
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Swile + Doctolib Pull Back The Financial Curtain
Poppins fresh €5m round to treat Dyslexia with a musical video game; Bpifrance CEO refuses to bend the regulatory knee.
Poppins fresh €5m round to treat Dyslexia with a musical video game; Bpifrance CEO refuses to bend the regulatory knee.
This special edition takes a Deep Dive into France's Defense Tech sector, a small but emerging market that is gaining attention and momentum as a wary country -- and continent -- adjusts to a new global reality where traditional alliances may be splintering. Will French startups rally to the cause?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
WeWard CEO Yves Benchimol serves up some lessons; Edumapper founders hit the repeat button; Deep Tech's annual checkup gets mixed results.
👋 Welcome to our weekly recap of the big news + funding in the French tech ecosystem this week. In this week's French Tech Wire, 👀 Deep Dive: Why Europe Needs Its Own AI Infrastructure: Arnaud Muller, Founder & CEO of Cleyrop and vocal advocate for European technological independence, explores how
In this edition: VirtualiSurg is using VR to train surgeons; an Ÿnsect bankruptcy breakdown; plus all the fun headlines and funding news.
In this edition: A look at France's fading insect protein hopes, and whether Innovafeed can resuscitate them. Plus: One last push to avoid government cuts to French tech programs; startups go to school.
In this edition: France's innovation bank Bpifrance reduced investments last year, and could be looking at further reductions in 2025. AI and deeptech remain the exceptions. Also this week: Altaroad CEO Cécile Villette talks about climate resilience.
In this edition: Le Fourgon CEO Charles Christory explains his mission to reduce single-use plastics; Laurent Van Lerberghe discusses how new VC firm Keles wants to help European Digital Health startups scale. Plus: French tech budget follies.
In this edition: Fly Ventures' Marie Brayer talks about funding hard tech; inside Alice & Bob's quest to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer; plus the insect alt protein industry is getting squashed; a court delivers some happy veggie tales to the alt meat industry.
In this edition: Maud Sarda, founder of Emmaüs' online marketplace “Label Emmaüs,” talks about social impact; Alexandra André explains how La French Tech Grand Paris wants to make the city an AI champion; plus a shocking crypto kidnapping.
In this edition: An annual mega French tech ecosystem report drops; Hyperline CEO discusses $10M funding; Deel's legal troubles; and all the funding deals.