Introducing: France AI Radar. Discover the next generation of French AI startups before the market.
We detect AI startups across France at their earliest signal: when they are incorporated, still in stealth, or just beginning to leave a public trace. Structured intelligence built from administrative filings, founder activity, and ecosystem signals, designed for VCs, corporate strategists, and LPs.
💸 Weekly Funding Recap: July 10
📇 Company: Skello
🏷️ Sector: HRTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: An AI-powered workforce-management platform for frontline teams that helps businesses manage employee scheduling, administration, regulatory compliance and operational performance. Its Skello Assistant AI agent converts workforce data into tailored HR insights and automates follow-up actions.
💻 Website: https://www.skello.io
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Growth Equity
💰 Amount Raised: €150 million
🏦 Investors: Bridgepoint, Partech, XAnge
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan
🗞️ News: Skello has secured a €200 million investment to strengthen its leadership in France, accelerate its European expansion, expand its platform and continue investing in AI. The company said that about €50M of that investment was made through secondary offerings and that the deal includes access to debt. The company serves 25,000 businesses and 600,000 daily users across France, Spain, Benelux and Italy, and exceeded €50 million in ARR in 2026 and reached profitability in 2025. It plans to hire 100 employees across technology, product and sales in Paris, Lille and Barcelona during 2026, while also pursuing targeted acquisitions. | EU-Startups, Maddyness
📇 Company: Cyllene Therapeutics (formerly EG 427)
🏷️ Sector: BioTech
🔍 Description: A clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision DNA medicines for neurological and neuro-urological diseases. Its HERMES platform uses non-replicating HSV-1 vectors to deliver therapeutic DNA selectively to targeted neurons.
💻 Website: www.cyllene-tx.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series C
💰 Amount Raised: €33 million
🏦 Investors: GordonMD Global Investments, M Ventures, Andera Partners, Bpifrance, Lamond Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Philippe Chambon
🗞️ News: Cyllene Therapeutics has raised €33 million and rebranded from EG 427. The funding will support the continued clinical development of EG110A, its lead genetic medicine candidate for neurogenic detrusor overactivity and other severe bladder conditions, while expanding its HERMES non-replicating HSV-1 platform and therapeutic pipeline. The company plans to begin a Phase 2b/3 trial of EG110A in 2027 and explore additional neurological indications, including pain and migraine. | PR, BioWorld
📇 Company: Gradium
🏷️ Sector: Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: An AI infrastructure company developing foundational models for real-time voice applications, including streaming speech-to-text, expressive text-to-speech, speech-to-speech translation and conversational intelligence for developers and enterprises.
💻 Website: https://gradium.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris, San Francisco
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €26.3m
🏦 Investors: NVIDIA
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Neil Zeghidour, Laurent Mazaré, Olivier Teboul, Alexandre Défossez
🗞️ News: Gradium has extended its initial funding round to surpass $100 million in total financing for its Seed round, seven months after launch. The company will use the capital to accelerate voice-AI research and product development, expand internationally, and establish an office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its products include real-time speech recognition and generation models, Gradium Translate, the on-device Phonon model, and the open-source GradBot voice-agent framework. | Gradium, Maddyness
📇 Company: ZML
🏷️ Sectors: Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: An AI infrastructure startup developing inference software that enables open-source large language models to run efficiently across multiple types of hardware, including Nvidia and AMD GPUs, Google TPUs, Apple Metal and Intel Arc chips.
💻 Website: http://zml.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: $20 million
🏦 Investors: 20VC, >commit, AALVC, Drysdale Ventures, Kima Ventures, Kindred Capital, LocalGlobe, and Puzzle Ventures; its cap table also includes Solomon Hykes, Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Yann LeCun
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Steeve Morin
🗞️ News: ZML has launched ZML/LLMD, a free LLM inference server designed to reduce hardware vendor lock-in and maximize AI inference performance across a broad range of chips. The 20-person startup has raised $20 million and plans further product releases as it works with enterprises, cloud providers and emerging chipmakers. | TechCrunch
📇 Company: Bohr Energie
🏷️ Sectors: Energy, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: An independent energy aggregator that uses proprietary software, AI, forecasting and real-time optimization tools to help renewable energy producers manage and commercialize distributed solar, wind, hydro, battery and hybrid assets.
💻 Website: http://bohr-energie.fr/
📍 HQ City: Toulouse
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €10 million
🏦 Investors: Suma Capital, Irdi Capital Investissement, GSO Capital, Crédit Agricole, Varsity, Founders Future, AFI Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Julien Haure, Luis Urday, Julien Chollet, Jean-Pierre Mader
🗞️ News: Bohr Energie has raised €10 million to strengthen its position in France, expand its technology platform, launch new services and prepare for international growth, initially targeting Spain and Italy. The company manages more than 170 renewable and flexible assets and expects to approach 1 GW of assets under management by year-end. | EU-Startups
📇 Company: Aria
🏷️ Sectors: FinTech
🔍 Description: Aria provides embedded invoice financing infrastructure that enables B2B marketplaces, ERP platforms, and vertical SaaS providers to offer instant supplier payments while allowing buyers to retain standard payment terms.
💻 Website: https://www.aria.finance
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €7M equity
🏦 Investors: 115K, 13books Capital, Nomura, Fost, Sienna, Montpensier Arbevel
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Clément Carrier
🗞️ News: Aria has raised a €7 million Series A extension led by 115K, the venture arm of La Banque Postale, with existing investor 13books Capital participating, bringing its total Series A funding to €22 million. Alongside the equity financing, the company launched a €240 million debt facility structured around a securitization fund led by Nomura with participation from Fost, plus additional capital commitments from Sienna and Montpensier Arbevel. The new capital will support AI product development, hiring, and customer growth while significantly expanding Aria's financing capacity. Founded in 2020, Aria embeds invoice financing directly into B2B software platforms, marketplaces, and ERP systems, allowing suppliers to receive immediate payment while buyers retain 30–90-day payment terms. The company has financed more than €1.5 billion in invoices, serves over 70 European B2B platforms, including Malt and Job&Talent, processed 1.7 million invoice advances in 2025, and has maintained a default rate below 0.1%. | EU-Startups, Axios
📇 Company: Naaia
🏷️ Sectors: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
🔍 Description: A RegTech platform that helps organizations manage AI-related risks and automate compliance with regulations and standards, including the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and the Cyber Resilience Act. Its “text-to-action” technology converts regulatory requirements into executable compliance tasks.
💻 Website: https://naaia.ai/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €6 million
🏦 Investors: Ventech
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nathalie Beslay, Benjamin May, Olivia Rime, Côme Sauzay
🗞️ News: Naaia has raised €6 million in a Series A led by Ventech, bringing its total funding since launch to €9 million. The company will use the capital to expand its commercial, product, and technical teams, accelerate the development of AI agents, and integrate additional regulatory, industry, and standards-based frameworks into its platform. | Maddyness
📇 Company: Click&Care
🏷️ Sector: HealthTech
🔍 Description: A digital home-care network that connects families with locally recruited care professionals while managing recruitment, matching and administrative processes through its platform. Its model combines centralized human support with technology designed to improve caregiver pay, reduce travel time, and support independent living.
💻 Website: https://clickandcare.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5 million
🏦 Investors: SWEN Capital Partners, InvESS Île-de-France Développement, Banque des Territoires
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Lina Bougrini
🗞️ News: Click&Care has raised €5 million to accelerate the nationwide deployment of its digital home-care model and further develop its technology. The company plans to introduce AI-powered tools that provide care professionals with decision support, contextual training and personalized recommendations, while improving the detection of early signs of declining health and strengthening coordination across home-care services. | Les Échos
📇 Company: En Carta Diagnostics
🏷️ Sectors: MedTech, DeepTech
🔍 Description: En Carta Diagnostics develops rapid molecular diagnostic tests that combine laboratory-grade PCR accuracy with the simplicity of at-home testing. Its programmable aptamer-based platform is designed to detect infectious diseases in around 30 minutes without requiring laboratory infrastructure.
💻 Website: https://encartadiagnostics.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €3M
🏦 Investors: Blue Forest Ventures, Ring Capital, CentraleSupélec Venture, 50 Partners Health, Business Angels, Bpifrance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Guillaume Horreard, Margot Karlikow
🗞️ News: En Carta Diagnostics has completed a €5 million first closing to advance its at-home molecular testing platform, including €3 million in equity and €2 million in non-dilutive financing. The company is initially targeting early detection of Lyme disease and STI screening, with clinical trials underway in Boston and Bialystok. Its flagship Lyme test received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in January 2026, giving the company access to an accelerated U.S. regulatory pathway. En Carta has also signed a €13 million co-development and commercialization agreement with AAZ covering rapid molecular tests for chlamydia and gonorrhea in Europe. The new funding will support regulatory approvals, industrial scale-up through its fabless manufacturing partnership with Circum Medical, and commercial launches in Europe and the United States. | EU-Startups
📇 Company: Panora
🏷️ Sector: InsurTech, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: An agentic AI platform for B2B insurance brokers that automates repetitive workflows, including multi-carrier quoting, document collection and generation, policy comparison, commission reconciliation and DDA compliance, while keeping brokers in control of advice and decision-making.
💻 Website: https://www.panora.co
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €4.4 million
🏦 Investors: ISAI, Kima Ventures, 100in, 199 Ventures, Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Diane du Paty, Fabian Langlet
🗞️ News: Panora has raised $4.5 million to expand its technical team and enter additional European markets beyond France, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Incubated by startup studio Hexa, formerly eFounders, the company serves clients including Howden and approximately 50 insurance brokerage firms in France and Belgium. | Panora
📇 Company: Rivage
🏷️ Sectors: PropTech, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: A property-management SaaS platform for real estate professionals that automates rental accounting, payment requests, bank reconciliation, regulatory administration and communication between landlords and tenants. Its platform also uses AI to help handle maintenance requests and recommend service providers.
💻 Website: https://www.rivage.immo/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5 million
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alex Chauvin
🗞️ News: Founded in 2025, Rivage has raised €1.5 million to invest in marketing, improve its product, and accelerate customer acquisition in France. The company, which serves several dozen clients, is targeting €5 million in annual recurring revenue by 2027 and plans to double its 11-person team by the end of 2026. | Tech Funding News
📇 Company: W Platform
🏷️ Sectors: ClimateTech
🔍 Description: A climate-tech company developing patented systems that capture, purify, compress and store CO₂ produced during wine and beer fermentation, allowing vineyards and breweries to reuse it on-site for processes such as inerting, carbonation and dry-ice production.
💻 Website: https://w-platform.fr/en/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1 million
🏦 Investors: Vitirev Innovation, Demea Invest, Tudigo
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Matthieu Planté
🗞️ News: W Platform has raised €1 million to accelerate the commercial deployment of its CO₂ Box for vineyards and breweries. Founded in 2021, the company has around 20 customers and plans to rapidly double its client base, reach break-even in 2027, and explore applications for CO₂ generated by anaerobic digesters and industrial boilers. | Les Échos
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