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📇 Company: Million Victories
🔍 Description: A game development studio focusing on the essence of what makes games fun for players
💻 Website: http://millionvictories.com
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €34.2M
🏦 Investors: Haveli Investments
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Celine Espiet-Allary, Benoît Ducrest
🗞️ News: The funding was raised to fuel Million Victories’ aggressive global expansion, boosting production, marketing, and user acquisition across key markets (US, France, Germany, UK) while breaking into Asia (notably South Korea and Japan) and doubling its team by 2027. | Leprogres

📇 Company: BrainEver
🔍 Description: BrainEver's platform treats neurodegenerative diseases based on Homeoproteins (HPs).
💻 Website: https://brainever.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €33M
🏦 Investors: European Innovation Council, IBionext, Relyens
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alain Prochiantz, Bernard Gilly
🗞️ News: PR

📇 Company: SiPearl
🔍 Description: Designer of microprocessors for European exascale supercomputers, with a focus on HPC, AI, medical research, and energy management
💻 Website: https://www.sipearl.com/
📍 HQ City: Maisons-Laffitte
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €32M (final trance of €130M round)
🏦 Investors: Cathay Venture
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Philippe Notton
🗞️ News: Data Center Dynamics

📇 Company: Arago
🔍 Description: Crafting next-gen AI accelerators
💻 Website: https://www.arago.inc/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €22.1M
🏦 Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital, Olivier Pomel, C4 Ventures, Acequia Capital, Jack Abraham, Bertrand Serlet, Thomas Wolf, David Fattal, Protagonist, Visionaries Tomorrow
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Eliott Sarrey, Ambroise M Ller, Nicolas Muller
🗞️ News: Arago secured a $26 million seed round to accelerate the commercialization of its groundbreaking photonic AI chip “JEF,” which uses light instead of electricity to dramatically reduce energy consumption—by up to 10–30×—while remaining fully compatible with existing AI infrastructure and accelerating product development, team expansion, and strategic partnerships. | Maddyness, EU Startups

📇 Company: Turbotech
🔍 Description: French industrial startup developing regenerative micro-turbine engines for light aviation, offering significantly reduced fuel consumption, lower noise, extended maintenance intervals, and hybrid-electric capability.
💻 Website: turbotech-aero.com
📍 HQ City: Toussus‑le‑Noble
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €8.5 million
🏦 Investors: Île‑de‑France Réindustrialisation (via Innovacom – Turenne Groupe), Safran Corporate Ventures, Bpifrance, GO Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Damien Fauvet (Founder & CEO), Jean‑Michel Guimbard (Co‑Founder & COO)
🗞️ News: The €8.5 M infusion will accelerate Turbotech’s industrial ramp‑up for its regenerative turbines—targeting certification, production scale‑up, hybrid‑electric propulsion, and global adoption in general aviation and drone markets. | Les Echos

📇 Company: HiQuTe Diamond
🔍 Description: French deeptech startup specializing in plasma‑assisted CVD synthetic diamond substrates optimized for power electronics applications, now partnering with Diamfab to cover the full semiconductor diamond value chain—from substrate production to epitaxy of doped layers and component fabrication.
💻 Website: hiqute-diamond.com
📍 HQ City: Île‑de‑France region, France
🧗 Round: Strategic funding/partnership round (non-equity alliance)
💰 Amount Raised: €7.5 million
🏦 Investors: Île-de-France Reindustrialization Fund (operated by Innovacom), the French Tech Seed fund by Bpifrance as part of France 2030, TF Participations, Socadif, and iXcore
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Florent Alzetto, Riadh Issaoui
🗞️ News: The €7.5 M partnership accelerates industrialization of semiconductor diamonds, aiming for a spring 2025 prototype of vertical Schottky diodes and positioning France as a leader in decarbonized power‑electronics infrastructure. | PR

📇 Company: Solarock
🔍 Description: A French energy-tech startup providing turnkey solar photovoltaic systems and storage for homes and SMEs, using ultra-local agencies with a franchise model, high-quality equipment, and advanced monitoring and smart-control R&D to boost self-consumption and energy autonomy.
💻 Website: https://solarock.fr/
📍 HQ City:
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €7 million
🏦 Investors: Pale Blue Dot, Noa, Ring Capital, Kima Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Laure Crémieux (CEO), Benjamin Barnathan, Joseph‑Marie Valleix
🗞️ News: With this €7M round, Solarock plans to roll out a national franchise network, scale ultra-local agencies, and enhance R&D for tech like smart monitoring, storage optimization, and AI-driven sizing tools. | Tech.eu

📇 Company: Ciloa
🔍 Description: A Montpellier-based biotech pioneer in bioengineering small extracellular vesicles (exosomes) to deliver therapeutic proteins, specifically using its proprietary EVENGI platform to create a stable, functional adiponectin-loaded exosome called APN‑sEV for treating metabolic diseases.
💻 Website: https://ciloa.bio
📍 HQ City: Montpellier
🧗 Round: Grant
💰 Amount Raised: €6.5M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, on behalf of the French government (via France 2030 programme
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Robert Zaïne Mamoun, Bernadette Trentin
🗞️ News: The grant will finance GMP-scale manufacturing, regulatory preclinical work, and the progression of APN‑sEV into Phase I trials in 2027, followed by Phase IIa in 2028 for type 2 diabetes and obesity. | EU Startups

📇 Company: Tandem
🔍 Description: Startup building in‑app AI agents ("execution layer") that perform tasks within software to help users navigate, configure, and adopt advanced features seamlessly, reducing friction and support needs.
💻 Website: usetandem.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.2 million
🏦 Investors: Tribe Capital, backed by Hexa startup‑studio support
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Christophe Barre (CEO & Co‑Founder) and Manuel Darcemont
🗞️ News: Funds will accelerate integrations with enterprise apps, enhance the AI execution layer, scale customer success, and support the launch of a U.S. HQ in San Francisco. | EU-Startups

📇 Company: VizioSense
🔍 Description: Sensors with on-board AI and computer vision for Smart(er) cities, buildings, and industries
💻 Website: http://viziosense.com
📍 HQ City: Lille
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.7M
🏦 Investors: Alacrité France
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Maxime Schacht, Amine B, Jichen Jiang
🗞️ News: VizioSense will accelerate its European rollout of ethical, edge‑AI optical sensors that optimize urban mobility—such as parking, flow analysis, and crowd management—without any video surveillance or image storage. | Alliancy

📇 Company: Relief
🔍 Description: An AI-powered platform automating complex industrial quoting processes, helping manufacturers convert technical specs into optimized quotes, structure proprietary expertise, and improve margins and conversion rates.
💻 Website: https://reliefapp.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.6M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Daphni, Galion, OSS Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mickael Mamou, Jonas Levy
🗞️ News: The funding will allow Relief to hire 20 team members and scale toward 100 customers by the end of 2026, addressing a multi-billion-dollar opportunity in digitizing industrial quoting with tailored AI. | LinkedIn

📇 Company: Optimistik
🔍 Description: A French SaaS company enabling industrial firms to democratize the use of data and AI through a platform that enhances production traceability, operational performance, and sustainability metrics such as GHG emissions and water consumption.
💻 Website: optimistik.com
📍 HQ City: Chambéry, France
🧗 Round: Growth capital
💰 Amount Raised: €1.7M
🏦 Investors: Fonds Régional Avenir Industrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Crédit Agricole Alpes Développement
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mathieu Cura (President), Jean-François Hénon
🗞️ News: The funding will support Optimistik’s international expansion (notably in North America), continuous platform innovation, including generative AI assistants, and its mission to bridge AI adoption and real-world industrial operations. | LinkedIn

📇 Company: Seaturns
🔍 Description: A deep‑tech startup developing robust, cost‑efficient wave energy converters (WECs) designed for industrial‑scale electricity production, with upgradable systems and simplified offshore deployment. Their technology converts horizontal wave motion into airflow-driven turbine power, validated through 18 months of real-world testing at Ifremer.
💻 Website: http://seaturns.com
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €2.45M
🏦 Investors: Keenest
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Vincent Tournerie
🗞️ News: The funds target three primary goals: Finalize R&D and deploy a full-scale demonstrator at SEM‑REV offshore by Summer 2025; launch industrial-scale manufacturing; and accelerate international commercialization. | PR

📇 Company: HEXANA
🔍 Description: A CEA spin-off developing modular sodium-cooled fast reactors (4th‑gen SMRs) paired with thermal storage to provide flexible, decarbonized heat and electricity for heavy industry and clean fuel production.
💻 Website: hexana.fr
📍 HQ City: Aix‑en‑Provence, with offices in Paris and Brussels
🧗 Round: Strategic industrial funding
💰 Amount Raised: €2 million (bringing total project financing to €27 million)
🏦 Investors: Groupe M (via its subsidiary MONTEIRO), joining earlier backers, including Bpifrance/France 2030
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Sylvain Nizou, Paul Gauthé
🗞️ News: Groupe M’s €2 M industrial investment formalizes a long-standing technical partnership, strengthens HEXANA’s manufacturing and export capabilities, and enhances financial credibility as it advances its SMR project. |Hexana

📇 Company: ex9
🔍 Description: A deeptech logistics startup developing a proprietary, industrial-grade trailer movement automation system for logistics yards, combining zero-emission autonomous yard trucks with high-precision software to deliver safe, clean, and scalable yard operations as a service.
💻 Website: ex9.tech
📍 HQ City: Évry
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2 million
🏦 Investors: Femmes Business Angels, Impulse4Women/SIA, Oscar Club, ARAN Ventures, The Company Lab (CO.LAB) / gener8tor, plus private angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ksenia Duarte, Enzo Salvatore
🗞️ News: The funding will be used to scale ex9’s autonomous yard operations across Europe, expand their autonomy and operations teams, and prepare for a full-service launch in early 2026. | LinkedIn

📇 Company: Solence
🔍 Description: A digital therapeutics startup offering a personalized lifestyle app for women with PCOS, combining daily interactive sessions, symptom tracking, and expert-validated programs focused on nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, and emotional well‑being.
💻 Website: solence.care
📍 HQ City: Strasbourg, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €16 M (about $1.87 M)
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, Impact Shakers, Céline Lazorthes, +1 undisclosed angel
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Clara Stephenson (Co‑Founder & CEO) and Mael Mertad
🗞️ News: Announced on 10 July 2025, this €16 M seed round aims to scale the app’s reach and solidify its evidence‑based approach to PCOS care. | Tech.eu

📇 Company: bYoRNA
🔍 Description: A French biotech startup developing a proprietary in vivo fermentation platform for scalable, low-cost production of messenger RNA (mRNA), enabling new therapeutic and vaccine applications in oncology, infectious diseases, and gene therapy.
💻 Website: https://www.byorna.bio/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux, France
🧗 Round: Pre-seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5 million
🏦 Investors: Polytechnique Ventures, IRDI Capital Investissement (via IRDINOV3), and domain-expert business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pascal Viguié (CEO), Dr. Thierry Ziegler (CTO)
🗞️ News: The funding will finalize testing of long mRNA molecules, support early commercial agreements, and validate first therapeutic applications, including a strategic partnership with TRON, the German RNA institute co-founded by the creators of BioNTech. | IRDI (pdf)

📇 Company: Justclip
🔍 Description: A French startup developing patented plug-and-play modular electrical kits for DIY users, enabling safe and easy installation by clipping together components like sockets, ducts, and connectors, targeting consumers hesitant to undertake electrical work.
💻 Website: https://www.justclip.fr
📍 HQ City: Hérault
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.36 million
🏦 Investors: Individual angels including Clément Saad (Pradeo), Sébastien Lacaze (Look Up Geoscience, French Tech Méditerranée), Grégory Blanvillain (Com Event, CPME 34); with banking support from Bpifrance, Banque Populaire du Sud, and Crédit Agricole
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Serge SALSE
🗞️ News: The funds will support the commercial launch of the product in January 2026 and expansion to 500 retail points over three years. | Le Journal des Services Enterprises

📇 Company: ANYFIELDS
🔍 Description: A Toulouse-based deeptech startup commercializing ONERA‑derived electromagnetic measurement tools—such as the EMBox Lab for education and the EMBox XL for New Space antenna testing—that visualize electromagnetic waves and simplify complex diagnostics.
💻 Website: https://www.anyfields.eu/
📍 HQ City: Toulouse, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Backed by CNES and ESA and recognized under the France 2030 innovation program.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Stéphane Gemble (CEO)
🗞️ News: The funding will expand R&D, launch new product lines tailored for New Space players, accelerate sales to academia (EMBox Lab) and industry (EMBox XL), double the team, and target around ten international customers by 2026. | Anyfields

📇 Company: LABEL4.AI
🔍 Description: A French cybersecurity and AI startup developing sovereign, industrial-grade solutions to trace, detect, and control generative AI content—aiming to combat fraud and reinforce digital trust in content production and dissemination.
💻 Website: https://label4.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Pre-seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Undisclosed
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Anthony Level, Vivien Chappelier, Rony Abecidan, Ph.D., Teddy Furon, Mathieu Desoubeaux
🗞️ News: The funding will support industrialization of LABEL4.AI’s proprietary technologies, team structuring, and acceleration toward becoming a key European player in generative AI traceability and content integrity. | LinkedIn

📇 Company: KaraFun Group
🔍 Description: A global leader in interactive music entertainment—offering karaoke solutions across B2C and B2B apps, hospitality venues, and branded karaoke bars, boasting the world’s largest proprietary song catalog spanning 30+ languages with gamified, immersive experiences including quizzes and music trivia.
💻 Website: http://karafun.nl
📍 HQ City: Lille
🧗 Round: Growth capital
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: Vendis Capital and Verlinvest
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean‑Baptiste and Bart Defossez
🗞️ News: The investment will support accelerated international expansion, personalization of digital platforms, and global rollout of KaraFun’s award‑winning karaoke tech to new audiences and markets. | Vendiscapital