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📇 Company: GravitHy
🔍 Description: A Marseille-based company specializing in the production of low-carbon iron for the clean steel sector, aiming to decarbonize the steel industry through innovative processes.
💻 Website: https://gravithy.eu/
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Roun: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €60 million
🏦 Investors: Japan Hydrogen Fund (advised by Advantage Partners); Marcegaglia; Ecolab (via Nalco Dutch Holding); Rio Tinto; Siemens; Engie New Ventures; InnEnergy
👨💼👩💼 Funders: José Noldin (CEO)
🗞️ News: EU Startups
📇 Company: RockFi
🔍 Description: French fintech redefining private wealth management by combining personalized service from independent private bankers with a proprietary digital platform offering comprehensive investment solutions and real-time asset reporting.
💻 Website: https://www.rockfi.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €18 million
🏦 Investors: Partech (lead); Varsity; Arthur Waller and Félix Blossier (Pennylane); Mark Ransford (ex-Apax); BAs
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Marin, Marie Bedu, Maxime Durand; Stéphane Carles, Vincent Pagny
🗞️ News: Forbes
📇 Company: Epsor
🔍 Description: Transforming employee savings and retirement plans in France
💻 Website: https://www.epsor.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €16 million
🏦 Investors: ISALT, Revaia, BlackFin Capital Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Julien Niquet, Benjamin Pedrini
🗞️ News: Revaia
📇 Company: DeepIP
🔍 Description: A Franco-American AI startup revolutionizing the patent drafting process through an AI-powered platform designed to enhance, not replace, the work of intellectual property attorneys.
💻 Website: https://www.deepip.ai/
📍 HQ City: New York, USA & Paris, France
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: $15 million
🏦 Investors: Resonance; Headline (investor in Mistral AI); Serena Capital (investor in Dataiku); Balderton Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: François-Xavier Leduc; Edouard d'Archimbaud
🗞️ News: Business Insider
📇 Company: Opsima
🔍 Description: Developed a proprietary algorithm that optimizes the way companies buy resources from public cloud providers
💻 Website: https://opsima.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1 million
🏦 Investors: Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, Source Ventures, Super Capital, Neo Founders
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Louis Raynaud, Alexandre Lacroux
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: Neold
🔍 Description: Platform for the purchase, reconditioning and resale of electric bicycles and a range of B2B and B2C services.
💻 Website: https://neold.fr/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1 million
🏦 Investors: Skalepark, Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibault Penicau
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: Jool
🔍 Description: Electric vehicle rental platform
💻 Website: https://www.jool.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1 million (including €100k in debt)
🏦 Investors: Cenitz, 50 Partners Capital, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thomas Ceccaldi, Vincent Farines
🗞️ News: PR (PDF)
📇 Company: CR-Industry
🔍 Description: Offers mobility solutions for farmers via its “Tract’Moi” brand.
💻 Website: https://tractmoi.com/
📍 HQ City: Cugand
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €750K
🏦 Investors: ABAB - Atlantique Business Angels Booster, Pays de la Loire Participations, Business Angels, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole Atlantique Vendee, France Active Pays de la Loire et du programme Vendée Croissance.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: BAPTISTE CORM, Clovis RICHARD
🗞️ News: LinkedIn·
📇 Company: Luchrome
🔍 Description: Next generation of ultra-low-energy displays
💻 Website: http://luchrome.com/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €700k
🏦 Investors: Techno'Start, Les Business Angels des Grandes Ecoles, Arts et Métiers Business Angels, Femmes Business Angels, private BAs, Bpifrance, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Cyril PERIE, Romain Futsch
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: Anemon
🔍 Description: SMS e-learning platform
💻 Website: https://anemon.co
📍 HQ City: Lannion
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €200k
🏦 Investors: Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Fleur-Eve Durin Le Foll
📇 Company: BuyCo
🔍 Description: A French company offering a collaborative digital platform for container shipping management, designed to optimize booking, shipment, and tracking processes for large importers and exporters.
💻 Website: https://buyco.co
📍 HQ City: Marseille, France
🧗 Round: Undisclosed
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance (via its maritime industry decarbonization fund); GO CAPITAL (Impact Océan Capital); Banque Populaire du Sud (Sud Mer Invest)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Carl Lauron (CEO & Founder)
🗞️ News: Fusacq
