Paris startup directory
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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.
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.
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.
Roy Moussa
Co-founder and CEO of GetVocal AI, building autonomous voice agents for businesses, backed by Creandum, Elaia and Speedinvest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Serena
Serena is a Paris-based venture capital firm managing a EUR 1 billion investment programme and backing teams from Europe and the US. It invests from pre-seed to Series A with first cheques of EUR 100K to EUR 15 million, across applied AI and energy transition, data infrastructure and open source, impact, and consumer innovation.
Shippeo
Shippeo is a Paris-based real-time transportation visibility platform that tracks shipments and generates AI-powered predictive ETAs across road (FTL and LTL), ocean, rail, and air modes, connecting shippers, carriers, and logistics systems into one network. Its platform covers real-time visibility, communication, carbon visibility, and eCMR digital documentation, and it recently acquired Logward to combine trusted visibility with AI-powered execution. Legally Shippeo SAS, the company is led by president Pierre Khoury.
Shotgun
Shotgun is a live-events platform and ticketing solution focused on nightlife and electronic music. It provides software for venues, collectives, festivals, labels and artists to organise events, sell and manage tickets, and engage their communities, while serving as a discovery marketplace where attendees find events and buy or resell tickets. The company emerged from the Parisian underground electronic music scene and has expanded internationally, with offices beyond Paris including Marseille, Lisbon, São Paulo, New York and Miami.
Signal Week 2027 (formerly Paris Blockchain Week)
Paris Blockchain Week has rebranded to Signal Week, taking place 6-7 July 2027 at the Carrousel du Louvre and Palais des Congres in Paris. The event carries forward Paris Blockchain Week's institutional focus, bridging traditional finance and digital assets for decision-makers, policymakers and builders. The 2026 edition drew over 7,500 attendees and 320+ speakers from 100+ countries.
Singular
Singular is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on deep tech and frontier technology investments across Europe. Founded in 2014, the firm invests from seed through growth stages in companies building breakthrough technologies in AI, quantum computing, space, robotics, and advanced materials. Singular manages several hundred million euros and has backed notable European deep tech companies. The firm differentiates itself through deep technical expertise and a network of scientific advisors that help evaluate highly technical investments.
Skello
Skello is a SaaS workforce-management platform that helps businesses build and manage employee schedules, track time and absences, and handle related HR and payroll-preparation tasks. It is widely used in shift-based sectors such as retail, hospitality, pharmacies, bakeries and gyms. The company is headquartered in Paris and raised a 40 million euro Series B round in 2021 led by Partech, with existing backers XAnge and Aglaé Ventures, to expand across Europe.
SKYdeals
Paris-headquartered e-commerce platform for travel retail, with additional offices in Dubai and London. SKYdeals lets airlines, airports, cruise lines, rail operators and retailers monetise passenger dwell time through what it calls a shoppertainment approach, sold as both turnkey software and consulting. The company is an alumnus of the MonacoTech incubator.
Sofinnova Partners
Sofinnova Partners is a life-sciences venture capital firm founded in 1972 and managing over EUR 4 billion. It invests from seed to later stage across biopharma, medtech, digital medicine, agriculture and industrial processes, running seven distinct investment strategies across the value chain.
Sorare
Sorare is a Paris-based fantasy sports and digital collectibles platform founded in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort. The platform lets users collect officially licensed digital player cards and compete in fantasy football, basketball, and baseball leagues. Sorare holds partnerships with over 300 sports organizations including the Premier League, NBA, MLB, and LaLiga. The company raised $680 million in its Series B led by SoftBank in 2021, reaching a valuation of $4.3 billion. Despite the broader NFT market downturn, Sorare has maintained its position by focusing on gaming utility rather than pure speculation. It operates from Paris with a major commercial office in London serving UK sports partnerships.
Spendesk
Spendesk is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides an all-in-one spend management platform combining corporate cards, invoice and expense management, approvals and budgeting for mid-market companies. It reached unicorn status in 2022 after a funding round of more than 100 million euros and serves thousands of finance teams across Europe.
