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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IMT Starter
Launched 1999 by Institut Mines-Telecom. Incubator for tech startups from students and researchers with programs like START@IMT and SCALE'Up; focuses on AI, big data, and VR with early-stage funding options. Scope: Regional (Ile-de-France).
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in-cosmetics Global 2026
Flagship global personal care ingredients trade fair at Paris Porte de Versailles with 10,000+ formulators and brand buyers and 700+ exhibitors. Free with pre-registration or about EUR 100 on-site. Ideal for biotech, green chemistry, and sustainable cosmetics startups seeking ingredient adoption and multinational brand partnerships.
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Infopro Digital Trade Shows
Infopro Digital Trade Shows is a French professional events company that organizes over 35 industry trade shows annually across Europe, Asia, and the United States. They are the official organizer of SIDO Lyon, the leading B2B event for the convergence of IoT, artificial intelligence, robotics, and extended reality technologies, now in its 12th edition. Their broader portfolio spans sectors including construction, automotive, risk and insurance, and industrial transformation, serving major professional communities year-round.
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Innovafeed
Produces sustainable insect-based ingredients from the Black Soldier Fly for aquaculture, pet food and plant nutrition. Founded in 2016, it has produced over 15,000 tonnes of protein and oil and secured €51M to scale commercial growth.
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Innovation Assurance
Organises an annual conference in Paris for insurance professionals to explore innovation, emerging technologies, and future trends in the insurance sector. Running for over a decade, the event gathers hundreds of insurtech founders, underwriters, and digital transformation leaders to discuss AI, embedded insurance, and new distribution models.
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Innovorder
Profitable French scale-up providing an AI-first digital operating platform for restaurants and contract catering: POS, self-ordering kiosks, kitchen display systems and an Atlas AI agent for back-office automation. Active in France, Spain, Italy and Morocco with ~800 clients including Elior and Sodexo.
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Insurance Innovation 2026
One-day insurtech and digital finance conference in Paris focused on insurance transformation, cybersecurity, and AI-driven underwriting. Brings together insurance executives, brokers, and technology providers. Valuable for insurtech startups building claims automation, risk analytics, and digital distribution platforms for the French insurance market.
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Ivan Schneider
Co-founder of Doctolib, part of the founding team that built the medical-booking platform into a European health-tech leader alongside CEO Stanislas Niox-Chateau.
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Jason Warner
Co-founder and CEO of Poolside, the AI lab building frontier models for software development. He was previously CTO of GitHub and a managing director at Redpoint Ventures.
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Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
Co-founder and CEO of Alan, the French digital health insurer he started in 2016 to rebuild health cover around a simple app and preventive care. Under him Alan became one of France's most valuable fintechs, backed by Index, Coatue and Temasek.
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Jean-Philippe Vert
Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Bioptimus, building foundation models for biology. A leading machine-learning researcher, he was previously a research lead at Google Brain and Owkin and a professor at Mines ParisTech.
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Joko
Joko is a Paris-based consumer fintech that rewards users with cashback on their everyday purchases. Through a mobile app and browser extension, it automatically detects qualifying transactions at partner retailers and credits users with rewards, both online and in store. The company's technology builds on PSD2 open banking, connecting to users' bank cards to identify eligible spending without manual scanning of loyalty cards. Joko raised a €10M Series A in October 2020, led by Partech and Axeleo, bringing total funding to around €12M at that time.
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Jooxter
Jooxter is a French workplace-management software company, based in Nantes, offering workplace-experience tools, IoT workplace sensors and workplace analytics with integrations into other enterprise systems. Its platform helps organizations manage flexible office space, occupancy and desk or room booking as hybrid work becomes standard.
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Julien Richard
Co-founder and CTO of Filigran, leading engineering for its open-source threat-intelligence and breach-and-attack-simulation platforms.
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Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most prolific seed-stage investors, founded in 2010 by Xavier Niel (founder of Free/Iliad) and Jeremie Berrebi. Based in Paris, Kima invests in approximately 100 startups per year with typical ticket sizes of EUR 150K, making it among the most active angel-style funds globally. The firm has backed over 1,000 companies across 50+ countries, with notable investments including Alan, Luko, Mistral AI, and Algolia. Kima focuses on technology generalists at pre-seed and seed, providing fast decision-making and access to Xavier Niel's extensive entrepreneurial network.
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La French Tech
La French Tech is the French government's flagship brand and support initiative for the national startup ecosystem, launched in 2013 by the Ministry of the Economy. It operates as a unified banner under which French startups present themselves internationally, and coordinates a network of over 50 local French Tech communities (called 'Capitales') across France and in major cities worldwide. La French Tech administers the French Tech Visa program for international founders, the French Tech Tremplin program supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs, and the high-profile Next40/FT120 scale-up labels. The initiative has been instrumental in transforming France's global image from a bureaucratic economy to one of Europe's most dynamic startup nations, and its branding is ubiquitous at international tech events from CES to VivaTech.
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Laurent Sifre
Co-founder and former CTO of H and a deep-learning researcher who previously worked at Google DeepMind on AlphaGo and AlphaZero, bringing frontier-model expertise to the Paris AI startup.
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Laval Virtual 2026
One of Europe's longest-running immersive technology events, focused on practical XR deployment across healthcare, manufacturing, and defense. Strong venue for spatial-computing founders building B2B hardware and software products.
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Laval Virtual 2027
Laval Virtual's 29th edition is confirmed for 7-9 April 2027. One of Europe's longest-running immersive technology events, it focuses on practical XR deployment across healthcare, manufacturing, and defense, and is a strong venue for spatial-computing founders building B2B hardware and software.
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Le Village by CA
Launched 2014 by Credit Agricole. National accelerator network with 30+ villages across France offering coworking, mentorship, and business connections with CA's banking network. Sector-agnostic (fintech, agritech, etc.). Scope: National.
