France startup ecosystem
France has rapidly risen in the European startup rankings, driven by bold government initiatives like La French Tech and the world's largest startup campus, Station F. Paris is a powerhouse for deep tech, AI, and cleantech, supported by a strong scientific research base and increasing private VC investment. A growing pool of serial entrepreneurs is helping the ecosystem mature. The directory currently lists 269 organisations across 30 cities.
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RAISE Summit 2027
RAISE Summit 2027 runs 6-8 July at the Palais des Congres in Paris, now part of Hyve alongside MACHINA Summit and Signal Week. Billed as the world's leading AI summit, RAISE brings together AI leaders, C-suite executives, startups, investors and policymakers, with the 2026 edition drawing 9,000+ attendees and a special address from French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Renaud Heitz
Co-founder and CTO of Exotec, leading the engineering behind its autonomous warehouse robots. He co-founded the company with Romain Moulin in 2015.
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Revolty
Gives second life to used lithium-ion EV and industrial batteries, remanufacturing them into affordable residential solar energy storage systems that let households self-consume up to 90% of their solar production.
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Rigma
Vulnerability-management platform built by the founders of the Paris pentest firm Mobeta. It ingests penetration-test reports from any provider and turns them into dynamic dashboards with automated re-verification scripts that confirm remediation without manual counter-audits. Available as SaaS or on-premise, compliant with NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001, hosted in France on Scaleway.
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Riot
Paris-based cybersecurity startup that trains employees to recognise phishing and social-engineering threats through automated, personalised awareness campaigns and simulated phishing exercises delivered inside existing work tools. Serves over 1,000 companies across Europe and the US.
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Riviera DEV 2026
Developer conference on the French Riviera at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis: one Deep Dive day plus two conference days, 50 talks and 30 workshops for around 700 attendees across web, cloud, DevOps and AI tracks.
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Riviera JUG / Riviera DEV
Riviera JUG is a volunteer-run developer community organization based in Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera, dedicated to organizing the annual Riviera DEV multi-day developer conference. The group brings together developers and technologists from across France and Europe to share knowledge on Java/JVM technologies, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and modern software engineering practices. All seventeen-plus organizers are unpaid volunteers who collectively design and run a conference that consistently draws over a hundred confirmed speakers per edition.
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Robeauté
Develops grain-of-rice-sized microrobots designed to navigate inside the human brain to deliver therapeutic molecules, implant electrodes or collect cellular data, aiming to make neurosurgery safer and more precise for conditions including glioblastoma.
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Rodolphe Jenatton
Co-founder of Bioptimus and a machine-learning scientist who previously worked at Google DeepMind and Amazon on large-scale models, now applied to biological foundation models.
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Romain Moulin
Co-founder and CEO of Exotec, the warehouse-robotics company behind the Skypod system. He turned the Lille-based startup into France's first industrial-tech unicorn, serving global retailers.
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Romain Niccoli
Co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, leading product and engineering. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of the adtech company Criteo before starting Pigment.
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Roxanne Varza
Roxanne Varza is an Iranian-American tech executive and angel investor who serves as Director of Station F, the world's largest startup campus in Paris. Before leading Station F, Varza was a prominent tech journalist and community builder, working at Microsoft Ventures and TechCrunch. In her role at Station F she oversees a campus hosting over 1,000 startups and 30+ partner programs. Alongside her operational role, Varza is an active angel investor backing early-stage founders in France and across Europe, with a particular focus on diverse founders, consumer tech, and community-driven platforms. She is consistently ranked among France's most influential tech figures and frequently advises on ecosystem development.
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Roy Moussa
Co-founder and CEO of GetVocal AI, building autonomous voice agents for businesses, backed by Creandum, Elaia and Speedinvest.
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RX France
French arm of RX (Reed Exhibitions), a global events business that organises major trade shows in France including Pollutec, the leading environmental technology event in Lyon, and Big Data & AI Paris. RX France connects exhibitors, innovators and buyers across cleantech, data and industrial sectors.
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Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales 2026
France's leading govtech and public-sector trade show under the theme 'Boldness is local', drawing roughly 65,000 visitors and 1,380 exhibitors at Porte de Versailles across digital, energy, mobility, safety and urban-development solutions for local authorities.
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Salon PRODURABLE 2026
The 19th edition of PRODURABLE at the Palais des Congrès in Paris is the largest European meeting for the sustainable economy, with around 15,000 visitors, 800 speakers and 350 partners. It convenes decision-makers, impact startups and investors around sustainability and ecological transition.
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Samuel Hassine
Co-founder and CEO of Filigran, the open-source cyber-threat-intelligence company behind OpenCTI. A former French cyber-agency leader, he scaled Filigran with backing from Insight, Accel and Eurazeo.
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SANTEXPO 2026
Major French healthcare and hospital innovation expo with a large innovation village for digital health ventures. High-value event for founders targeting public-hospital procurement and clinical pilot partnerships.
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Scaleway
Scaleway is a European cloud provider and subsidiary of the Iliad Group, offering a full stack of cloud infrastructure including bare-metal servers, Kubernetes, object storage, managed databases, and GPU instances for AI workloads. Founded by Xavier Niel's Iliad, Scaleway positions itself as a sovereign European alternative to US hyperscalers, with data centers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. The company is increasingly important for European organizations seeking GDPR-compliant cloud hosting.
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Scalingo
Scalingo is a French Platform-as-a-Service startup founded in 2014 in Strasbourg, offering a developer-friendly cloud deployment platform for web applications and APIs with a focus on European data sovereignty. The platform provides one-click deployments, auto-scaling, and managed databases, serving startups and enterprises seeking reliable European cloud hosting. Scalingo participates as a Silver sponsor at Sunny Tech 2026.
