Hexa CEO: Charting A Course Through AI's Storm
Matthieu Gombeaud: "We must completely rethink the way we are building companies."
Deep Dives
Wealth Tax Smackdown: Zucman vs. Aghion Sparks Fireworks at FDday
Founders and economists clashed at FDday’s grand finale as Gabriel Zucman defended his global wealth tax blueprint against Philippe Aghion’s warnings about stifling innovation and forcing AI champions abroad, igniting one of the event’s most heated debates yet.
French Start-ups Navigate Turbulence as Growth Slows Despite Resilient Job Creation
French start-ups navigate choppy waters as VC funding plummets 24% while employment surges 11.5%. The 2025 Barometer from France Digitale and EY reveals an ecosystem transitioning from growth-at-all-costs to sustainable profitability amid mounting political and economic headwinds.
Inside Kyron.bio’s Bold Bet to Rewrite the Rules of Antibody Drug Design
For all the buzz around antibody therapies, one overlooked culprit keeps holding them back: sugars. Paris-based Kyron.bio is tackling the hidden complexity of glycosylation — the way sugars attach to therapeutic proteins — with a platform that promises safer, longer-lasting drugs.
As U.S. Slashes $500M in mRNA Funding, Bordeaux Biotech bYoRNA Raises €1.5M to Reinvent RNA Production
bYoRNA is developing a patented fermentation process that could cut RNA production costs by 100x, improve safety, and enable global access to next-generation vaccines and therapies. This breakthrough comes as the U.S. is rejecting mRNA, a move that complicates the startup's business strategy.
Photonic Chip Startup Arago Wants to Cut AI's Massive Energy Appetite by 90%
A year-old French company claims its light-powered processors could slash data center power consumption while keeping warehouse robots running all day instead of just one hour.
Hugging Face’s $299 Reachy Mini Signals A New Era In Personal Robotics
The AI powerhouse wants to bring robotics to the masses with its modular, open-source, and AI-integrated approach. By democratizing robotics, the company aims to spark a new wave of accessible hardware innovation.
From Innovation to Adaptation: Rethinking Sustainability For Resilient Cities
VivaTech 2025 put the spotlight on the ways climate risks are forcing cities to prioritize new approaches to green design. The goal: future-proof urban life for the next generation.
France And Europe Caught In H1 2025 Global VC Slump
French startups raised $3.5 billion in the first six months. That's on par with the last six months of 2024. But it's down sharply from $4.4 billion raised in the first half of 2024.
How Tilt Energy Uses AI to Cut Power Costs and Emissions by Optimizing Grid Flexibility
The startup wants to transform how France manages electricity demand with AI-powered software that enables flexible energy use to avoid costly infrastructure upgrades. Tilt recently raised a €5M seed round led by Daphni to accelerate its development.
Skeepers: Building a European SaaS Powerhouse with American Capital
As many SaaS startups tighten their belts, Skeepers is a case study in how Private Equity can drive cross-border consolidation and pragmatic growth. Its bet on Europe’s slower adoption of user-generated content tools may not yet be proven, but it’s a strategy worth watching.
VivaTech 2025: Mistral AI Gets Cozy With NVIDIA
CEO Arthur Mensch: “The race is not over. Europe is not late. We just needed the right tools—and now we have them.”
VivaTech 2025: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang On Robots, Quantum Computing, And AI Revolution
The CEO set the tone for the mega-tech conference with his focus on next-generation computing, robotics demos, and major French partnerships in a wide-ranging keynote.
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.
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.
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.