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French Tech Funding Wire July 4: Genesis AI, NeoFarm, Khimod & More!

Between June 30 and July 4, a total of 20 companies raised €221.5M, including: ATAWEY, Skynopy, Bonx, Kerys Software, Massive Dynamic, RainPath, Cosma, Webyn, MovaLife, E-Sensia, Optitus PV, Dream On Technology, Diago, Bluedigo, Olimpe Technology, Wallace Technologies, and The QA Company.

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📇 Company: Genesis AI
🔍 Description: Builds foundation models optimized for robotics and real-world agents, enabling robots to understand and interact with the physical world using multimodal AI.
💻 Website: N/A
📍 HQ City: Paris & Palo Alto
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: $105M
🏦 Investors: Eclipse Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Xavier Niel, Eric Schmidt, Balaji Srinivasan, Elad Gil, Conviction, and more
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Shariq Rizvi (ex-Twitter), Marco De Martin (ex-DeepMind), Emil Wallner (ex-Google Brain)
🗞️ News: Sifted, TechCrunch, Maddyness


📇 Company: NeoFarm
🔍 Description: Designs and operates automated organic vegetable farms using agroecological practices and proprietary robotics to create sustainable, profitable local food systems.
💻 Website: https://www.neofarm.fr
📍 HQ City: Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €30M+ (including €23M equity, €5M public grant via France 2030, plus bank financing)
🏦 Investors: Eurazeo, ADEME Investissement, Cléry, Family Office Schmidt, Technofounders, F.A.M.M., Duval Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibaut Millet-Taunay
🗞️ News: Le Figaro


📇 Company: Khimod
🔍 Description: Heat Exchanger Reactors enhancing safety and efficiency in chemical synthesis for continuous production.
💻 Website: http://khimod-alcen.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €23M
🏦 Investors: BPI France, Audacia
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Serrie
🗞️ News: Fuel Cell Works

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📇 Company: ATAWEY
🔍 Description: Designs and manufactures turnkey autonomous energy solutions for isolated sites
💻 Website: atawey.com
📍 HQ City: Le Bourget-du-Lac
🧗 Round: Growth Equity VC
💰 Amount Raised: €22M
🏦 Investors: Starquest Capital, ARMOR GROUP, France 2030
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre-Jean Bonnefond, Jean-Michel Amare
🗞️ News: H2 Way


📇 Company: Skynopy
🔍 Description: End-to-end connectivity solutions for satellite operators in Low Earth Orbit
💻 Website: skynopy.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €15M
🏦 Investors: Alven, Omnes Capital, SpaceFounders
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Bertrand, Antonin Hirsch
🗞️ News: Maddyness


📇 Company: Bonx
🔍 Description: Next-generation ERP designed to drive the growth of industrial SMBs
💻 Website: bonx.tech
📍 HQ City: Toulouse
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €7.82M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Purple, Dynamo VC, OSS Ventures, 9900 Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Charles-Henry Rouaud, Rémi Bèges, Alexandre Barroux
🗞️ News: EU Startups


📇 Company: Kerys Software
🔍 Description: Software editor providing secure virtualization tools to mutualize hardware
💻 Website: kerys.software
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €6.2M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Seedcamp, Daphni, Nicolas Steegmann, Amirhossein Malekzadeh, Sebastien Pahl, Backtrace Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bastien Domergue, Thomas Girard
🗞️ News: Beamstart


📇 Company: Massive Dynamic
🔍 Description: AI-powered SaaS suite designed to automate digital marketing operations across SEO, Google Ads, and Meta platforms
💻 Website: https://massivedynamic.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Founders Future, Motier Ventures, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Zakaria Ghandi, Mehdi Bouchenak
🗞️ News: EU Startups


📇 Company: RainPath
🔍 Description: Revolutionizing human tissue analysis through AI, no chemical staining, faster, clearer, more reliable.
💻 Website: https://www.rainpath.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.5m (including €0.1m debt)
🏦 Investors: Teampact Ventures, Épopée Gestion, The Quest, Advans Lab, Sharpstone, Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mel Landelle
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: Cosma
🔍 Description: Develops AUV swarms for seabed mapping and environmental monitoring
💻 Website: cosma.tech
📍 HQ City: Nice
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.5M
🏦 Investors: 50 Partners, Caisse d’Epargne, Ifremer, Wind, Ternel
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean Galinowski, Frédéric Mittaine
🗞️ News: Tech.eu


📇 Company: Webyn
🔍 Description: SaaS platform that automates user experience optimization with AI. Its no-code technology analyzes user behavior, generates real-time UX improvements, and boosts website performance.
💻 Website: webyn.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Pre-Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €2.7M
🏦 Investors: Tomcat Venture, Sharpstone Capital, Sphere Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Vincent Oliveira, Alexandre Farhat
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: MovaLife
🔍 Description: Develops microrobotics and microfluidics technology to automate and simplify the IVF process
💻 Website: https://www.mova.life/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.6M
🏦 Investors: Kadmos Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Éric Lameignère, Edison Gerena
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: E-Sensia
🔍 Description: Real medical data-driven company, powered by AI, providing voice-based automated assistance services to health-care businesses.
💻 Website: https://e-sensia.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5m
🏦 Investors: Business Angels (Sylvain Gariel, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Jeremy Blackwell)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean-Baptiste PERNEY, Cédric THOMA
🗞️ News: LinkedIn


📇 Company: Optitus PV
🔍 Description: Develops organic photovoltaic cells in the form of adhesive and flexible films called EnergyskinTM.
💻 Website: https://optipus-pv.com/
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5m
🏦 Investors: Business Angels, Bpifrance, SATT Sud-Est, Agrinergia, BADGE
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Duché, Jörg Ackermann, Benoît Bailliart, Olivier Margeat
🗞️ News: PR


📇 Company: Dream On Technology
🔍 Description: Cybersecurity solutions simplifying crisis management with global compliance and effective emergency response.
💻 Website: https://www.dream-on.tech/
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.3m (including €0.1m debt)
🏦 Investors: HUB612, CCI Capital Croissance, Ignitera Capital, Business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Cedric Matharan, Mikael Masson
🗞️ News: Startup Corner


📇 Company: Diago
🔍 Description: Intelligent voice assistant for automotive distribution professionals
💻 Website: https://www.diago.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Groupement des Concessionnaires Automobiles Peugeot (GCAP)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Guillaume Couzy, Pierre de Boisred
🗞️ News: Auto Infos


📇 Company: Bluedigo
🔍 Description: A circular economy platform offering refurbished office furniture to support sustainable and responsible office design
💻 Website: bluedigo.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Undisclosed private investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ronan de Boisboissel, Adrien de Boisboissel
🗞️ News: Bluedigo Press Release


📇 Company: Olimpe Technology
🔍 Description: Develops Innovative Water Online Electrolysis Technology for Ecological Disinfection.
💻 Website: http://olimpe-technology.com/
📍 HQ City: La Rochelle
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Newfund, Impactivist
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Stephane Leyssale
🗞️ News: CFNEWS


📇 Company: Wallace Technologies
🔍 Description: Alternative energy storage solution
💻 Website: wallace-technologies.com
📍 HQ City: Clermont-Ferrand
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.16M
🏦 Investors: Saint-Etienne Business Angels 42
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benjamin Dupas, Pauline Chanin Lambert
🗞️ News: Le Progrés


📇 Company: The QA Company
🔍 Description: Develops QAnswer, a QA system over knowledge graphs
💻 Website: qanswer.ai
📍 HQ City: Saint-Étienne
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €0.05M
🏦 Investors: Saint-Etienne Business Angels 42
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Maret
🗞️ News: Le Progré

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