
CES 2025: French Invasion Includes Connected Objects, AI, and Robots
The love affair between France and CES continues with the latest edition of the trade show in Vegas.
The love affair between France and CES continues with the latest edition of the trade show in Vegas.
After a rocky 2024, we take the pulse of France's VC community for 2025.
Business France took a delegation of 110 startups to the Mega Conference in Las Vegas. Here is the full list of startups participating.
Startups that raised from Dec. 23. to Jan. 10: CyGO Entrepreneurs, AYDO, rBlox, Hexalean, Data Inceptio, Mirabelle, Evergaz, SkyVisor, Coave Therapeutics, Spareka, Matchers, DeepHawk, and VBTech.
The year saw exceptional momentum in France's AI ecosystem -- and warnings of the challenges ahead.
Also in this edition: Trace for Good wants to revolutionize traceability and ESG.
Qwant CEO Olivier Abecassis: "We believed – and we still believe – that with GenAI some opportunities would appear if can find the right combination of technology and experience. [Now] we have a shareholder who is willing to fund that work."
Co-founder Léa Gillet: “If you change what people see in terms of product information, you change how they buy."
French startups that raised money the week of December 16 to December 20 also include HALIAS Technologies, Annette, Meet My Mama, Alvie, Terakalis, RMAN Sync, Little John, HomeCycle, and Vibly.
In this week's edition: Aqemia is using GenAI to reinvent drug discovery; Yampa is deploying AI agents to fix customer service.
Yampa raised €3M to transform customer service with autonomous AI agents.
Aqemia's Novel Approach to Drug Discovery Attracts €30M in New Funding
In this edition: How AgTech Elicit Plants wants to become a global biotech friend for farmers. InterCloud files for bankruptcy. And Klaxoon exits to a U.S. company after its international expansion sputtered.
Following its recent €45 million funding round, the company wants to become a global leader in helping farmers with climate adaptation.
French startups that raised money the week of December 9 to December 13 also include Yampa, Ecosystem Restoration Standard, Biomemory, Syroco, Wecasa, Growl, Bsport, DashBook, Uptale, Bitstack, DFNS, Artifeel, and Glyss.
In this week's edition: A look at efforts by Probabl.ai and Cathay Innovation to address the competitive AI gap between Europe and the U.S.