News reports reinforce the US lead in startup funding; Pennylane CEO explains how AI and new regulations will drive the next wave of growth; France's Digital Minister criticizes US tech dominance.
Riding a new round of funding at a €2bn valuation, the 5-year-old fintech has already seen rapid growth. CEO Arthur Waller explains how new invoicing regulations and AI could catalyze the company's ambitions.
Startups lead the country’s AI adoption, while corporates lag behind; Germany and France remain divided over taxing US Big Tech but united behind the Eurostack initiative to build sovereign EU tech infrastructure; SeqOne acquired Paris-based Life-Soft to expand its genomic medicine platform.
CEO Geoffroy Martin: "We are in the middle of two revolutions, one which is purely within ad tech, which is that shift of privacy first and loss of signal on the open internet, which is going to be further accelerated and compounded by the very, very fast rise of AI."
Startups that raised from April 7 to April 4 also include: Okeiro, Klara, qevlar ai, Pyannote, Faume, Nowos, Diagnoly, Sim&Cure, Connektica, Goliaths.io, Poppins, Qperfect, Klaro, Ed AI, Monde Singulier, Lyzi, smartTrade Technologies, La Première Brique, and Ekoscan Integrity.
Fairmat Founder and CEO Ben Saada breaks down the Deep Tech company's strategy; France 2030 will still spend billions on innovation; Ÿnsect gets a stay of execution; funds are still closing -- and so are startups.
The Nantes-based Deep Tech startup just raised €51.5M in new financing. Founder and CEO Ben Saada explains the company's blueprint for scaling its industrial recycling solution.
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
Startups that raised from March 31 to April 4 also include: Ecoat, Fairly Made, Aquassay, Willow, Ma boîte à Moustique, Feedae, Spareka, Parallel, Tremau, Grace, Underdog, MaaT Pharma, Fairly Made, Ecoat, and WeeFin.
VCs talk funding famine; US is doing better, but not by much; exits are dead; Revaia closes its €250 fund; and what's the Deel with Rippling?
In Q1 2025, startup funding hit a 7-year low. We talk to 2 prominent VCs to unpack the trend.
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
Startups that raised from March 24 to March 28 also include: DeepIP, Opsima, Neold, Jool, CR-Industry, Luchrome, Anemon, and BuyCo.
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
Modern AI workloads were being forced to run on computing architectures designed decades ago. FlexAI wants to create a faster, more flexible system that enables rapid scaling.
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.
