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French Tech Funding Wire January 24: Shippeo, Mob-Energy, Kraaft & More!

Startups that raised from Jan. 20 to Jan. 24 also include: AISPRID, Karmen, AdEchoTech, Zilo Énergie, Dylogy, TUITO, and Crime Science Technology.

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📇 Company: Shippeo
🔍 Description: The most recommended real-time transportation visibility platform in the world.
💻 Website: http://shippeo.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €27.27M
🏦 Investors: Battery Ventures; Partech; Bpifrance; NGP Capital; Yamaha Motor Ventures; Shift4Good; LFX Venture Partners; Woven Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Khoury; Frédéric Jouenne; Jean-Bastien Dussart; Jérôme Burtin; Lucien Besse; Thibaut Morlot; Brice Hua
🗞️ News: FrenchWeb


Hexana cofounders Sylvain Nizou and Paul Gauthé

📇 Company: Hexana
🔍 Description: A French nuclear startup developing fourth-generation fast sodium-cooled small modular reactors (SMRs) to accelerate the energy transition.
💻 Website: https://www.hexana.fr
📍 HQ City: Aix-en-Provence, Paris, and Brussels
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €15M (+€10M grant from Bpifrance Financement)
🏦 Investors: Blast Club; Région Sud Investissement; CEA Investissement; Eren Industries; Exergon (Audacia)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Sylvain Nizou, Paul Gauthé
🗞️ News: Les Echos


📇 Company: Mob-Energy
🔍 Description: Mobile charging robot for electric vehicles.
💻 Website: http://mob-energy.com
📍 HQ City: Villeurbanne
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €15.00M
🏦 Investors: Tikehau Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ilyass Haddout; Salim El Houat; Maxime Roy
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: Kraaft
🔍 Description: Reinventing interfaces in factories through voice recognition and natural language processing (NLP).
💻 Website: https://www.kraaft.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €13.00M
🏦 Investors: Brick & Mortar Ventures; Stride.VC; Chalfen Ventures; Dawn Capital; OSS Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thomas Reygagne; Cédric Boidin, Marc Nègre
🗞️ News: EU Startups


📇 Company: AISPRID
🔍 Description: Autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
💻 Website: https://aisprid.com
📍 HQ City: Saint-Malo
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €10.00M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; Demeter Partners; Innovacom; GO Capital; Breizh Up
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Salmon; Morgan Kervoern
🗞️ News: FrenchWeb


📇 Company: Karmen
🔍 Description: Provides custom financing to digital companies.
💻 Website: https://karmen.io
📍 HQ City: Vincennes
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €4.50M
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Gabriel Thierry; Sébastien Lubineau; Baptiste Wiel
🗞️ News: FrenchWeb


📇 Company: XXII
🔍 Description: Pioneering French startup specializing in artificial intelligence-powered computer vision to capture, analyze, and optimize real-time video streams for operational efficiency across various sectors.
💻 Website: https://small-structure-910926.framer.app/en/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Strategic Investment
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: Sopra Steria Ventures; CMA-CGM Group; Defence Innovation Fund; 574 Invest (SNCF Group); CIB Development (Colas Group); Techmind; Kima Ventures; Duval Group
👨💼👩💼 Founders: William Eldin (CEO)
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: AdEchoTech
🔍 Description: Specializes in the design, manufacture, and sale of medical equipment.
💻 Website: http://adechotech.com
📍 HQ City: Naveil
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €4.00M
🏦 Investors: Crédit Agricole; UI Investissement; Banque des Territoires; Cléry
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Lefebvre
🗞️ News: Les Echos


📇 Company: Zilo Énergie
🔍 Description: Subscription services for solar self-consumption.
💻 Website: https://zilo-energie.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.00M
🏦 Investors: 50 Partners; Sys EnR; Business Angels; Climate Club VC


📇 Company: Wellow
🔍 Description: Specialist in shared housing, transforming large family homes into individual co-living spaces to address the housing crisis for young professionals and students.
💻 Website: https://www.wellowhouse.com
📍 HQ City: Paris and Lille
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5M (€0.75M in equity and €0.75M non-dilutive)
🏦 Investors: NCI (via its NCITY fund); CIC; BNP Paribas
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thomas Corman
🗞️ News: Widoobiz


From left to right: Benjamin BERTHOU, Rémi BASTIEN and Thibault RIHET, co-founders of Enogrid.

📇 Company: Enogrid
🔍 Description: Leader in collective self-consumption in France, offering software solutions and support for renewable energy projects that enable local energy sharing between producers and consumers.
💻 Website: https://www.enogrid.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris and Grenoble
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.4M
🏦 Investors: LITA.co; Schneider Electric Energy Access; ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Énergies
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Rémi Bastien; Benjamin Berthou; Thibault Rihiet
🗞️ News:


📇 Company: Dylogy
🔍 Description: Insurance innovation platform enhancing risk management with NLP and Generative AI for tailored document processing solutions.
💻 Website: https://www.dylogy.com/
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.20M
🏦 Investors: HUB612; LYA Protect; Convex Group; Mindstone
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Aurélien Couloumy; Loris Chiapparo


📇 Company: TUITO
🔍 Description: Provides design and development services in enhanced tactile and voice command user experiences.
💻 Website: http://tuito.fr
📍 HQ City: La Ciotat
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €1.00M
🏦 Investors: N1; Purple Ventures


📇 Company: Crime Science Technology
🔍 Description: Forensic solutions and ID document authentication.
💻 Website: http://crimesciencetechnology.com
📍 HQ City: Lille
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €0.00M
🏦 Investors: C4 Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Cosimo Prete
🗞️ News: Maddyness

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