Franco-British Communications expert who has worked extensively with founders and investors. She previously advised startups at a prominent European VC and SMEs at France’s Economy Ministry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As 2025 closes, BetterTech founder James Martin warns that the race to deploy AI is stripping away vital safeguards. Also: Yann LeCun finds a CEO, French retail investors are using more AI, and Hugging Face ships more robots.
Between Dec 15 and Dec 19, French Tech startups raising money included SkillCorner, NanoXplore, Ankar, Club Employés, Arcads.ai, Helios, Lucis, Agreenculture, Edailabs, Miura Simulation, Ublo, Cube, and Drama Studios.
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.
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.
Between Dec 8 and Dec 12, French Tech startups raising money included Evertrust, Slash Intérim, GetMint, Corma, Monomeris Chemicals, Hocoia, Keria, and Onsen.
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.
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.
Special aiPulse edition: Gradium emerges from stealth with a €60M seed to make real-time voice the global AI interface. Yann LeCun exits Meta to chase world models, warning that Silicon Valley’s ChatGPT obsession is blinding it to the next revolution, and Paris may lead it.
Between Dec 1 and Dec 5, French Tech startups raising money included Gradium, Axoltis Pharma, Spark Cleantech, Bitstack, Innerskin, Ray studios, 2501.ai, ECAIR, Veragrow, Basalt, ReSoil, Kimialys, Minitap, ROB’OCC, Arrago, Annette, Néosylva, BiPER Therapeutics, and Vulgaroo.
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.
