://getastra.com
📍 HQ City: Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.45M
🏦 Investors: Blume Ventures; Emergent Ventures; Better Capital; PointOne Capital; Neon
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Shikhil Sharma; Ananda Krishna
🗞️ News: LinkedIn

📇 Company: Crown Procurement
🔍 Description: Procurement platform optimizing cost savings through fair and transparent e-auctions.
💻 Website: https://crown.ovh
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures; Bpifrance; BackBone Ventures; Mario Götze; another.vc; Dr. Marcell Vollmer; Prequel Ventures; ZAS Ventures; HEARTFELT_; Apok Invest; Christophe VIllain
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mykyta Voytenko
🗞️ News: Tech.eu, EU Startups

📇 Company: Aleph-Networks
🔍 Description: A cybersecurity startup specializing in OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) data processing across all layers of the web, including the deep and dark web, to detect data leaks and security threats.
💻 Website: https://www.aleph-networks.eu/en/
📍 HQ City: Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2M
🏦 Investors: AG2R La Mondiale; Accurafy4
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Hernandez (CEO)
🗞️ News: Usine Digitale

📇 Company: Upciti
🔍 Description: Supplier of precise, localized real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers.
💻 Website: https://www.upciti.com/
📍 HQ City: Montreuil
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.80M
🏦 Investors: Demeter Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean-Baptiste POLJAK