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🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Certificall Battles Visual AI Insurance Fraud
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🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Startup Nation Confronts Austerity Nation...Liberté, Égalité, Subventionné?
A French Tech Mission report positions startups as nationwide job engines rather than elite subsidy hogs before the budget axe falls. Also: A new new new digital minister; a Nobel win for economist Aghion; RIVRS pivots to Asia + new publishing model; €105M biotech raise leads funding rounds.
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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.
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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.
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In an industry where even a two centimeter error can derail a multimillion-euro project, Freeda has raised €3.4M to bring the precision of AI to construction plans to stop costly mistakes from happening before a single brick is laid.