July AI Funding 🚀: MicroPep, Apiday, OrusEnergy & More!
12 French AI-related companies raised a VC round in July: Cashbee, Spotlight Medical, D-Ice Engineering, Altrove, Presti, Scalingo, OrusEnergy, Pinpo.ai, Ubikap, and CogEngines
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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.
New French AI Company Radar: April 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
🤖 La Machine #31: France's AI David VSORA VS Chip Goliath NVIDIA 🤖
Dailymotion buys Mojo, a French AI-powered video creation app. Greenbids joins Perion Network for sustainable advertising. AI tracks surge on Deezer, while Atos unveils a €500M AI plan. Jean Zay supercomputer gets a power boost, and Le Monde partners with Perplexity AI.
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🤖 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.