🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Remain Calm...Or Time To Panic?
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?
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French Tech Funding Collapse: Time To Panic?
In Q1 2025, startup funding hit a 7-year low. We talk to 2 prominent VCs to unpack the trend.
New French AI Company Radar: March 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
French Tech Funding Wire March 28: GravitHy, RockFi, Epsor & More!
Startups that raised from March 24 to March 28 also include: DeepIP, Opsima, Neold, Jool, CR-Industry, Luchrome, Anemon, and BuyCo.
🤖 La Machine #24: Inside FlexAI's Ambitions 🤖
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
FlexAI: Pioneering Universal AI Compute 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.
🇫🇷 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.
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.