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📇 Company: Stellaria
🔍 Description: French deep‑tech startup developing compact molten salt fast reactors (MSFR) — branded “Stellarium” — capable of renewing 100% of its fuel during operation, incinerating high‑level waste, and providing low‑carbon heat and electricity to industrial sites and utilities. Emphasizes safety (4‑barrier containment), waste‑burning, and flexible output for heavy industry.
💻 Website: https://www.stellaria.fr/en/
📍 HQ City: Grenoble, France
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €23 million (continuation of a larger Series A totaling €38 M, with €15 M raised in early 2025)
🏦 Investors: CEA Investissement, Schneider Electric, Orano, Technip Energies, Supernova Invest, Audacia (following early €1.7 M seed), with continued support from France 2030 initiative and consortium partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders & Leadership: Nicolas Breyton (CEO; ex‑Schneider Electric), co‑founders from CEA, including Guillaume Campioni, Lucas Tardieu, Bruno Desbrière, Antoine Gerschenfeld
🗞️ News: Maddyness
📇 Company: Spiko
🔍 Description: Offers fully tokenized, AMF‑regulated UCITS money market funds investing in euro and US Treasury Bills. Funds operate 24/7 on public blockchains (Ethereum, Polygon, Tezos via Etherlink), with APIs and integrations (e.g., Pennylane, Revolut) for SMEs, freelancers, fintechs, and individuals.
💻 Website: https://www.spiko.io/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €20M
🏦 Investors: Index Ventures, Angel investors include Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, Wise CTO Harsh Sinh
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Paul‑Adrien Hyppolite (ex‑Deputy Head, French Treasury markets; CEO); Antoine Michon (ex‑digital transformation advisor to French government; COO)
🗞️ News: Maddyness
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📇 Company: One Biosciences
🔍 Description: Operating a ‘discovery engine’ leveraging single-cell technologies to identify new therapeutics for difficult-to-treat diseases.
💻 Website: http://onebiosciences.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €15M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, InVus, Redmile Group, Polytechnique Ventures, Galion.exe, Blast Club, Adamed Technology
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Dr. Céline Vallot, Hedi Ben Brahim, Magali RICHARD, David Schilansky
🗞️ News: Pulse 2.0
📇 Company: Dillico
🔍 Description: Deeptech biopharma startup developing All‑ScaleFlow™, an integrated, digitized, GMP-compliant platform for ultra-flexible, scalable manufacturing of mRNA vaccines and therapies. Aims to accelerate development, reduce costs, and enable personalized immuno-oncology treatments.
💻 Website: https://dillico.com/
📍 HQ City: Meylan
🧗 Round: Seed / Series A hybrid (equity + non-dilutive)
💰 Amount Raised: €7.5 million in equity, complementing €2.4 million non-dilutive France 2030 funding + additional bank financing.
🏦 Investors: Angelor (via For Good fund), Fonds Régional Avenir Industrie Auvergne‑Rhône‑Alpes (advised by UI Investissement), French Tech Seed (Bpifrance, for France 2030), GP Compas, Deepbright One, Private investors & Family Offices, including historic investor Deeperly.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Three industry experts; leadership includes Christophe Bonneville, President & CEO (co-founder)
🗞️ News: Lyonbiopole
📇 Company: Retab
🔍 Description: Retab is building a complete developer platform and SDK for shipping state-of-the-art document processing in the age of LLMs.
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📍 HQ City: San Francisco
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: $3.5 million
🏦 Investors: Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Xavier Niel, Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Florian Douetteau (CEO of Dataiku), K5 Global, VentureFriends
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Louis de Benoist (CEO), Sacha Ichbiah (CTO), Victor Plaisance (CPO) (Alumni of École Polytechnique and HEC Paris)
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: Dreampath Diagnostics
🔍 Description: Digitizes workflows in anatomical pathology laboratories. Its closed‑loop platform combines proprietary scanners, software, and consumables to automate sample archiving and retrieval, improving efficiency, accuracy, and traceability.
💻 Website: www.dreampathdx.net
📍 HQ City: Strasbourg, France
🧗 Round: Growth equity
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: Summit Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pablo Jordan
🗞️ News: Summit Partners
