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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.
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.
SeeHaptic
Built a wearable AI-powered haptic navigation device for blind and visually impaired people: glasses-mounted cameras capture the environment, AI processes the scene and a lumbar belt of 256 solenoids produces tactile impulses mapping the surroundings. Winner of the 2024 Lépine Prize.
Sekoia
Sekoia is a Rennes-based cybersecurity company, legally Sekoia.io SAS, building a unified AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform. Its products include Sekoia Defend (SIEM), Sekoia Intelligence (cyber threat intelligence), Sekoia Reveal (CAASM), and Sekoia Elevate (AI SOC agents), which detect, investigate, and help contain threats automatically for enterprises, MSSPs, and critical sectors such as healthcare, energy, and government. The company has been recognised by Gartner, Forrester, and Frost & Sullivan for its XDR and AI-driven threat intelligence capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
Spore.Bio
Spore.Bio is a Paris-based biotech developing AI-driven microbiology testing for the food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Its technology uses spectroscopic analysis combined with machine learning to detect, quantify and identify micro-organisms directly from a sample without traditional culturing, enrichment or staining, reducing testing time from days to minutes. The approach is intended to let manufacturers identify contamination risks quickly on or near the production line. The company raised a $23M Series A in February 2025 led by Singular, building on an earlier pre-seed round, and in January 2026 announced multi-million funding from the Google.org Fund for AI in Science.
Starfish Bioscience
Restores soil health through AI-powered DNA sequencing of soil microbiomes, having built the first bacterial genome atlas for Bordeaux vineyard soils. Develops non-GMO, bacteria-based biosolutions to improve crop resilience in a changing climate.
Stoïk
Stoïk is a Paris-based insurtech founded in 2021 that combines cyber insurance with cybersecurity software for small and medium-sized businesses. It bundles coverage with active risk-monitoring and scanning tools to help SMEs both insure against and reduce their exposure to cyber risk. The company operates across several European markets including France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg. After a 25M euro Series B in 2024 led by Alven, Stoïk raised a 20M euro Series C in January 2026, co-led by Impala and Opera Tech Ventures, to advance its AI agents and expand across Europe.
Swan
French embedded-banking (banking-as-a-service) platform letting software companies embed accounts, cards and payments. Licensed electronic money institution authorised by the French ACPR; partnered with BNP Paribas.
Swile
Swile is a Paris-based employee benefits and fintech platform founded in 2018 by Loic Soubeyrand. The company digitizes meal vouchers, gift cards, mobility credits, and other employee perks into a single smart card and mobile app, replacing the paper-based benefits systems that remain common across France and Southern Europe. Swile raised over EUR 200 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund and has been valued at over EUR 1 billion. In 2022 it merged with Brazilian benefits platform Bswift to expand into Latin America. Swile is a leading force in modernizing employee experience across Europe.
uviago
Mobile app (Android and iOS) that rewards everyday drivers by automatically accumulating points in the background as they drive, with no manual interaction. Points are redeemable for discounts at partner merchants, and geo-discovery surfaces nearby offers along a driver's usual routes. Early-stage and recruiting its first national merchant partners.
Vekia
Vekia is a Lille-based supply chain AI company whose platform forecasts demand, inventory, and logistics operations, generating AI-driven purchase and replenishment proposals prioritized to simplify day-to-day decisions. Its shortage management features give retailers and distributors a global view of stock levels with proactive stockout alerts, and the platform integrates with existing ERP systems to feed optimized order proposals directly into them. Legally a societe par actions simplifiees, Vekia is led by president Manuel Davy.
Verkor
Verkor is the industrial champion of the French "Battery Valley" and one of Europe's most important energy manufacturing plays. While many battery startups emphasize chemistry R&D, Verkor's differentiator is execution at scale. Its gigafactory in Dunkirk, which began commissioning in late 2025, is designed to reach 16 GWh of annual capacity—enough to power roughly 300,000 electric vehicles. The facility is among the most advanced battery plants in Europe, built to supply automotive OEMs with locally produced, low-carbon cells. The year 2026 is Verkor's start-of-production milestone. Its cells are the core of the new Alpine A390 and other Renault Group EV programs, giving the company a high-profile anchor customer and a direct path to volume demand. Verkor positions itself around "low-carbon performance" by combining France's low-emission nuclear grid with a highly digitized Industry 4.0 production system that reduces scrap rates and energy intensity. The company argues that its batteries carry a materially smaller carbon footprint than cells manufactured in coal-heavy regions, which is increasingly important as automakers track embedded emissions across supply chains. Beyond production, Verkor is investing in future chemistry and process innovation. The Verkor Innovation Centre (VIC) in Grenoble is expanding its work on next-generation chemistries, including sodium-ion cells that reduce reliance on lithium and cobalt. This R&D focus strengthens supply-chain resilience and creates optionality for lower-cost, lower-risk storage solutions as electric mobility scales. Verkor's roadmap also includes tighter integration between materials sourcing, cell design, and recycling, positioning it to meet Europe's stringent regulatory requirements on battery sustainability and traceability. Verkor is backed by a mix of strategic and infrastructure capital. Macquarie Asset Management and Meridiam provide long-term project finance muscle, Renault Group anchors demand and industrial validation, EQT Ventures provides growth capital, and Sibanye-Stillwater supports raw material security. It was co-founded and supported early by EIT InnoEnergy and has strong operational ties to Schneider Electric, which helped design its digital factory systems. With support from the Macron administration and the European Investment Bank, Verkor has become a poster child for European industrial sovereignty. In 2026, it stands as proof that Europe can manufacture critical clean-tech hardware at global scale—and do it with a lower-carbon footprint.
Vestiaire Collective
Luxury fashion resale platform with strong operations and authentication teams in Spain. Vestiaire Collective is a startup based in Paris, France at the growth stage. The company operates in the Marketplace, Fashion, Circular Economy space. Learn more at their website.
VoFact
AI-powered invoicing SaaS for freelancers and tradespeople that generates compliant PDF invoices in under 10 seconds from voice or text messages on WhatsApp, handling French requirements including sequential numbering, VAT and the 2026 e-invoicing mandate.
