French Tech News: How Swan Beat The Fintech Fundraising Odds
As Swan soars, Hi Inov closed the first chunk of a new fund as the Franco-German VC works to forge ties between its corporate LPs and startups.
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🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Brevo’s €1B Breakout Bet and France’s TechBio Surge
Brevo’s €500M PE-led liquidity deal crowns it a unicorn and resets the French-tech cap table, arming the company for U.S. expansion, M&A, and AI acceleration. Plus: a new TechBio map spots 40 French startups fusing biology and deeptech.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: AI Agents Putting A Smile On Dentists' Faces
Members of the Doctolib mafia have a new startup, La Fraise, that dentists and their patients can't refuse. We're looking over a new Future of Work fund called Clover. Revaia takes the ESG pulse. And Jolt is raising a €1B fund to make startup rhinoceroses a thing.
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Europe is doomed. Or booming. Or both. Atomico and Pitchbook reports offer different outlooks in the latest data nerd fight. Meanwhile, French VCs head to the West Coast. Drone startup Rift wants to be Europe's eyes in the sky. Yann LeCun updates his Facebook status.
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Clair Obscur: How France's Sandfall Interactive Made the World's Best Video Game of 2025
The Montpellier-based studio stunned the industry when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 swept The Game Awards with a record nine wins. It is French tech's biggest global success of the year, proving that a small French studio can outperform the industry's biggest players.
🤖 La Machine #55: Chasing UMA's Robotic Dreams From Tesla to Paris
UMA believes Europe—not Silicon Valley—is the best place to build the robots of tomorrow. LightOn's revenue prospects grow dim. France's defense and security are all about sovereignty when it comes to AI. Except when they are not. And an un-AI commercial goes viral for being, well, not AI.
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French Tech Funding Wire December 15: France's €8.1B Creator Economy; Mistral AI Squeezed; 7 Companies Raised €27.53M
Between Dec 8 and Dec 12, French Tech startups raising money included Evertrust, Slash Intérim, GetMint, Corma, Monomeris Chemicals, Hocoia, Keria, and Onsen.