President Macron calls space a new battlefield and courts defense and space startups with €4.3B; Doctolib’s antitrust fine sparks debate on dominance; Sylvie N’hansana’s rise reshapes telehealth; WebSummit buzz meets downpour.
Macron warns that space is no longer a sanctuary, announcing major new space defense investments and says he wants 'New Space' French startups to help counter rising orbital threats from Russia and other hostile powers.
Freeda's AI catches blueprint blunders; Yann LeCun ditches Meta; Beside rings up $32M for its AI voice app; Anthropic lands in Paris; Accel says Europe's AI application startups are rocking; there's a robot loose in a nuclear power plant.
Despite U.S. giants like OpenAI and Anthropic dominating headlines and fundraising, Accel’s 2025 Globalscape report finds European AI application startups reaching 66% of U.S. levels, the highest ever over the past decade.
Between Nov 3 and Nov 7, a total of 14 French Tech companies raised €129.6 million, including: Fairmat, Tsuga, CWS (Computed Wing Sails), Freeda, Avnear, CGREEN, Karavela, NOLT, Pearl, Hoora, and Goud.
Upway raises $60M to scale its circular e-bike business. Plus: new French Tech 2030 startups, STATION F releases annual Future 40 – 2025 Edition, Mistral AI’s Montmartre HQ, and Doctolib fined.
The French startup raised $60M in Series C funding to expand its refurbished e-bike empire across Europe and the US. With sales doubling yearly and operations already profitable in multiple markets, Co-founder and COO Stéphane Ficaja explains how Upway is chasing its goal of 1M bikes by 2030.
The American Tech giant released a report emphasizing all the ways it's spending €4 billion on France's AI transformation. Plus: Nvidia eyes a $1B bet on Poolside, Schneider Electric rides the data center wave, and French publishers warn of AI abuse.
The tech giant is going all-in on France’s AI future, pledging to train a million citizens, back 2,500 startups, and spread innovation beyond Paris. In a report released this week, the company highlighted partnerships, from Mistral to Danone, to demonstrate its commitment to France's AI ambitions.
Paris Games Week wraps with industry hoping to reverse decline. Bpifrance wants more defense startups. Between Oct 27 and Oct 31, a total of 8 French Tech companies raised €79.1 million, including: Onepark, The Mobile-First Company, Altrove, Faktus, Primaa, DotBlocks, Kelkun, and Zero Industries.
As France’s AI founders eye the U.S., a new wave of startup soul-searching sweeps the nation. Also: How Interstellar Lab and Barbara Belvisi are reinventing the future of agriculture on Earth and in space; and World Fund makes a big green bet on France. Happy Halloween, y'all! Boo! 🙀🫣
Starting in finance, her career detoured through VC before its current destination: Building BioPods that look more like spacecraft than greenhouses. These AI-powered farming systems address Earth's sustainability challenges while serving as a dress rehearsal for humanity's multi-planetary future.
Scikit-learn’s creators aim to turn France’s AI research into global business with Probabl. Plus: Doctolib’s AI parenting assistant, Mistral’s new enterprise platform, France’s civil-service chatbot, OpenAI’s Paris expansion, and this week’s top AI funding rounds.
Scikit-learn, born at a French research institute, is one of the world’s most-used machine learning libraries. Probabl aims to turn it into a global business. Its journey reveals France’s AI potential and the structural hurdles of commercializing public research.
Between Oct 20 and Oct 24, a total of 15 French Tech companies raised €150.25 million, including: Lattice Medical, Dracula Technologies, Hublo, UPCITI, Lisaqua, Nutropy, Volta Software, Playse, Kotcha, Exeliom Biosciences, Seaber, Fleetiz, Certificall, MNGRS AI, and Tibeka Protections.
Also in this edition: ImCheck’s €1B biotech exit shakes up the scene, Lemlist snaps up Claap to boost AI sales, France’s startup job engine stalls, and OVHcloud’s founder returns to reclaim the cockpit.
