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French Tech's Vegas Gamble: Why Hundreds Of Startups Still Bet Big on CES
The cost is staggering, the competition fierce, but France's tech ecosystem continues its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas with a calculated new strategy
🤖 La Machine #58: AI Power, Policy, and A Transatlantic Rift To Start 2026
France and Europe enter 2026 caught between AI ambition and geopolitical reality as they try to scale national champions, enforce rules on Big Tech, and confront the U.S. over power, platforms, and control.
Europe's AI Reckoning: Caught Between Regulation, Rivalry, and Risk
As 2026 begins, France and the European Union find themselves at the center of a perfect storm, facing diplomatic confrontation with Washington, urgent safety crises, and mounting questions about whether their regulatory approach can survive first contact with geopolitical reality.
Microsoft Unveils 15 GenAI Studio Winners Accelerating Push to Build France’s Next AI Champions
Selected from 180+ applicants, 15 French startups join Microsoft’s GenAI Studio for four months of intensive support, up to $350K in Azure credits, and backing from partners like Mistral AI, NVIDIA, GitHub, and ENGIE.
🤖 La Machine #57: A look back at 2025 with The French Tech Journal
31 December: It's time for a tech yearbook moment. In 2025, French tech saw big AI ambitions collide with funding reality, sovereignty and cybersecurity concerns, and a year that felt a little less euphoric, and a lot more grown-up.
French Tech's Vegas Gamble: Why Hundreds Of Startups Still Bet Big on CES
The cost is staggering, the competition fierce, but France's tech ecosystem continues its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas with a calculated new strategy
A look back at 2025 with the French Tech Journal
As 2025 draws to a close, we’re taking a look back in articles at what has been an epic but turbulent year for French tech.
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.
Slash Intérim: The 26-Year-Old Founder Redesigning a €40B Industry
Emma Capron, Founder & CEO of Slash Intérim, felt the temp-work sector had been stuck in a time capsule. She decided to jailbreak it. Revenues doubled last year, and the company just raised €6M.
Spotlight Interview: Hugo Mendes, Co-Founder of New Future of Work VC Fund Clover
Meet the evergreen VC for the Future of work that wants to re-write VC the rulebook.
From Laos to Leading Europe’s Biggest Teleconsultation Platform: The Unstoppable Rise of Sylvie Nhansana
In a world where women still raise just 2% of VC funding, Sylvie Nhansana defies every statistic: engineer, black belt, and CEO of Qare and HealthHero France. She's now building what could become the world’s first truly global teleconsultation platform.
Spotlight Video Interview: Director Julie Huguet on La French Tech Mission
"What we want to do is help entrepreneurs have the best ecosystem to create, to scale, and to go abroad."
Spotlight Interview: ChangeNOW CEO Santiago Lefebvre Wants You To Believe Again
ChangeNOW 2025, the "world expo of solutions for the planet," is in full swing this week. Ahead of the Paris opening, I spoke with Lefebvre about how a bold idea born at COP21 became a global gathering, and why, in a divided world, hope and action still matter.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Startups Rolling The Dice At CES 2026
Every January, French startups cross the Atlantic to try their luck at CES. The price is high, the competition ruthless, yet the ritual endures. This year, the caravan shrank. We counted the brave souls who went.
💥 AI, Money, Drama: The 10 French Tech Stories You Loved in 2025 🎉
From mRNA biotech and AI-powered learning to billion-euro exits, ethical AI, robotics, and wealth tax showdowns, these were our most-read stories last year.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: The Little Gaming Studio Behind French Tech's Biggest 2025 Story
Mistral AI raising a bajillion euros? Unicorns rising and falling? Whatever. Nobody in French techland had a bigger year than the small but mighty Sandfall Interactive studio, whose indie game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became a global smash. Also: Verkor powers up its gigafactory dreams.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: Ÿnsect’s Bug Dream Squashed
The insect protein company was finally marked for liquidation $625 million later. Hexa gets a house in SF. Clara Chappaz scores a digital government trifecta. Slash Intérim CEO Emma Capton reveals her strategy to reinvent temp work.
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🗣️ Special Edition | Shein, Sex Dolls, and Fast Fashion: The Great French Retail War of 2025 Begins
A controversial partnership between legendary French retailer BHV and the Chinese low-cost retailer erupted into a cultural and economic fight. Amid Paris protests and a government crackdown on illicit goods, France faces a reckoning over algorithmic commerce and its principles.