🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Oh, Good Grief! The Great Funding Famine Deepens
VC funding remains in freefall as French startups go hungry; MSInsight offers hope to the future of cancer detection; Yubo offers hope to companies that want to be profitable.
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MSInsight : Paving the Path towards Precision Oncology
CEO and co-founder Arnaud Dr. Cutivet: “MSI cancer cells are present in 4% of cancers, especially colorectal, stomach, and endometrial cancers. Early detection, particularly in colorectal cancer, means we can use immunotherapy effectively, potentially saving lives.”
How Yubo Achieved Profitability By Breaking Social Media's Ad Addiction
Yubo CEO and co-founder Sacha Lazimi: "The goal is to create authentic and meaningful new connections that are not based on followers or likes or comments."
🤖 La Machine #23: Silicon Valley's Protectionist AI Pivot Embraces Europe's Playbook 🤖
Mistral says no no no IPO; Meta AI invades Europe; Frenchies take a stand against data centers.
French Tech Funding Wire March 21: Dalma, Galam Robotics, Siteflow & More!
Startups that raised from March 1 7 to March 21 also include: Extracadabbra, Spring, Aletiq, Valuesed, Flagcat, Evera, OpenStone, Sharesub, and TheraPPI Bioscience.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Spy Games Feature Honeypots And Unicorns
Rippling asks: What's the Deel?; Descartes explains its climate risk philosophy; and the battle to protect the startup ecosystem from budget cuts rages on.
Descartes Underwriting: Doubling Down On Climate Risk As Insurance Industry Retreats
Chief Science Officer Kévin Dedieu: "AI represents between 2-5% of our tech investments. Next year, we’re increasing that by 10%, with more resources dedicated to AI and using it for our core models. The cost of AI is relatively low, but its impact is huge.”
Stealth AI Founders Of France: March Edition
What lurks behind 6 mysterious "Stealth" LinkedIn profiles? Our paid subscribers will know.
🤖 La Machine #22: French AI Shines Light on Microbes 🤖
Spore.bio wages germ-testing warfare; Wandercraft wins a prize for its AI exoskeleton; French publishers tell Meta where to stick its algorithms.
Spore.Bio's AI Slices Bacteria Testing From Days to Minutes
The startup has raised $31.3 million for its light-based AI technology to disrupt centuries-old testing methods across food, pharma, and cosmetics industries.
French Tech Funding Wire March 14: Ambos Energy, OpusMajor, Fizimed & More!
Startups that raised from March 10 to March 14 also include: Fizimed, DashBook, Ateliers HeritageBike, DrugOptimal, MSInsight, Beyond Green, NOIISE, and Sootenir.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Venus Williams Helps WeWard Take A Big Step 🎾
WeWard CEO Yves Benchimol serves up some lessons; Edumapper founders hit the repeat button; Deep Tech's annual checkup gets mixed results.
How WeWard Convinced Venus Williams To Put Her Money Where Your Feet Are
CEO Yves Benchimol: "She definitely understood how a startup works. She said, 'Okay, I want to be a shareholder of this company. I trust it in terms of its image and business. It can be huge, especially in the US and in terms of impact.'"
Seed Of The Week: Edumapper
Edumapper raised €5M just days after launching its website. Having a core of repeat founders helped make the case.
French AI Research: February Synthesis
Topics: AI-Generated Meteorological Risks, Bioethical challenges, How AI will impact women at work, and more.
🤖 La Machine #21: AI That Packs A Punch 🤖
Inside: Growl hopes its AI Boxing Bag will be a hit; the French army hops on the AI bandwagon; more AI events than you can shake a stick at.