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French VC Outlook 2026: More concentration, Fewer Bets, Bigger Stakes
As the new year kicks off, we’re once again asking French VCs to peer into the crystal ball and tell us what they see on the horizon. Spoiler alert: the fog hasn’t entirely lifted, but patterns are starting to emerge.
🤖 La Machine #59: Voice AI Is Wild, Weird, and Wonderfully Investable
From AI bands and synthetic voices to serious money and real power, Voice AI is changing art, culture, and business. We dive into the fast-growing audio AI scene, including France's ecosystem, where creativity, capital, and controversy collide.
🐇 Follow Me Down The Voice AI Rabbit Hole 🎤
Voice AI has crossed the uncanny valley, turning sound, speech, and music into powerful tools. It’s fun, unsettling, and wildly investable. Welcome to the hottest, weirdest market in AI, where France is making some noise.
🤖 La Machine #58: AI Power, Policy, and A Transatlantic Rift To Start 2026
France and Europe enter 2026 caught between AI ambition and geopolitical reality as they try to scale national champions, enforce rules on Big Tech, and confront the U.S. over power, platforms, and control.
Europe's AI Reckoning: Caught Between Regulation, Rivalry, and Risk
As 2026 begins, France and the European Union find themselves at the center of a perfect storm, facing diplomatic confrontation with Washington, urgent safety crises, and mounting questions about whether their regulatory approach can survive first contact with geopolitical reality.
French VC Outlook 2026: More concentration, Fewer Bets, Bigger Stakes
As the new year kicks off, we’re once again asking French VCs to peer into the crystal ball and tell us what they see on the horizon. Spoiler alert: the fog hasn’t entirely lifted, but patterns are starting to emerge.
French Tech's Vegas Gamble: Why Hundreds Of Startups Still Bet Big on CES
The cost is staggering, the competition fierce, but France's tech ecosystem continues its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas with a calculated new strategy
A look back at 2025 with the French Tech Journal
As 2025 draws to a close, we’re taking a look back in articles at what has been an epic but turbulent year for French tech.
Clair Obscur: How France's Sandfall Interactive Made the World's Best Video Game of 2025
The Montpellier-based studio stunned the industry when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 swept The Game Awards with a record nine wins. It is French tech's biggest global success of the year, proving that a small French studio can outperform the industry's biggest players.
Spotlight Interview: Hugo Mendes, Co-Founder of New Future of Work VC Fund Clover
Meet the evergreen VC for the Future of work that wants to re-write VC the rulebook.
From Laos to Leading Europe’s Biggest Teleconsultation Platform: The Unstoppable Rise of Sylvie Nhansana
In a world where women still raise just 2% of VC funding, Sylvie Nhansana defies every statistic: engineer, black belt, and CEO of Qare and HealthHero France. She's now building what could become the world’s first truly global teleconsultation platform.
Spotlight Video Interview: Director Julie Huguet on La French Tech Mission
"What we want to do is help entrepreneurs have the best ecosystem to create, to scale, and to go abroad."
Spotlight Interview: ChangeNOW CEO Santiago Lefebvre Wants You To Believe Again
ChangeNOW 2025, the "world expo of solutions for the planet," is in full swing this week. Ahead of the Paris opening, I spoke with Lefebvre about how a bold idea born at COP21 became a global gathering, and why, in a divided world, hope and action still matter.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: French VC In 2026 Gets Bigger, Riskier, and Less Forgiving
From a quiet AI MarTech exit and a fallen French Tech icon to climate bets, double-centaur milestones, and fintech credit consolidation, this week’s Wire tracks how French startups scale, stumble, and adapt in a tougher capital cycle.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Startups Rolling The Dice At CES 2026
Every January, French startups cross the Atlantic to try their luck at CES. The price is high, the competition ruthless, yet the ritual endures. This year, the caravan shrank. We counted the brave souls who went.
💥 AI, Money, Drama: The 10 French Tech Stories You Loved in 2025 🎉
From mRNA biotech and AI-powered learning to billion-euro exits, ethical AI, robotics, and wealth tax showdowns, these were our most-read stories last year.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: The Little Gaming Studio Behind French Tech's Biggest 2025 Story
Mistral AI raising a bajillion euros? Unicorns rising and falling? Whatever. Nobody in French techland had a bigger year than the small but mighty Sandfall Interactive studio, whose indie game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became a global smash. Also: Verkor powers up its gigafactory dreams.
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🐇 Follow Me Down The Voice AI Rabbit Hole 🎤
Voice AI has crossed the uncanny valley, turning sound, speech, and music into powerful tools. It’s fun, unsettling, and wildly investable. Welcome to the hottest, weirdest market in AI, where France is making some noise.
🗣️ Special Edition | Shein, Sex Dolls, and Fast Fashion: The Great French Retail War of 2025 Begins
A controversial partnership between legendary French retailer BHV and the Chinese low-cost retailer erupted into a cultural and economic fight. Amid Paris protests and a government crackdown on illicit goods, France faces a reckoning over algorithmic commerce and its principles.