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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Breega
Breega is a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016, with offices in Paris, London, and Barcelona. The firm manages over EUR 350M and invests from pre-seed through Series A, writing initial checks of EUR 500K to EUR 5M. Breega focuses on fintech, consumer tech, SaaS, and marketplace models, and has backed companies including Swile, Spendesk, Brigad, and Luko. Led by co-founders Ben Marrel and Francois Paulus, Breega combines capital with an in-house growth team offering hands-on support in hiring, go-to-market strategy, and international expansion across European markets.
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Brevo
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a Paris-founded marketing automation and CRM platform serving over 500,000 businesses worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Armand Thiberge, the company rebranded in 2023 to reflect its expansion beyond email marketing into a full suite covering email, SMS, chat, marketing automation, sales CRM, and transactional messaging. Brevo has raised over $190 million and competes with Mailchimp and HubSpot in the SMB segment, with a strong emphasis on affordability and ease of use. The company maintains a large London presence and is one of France's most successful B2B SaaS exports.
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Brigad
Brigad is a French gig-economy marketplace connecting hospitality businesses with self-employed freelance staff such as waiters, chefs, and bartenders for short-term missions. Businesses can post a mission in minutes and only pay for completed work, while freelancers choose their own hours, get paid weekly, and have Brigad handle their contracts, invoices, and tax returns. The platform, active since 2016 in both France and the UK, reports more than 23,000 freelancers, over 12,000 businesses served, and 300,000+ missions accepted. Legally BRIGAD SAS, it is led by president Florent Malbranche.
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Caroline Chopinaud
Caroline Chopinaud is the Chief Executive Officer of Hub France IA, the national federation uniting France's artificial intelligence ecosystem with over 300 member organisations and 160+ AI startups. In her role she leads advocacy, working groups, and European partnerships for France's AI community. She is a prominent AI ecosystem figure and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
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Cathay Innovation
Cathay Innovation is a Paris-headquartered global multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, affiliated with Cathay Capital, with offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Madrid, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm closed its third fund at $1 billion in 2025 — the largest AI-dedicated fund out of the European Union — bringing total assets under management to over €2.5 billion. Cathay invests in vertical AI, digital health, fintech, mobility, and energy across Europe, North America, and Asia, connecting startups with a corporate network of 20+ Fortune 500 partners. The portfolio of over 120 companies includes Glovo, Ledger, Owkin, Alma, and Descartes Underwriting, with eight unicorns, six IPOs, and 18 acquisitions.
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ChangeNOW
Organizer of ChangeNOW, a global summit focused on climate and impact innovation. ChangeNOW is an event organiser based in Paris, France. Organising events in the Events, Climate Tech, Impact, Sustainability space.
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ChangeNOW 2026
Global climate and impact summit under the Grand Palais roof connecting founders with investors, corporates, and public-sector decision-makers. High-value platform for climate startups seeking B2B/B2G pilots, procurement pathways, and scale partnerships in sustainability and transition infrastructure.
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ChangeNOW 2027
ChangeNOW 2027 returns to the iconic Grand Palais in Paris for three days dedicated to accelerating solutions for the planet. The summit convenes impact-driven startups, investors, policymakers, and corporations around climate, biodiversity, social innovation, and the energy transition. The 2027 edition dates are officially announced on the event website with pre-registration open.
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Charles Gorintin
Co-founder and CTO of Alan and a prominent French tech operator who previously worked on data and ML at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He also co-founded the AI startup Mistral AI as an early backer-operator.
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Charles Kantor
Co-founder and CEO of H (formerly H Company), the Paris AI lab building frontier agentic models. He launched it in 2024 with one of Europe's largest seed rounds, backed by Xavier Niel, Accel and others.
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Circlemind
All-in-one e-learning platform co-built for neuroatypical people (ADHD, dyslexia, autism). It offers structured short learning paths, live workshops, peer communities and a customisable neuro-friendly interface designed to reduce cognitive overload. Incubated by Le Perqo, the Île-de-France inclusion-and-disability incubator.
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Clément Ray
Co-founder and CEO of InnovaFeed, one of the world's largest insect-protein producers, turning insects into sustainable feed and fertiliser at industrial scale, backed by Temasek and Qatar Investment Authority.
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Clément Stenac
Co-founder and CTO of Dataiku, leading engineering for the data-science platform. A former VLC media-player core developer and Exalead engineer, he is one of France's well-known technical founders.
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Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud is a French Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Nantes, enabling development teams to deploy and run web applications with automated scaling and fully managed infrastructure. The company is one of France's leading independent cloud providers and a prominent participant in the European cloud sovereignty movement, operating data centers across multiple European regions. Clever Cloud serves as a Platinum sponsor of Sunny Tech 2026.
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Cloud Native Days France 2026
Community-led cloud conference at CENTQUATRE-PARIS focused on practical engineering sessions over vendor marketing. Strong match for infrastructure startups and DevOps-first teams working on Kubernetes, platform tooling, and secure cloud operations.
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Cloud Native Days France 2027
Cloud Native Days France 2027 takes place 3 June at CENTQUATRE-Paris, organised by the Cloud Native France association. The one-day conference gathers the French-speaking cloud native and DevOps community, open to juniors through senior architects and decision-makers, for talks on infrastructure, DevOps, cloud native and open source practices.
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Cocon
Free French collaborative platform for organising interior-design and home-renovation projects. It centralises inspiration images, product selections with prices, room-by-room budget tracking and delivery management in one place — replacing the usual scatter of Pinterest boards, spreadsheets and chat threads — and lets users share the workspace with a partner or artisan.
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Comand AI
Comand AI is a Paris-based defence-tech startup founded in 2023 that builds AI software to support military command and decision-making. Its product, Prevail, helps command-centre officers plan and execute manoeuvres under time and resource constraints, using AI simulations and analysis of operational data to speed up planning. CEO and co-founder Loïc Mougeolle previously spent nearly a decade at Naval Group, and the team includes people from companies such as Palantir and OpenAI as well as the French armed forces. The company raised 8.5M euro in seed funding in December 2024 led by Eurazeo, and has worked with the French and German militaries.
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Combo
Combo (formerly Snapshift) is a Paris-based HR software company for deskless workforces in hospitality, retail, food service, and other frontline industries. Its platform covers staff scheduling and time tracking, leave management, digital time clocks, contract generation with electronic signatures, HR dashboards, and payroll preparation exports. Combo reports more than 10,000 companies and 150,000 employees using the platform daily, and it operates from offices in Paris and Madrid.
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Comexposium
One of the world's leading event organisers, headquartered in the Paris region, running trade shows across retail, food, agriculture and technology. Comexposium organises Paris Retail Week / NRF Retail's Big Show Europe at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in partnership with the National Retail Federation.
