AI — Deep Dives
Growl's AI Boxing Bag Delivers A Knockout Fitness Experience
A pair of French entrepreneurs in Texas have launched Growl, a connected fitness startup that reimagines the traditional boxing bag as an AI-powered, interactive home coach. As the company moves towards commercialization, CEO and co-founder Léo Desrumaux explains the vision.
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La Machine #52: Adopt AI...Or Else!
Adopt AI turned the Grand Palais into a deep-freeze cathedral of lusty futuristic dreamers with 25,000 builders, CEOs, and policymakers chasing the next wave of AI use cases. Beyond the buzzwords: Macron’s sovereignty push, mega-funding shivers, and Europe’s push to compete. Brrrrr! #SnowMiser
Ethiqais: Building a European AI Champion the Ethical Way
A frosty Grand Palais, a flurry of AI buzzwords, and one startup quietly redefining Europe’s tech future. Meet Ethiqais: the ethical, sovereign, quietly-ferocious AI governance team you’ll soon be hearing a lot more about.
La Machine #51 | 50 Shades Of Sovereignty: Macron, Merz & A Franco-German AI Love Story
The Franco-German digital summit delivers a sovereignty-themed AI rom-com. Voice AI surges as GetVocal lands $26M for human-agentic voice agents. Volta raises €11M to drag B2B into the digital era.
Can Volta Bring B2B Commerce Out Of The Stone Age with AI?
While B2C perfected one-click buying, B2B distributors still swim in PDFs and Excel sheets. French-Italian startup Volta just raised €11M to change that. Fast.
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🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: AI Agents Putting A Smile On Dentists' Faces
Members of the Doctolib mafia have a new startup, La Fraise, that dentists and their patients can't refuse. We're looking over a new Future of Work fund called Clover. Revaia takes the ESG pulse. And Jolt is raising a €1B fund to make startup rhinoceroses a thing.
Ex-Doctolib Team Deploys AI Agents To Fix France's Dysfunctional Dental System
La Fraise recently raised €3.2M to boost the nation's low quote acceptance rate by using AI to create greater transparency for recommended procedures.
Spotlight Interview: Hugo Mendes, Co-Founder of New Future of Work VC Fund Clover
Meet the evergreen VC for the Future of work that wants to re-write VC the rulebook.
La Machine #52: Adopt AI...Or Else!
Adopt AI turned the Grand Palais into a deep-freeze cathedral of lusty futuristic dreamers with 25,000 builders, CEOs, and policymakers chasing the next wave of AI use cases. Beyond the buzzwords: Macron’s sovereignty push, mega-funding shivers, and Europe’s push to compete. Brrrrr! #SnowMiser