Paris startup directory
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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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Mirakl
Mirakl is a Paris-based enterprise marketplace platform founded in 2012 by Adrien Nussenbaum and Philippe Corrot. The company provides the SaaS technology that enables retailers, manufacturers, and distributors to launch and operate their own online marketplaces, adding third-party sellers alongside their existing product catalogs. Mirakl powers marketplace operations for over 400 enterprise customers including Macy's, Kroger, Carrefour, and Siemens. The company has raised over $800 million, reaching a valuation of $3.5 billion, and is one of France's highest-valued B2B SaaS companies. Mirakl has offices in Paris, London, and Boston, and its platform model reflects the broader shift toward marketplace commerce across enterprise retail.
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Mistral AI
Founded in April 2023 by former Google DeepMind and Meta AI researchers, Mistral AI has become one of Europe's most valuable AI startups. The company builds frontier large language models such as Mistral Large and Mixtral and follows an open-weight plus enterprise deployment strategy. Its products are used via API, cloud partners such as Microsoft Azure, and local deployments for regulated organizations requiring data control and model transparency. Le Chat is the company's conversational interface built on its model stack.
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Nabla
Paris-based clinical AI company that listens to doctor-patient consultations in real time and auto-generates structured medical notes, referral letters, and billing codes. Used by thousands of clinicians across France, the US, and Canada, reducing documentation time by over 50%.
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Naboo
Naboo is a Paris-based corporate event and seminar booking platform that lets companies plan offsites and team events through a single system covering venues, accommodation, catering, transportation and team-building activities. Sometimes described as the Booking.com of corporate seminars, it is building a software suite to help finance and procurement teams oversee MICE budgets, including spend tracking, policy compliance and invoicing. Founded in 2022, the company raised a 20 million euro Series A round in early 2025 led by Notion Capital to fund European expansion.
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Neoplants
Neoplants is one of Europe's most consumer-friendly deep-tech startups, known for engineering "plants with a purpose." Its flagship product, Neo P1, is a golden pothos that has been genetically modified to actively metabolize volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as formaldehyde and benzene—pollutants common in homes due to paint, furniture, and cleaning products. Rather than simply filtering air passively, the plant converts toxins into harmless sugars and amino acids, turning living organisms into functional indoor air purifiers. The company began commercial sales in the United States, where GMO consumer regulations are more permissive, but 2026 marks a strategic pivot back to Europe. Neoplants is positioning itself to launch in the UK and select EU markets as the New Genomic Techniques (NGT) framework evolves. This regulatory shift is crucial: it could unlock a path for consumer biotech products to be sold in Europe at scale. Neoplants is actively engaging with regulators and policymakers to ensure its products meet safety and transparency standards, framing its technology as a climate and public-health benefit rather than a controversial GMO niche. Neoplants is also a serious biotech company under the consumer-friendly brand. It operates a 12,000-square-foot R&D facility in Saint-Ouen, Paris, with capabilities closer to a pharma lab than a greenhouse. The 2026 R&D pipeline includes plants engineered to capture CO2 at orders-of-magnitude higher rates than typical trees, targeting corporate offices and commercial spaces where sustainability investments must be visible and measurable. That positions Neoplants for a dual-market strategy: consumer air purification today, B2B climate infrastructure tomorrow. The company's ecosystem roots are strong. The founders, Lionel Mora and Patrick Torbey, met at Entrepreneur First in Paris, and Neoplants was an early resident at Station F. It also benefited from the Wilco healthcare and biotech accelerator. Its investors reflect the blend of deep-tech and consumer focus: True Ventures led the seed, Heartcore Capital and Collaborative Fund support the consumer angle, and angels such as Niklas Zennstrom and Xavier Niel provide strategic visibility. In 2026, Neoplants represents a "solarpunk" vision of European tech—advanced biology that is both functional and approachable, turning climate and health solutions into products people can live with.
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Nextend.ai
AI platform that lets French SMEs and micro-enterprises respond to public tenders in under an hour, automating DCE analysis and generating full application dossiers including technical proposals, DC1, DC2 and commitment acts.
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Nicolas Bacca
Co-founder and former CTO of Ledger, designing the secure-element architecture behind its hardware wallets. He is a long-standing expert in Bitcoin and embedded security.
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Nicolas Brusson
Co-founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar, having led the company's growth, fundraising and acquisitions from COO to chief executive. He previously worked as a venture investor in Silicon Valley.
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Nicolas Julia
Co-founder and CEO of Sorare, the fantasy-sports platform built on NFTs and licensed with football, NBA and MLB. He raised one of Europe's largest rounds, led by SoftBank, in 2021.
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NUMA
NUMA is a storied name in the Paris startup scene – both an accelerator and an innovation hub that traces its origins to one of Europe’s first startup programs. Established in 2011, NUMA evolved from the famed “Le Camping” accelerator (run out of a historic building on Rue du Caire). As an accelerator, NUMA ran 3- to 6-month cohorts for digital startups, providing mentorship, community events, coworking space, and investor demo days. It was particularly influential in France’s early startup boom – alumni include successes like Dataiku (AI platform) and Algolia (search-as-a-service), which both passed through NUMA’s programs. Over time, NUMA expanded its scope beyond acceleration into corporate innovation. It launched NUMA Consulting to help large companies implement startup methodologies, and also opened international outposts (NUMA Bengaluru in India and NUMA New York were launched around 2015–2016). In Paris, NUMA’s space became an “innovation hub” – a vibrant campus hosting events, hackathons, and innovation programs for corporates and the community. NUMA was notable for being a public-private effort initially, supported by the City of Paris and corporates, which helped ignite the French ecosystem a decade ago. By the late 2010s, NUMA transitioned its accelerator model – focusing more on themed open-innovation programs (e.g. for smart cities or AI) rather than general batches. It also partnered with the European Commission on projects to spur startup-corporate collaborations. Though NUMA (the accelerator) concluded its last batch in late 2019, the brand still persists as a hub and network of innovation spaces. The legacy of NUMA is significant: it helped institutionalize French startup support and proved the value of mentorship-driven acceleration in Europe. In ecosystem terms, NUMA stands as a pioneer whose model of combining startup acceleration with corporate and community innovation has been emulated widely.
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Open Source Experience Brussels 2026
European-wide open-source business and technical conference in Brussels, bringing together 5,000+ OSS contributors, European corporate users of open source, and public-sector decision-makers. Program covers enterprise OSS strategy, supply-chain security, European digital sovereignty, and sustainable OSS funding models. Tickets EUR 200-500.
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Owkin
Owkin is a Paris-based AI biotech founded in 2016 that applies machine learning and federated learning across hospital and pharmaceutical datasets to discover drug targets, develop diagnostics and de-risk clinical trials. It partners with pharmaceutical companies including Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb, reached unicorn status, and has more recently launched agentic AI tools for biopharma research.
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Papernest
Papernest is a Paris-founded platform that simplifies moving and managing household utility contracts, including energy, internet, and insurance subscriptions. Founded in 2015, the service helps consumers switch or set up providers in minutes, acting as a digital concierge for administrative tasks that are traditionally time-consuming in France and Spain. The company has raised over EUR 130 million and operates with a large engineering team in Barcelona. Papernest serves millions of users and has become one of France's leading consumer subscription management platforms.
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Paris Blockchain Week
Organizer of Paris Blockchain Week, one of Europe's premier Web3 conferences held annually in Paris since 2019. The multi-day event draws over 9,000 attendees including crypto founders, DeFi builders, and institutional investors, featuring hackathons, startup pitch competitions, and side events across the city's blockchain ecosystem.
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Paris Blockchain Week 2026
Premier European gathering for institutional Web3 and digital assets at Carrousel du Louvre. Strong concentration of founders, C-suite decision-makers, and liquidity providers. Startup competition applications close close to event week, with finalists pitching live on stage to investors and industry operators.
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Paris Blockchain Week Startup Competition 2026
Competition track for early-stage Web3 companies at Paris Blockchain Week. Applications close close to event week, with selected finalists pitching on stage to investors and digital-asset industry participants.
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Paris Fintech Forum 2026
Invite-only fintech conference hosted at the Palais Brongniart, gathering 2,500+ senior executives, regulators, and investors from the global financial-services and fintech ecosystem. Content spans open banking, embedded finance, crypto regulation, payments innovation, and insurtech. Tickets EUR 1,500+.
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Paris Retail Week 2026
Paris Retail Week, held as NRF Retail's Big Show Europe at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, is a major gathering for the future of retail in Europe. Organised by the National Retail Federation with Comexposium, it brings retailers, brands and technology partners together around retail innovation and commerce tech.
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Paris&Co Incubateurs
Established 1996. Paris economic development agency running 20+ thematic incubators (sports, foodtech, smart cities, etc.) with coaching, offices, and corporate partners; supports hundreds of startups annually and hosts ecosystem events. Scope: Regional (Paris).
