🧮 Data Point: Creator Economy Flex
📺🎤 The creator economy is no longer a niche sideshow in France.
According to a report unveiled at Paris Creator Week by Coherent Market Insights, the European creator economy is now worth $32.8 billion and is on track to explode to $157 billion by 2032, growing at roughly 25% a year. France ranks third behind the UK and Germany with a market valued at $8.1 billion in 2025.
The engine of this growth is not celebrity megastars alone, but millions of micro- and nano-creators, who now generate the bulk of revenues and are reshaping the sector’s economics. Europe already counts 8.6 million monetized creators. That figure is expected to triple by 2032, reflecting how content creation has become a genuine socio-economic category.
In France, the number of monetized creators could approach 1.5 million by the end of the decade, fueled by creator-led brands, studio-style structures, and a supportive regulatory framework.
From YouTube blockbusters like Inoxtag’s Kaizen to creators entering institutions like the Musée Grévin, the cultural impact is now unmistakable. The report also highlights a maturing industry, where AI tools, diversified revenue streams, and professionalization are helping creators compete head-on with traditional media, including television.
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🧮 Data Point: Mistral AI Squeezed
Menlo Ventures released the latest edition of its closely-watched "2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise," and the latest stats are not particularly heartening for French LLM hopeful Mistral AI.
At the high end, Anthropic is crushing it with business customers thanks to its coding model, outpacing OpenAI, with Google also making big gains. Those three grabbed 88% of all enterprise spending, with the other 12% scattered among Meta’s Llama, Cohere, Mistral, and some other smaller providers.
The share of enterprise deals going to open-source LLMs has fallen from 19% last year to 11%. Within that shrinking band, Mistral is holding its own.
So far, enterprises have not embraced Chinese open-source models, despite their technical gains. But it's a different story when it comes to developers whose support for Chinese models is surging. This is another area where Mistral's share is taking a hit, according to Menlo.
💸 Weekly Funding Recap: December 12
🏆 Key Highlights
Total Raised: €27.53M
Number of Companies: 7
🧬 Sector Diversity
- 💻 AI & Software: €21.50M (4 deals)
Evertrust, Slash Intérim, GetMint, Corma - ⚙️ Deeptech & Industrial Innovation: €4.53M (2 deals)
Monomeris Chemicals, Onsen - 💳 Fintech / DeFi: €1.50M (1 deal)
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📇 Company: Evertrust
🔍 Description: French cybersecurity startup specialising in digital certificate management for enterprises and public administrations. Evertrust provides sovereign, independent solutions ensuring the security of websites, emails, software, and connected devices, and is preparing for the post-quantum transition with next-generation certificate technologies.
💻 Website: Evertrust
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €10M
🏦 Investors: Elephant
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Kamel Ferchouche (CEO), Jean-Julien Alvado, Étienne Laviolette
🗞️ News: Evertrust will use the funding to expand across Europe by tripling headcount over five years, developing a partner network, and accelerating deployment of its sovereign cybersecurity solutions. The company, already CSPN-certified by ANSSI and aiming for EUCC certification, serves major French enterprises—including a quarter of the CAC40—and is preparing post-quantum certificate technologies. | Maddyness
📇 Company: Slash Intérim
🔍 Description: French digital interim staffing platform enabling independent recruiters to manage sourcing, placement, and administration through an all-in-one tool. Slash Intérim modernizes the traditional temp-agency model by empowering freelance recruiters with legal, administrative, and operational infrastructure, while offering companies and temporary workers a personalized, responsive experience.
💻 Website: Slash Intérim
📍 HQ City: La Roche-sur-Yon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4M equity + €2M debt = €6M total
🏦 Investors: Réflexion Capital; multiple business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emma Capron
🗞️ News: Funds will be used to enhance the platform with more AI-driven administrative automation and to grow the community team supporting independent recruiters. The company, profitable for 18 months, currently counts 100+ recruiters and targets 1,000 by 2030. | The French Tech Journal
📇 Company: GetMint
🔍 Description: Platform SaaS dedicated to helping companies measure, understand, and optimize how they appear in AI-generated answers across major LLMs (ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, etc.). GetMint enables brands to map their AI visibility, analyze recommendation drivers, and deploy actionable plans to strengthen their presence in conversational search.
💻 Website: GetMint
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Pre-seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4M
🏦 Investors: Founders Future (lead), 50 Partners, Kima Ventures, Clover, Better Angle, and several strategic Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Joan Burkovic, Matthieu Poitrimolt, Emmanuel Costa
🗞️ News: GetMint raises €4M to become the leading platform for enterprise visibility and SEO within AI models, accelerating product development and go-to-market in France and internationally.
📇 Company: Corma
🔍 Description: Paris-based SaaS management platform helping IT teams regain control over software usage, spend, and sprawl. Corma’s specialised agents collect licence, user, and usage data to give companies clear visibility into their software stack, enabling better decision-making, reduced spend, and improved security.
💻 Website: Corma
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3.5M
🏦 Investors: XTX Ventures (lead); Tuesday Capital; Kima Ventures; 50 Partners; Olympe Capital; business angels including Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Jean-Louis Quéguiner (Gladia), and Doreen Pernel (Scaleway)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Héloïse Rozès (CEO), Nikolai Fomm, Samuel Bismut
🗞️ News: The funding will support product development, AI buildout, and commercial expansion, addressing growing complexity in software stacks and shadow AI–related risks. | TechEU
📇 Company: Monomeris Chemicals
🔍 Description: French cleantech company focused on chemical recycling of plastics. Monomeris Chemicals has developed a patented ionic depolymerization process capable of converting mixed, non-sorted plastic waste streams into reusable raw materials, complementing mechanical recycling.
💻 Website: Monomeris Chemicals
📍 HQ City: Arras
🧗 Round: Growth
💰 Amount Raised: €3.23M
🏦 Investors: Kennest (transition-focused investment club), with participation from 2,137 individual investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders:
🗞️ News: Monomeris Chemicals has secured €3.23M in funding from Kennest to industrialize its chemical recycling technology. The capital will be used to strengthen industrial validation, standardize modular units, and prepare on-site deployments at waste treatment and recycling facilities. The company relies on a validated industrial demonstrator with a capacity of 6,000 tons per year and targets complex, non-sorted plastic waste streams that are not compatible with mechanical recycling and are currently incinerated or landfilled. | InfoNet
📇 Company: Hocoia
🔍 Description: French mobile and connected health startup deploying preventive care, screening, and diagnostic services directly to citizens through its fleet of MédicoBus and new mobile medical innovations such as Hammamobus, a compact mobile mammography unit.
💻 Website: Hocoia
📍 HQ City: Strasbourg
🧗 Round: Undisclosed (equity + participatory funding)
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: PHE Angels; Angels Santé; Sowefund; Business Angels de la Première Heure; notable entrepreneurs Jean Michel Karam and Anthony Bourbon; Bpifrance; LCL et CIC
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benoît Bourre (Co-founder & CEO), Gustavo Acosta, Clément Pallière
🗞️ News: Funding will accelerate Hocoia’s national deployment, strengthen territorial coverage, expand prevention & screening operations, and scale innovative mobile health technologies. The company recently launched Hammamobus, enabling accessible breast cancer screening even in remote areas. | LinkedIn
📇 Company: Keria (formerly Cézam)
🔍 Description: Bordeaux-based AI startup building a sovereign, end-to-end platform that automates and objectifies mortgage credit risk analysis. Keria’s proprietary algorithms extract, structure, and evaluate financial data from heterogeneous documents, reducing bias, strengthening compliance, and accelerating credit decisions for banks, brokers, and regulated real-estate professionals.
💻 Website: Keria
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: Xplore by Épopée Gestion, Newfund, Fabien Bréget, Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emilie de Marne (Founder & CEO)
🗞️ News: Keria raises €1.5M to scale its sovereign AI infrastructure, triple headcount, expand into Europe in 2026, and extend its platform beyond mortgage credit to broader banking and real-estate workflows. | Les Echos
📇 Company: Onsen
🔍 Description: Lyon-based cleantech company designing equipment and software to optimize the environmental and economic performance of public and private swimming pools. Onsen enables real-time monitoring and intelligent control of water and energy consumption, significantly reducing operating costs and environmental impact.
💻 Website: Onsen
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.3M
🏦 Investors: Fonds d’Amorçage Industriel Métropolitain (FAIM) Lyon–Saint-Étienne, managed by Demeter Investment Managers
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Yann Menez
🗞️ News: Onsen has raised €1.3M from the FAIM Lyon–Saint-Étienne fund, managed by Demeter, to accelerate large-scale deployment of its “Hippocampe” software platform and associated eco-efficient equipment for aquatic centers. Founded in 2008, the company has equipped more than 200 sites in France and Belgium and delivers average annual savings of 3,750 m³ of water and 111 MWh of energy per site. The funding will support commercial expansion in France and internationally, reinforce the technical team, and drive further product development. Onsen was awarded the I-Nov 2024 innovation prize under France 2030 and received the GreenTech Innovation label in 2025, reinforcing its positioning in the water and energy transition for public infrastructure.
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