France startup ecosystem
France has rapidly risen in the European startup rankings, driven by bold government initiatives like La French Tech and the world's largest startup campus, Station F. Paris is a powerhouse for deep tech, AI, and cleantech, supported by a strong scientific research base and increasing private VC investment. A growing pool of serial entrepreneurs is helping the ecosystem mature. The directory currently lists 269 organisations across 30 cities.
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SeeHaptic
Built a wearable AI-powered haptic navigation device for blind and visually impaired people: glasses-mounted cameras capture the environment, AI processes the scene and a lumbar belt of 256 solenoids produces tactile impulses mapping the surroundings. Winner of the 2024 Lépine Prize.
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Sekoia
Sekoia is a Rennes-based cybersecurity company, legally Sekoia.io SAS, building a unified AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform. Its products include Sekoia Defend (SIEM), Sekoia Intelligence (cyber threat intelligence), Sekoia Reveal (CAASM), and Sekoia Elevate (AI SOC agents), which detect, investigate, and help contain threats automatically for enterprises, MSSPs, and critical sectors such as healthcare, energy, and government. The company has been recognised by Gartner, Forrester, and Frost & Sullivan for its XDR and AI-driven threat intelligence capabilities.
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Shippeo
Shippeo is a Paris-based real-time transportation visibility platform that tracks shipments and generates AI-powered predictive ETAs across road (FTL and LTL), ocean, rail, and air modes, connecting shippers, carriers, and logistics systems into one network. Its platform covers real-time visibility, communication, carbon visibility, and eCMR digital documentation, and it recently acquired Logward to combine trusted visibility with AI-powered execution. Legally Shippeo SAS, the company is led by president Pierre Khoury.
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Shotgun
Shotgun is a live-events platform and ticketing solution focused on nightlife and electronic music. It provides software for venues, collectives, festivals, labels and artists to organise events, sell and manage tickets, and engage their communities, while serving as a discovery marketplace where attendees find events and buy or resell tickets. The company emerged from the Parisian underground electronic music scene and has expanded internationally, with offices beyond Paris including Marseille, Lisbon, São Paulo, New York and Miami.
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SIDO Lyon 2026
SIDO Lyon is Europe's leading B2B show for IoT, AI, robotics, and XR, organised by Infopro Digital Trade Shows at the Cité Internationale de Lyon on 16–17 September 2026. The 2026 edition gathers 300+ exhibitors and around 210 speakers across some 70 conference sessions, with dedicated zones for sustainable tech (Impact by SIDO) and collaborative robotics (Innorobo by SIDO).
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Signal Week 2027 (formerly Paris Blockchain Week)
Paris Blockchain Week has rebranded to Signal Week, taking place 6-7 July 2027 at the Carrousel du Louvre and Palais des Congres in Paris. The event carries forward Paris Blockchain Week's institutional focus, bridging traditional finance and digital assets for decision-makers, policymakers and builders. The 2026 edition drew over 7,500 attendees and 320+ speakers from 100+ countries.
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Singular
Singular is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on deep tech and frontier technology investments across Europe. Founded in 2014, the firm invests from seed through growth stages in companies building breakthrough technologies in AI, quantum computing, space, robotics, and advanced materials. Singular manages several hundred million euros and has backed notable European deep tech companies. The firm differentiates itself through deep technical expertise and a network of scientific advisors that help evaluate highly technical investments.
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Skello
Skello is a SaaS workforce-management platform that helps businesses build and manage employee schedules, track time and absences, and handle related HR and payroll-preparation tasks. It is widely used in shift-based sectors such as retail, hospitality, pharmacies, bakeries and gyms. The company is headquartered in Paris and raised a 40 million euro Series B round in 2021 led by Partech, with existing backers XAnge and Aglaé Ventures, to expand across Europe.
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Sorare
Sorare is a Paris-based fantasy sports and digital collectibles platform founded in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort. The platform lets users collect officially licensed digital player cards and compete in fantasy football, basketball, and baseball leagues. Sorare holds partnerships with over 300 sports organizations including the Premier League, NBA, MLB, and LaLiga. The company raised $680 million in its Series B led by SoftBank in 2021, reaching a valuation of $4.3 billion. Despite the broader NFT market downturn, Sorare has maintained its position by focusing on gaming utility rather than pure speculation. It operates from Paris with a major commercial office in London serving UK sports partnerships.
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Spendesk
Spendesk is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides an all-in-one spend management platform combining corporate cards, invoice and expense management, approvals and budgeting for mid-market companies. It reached unicorn status in 2022 after a funding round of more than 100 million euros and serves thousands of finance teams across Europe.
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Spore.Bio
Spore.Bio is a Paris-based biotech developing AI-driven microbiology testing for the food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Its technology uses spectroscopic analysis combined with machine learning to detect, quantify and identify micro-organisms directly from a sample without traditional culturing, enrichment or staining, reducing testing time from days to minutes. The approach is intended to let manufacturers identify contamination risks quickly on or near the production line. The company raised a $23M Series A in February 2025 led by Singular, building on an earlier pre-seed round, and in January 2026 announced multi-million funding from the Google.org Fund for AI in Science.
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Stanislas Niox-Chateau
Co-founder and CEO of Doctolib, the e-health booking and software platform he started in 2013. He scaled it into one of Europe's most valuable health-tech companies, serving hundreds of thousands of practitioners.
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Stanislas Polu
Co-founder and CTO of Dust and a former research engineer at OpenAI, where he worked on reasoning and formal mathematics, now building enterprise AI agents.
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Starfish Bioscience
Restores soil health through AI-powered DNA sequencing of soil microbiomes, having built the first bacterial genome atlas for Bordeaux vineyard soils. Develops non-GMO, bacteria-based biosolutions to improve crop resilience in a changing climate.
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Station F
Station F is a large startup campus in Paris housed in the restored Halle Freyssinet and launched in 2017. The campus hosts 30+ programs, including STATION F's in-house Founders Program and Fighters Program, plus corporate programs such as Meta and Microsoft GenAI Studio alongside partners like LVMH. Station F is led by Director Roxanne Varza. Startups benefit from coworking space, mentorship, events, and dedicated founder support services that make the campus a core node of the Paris ecosystem.
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Steve Anavi
Co-founder and president of Qonto, which he started with Alexandre Prot after the two had earlier co-founded the price-comparison startup Smokio.
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Stoïk
Stoïk is a Paris-based insurtech founded in 2021 that combines cyber insurance with cybersecurity software for small and medium-sized businesses. It bundles coverage with active risk-monitoring and scanning tools to help SMEs both insure against and reduce their exposure to cyber risk. The company operates across several European markets including France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg. After a 25M euro Series B in 2024 led by Alven, Stoïk raised a 20M euro Series C in January 2026, co-led by Impala and Opera Tech Ventures, to advance its AI agents and expand across Europe.
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Sunny Tech
Sunny Tech is a French non-profit volunteer association (loi 1901) comprising developers, designers, and meetup members from the Montpellier tech community. The association organizes the Sunny Tech conference, widely recognized as the first major developer-focused tech conference held in Montpellier. Each edition gathers software engineers, cloud architects, and open-source practitioners from across France for two days of technical talks, workshops, and community networking.
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Sunny Tech 2026
A two-day developer and product conference in Montpellier in its 7th edition, with around 85 sessions across five tracks. Aimed at developers, product people, and designers — a solid mid-sized event for technical founders building in the south of France.
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Swan
French embedded-banking (banking-as-a-service) platform letting software companies embed accounts, cards and payments. Licensed electronic money institution authorised by the French ACPR; partnered with BNP Paribas.
