Funding News: MadKudu, Dust Mobile, Pelico, Virgil, Waat
Waat led the week with a €30m funding round for its network of electric car charging stations.

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🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Fast Fashion Fight Fizzles
E-commerce bill gets watered down, Brussels rolls out startup reforms, Alan shakes up public health coverage, crypto kidnappings surge, OVNI raises €60M for weird startups, layoffs hit OpenClassrooms, and Bpifrance celebrates 10 years of big bets.

Fast Fashion: Is France’s New E-Commerce Law Ineffective?
As France prepares for a Senate vote on June 10, concerns mount over a weakened “fast fashion” bill. Once hailed as a bold step toward sustainable textiles, recent amendments risk undermining its impact and allowing ultra-fast fashion giants to continue unchecked.

🤖 La Machine #32: Can AI Make Corporate Training Not Suck? 🤖
Didask thinks so. Plus: France bags €17B in new foreign AI investments led by NVIDIA, Cisco, and Brookfield. PhotoRoom makes its first acquisition, Qubit & Sorbonne unveil a game-changing chemistry AI, and new funding floods into startups, including Veesion and Didask.
French Tech Funding Wire May 23: Veesion, Didask, Noota & More!
Other startups that raised a round between May 19 and May 23 include: SeqOne, Memority, Tilt Energy, TETMET, TamTam, Ensweet, PyxiScience, Feedgy, and Kumulus.