How Constellation Will Challenge Starlink In The Communication Space Race
Constellation Technologies wants to partner with operators to offer space-based internet to help them compete with the SpaceX service.
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🤖 La Machine #33: How GenAI Made Figma Dump Its Roadmap 🤖
Cathay Innovation launches a €1B AI fund; Macron inks a France–Singapore AI pact; Capgemini, Mistral & SAP join forces on GenAI for regulated sectors; Hugging Face unveils humanoid robots; and Mistral rolls out powerful new tools for code and agents.
French Tech Funding Wire May 30: Solveo Energie, Quobly, Amplitude Studios & More!
Other startups that raised a round between May 26 and May 30 include: Hemerion Therapeutics, Kyron.bio, Dastra, Ecomer, Novem, and Danim. Plus: TreeFrog Therapeutics and Ankar.
Figma's CPO On Navigating The GenAI Revolution: 'It's A Very Dynamic Landscape.'
Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita discusses how the design company abandoned its traditional planning process to build AI-powered products as it adapts to the rapid evolution of GenAI capabilities.
🇫🇷 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.
Didask Raises €10M to Reinvent Corporate Learning with AI and Cognitive Science
Didask just raised €10M to revamp the world of corporate training and make e-learning actually work. With AI that thinks like a teacher (not a robot) and lessons that stick, the French startup is out to prove that real learning beats pretty slides every time.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Will Diamond Dreams Power The Future?
DiamFab bets big on diamond semiconductors to power EVs and clean energy, Paris overtakes London as Europe’s top startup hub, 300 orgs push for digital sovereignty, Maya Noël honored for tech advocacy, and Veesion leads funding with a €38M AI theft detection raise.
Diamond Dreams: How DiamFab Plans to Revolutionize Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy
A pioneering startup is harnessing synthetic diamonds to revolutionize power electronics. With unmatched thermal and voltage properties, DiamFab aims to outperform silicon carbide, accelerating EVs, renewables, and the global energy transition.
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.
VSORA: The French AI Chipmaker Taking on NVIDIA with High-Performance, Cost-Efficient AI Hardware
Backed by €40 million in funding, CEO Khaled Maalej believes the company is set to disrupt the AI hardware market with its Jotunn8 chip, leveraging a fabless model and advanced chiplet architecture to slash the cost of deploying large language models and generative AI at scale.
French Tech Funding Wire May 16: Tinubu Square, Orasio, Riverse & More!
Other startups that raised a round between May 12 and May 16 include: Plakar, Alta Ares, and Legapass.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Dero’s Mission to Transform France’s Circular Economy
Devialet faces severe financial losses, while Alice & Bob plans a $50M quantum lab. Younited acquires eco-friendly neobank Helios, and BlaBlaCar expands into train ticket sales.