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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Ledger
Ledger is the global leader in hardware wallets for cryptocurrency, providing secure cold-storage devices that protect digital assets offline. The company's Nano S and Nano X devices have sold over 6 million units worldwide, and its enterprise solution, Ledger Enterprise, serves institutional clients including funds and exchanges. Ledger also develops Ledger Live, a companion software for managing crypto portfolios. The company is a cornerstone of Europe's Web3 infrastructure ecosystem.
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lemlist
lemlist is a Paris-based sales engagement SaaS platform built by the company lempire. Originally a cold-email personalisation tool, it has grown into a multichannel outreach platform combining a large B2B lead database, AI-assisted personalisation, and built-in email warm-up (lemwarm) to help sales teams run outbound campaigns and book meetings. It is used by tens of thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries and is part of the broader lempire product family, which also includes lemcal, Taplio and Tweet Hunter. The company scaled largely through product-led growth, and in October 2021 raised $30M from Expedition Growth Capital.
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Lionel Mora
Co-founder and CEO of Neoplants, bio-engineering houseplants to capture indoor air pollutants. A former Google strategist, he co-founded the deep-tech startup with biologist Patrick Torbey.
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Livestorm
Livestorm is a French video engagement platform for webinars and virtual events, offering live, on-demand, and fully automated webinars, virtual events, multi-platform restreaming, and AI features such as turning webinars into clips. It integrates with tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo, and Zapier, and is marketed as the webinar leader designed in Europe, serving marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Legally Livestorm SAS, it is led by director of publication Gilles Bertaux.
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Loïc Soubeyrand
Founder and CEO of Swile, the employee-benefits and meal-voucher super-app. He previously founded the adtech company Teads, one of France's biggest tech exits, before starting Swile in 2017.
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Loyzia
All-in-one loyalty and CRM platform for local retailers. It replaces paper stamp cards with a digital loyalty card in Apple Wallet and Google Pay, supports stamp- or points-based rewards, and automates Google-review solicitation to boost merchants' local SEO — with no app download required from customers.
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Lucis
YC-backed preventive health platform that analyses 110+ blood biomarkers with AI to deliver personalised, physician-reviewed guidance on nutrition, supplementation and lifestyle. Operates across France, the UK, Ireland and Portugal with 10,000+ users since its 2025 launch.
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Luko
Home insurance startup focusing on prevention, fast claims, and digital-first service. Luko is a startup based in Paris, France at the series c stage. The company operates in the Insurtech, Consumer space. Learn more at their website.
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Maha Radhakrishnan
Maha Radhakrishnan, MD, is Executive Partner at Sofinnova Investments, one of Europe's leading dedicated life science venture capital firms. A physician-scientist by training, she brings deep expertise in biopharmaceuticals and drug development to evaluating and supporting therapeutic companies across oncology, rare diseases, and CNS disorders. She is a prominent investor and speaker in the European and global biotech ecosystem.
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Maître AO
AI-powered SaaS that helps SMEs and foreign companies respond to French public procurement tenders. Automates DCE analysis, technical proposal drafting and mandatory administrative forms, scanning 20+ procurement platforms in real time.
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Malt
Malt is a Paris-founded freelancer marketplace launched in 2013 that connects independent professionals with companies seeking project-based talent in tech, marketing, design, and consulting. The platform operates across France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, and the UK, and has over 700,000 registered freelancers serving enterprise clients including Airbus, L'Oreal, and BNP Paribas. Malt has raised over EUR 100 million and manages compliance, contracts, and payments to simplify the hiring process. It is a leading European alternative to Upwork and Fiverr, with a strong focus on local enterprise freelancing.
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Marc Lolivier
Marc Lolivier is the General Delegate (Délégué Général) of FEVAD, the Fédération du E-Commerce et de la Vente À Distance, which is France's principal trade federation for e-commerce and distance selling. He is a prominent voice in French and European digital commerce policy, representing the sector at national and international forums. Lolivier is a confirmed speaker at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Europe in Paris, addressing agentic AI and customer services.
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Marc Simoncini
Marc Simoncini is a French serial entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the founder of Meetic, Europe's largest online dating platform, which he sold to Match Group. After his successful exit, Simoncini became one of France's most active angel investors, co-founding Jainama, a personal investment vehicle through which he has backed over 100 startups. His investments span consumer internet, marketplaces, fintech, and lifestyle brands, with notable bets including companies like Made.com and Sensee. Simoncini is known for writing large angel checks and taking board seats, combining strategic guidance with significant early-stage capital. He is a key figure in France's first generation of internet entrepreneurs who now fuel the next wave of founders.
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Maxime Berthelot
Co-founder and CEO of Lucis, an AI startup backed by Singular, Kima Ventures and General Catalyst. He co-founded the company to apply generative AI to professional workflows.
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Maxime Verrière
Maxime Verrière serves as SVP and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Arianespace, the French launch services company that is one of the world's leading providers of commercial satellite launch services. Arianespace, headquartered near Paris, has been a cornerstone of European space access since its founding in 1980 and operates the Ariane, Soyuz, and Vega launch vehicles from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. In his C-suite role, Verrière is responsible for driving Arianespace's strategic direction and transformation agenda during a highly competitive period for the European launch industry.
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Meero
Meero is a Paris-based photography technology company that uses AI to automate photo editing and connects businesses with a global network of professional photographers. The platform serves industries including real estate, e-commerce, and hospitality, offering on-demand shoots with AI-enhanced post-production. Meero raised over $200 million and was valued at over $1 billion before restructuring operations to focus on its core AI editing technology.
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Minalogic
Minalogic is a French competitiveness cluster dedicated to digital transformation in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, microelectronics, IoT, and photonics. With approximately 450 member organizations spanning startups, SMEs, large corporations, and research institutions, Minalogic has facilitated more than 1,040 labeled and funded innovation projects since 2005 and generated over 16,300 B2B meetings since 2012. The cluster is an ecosystem partner of SIDO Lyon and a connector between industry and innovation communities in the region.
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Mindee
Mindee is a Paris-based company providing an AI-driven OCR API for high-precision document data extraction, covering invoices, receipts, passports, resumes, bank statements, and driver's licenses. The platform lets businesses chain pre-processing steps such as splitting, classifying, and cropping documents with extraction in a single API call, and it supports continuous learning with retrieval-augmented generation to handle edge cases over time. Mindee's customers include Spendesk, Lucca, and Indy, and it is available via SDKs, no-code tools, or direct API integration with a 14-day free trial.
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MIPIM 2026
Premier real estate conference with a dedicated PropTech hub. Price: about EUR 2500+. Strong for startups pitching to developers and real estate investors.
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MIPIM 2027
MIPIM 2027 brings the global real estate community to the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, 16-19 March, to connect capital, people and ideas across investment, urban development, innovation and sustainability. For 2027 the Housing Matters! programme becomes fully integrated into the main conference, opening the event on Tuesday 16 March.
