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The 2026 European Deep Tech Report from Dealroom landed with some cheerful news. France clocks in as Europe’s #2 deep tech ecosystem by funding, pulling in about $3.9bn. That's comfortably behind the UK but ahead of Germany.
While the Brits are ahead per usual, they also saw growth slump to 12% last year, while France's Deep Tech funding boomed by 48%. France is riding two very on-trend waves: AI and defense.
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💸 Weekly Funding Recap: April 3
📇 Company: Standing Ovation
🏷️ Sectors: FoodTech, ClimateTech, BioTech
🔍 Description: Standing Ovation is a French foodtech startup producing animal-free dairy proteins using precision fermentation. Its core innovation enables the production of casein—the key protein in milk—without livestock, allowing manufacturers to recreate dairy products such as cheese, yogurt, and cream with identical functional properties while significantly reducing environmental impact. The company operates a B2B model, supplying food, nutrition, and future health/cosmetics players with sustainable protein ingredients.
💻 Website: Standing Ovation
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €25 million
🏦 Investors: Danone Ventures, Crédit Mutuel, Angelor, Bel Group, Bpifrance, Astanor, Seventure Partners, Good Startup, Big Idea Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Romain Chayot, Yvan Chardonnens
🗞️ News: Standing Ovation raised €3oM in a Series B round, including €25 million in equity, to scale the industrial production and commercialization of its precision-fermented casein. The startup has secured U.S. “Self-GRAS” regulatory approval, enabling partners to begin integrating its protein into food products, with commercial launches expected in 2026. Positioned ahead of many peers in the fermentation space, the company is entering the commercialization phase while preparing for regulatory approval in Europe. With applications spanning food, animal nutrition, cosmetics, and health, Standing Ovation targets a global protein market exceeding €600B by 2035 and aims to reach cost parity with traditional dairy proteins by 2030 through scale. | Les Echos, Maddyness, EU Startups
📇 Company: Generare
🏷️ Sectors: BioTech, AI & Machine Learning, DeepTech
🔍 Description: Generare is a French biotech startup leveraging AI and microbial genomics to discover new bioactive molecules for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and cosmetics. Its platform combines machine learning with cloning and sequencing technologies to explore previously untapped microbial diversity, generating novel molecular data that can unlock new therapeutic pathways and targets. The company operates upstream in the drug discovery value chain, supplying both data and physical molecules to industry players.
💻 Website: Generare
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €15M
🏦 Investors: Alven, daphni, Galion.exe, Teampact Ventures, Vives Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Guillaume Vandenesch
🗞️ News: Generare raised €20M in a Series A round co-led by Alven and daphni to scale its AI-powered molecular discovery platform. Founded in 2023 and incubated at Hôpital Cochin, the startup has already identified over 200 novel small molecules by analyzing microbial genomes through cloning and sequencing technologies. Positioned as a data-generation layer for drug discovery, Generare aims to expand its proprietary molecular database to 2,000 molecules by 2027 and over 10,000 long term. The funding will support R&D, team expansion, and international growth, particularly in the U.S., as the company targets pharma, agrochemical, and cosmetics markets. | Les Echos, EU Startups
📇 Company: SCorp-io
🏷️ Sectors: ClimateTech, PropTech, AI & Machine Learning, SaaS & Enterprise
🔍 Description: SCorp-io is a French startup developing an intelligent building management system (BMS/GTB) for mid-sized tertiary buildings. Its solution combines plug-and-play hardware with AI-driven software to connect, model, and optimize existing building equipment. Through features such as digital twin creation, remote control, and automated energy optimization, the platform enables rapid deployment and delivers significant energy savings without requiring substantial infrastructure investment.
💻 Website: SCorp-io
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5M
🏦 Investors: Île-de-France Décarbonation Fund
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean-Romain Bardet, Cédric Godefroy, Bastien Robinot
🗞️ News: SCorp-io raised €5M to accelerate the deployment of its AI-powered building management solution targeting mid-sized commercial buildings—an under-equipped segment facing increasing regulatory and cost pressures. Founded in 2021, the company enables 20–40% energy savings with a reported six-month ROI by leveraging plug-and-play hardware, digital twin technology, and automated optimization. Already deployed across 250+ sites and serving 52 clients, SCorp-io has helped reduce energy consumption by 440 GWh and avoid 6,200 tonnes of CO₂ in 2025. The funding will support product development, team expansion, and commercial scaling as demand for decarbonization solutions intensifies. | FrenchWeb
📇 Company: AI6 Technologies
🏷️ Sectors: InsurTech, AI & Machine Learning, SaaS & Enterprise
🔍 Description: AI6 Technologies is a French assurtech startup developing AI- and big-data-powered solutions for risk prevention and claims management. Its platform helps insurers prevent climate-related losses, accelerate claims resolution, and improve operational efficiency through tools such as AI videobots for self-diagnostics, automated decision support, and predictive modeling for risks like drought-related soil shrink-swell. The company positions its services as market-wide infrastructure for insurers rather than point solutions for a single carrier.
💻 Website: AI6 Technologies
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4M
🏦 Investors: Generali France, SOCADIF Capital Investissement
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alain Tabatabai, Sébastien Drouyer
🗞️ News: AI6 Technologies raised nearly €4M with participation from Generali France and SOCADIF Capital Investissement to accelerate the development and deployment of its AI-based insurance solutions. Founded in 2025, the startup focuses on two major pain points for insurers: improving claims handling speed and costs, and strengthening the prevention of increasingly frequent climate-related risks. Generali plans to integrate AI6’s tools into its value chain across prevention, underwriting, and claims, while SOCADIF is backing the company’s potential to help define new insurance standards. The funding will support commercial expansion, product innovation, and organizational build-out as AI6 seeks to become a leading technology partner for insurers in France and internationally. | Tribune Assurance
📇 Company: Omniscient
🏷️ Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, SaaS & Enterprise
🔍 Description: Omniscient is a decision intelligence platform designed for executives and large enterprises, acting as a real-time “control tower” over their business environment. By aggregating data from over 100,000 sources—including media, social networks, and web content—the platform detects weak signals, reputational risks, and strategic opportunities. Built on multiple large language models, it enables users to interact in natural language, generate sector analyses, and monitor critical topics through customizable alerts.
💻 Website: Omniscient
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.6M
🏦 Investors: Seedcamp, Drysdale Ventures, Plug and Play, MS & AD, Raise, Anamcara, xdeck, Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arnaud d'Estienne, Mehdi Benseghir
🗞️ News: Omniscient raised $4.1M in a seed round led by Seedcamp to develop its AI-powered decision intelligence platform for executives. Founded in 2024 by two former McKinsey consultants, the startup provides real-time monitoring and analysis of business environments, helping companies detect risks, track sentiment, and anticipate strategic shifts. Already working with large clients such as Renault, Omniscient aims to evolve from a monitoring tool into a predictive and prescriptive platform, integrating advanced AI capabilities, including voice interfaces. | Les Echos, SiliconAngle
📇 Company: Kestra
🏷️ Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, SaaS & Enterprise
🔍 Description: Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform that enables enterprises to coordinate data pipelines, AI workflows, infrastructure automation, and business processes within a unified control plane. Designed for highly distributed environments across cloud, on-premises, and AI systems, Kestra provides a scalable, extensible orchestration layer with a large plugin ecosystem, allowing teams to manage complex workflows consistently and securely.
💻 Website: Kestra
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €21.7M
🏦 Investors: RTP Global, Alven, ISAI, Axeleo
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emmanuel Darras, Ludovic Dehon
🗞️ News: Kestra raised $25M in a Series A round led by RTP Global to accelerate the development of its enterprise orchestration platform and expand internationally. With over 30,000 organizations using its open-source solution and more than 2 billion workflows executed in 2025, Kestra is positioning itself as a core infrastructure layer for coordinating AI, data, and operational workflows. The funding will support the launch of Kestra 2.0, enhanced distributed execution and observability features, and the rollout of a managed cloud offering, as the company aims to define the emerging “orchestration control plane” category in the AI era. | Kestra, Tech.eu, Maddyness
📇 Company: Loamics
🏷️ Sectors: HealthTech, SaaS & Enterprise, MedTech
🔍 Description: Loamics is the healthcare data subsidiary of Energisme, focused on leveraging data analytics to support healthcare systems and improve decision-making. The company operates at the intersection of health data infrastructure and analytics, aiming to unlock value from large-scale datasets for medical, operational, and research use cases.
💻 Website: Loamics
📍 HQ City: Boulogne-Billancourt
🧗 Round: Growth
💰 Amount Raised: €3M equity
🏦 Investors: Vatel Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Energisme
🗞️ News: Energisme secured a €5M investment for its healthcare subsidiary Loamics from funds managed by Vatel Capital to accelerate product development and commercial expansion. The financing includes €3M in equity through newly issued shares and €2M in convertible bonds. Loamics, which generated its first revenues in 2025 through the P4DP consortium, is positioning itself in the growing health data market. The funding will support its development as Energisme explores strategic options for its subsidiary portfolio. | PR
📇 Company: Lifebloom
🏷️ Sectors: HealthTech, MedTech, Robotics
🔍 Description: Lifebloom is a French medtech startup developing an integrated exoskeleton-based therapy to restore autonomous walking for patients with mobility impairments. Its solution combines a chair-exoskeleton device, gait analysis systems, and a digital care platform to support rehabilitation across hospitals, specialized centers, and at-home care. The therapy aims to increase patient autonomy while improving rehabilitation outcomes and care efficiency.
💻 Website: Lifebloom
📍 HQ City: France
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €6M
🏦 Investors: Business Angels, France 2030
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Damien Roche
🗞️ News: Lifebloom raised €8M to industrialize and deploy its exoskeleton-based therapy across healthcare institutions. The funding includes €6M in equity and €2M in public support from the France 2030 program. Founded in 2019, the company aims to equip 30 hospitals and enable 1,000 patients to regain the ability to walk independently by 2028. Its clinically validated solution, tested at AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, has demonstrated significant improvements in mobility outcomes, including restoring walking ability and increasing time spent standing. The funds will support production scale-up, clinical studies, and broader deployment of its therapy across France and Europe. | J'aime les startups, Mind
📇 Company: Fairglow
🏷️ Sectors: ClimateTech, SaaS & Enterprise
🔍 Description: Fairglow is a French sustainability data platform for the beauty and health industries, enabling companies to measure, report, and reduce product-level environmental impacts. Its SaaS solution integrates life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon accounting, and eco-design tools, leveraging AI to reconstruct missing environmental data across complex supply chains. The platform supports compliance with evolving regulations while enabling real-time, data-driven formulation and packaging decisions.
💻 Website: Fairglow
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Ternel, SWEN Capital Partners, Kima Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Quentin Carayon, Evan Peters
🗞️ News: Fairglow raised €3M in a seed round co-led by Ternel and SWEN Capital Partners to accelerate the commercialization of its sustainability platform for the cosmetics and health sectors. The startup addresses a major data gap in life-cycle assessments by automating environmental modeling and reconstructing missing data for thousands of ingredients. Already trusted by over 50 industry players, Fairglow enables companies to generate audit-ready environmental claims and comply with regulations such as CSRD and upcoming Digital Product Passport requirements. The funding will support product development, expansion of its environmental database, and commercial growth across Europe. | LinkedIn, ESG Today
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