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• Biggest Round: GenoMines leads with €41.85M (Series A), followed by La Fourche (€31.5M) and Finary (€25M).
• Sector Diversity: biotech (Tafalgie, GenoMines), fintech (Finary, Defacto, Seyna, Eyst), climate/agritech (Les Nouvelles Fermes, ORIS), healthtech (ROFIM, Juisci), and mobility (Load Stations, alltheway, Carsup).
• Geographic Focus: Almost all are headquartered in Paris, except for Marseille-based Tafalgie & ROFIM, Bordeaux-based Les Nouvelles Fermes, and Claix-based Moïz.

📇 Company: GenoMines
🔍 Description: Enhances plants’ natural biology to renewably mine nickel
💻 Website: genomines.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: US$45 million
🏦 Investors: Engine Ventures, Forbion BioEconomy (co-leads), DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Wind, Hyundai Motor Company, Teampact Ventures, Prospect Innovation, Raise Phiture, AlphaTech Investment Group; also Lowercarbon Capital, Entrepreneurs First, Elemental Impact, Salida B.V.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Fabien Koutchekian, Dali Rashid
🗞️ News: The funding will be used to scale up field trials, establish offtake agreements with automakers (e.g. Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover) and battery manufacturers, and further validate the company’s phytoextraction process using genetically enhanced hyperaccumulator plants. Their vision is to create a new, lower-environmental-impact way to supply nickel, with cost competitiveness: their process claims up to ~40% below the median cost in traditional mining. |AgFunderNews, Sifted

📇 Company: La Fourche
🔍 Description: Online organic supermarket offering discounted prices via annual membership, aiming to democratize access to sustainable and affordable bio products.
💻 Website: lafourche.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Growth (post-Series B)
💰 Amount Raised: €31.5M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance (Large Venture), Astanor, existing investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Lucas Lefebvre, Mathieu Lebrun, Nathan Labat
🗞️ News: La Fourche plans to use the €31.5M funding to accelerate its path to profitability by strengthening logistics, optimizing operations, and expanding its range of organic and sustainable products. The company also intends to invest in technological improvements to enhance customer experience and support its growth ambitions while keeping prices accessible. | Maddyness

📇 Company: Finary
🔍 Description: Fintech offering a real-time, consolidated view of personal wealth across bank accounts, investments, loans, and alternative assets, with AI-powered tools to optimize portfolio management.
💻 Website: finary.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €25M
🏦 Investors: PayPal Ventures, LocalGlobe, Shapers, Hedosophia, Speedinvest, Y Combinator
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mounir Laggoune, Julien Blancher
🗞️ News: Finary plans to use the €25M Series B funding to accelerate its European expansion, launch new financial products, and strengthen its AI-powered wealth management tools. The company also intends to recruit around 50 new employees and aims to surpass €5B in assets under management within the next three years. | Les Echos, Maddyness, EU Startups

📇 Company: Vizzia
🔍 Description: The first anti-wild deposits detector in France (detecting illegal waste dumps via AI, camera systems etc.)
💻 Website: vizzia.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €16 million
🏦 Investors: SISTAFUND, Made for All, plus business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Katrin Dimitrova, Alexandre Leboucher
🗞️ News: Vizzia will use the €16M to strengthen its commercial presence across France and prepare for expansion into Germany, the UK, Spain, and Italy. The company also plans to invest in maintaining its technological lead while keeping a “low-tech” approach that ensures compliance with European regulations and sovereignty over infrastructure. In the longer term, Vizzia aims to develop software enabling inter-municipal cooperation to tackle incivilities and petty crime. | Maddyness

📇 Company: Defacto
🔍 Description: API-first B2B lending/credit infrastructure for SMEs
💻 Website: getdefacto.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: 16M in the main Series A round in 2022.
🏦 Investors: Citi, Northzone, Global Founders Capital, Headline, La Maison Partners, Blast Club
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jordane Giuly; Morgan O’Hana; Marc-Henri Gires
🗞️ News: The funds are to increase Defacto’s lending capacity (i.e. how much credit it can extend) by about €400 million. They also plan to expand geographically into several European markets: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain. Additionally, there’s been work to scale its securitization fund (raising & structuring assets) to enable more financing capacity (e.g. a €300M securitization, etc.). | FrenchWeb

📇 Company: Tafalgie Therapeutics
🔍 Description: Biotech company developing non-opioid pain treatments (based on endogenous proteins/peptides)
💻 Website: tafalgie.fr
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Series A / EIC Accelerator funding etc.
💰 Amount Raised: €15M (including support from EIC)
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; European Innovation Council; others (university spin-outs, etc.)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Laurent Labatut, Eric Schettini (plus scientific leadership via Aziz Moqrich)
🗞️ News: TAFALGIE Therapeutics plans to use the €12 million Series A funding to advance its lead drug candidate, TT5, derived from the TAFA4 protein peptide, through Phase 2A clinical trials. Additionally, the company will develop two more drug candidates from its research platform, expand its internal research and clinical teams, and build out a discovery platform focused on creating non-opioid treatments for acute, chronic, neuropathic, inflammatory, and post-operative pain | EU Startups

📇 Company: Seyna
🔍 Description: Insurance-platform + product management for brokers; licensed as an insurance carrier (non-life) in France
💻 Website: seyna.eu
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €10 million
🏦 Investors: Elaia Partners, White Star Capital, 115k
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Guillaume d’Audiffret, Philippe Mangematin, Jean Nicolini
🗞️ News: The money will support Seyna's “Horizon 2027” plan: building more customized insurance products, improving pricing competitiveness, and enhancing technological capabilities—especially using AI and automation to improve product monitoring and reduce manual workflows. They also intend to scale up their platform to handle more insurance portfolios, strengthen their position with brokers, and expand internationally (notably in Spain and Germany). | Maddyness

📇 Company: ROFIM
🔍 Description: Telemedicine platform offering teleconsultation, tele-expertise, and care coordination
💻 Website: rofim.fr
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €10.00M
🏦 Investors: Buenavista Equity Partners, Orange Ventures, Région Sud Investissement, Buena Vista Capital, Banque des Territoires, Capital & Innovation by Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emilie Mercadal
🗞️ News: The money will be used to accelerate the coordination of care via its SaaS telemedicine platform, which combines teleexpertise, multidisciplinary consultations (RCP), teleconsultation, secure messaging and medical imaging, all interoperable with hospital systems. ROFIM aims to expand more strongly across Europe — targeting markets such as Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK — while also increasing its technical capacities, in particular with semantic AI to provide more contextualized analyses of medical cases. Internally, the startup also plans to scale up its team (with a goal of ~50 employees by end-2025) and improve its infrastructure so as to support a growing user base of health professionals and institutions. | Les Echos

📇 Company: Carsup
🔍 Description: Concierge services for vehicle maintenance, restoration, and sales support
💻 Website: carsup.io
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €7.00M
🏦 Investors: Frederic Lasnier
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Samuel Lelarge
🗞️ News: The funding, which includes investment from the Ferrari and Pastor families, will be used to expand Carsup’s network by launching a franchise model of its luxury car-concierge services, especially across France and Europe. In particular, they aim to open around 20 new franchised conciergeries by the end of 2026, in key cities such as Nantes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, La Rochelle or Versailles, to meet rising demand from owners of high-end, performance or vintage automobiles. | Forbes France

📇 Company: Les Nouvelles Fermes
🔍 Description: Agritech company that specializes in urban aquaponics farming — a sustainable system that combines fish farming (aquaculture) with hydroponic vegetable production.
💻 Website: https://www.lesnouvellesfermes.com/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5.0M
🏦 Investors: Starquest Capital, MAIF Impact, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thomas Boisserie
🗞️ News: Les Nouvelles Fermes plans to use the €5 million in funding to build the largest aquaponics farm in Europe in Carrières-sous-Poissy, spanning 2 hectares, producing 240 tons of vegetables and 60 tons of rainbow trout per year for local distribution. The funding will also support the creation of about 20 jobs in 2026 and help the company expand its network of urban aquaponics farms across France.

📇 Company: Load Stations
🔍 Description: Operator of electric vehicle charging stations and developer of “Load Motion,” a supervision software for managing charging points, covering home, business, and mobility charging with consumption tracking.
💻 Website: load-stations.com
📍 HQ City: Nîmes, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.2 million
🏦 Investors: Business angels, Crédit Agricole (innovation branch), and Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Virgile Arène, Paul Flatry
🗞️ News: The funding will be used to accelerate R&D, expand the team, and scale commercialization of Load Stations’ solutions, particularly targeting companies and local authorities. | Les Echos

📇 Company: Juisci
🔍 Description: SaaS making scientific journals and publications more accessible, digestible, and shareable within healthcare
💻 Website: juisci.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €4.00M
🏦 Investors: Big Pi Ventures, Ring Capital, Wendel, Colloquium Brussels, Super Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Robin Roumengas, David Luu
🗞️ News: Thecompany plans to use the €5.5 million seed funding to strengthen its R&D, expand its team, and push for international growth, with a particular focus on entering the American market. Juisci’s goal is to build a science-specialised AI trained exclusively on scientific publications so that medical professionals, hospitals and labs can access reliable, clear, and fast summaries, infographics, podcasts or videos integrated into a mobile interface. | FrenchWeb

📇 Company: alltheway
🔍 Description: Helping people to rotate their CSS code
💻 Website: alltheway.io
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.50M
🏦 Investors: Innovacom, Groupe ADP, CDG Invest
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Anouar Zbaida, Émilie Gazeau, Julien de Colfmacker
🗞️ News: Alltheway plans to scale up its off-airport baggage platform so that travelers can drop off their luggage at hotels, city-centers, or train stations and then track its journey to the airport, reducing friction and stress during trips. | PR

📇 Company: Temelion
🔍 Description: AI solutions (details not provided)
💻 Website: temelion.ai
📍 HQ City: Les Ulis
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.20M
🏦 Investors: ISAI Gestion, Kima Ventures, 360 Capital, SE Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Rodolphe Héliot, Jérome Joaug, Sébastien Gilles
🗞️ News: Temelion will use the €3.2M seed funding to expand its engineering team and deepen AI capabilities for technical workflows, accelerate its commercial rollout in France with a focus on building engineering firms, and strengthen customer onboarding, support, and integrations with industry-standard tools like BIM and REVIT. | PR

📇 Company: Moodwork
🔍 Description: Paris-based mental health startup offering AI-driven digital tools to prevent workplace stress and burnout. Its platform combines scientific research, psychological support, and AI-based personalization.
💻 Website: moodwork.com
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Funding round (undisclosed stage)
💰 Amount Raised: €3.1M
🏦 Investors: Newfund, Grégory Salinger (Co-CEO), Guy Lacroix, Alain Dublin
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benjamin Brion (Co-founder, Co-CEO), Grégory Salinger (Co-CEO)
🗞️ News: Moodwork plans to use the €3.1M funding to accelerate the development of its AI-driven workplace mental health platform, strengthen its presence in France, and expand internationally. The company will also invest in enhancing its technology and scaling its support services to better address workplace stress and burnout. | Tech.eu

📇 Company: Moïz
🔍 Description: Produces autonomous sensors that are powered by thermal energy harvesting.
💻 Website: https://moiz-eh.com/
📍 HQ City: Claix
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.0m
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, Caisse d'Epargne Rhone Alpes, Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes, BNP Paribas
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Dimitri Tainoff, Hervé Deslandes, Olivier Bourgeois
🗞️ News: The company will use the money to launch its first product, which consists of modules that recover lost heat in industrial infrastructures. | Brefeco

📇 Company: ORIS Materials Intelligence
🔍 Description: Developer of a cloud-based platform using AI, data science, and engineering to design low-carbon, resource-efficient, and climate-resilient transport infrastructures such as roads and railways.
💻 Website: oris-connect.com
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: LIBERSET
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Miravalls (Co-founder & CEO), Renaud de Montaignac (Co-founder & COO)
🗞️ News: Oris Materials Intelligence will use the €3M funding to accelerate the deployment of its AI-driven platform in France, enhance its technology to support the decarbonization of infrastructure projects, and expand its team. The company also plans to strengthen partnerships with public authorities and private stakeholders to drive adoption of low-carbon and resource-efficient transport infrastructure solutions. | FrenchWeb

📇 Company: 10%
🔍 Description: A real-time data platform reinventing FMCG brand loyalty by removing intermediaries, enabling brands to collect, visualize, and activate receipt-level data while rewarding consumers through a cashback app.
💻 Website: 10pourcent.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.4M
🏦 Investors: Speedinvest (lead), True, Fund F, Kima Ventures, Techmind VC, and several angel investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Clémence Luc, Max Lemasquerier
🗞️ News: The funding will allow 10% to expand its team, enhance its real-time data platform, and accelerate partnerships with FMCG brands. The company aims to scale its cashback app, strengthen customer engagement, and support brands in collecting and activating receipt-level data without intermediaries. | True Global

📇 Company: Eyst Technology
🔍 Description: French insurtech providing a SaaS platform that transforms the insurance experience with instant virtual payment cards, eliminating upfront costs for policyholders and enabling insurers to process claims more efficiently and securely.
💻 Website: eyst.io
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.4M
🏦 Investors: Paris Business Angels (lead), other business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arnaud Brodzki (CEO, Co-founder)
🗞️ News: Eyst Technology will use the €1.4M funding to accelerate its product roadmap (including cashback features, system integration, and data intelligence), strengthen its Sales and Data teams, and prepare for international expansion across Europe, the USA, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. | Paris Business Angels

📇 Company: Load Stations
🔍 Description: A French startup (founded in 2022, based in Nîmes) deploying and managing electric vehicle charging stations + offering a real-time supervision & management software (SaaS) for charging infrastructure. Their clients include businesses, local authorities, public operators, and utilities.
💻 Website: Load-Stations
📍 HQ City: Nîmes, France
🧗 Round: Seed / Early stage
💰 Amount Raised: €1.2 million
🏦 Investors: Business angels; Bpifrance; Crédit Agricole; innovation branches of public/private institutions.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Virgile Arène, Paul Flatry
🗞️ News: Le Journal des Entreprises, Forbes France, Les Echos