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📇 Company: Zefir
🔍 Description: French proptech startup reinventing property sales by enabling collective transactions among local agents, offering faster sales at better prices while preparing to launch "ZIA," an AI-powered virtual real estate agent.
💻 Website: https://www.zefir.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Equity round
💰 Amount Raised: €15M
🏦 Investors: FinTech Collective (lead), Sequoia Capital, Zigg Capital, Heartcore Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Rémy Fabre (Co-founder & CEO)
🗞️ News: The funding will support Zefir’s expansion into 15 more cities, the launch of its AI real estate agent ZIA, and doubling of its team while maintaining operational profitability on each transaction. | Maddyness

📇 Company: Koolboks
🔍 Description: Provides solar-powered freezers and refrigeration solutions designed to offer reliable, off-grid cold storage for households and businesses
💻 Website: koolboks.com
📍 HQ City: Rosny-sous-Bois
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €8.00M
🏦 Investors: KawiSafi Ventures, All On, Aruwa Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ayoola Dominic, Deborah Gael
🗞️ News: Koolboks will use the $11 million Series A financing—comprising equity, debt, and grant funding—to scale its solar‑powered, IoT‑enabled refrigeration systems across Africa and other emerging markets, while strengthening local manufacturing and expanding its team. These off‑grid, ice‑battery-powered units enable remote cooling for up to four days and support a pay‑as‑you‑go business model, empowering small businesses and clinics in underserved communities with affordable, reliable, and clean refrigeration. | Silicon Africa

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📇 Company: ArcaScience
🔍 Description: Double AI tool leveraging massive biomedical data, enriching it, and associating it with a simple querying and in-depth targeting & extraction tool
💻 Website: arcascience.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €6.00M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, Pleiade Venture, Plug and Play, Akka Technologies, The Moon Venture
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Romain Clement, Jean-François Arbona
🗞️ News: ArcaScience will use the capital to expand its AI-powered benefit-risk evaluation platform into the U.S. and U.K., while also launching its first patient-facing solution, initially focused on pediatric brain cancer and dermatological conditions, and hiring a Chief Medical Officer to drive clinical impact. | SiliconAngle

📇 Company: Weekera
🔍 Description: Automated payroll and HR software for accountants
💻 Website: weekera.fr
📍 HQ City: Nîmes
🧗 Round: Growth Equity VC
💰 Amount Raised: €6M
🏦 Investors: Hg Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Thirache, Remy Longueville, Stéphane Lecaillon
🗞️ News: Weekera will leverage the minority investment from Hg Capital to accelerate development of its SaaS payroll and HR platform—enhancing functionality, scaling its infrastructure, and bolstering customer support operations to meet growing demand from accounting firms. Additionally, the funding supports Weekera’s expansion plan, enabling it to open its solution to non‑partner accounting firms by the end of 2025 and thereby extend its commercial reach across the sector. | FrenchWeb

📇 Company: Alpic
🔍 Description: All-in-one MCP hosting platform for AI agents
💻 Website: alpic.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5.45M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Partech, Irregular Expressions, K5 Global, Yellow, Galion.exe, Drysdale Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Charles Sonigo, Erica Beavers, Nikolay Rodionov, Frédéric Barthelet
🗞️ News: Alpic intends to build the first MCP‑native cloud platform, empowering AI agents to seamlessly act on behalf of users—whether it’s booking travel, paying bills, automating enterprise workflows, or managing SaaS tools—by providing the infrastructure to deploy, manage, and scale these AI systems efficiently. | Alpic

📇 Company: Byome Labs
🔍 Description: A deep-tech startup developing Byome Derma, the world’s first instant, point-of-sale skin microbiome test. It delivers personalized skincare recommendations within minutes via dermatologist-trained AI using antigenic strips—no devices, no pain, and at a low cost. Integration is designed for retail environments in a white-label format, aiming to bring evidence-based customization to skincare.
💻 Website: byomelabs.com
📍 HQ City: Chartres
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.6 million
🏦 Investors: Remora Biotech, Paris Business Angels, Angels Santé
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Suissa
🗞️ News: The €3.6M will be used to industrialize production of the Byome Derma kits, with a target to begin industrial-scale manufacturing by the end of 2025 and expand internationally to Europe, the U.S., and Asia starting in 2026. Byome Labs also plans to strengthen its R&D team and open new positions beginning next year (2026). | Personal Care Magazine

📇 Company: Flagcat
🔍 Description: A Paris-based webtoon studio founded in 2023, creating original action and fantasy webtoon, manga, and anime series. The company has developed proprietary software that automates character coloring—enhancing production efficiency and artistic quality—while prioritizing its artists' well-being by redesigning the production workflow.
💻 Website: flagcat.studio
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.5 million
🏦 Investors: Led by Acurio Ventures (Bilbao-based VC managing a €150M fund), with participation from Motier Ventures, The Players Fund, Seedcamp, Society of Entertainment, and Kima Ventures (as one of several backers)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jeff Biart (CEO), Quentin Malguy (Co-founder), and Rémi Juhé (Co-founder)
🗞️ News: The funding will support scaling up production, enabling Flagcat to expand its team of around 20 artists and release six new series worldwide—including webtoons, manga, and anime—within the year. | Les Echos

📇 Company: VitaDX
🔍 Description: Specializes in AI applied to healthcare, focusing on bladder cancer diagnostics
💻 Website: vitadx.com
📍 HQ City: Rennes
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.50M
🏦 Investors: Go Capital, Odyssée Venture
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Allan Rodriguez
🗞️ News: VitaDX will use the funds to accelerate the commercial roll‑out of its AI‑powered VisioCyt® Bladder diagnostic solution in France—now that it has secured reimbursement—and to initiate its expansion into the U.S. market. The company is also undergoing a leadership transition, with Fabrice Beauchêne appointed as CEO to spearhead this growth phase, while co‑founder Allan Rodriguez transitions to become Chairman. | Fusacq

📇 Company: Rewayz
🔍 Description: Develops and deploys AI solutions to support managers
💻 Website: rewayz.com
📍 HQ City: Lille
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.30M
🏦 Investors: Thierry Mulliez, Jean-Michel Aulas, Damien Deleplanque (historic supporter)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Claire Godelle, Kamal Ait Ichou, Yassin Korchi
🗞️ News: Rewayz will accelerate both the development and deployment of its AI‑powered “coach in the pocket” solution for managers by expanding its technical and sales capabilities to meet growing demand. Additionally, the startup is preparing to scale internationally—targeting two to three new countries by the end of 2026—with an eye toward achieving profitability by summer 2026 | Fusacq

📇 Company: NeoEarth
🔍 Description: A Bordeaux-based deep-tech startup specializing in high-yield, environmentally friendly microalgae solutions. NeoEarth develops optimized microalgae strains and an innovative photobioreactor system that lowers production costs while depolluting aquatic environments. Their biotech platform targets industries such as nutrition, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, energy, aquaculture, and biomaterials by offering scalable, sustainable biomass and valuable biomolecules.
💻 Website: NeoEarth
📍 HQ City: Libourne
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.025 million
🏦 Investors: First Imagine! (UK), with participation from NewFund, TechMind, and Climate Club
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Saïd Ihammouine, Charles-Antoine Boels
🗞️ News: NeoEarth will industrialize its production capabilities: moving into a new laboratory in Canéjan (Gironde), acquiring advanced equipment, and expanding its team to accelerate market deployment of its ultra-productive microalgae strains. Additionally, plans include developing multiple molecule families in parallel, scaling industrial partnerships, and reinforcing scientific and business development teams. | French Tech Bordeaux

📇 Company: Santafoo
🔍 Description: The first delivery application of responsible races launched in the first forward in Marseille.
💻 Website: N/A
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Pre-Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €950,000
🏦 Investors: Crowdfunding via WiSeed
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Laurent SALET, Wassim Bassil
🗞️ News: After three years of successful tests in Marseille, the startup is ready to extend its model throughout the southeast of France, with national ambition. | WiSEED

📇 Company: Mocli
🔍 Description: Mocli puts the game at the service of customer experience in the hostels and at events. Our customers customise and independently drive their games via our platform. The visitor plays using his mobile while discovering the place, its offers and services.
💻 Website: Mocli
📍 HQ City: Strasbourg
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €690k (including €0.3m subsidies)
🏦 Investors: BPI France, Business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Sebastian Sörns, Cyril De Luca
🗞️ News: The company disclosed funding raised last Spring as well as some new hires. | LinkedIn

📇 Company: Molecular Simulation For All (MS4ALL)
🔍 Description: A research and development startup for new biotechnologies that make cities greener by addressing their problems of pollution, lack of greenery, and high energy consumption. To meet the growing needs for sustainable lighting and energy saving in cities, Woodlight is developing a process for making plants bioluminescent. These plants can be used as ambient lamps for interior decoration or a plant alternative to city streetlights.
💻 Website: https://ms4all.eu/
📍 HQ City: Orléans
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €400k
🏦 Investors: UI Investissement, Da Vinci Labs
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Edouard LETE, Nicolas FROLOFF, Pascal BRAULT
🗞️ News: LinkedIn

📇 Company: MagicPost
🔍 Description: AI assistant supporting content creation on LinkedIn
💻 Website: magicpost.in
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €0.26M (€260,000 in equity with nearly €430,000 in non-dilutive funding
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance grants and bank loan
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Naïlé Titah, Florence Vallet
🗞️ News: MagicPost will leverage the €260 000 in equity and ~€430 000 in non‑dilutive funds (including Bpifrance grants and a Banque Populaire loan) to accelerate its product development, expand its commercial team targeting agencies and enterprises, and ramp up its marketing efforts with influencer, SEO, and content strategies to fuel its international expansion. The startup aims to scale to approximately 20 employees over the next three years, push U.S. market penetration towards 60 % of its client base by 2027, and drive its growth trajectory toward becoming the global reference in AI-powered LinkedIn content creation. | Bourse Direct

📇 Company: ComicBot
🔍 Description: Conversational commerce chatbot for on-demand local delivery
💻 Website: m.me
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.11M
🏦 Investors: Y Combinator
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Prashant Pitti
🗞️ News: Joined the latest Y Combinator batch.

📇 Company: Stockline
🔍 Description: AI-powered alternative data platform for investment insights
💻 Website: stockline.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €0.11M
🏦 Investors: Y Combinator
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mariem Ould Ismail, Moncef Djafri
🗞️ News: Joined the latest Y Combinator batch.

📇 Company: Suzaku
🔍 Description: Decentralization hub for L1s, enhancing security and scalability through staking and validator marketplaces
💻 Website: suzaku.network
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: Avalanche Foundation
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Gilles Manuelle
🗞️ News: Suzaku will deploy the funds—raised through seed rounds, public token sales, and Avalanche Foundation grants—to enhance decentralization and security across the Avalanche Layer‑1 (L1) blockchain ecosystem by helping emerging L1 networks transition from centralized validator sets to fully permissionless models. The investment will expedite the development of its restaking protocol and validator marketplace infrastructure—including reference architectures, developer stacks, and security modules—to empower builders in scaling Avalanche L1s more securely and efficiently. | BitRss

📇 Company: Addvocate.ai
🔍 Description: Platform empowers teams to prepare effectively, execute smarter, and continuously improve by leveraging AI-driven recommendations, performance metrics, and tailored strategies.
💻 Website: addvocate.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: 216 Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Achref T., Sofyan Chekir
🗞️ News: Addvocate AI will accelerate innovation by enhancing its “Sales Performance OS”—an AI-native digital copilot that aggregates data and delivers behavioral nudges and actionable insights to boost sales productivity before, during, and after client meetings. It will also pursue international expansion from its dual hub in France and Tunisia, aiming to address pipeline stagnation affecting 35–50% of sales opportunities worldwide. | Wamda

📇 Company: FLUDIS
🔍 Description: Low-carbon urban logistics service solution for delivery and express shipping
💻 Website: fludis.eu
📍 HQ City: Verrières-le-Buisson
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €11M (+€10M debt)
🏦 Investors: Sogestran, ADEME Investissement
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Gilles Manuelle
🗞️ News: Advior

📇 Company: Kriptown
🔍 Description: Provides a simple, fast, and low-cost solution for startups to raise funds while reaching a broad investor base
💻 Website: kriptown.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: Caceis
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mathieu Esteve, Arnaud Mournetas, Jérémy Lachaud
🗞️ News: Kriptown will leverage this strategic backing to accelerate the launch of its Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange), aiming to become Europe’s first blockchain‑based tokenized exchange tailored to SME and mid‑cap equity financing and listings under the EU’s DLT pilot regime. This investment also strengthens governance and credibility for the initiative, aligning with CACEIS’s broader digital assets strategy supported by recent MiCA regulatory approval. | PR