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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Game Camp 2026
France's main annual gathering of video game professionals, in its 8th edition, organised by Game IN and the SNJV at the Université Catholique de Lille. For game-studio founders and developers it is two days of industry talks, workshops, and B2B networking.
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Garantme
Garantme is a Paris-based insurtech, active since 2017, that acts as a rental guarantor for tenants without a traditional guarantor and provides unpaid-rent guarantee insurance (Garantie Loyer Impaye) for landlords. Its Console Garantme platform lets real estate agencies manage tenant files, insurance products, and claims in one place. The company reports certifying more than 100,000 tenants, partnering with 4,000 real estate agencies across 150 French cities, and is a licensed insurance broker registered with ORIAS and a member of the FNAIM lab.
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Genesis
French AgriTech startup that rates soil health across 35 agronomic indicators—biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and pollution levels—using AI and sensor data, providing continuous monitoring for regenerative farming operations. Clients include LVMH, Rémy Cointreau, and Barilla. VivaTech 2026 Tech for Change finalist.
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Georges Hadziioannou
Georges Hadziioannou is a professor at the University of Bordeaux and a pioneer in organic and polymer electronics, conducting research on functional materials for energy, displays and flexible devices. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
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GetVocal AI
Paris-based hybrid human-AI contact-centre platform that deploys governed conversational agents for enterprise customer-experience operations. Unlike fully autonomous systems, GetVocal keeps human staff in control of critical decisions. Clients include Vodafone, Glovo, and Movistar. Raised $26M Series A from Creandum.
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Gladia
Gladia is a Paris-based AI company that provides an API platform for real-time and asynchronous speech-to-text transcription and audio intelligence. Its engine supports more than 100 languages and is designed to handle diverse accents and mid-conversation language switching with low latency. The company positions itself as a developer-focused alternative to transcription services from larger cloud providers, serving use cases such as meeting tools, call analytics and media platforms. Gladia raised a $16M Series A in October 2024 led by XAnge to launch its multilingual real-time transcription and analytics engine.
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Global Industrie 2026
France's massive industrial gathering with a startup village and Industry 4.0 showcases. Price: free for professionals with badge. Strong for industrial IoT and smart manufacturing startups.
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Global Industrie 2027
Global Industrie's 2027 edition moves to Eurexpo Lyon, running 15-18 March 2027; the series alternates annually between Paris and Lyon. France's massive industrial gathering includes a startup village and Industry 4.0 showcases, strong for industrial IoT and smart manufacturing startups.
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GO Entrepreneurs
Organiser of GO Entrepreneurs (formerly Salon des Entrepreneurs), a series of large French entrepreneurship events in Paris and Lyon for founders, freelancers and business leaders. The events feature pitch battles, expert panels and networking around starting and scaling a business.
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GO Entrepreneurs Lyon 2026
The major entrepreneurship event for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region at La Sucrière in Lyon, expecting around 10,000 founders, freelancers and business leaders. With roughly 300 speakers and 120 conferences across a main stage and eight stages, it features pitch battles, expert panels and networking.
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Green-Got
Green-Got is a French ethical banking app, the commercial name of Domino SAS, offering personal, joint, and micro-business accounts along with green savings products such as life insurance (assurance-vie) and a retirement savings plan (PER), including its own Green-Got Sustainable Future fund. The company is a regulated payment institution supervised by the ACPR, is registered with ORIAS as an insurance and investment broker, and has been B Corp certified since 2024. Green-Got reports over EUR 100 million under management in savings.
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GreenTech Forum 2026
The leading French event on responsible and sustainable digital technology, held at Station F with around 2,500 participants. For climate and greentech founders it offers conferences, workshops, and an exhibition focused on concrete tools for sustainable digital transition.
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Groover
Groover is a Paris-based music promotion platform that connects independent artists with a network of more than 3,000 curators, labels, radio stations, playlists, and industry pros for paid, guaranteed feedback on their tracks. Co-founders Romain, Rafael, and Dorian met at UC Berkeley and launched Groover in 2018 at the MaMA Music & Convention in Paris, the same year the company joined Techstars. The platform reports more than 600,000 artists, over 5 million pieces of feedback given, 1,500+ label signings, and today runs a 35-person team with offices in Paris and New York.
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Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge is a Developer Advocate at Google and one of the most recognized figures in the Java and open-source software ecosystem. He is the creator of Apache Groovy, a widely adopted dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, and has contributed to numerous Java community standards and tooling efforts over more than two decades. Laforge is a prolific international conference speaker and a recognized thought leader in cloud-native Java development and generative AI tooling for developers.
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Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, leading model research. He previously led the LLaMA project as a research scientist at Meta AI before co-founding Mistral.
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H
H (formerly Holistic) represents France’s second-wave AI builders: less focused on text generation and more focused on action. Founded in 2024 by a team that included former DeepMind researchers such as Charles Kantor and Laurent Sifre, the company drew attention with a seed round that eclipsed prior European records, signaling investor appetite for agentic AI. H’s core thesis is that the next leap is not bigger language models but AI systems that can plan, execute, and verify multi-step workflows across real software interfaces. The company frames this as “RPA 2.0,” using vision-language models to interact with screens and applications rather than brittle scripts and APIs. The firm’s early months were turbulent, including leadership turnover in late 2024, but the product roadmap accelerated. In November 2025 H launched Runner H, a vision-language agent that can see a desktop and operate mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks such as booking travel, compiling invoices, or processing customer tickets. The release of Surfer-H-CLI soon after gave developers a programmable surface for building web agents, which helped H win mindshare with the European developer community. An acquisition of Mithril Security in 2025 signaled a focus on secure, private agent deployment — a crucial requirement for enterprise adoption, where the biggest fear is an autonomous agent mishandling data or credentials. H is deeply embedded in the Paris AI ecosystem, with early incubation support from Aglae Ventures and strong ties to the Paris AI Hub around Sorbonne and Ecole Polytechnique. Its backers read like a who’s-who of strategic supporters: Accel led financing, Eric Schmidt invested personally, and strategic relationships with Amazon and UiPath position H as a bridge between cloud infrastructure and automation workflows. French tech patrons Xavier Niel and Bernard Arnault provide both capital and political signal value. By early 2026, H is widely watched as a potential category leader in action-oriented AI, competing to become the default “application layer” for autonomous digital workers across Europe’s enterprises.
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Harvestr
Harvestr is a French product feedback intelligence platform, legally Harvestr SAS, that helps B2B SaaS companies centralize customer feedback, tie it to CRM revenue data, and prioritize product decisions that drive acquisition, retention, and expansion. Its AI Copilot for Product processes the majority of incoming feedback automatically and integrates with tools such as Slack, Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Linear, and Gong. Customers referenced on its site include Alan, Agorapulse, Aircall, Dashdoc, and 360Learning, and the company reports serving customers in more than 50 countries.
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Hub France IA
Hub France IA is the French national federation dedicated to unifying and developing the country's artificial intelligence ecosystem. Recognised as serving the general interest under French law (association Loi 1901), it brings together over 300 member organisations including more than 160 AI startups, 1,000+ individual adherents, and 50+ European partners across large corporations, SMEs, academic institutions, and investors. The organisation facilitates working groups, European partnerships, and collaborative projects to help members navigate the rapidly evolving AI sector.
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Hugo Lassiège
Co-founder and CTO of Malt, leading the technology behind the freelance marketplace he started with Vincent Huguet in 2013.
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Ilion Water Technologies
Developed Voltage Induced Reverse Osmosis (VIRO), a pressure-free desalination technology that uses a low-voltage panel to drive water through standard RO membranes, removing the need for high-pressure pumps. Spun out of ENS-PSL Paris.
