65 Best Startups in France to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in France

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 551 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $70.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$186.2m

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Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure-as-a-service platform founded in 2017 by Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Antoine de Chassy and Alex Greenberg.

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$3.0m

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Exactly is a decentralized, open source and non-custodial credit protocol founded in 2021 by Lucas Lain.

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$393.3m

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Insect ingredient producer for animals, people, and plants.

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$64.0m

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FairMoney is a Paris-based start-up which offers micro loans in Nigeria through their mobile, Android app.

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$152.6m

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Luko is a home insurance company that uses technology to streamline the process of getting home insurance and making claims. It is located in Paris, France and was founded in 2016.

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$121.8m

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Kinéis is a French satellite operator and global connection provider.

Planplan is a company founded in 2023 offering an open source product and ecommerce search engine

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$17.4m

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The Family is a company founded in 2013 by Oussama Ammar, Alice Zagury and Nicolas Colin.

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$11.6m

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A data marketplace for B2B sharing, acquiring, and monetizing data.

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$759.5m

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solarisBank is a banking platform empowering finance pioneers. We've built an API-accesible platform to provide companies with modular building blocks to innovate in finance. As a tech company with a banking license, our business model is strictly B2B2C - we're focused exclusively on enabling our partners to offer their end customers world class financial products.

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A company with a feedback platform for businesses in Europe. It was founded in 2012 and has locations in France and England.

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$27.4m

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Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.

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$71.7m

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A software company that has created a mobile application that is a recruitment platform working with students, universities, and companies. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Paris, France.

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$98.6m

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A biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing small molecules that target G protein-coupled receptors

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$71.4m

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Recommerce Group is a French company offering refurbished smartphone sale and buyback solutions.

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$12.0m

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Another Brain is a software company developing artificial intelligence technology using an approach inspired by biology.

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$4.4m

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Atlendis (previously JellyFi) is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocolthat enables crypto loans without collateral.

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$19.3m

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To provide in class bionic vision restoration systems enabling the blind to regain greater autonomy and improved quality of daily living.

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$43.5m

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YesWeHack is a bug bounty and vulnerability management platform founded in 2015 by Guillaume Vassault-Houlière.

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Hedonova is the best alternative investment firm that invests in alternative assets like art, startups, equities, wine, and more. Start investing with $1000.

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$9.2m

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A company developing a noninvasive, EEG-based brain-computer interface geared to the mass market.

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$4.7m

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A technology company offering a platform that provides a session replay and an analytics tool for web applications developers and product teams.

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$2.8m

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mip robotics is a company founded by Franck Loriot, Fredrik Debong and Gonzague Gridel.

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$15.6m

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Elistair is a company that develops equipment for the aviation industry.

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$951.1m

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Vestiaire Collective is a marketplace for luxury, pre-owned fashion products founded in 2009.

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$4.0m

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docTrackr is a company founded in 1996 by Uli Mittermaier, Clement Cazalot and Alex Negrea.

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$23.4m

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Voluntis is a company that is at the forefront of the medical and digital revolutions, the company is a pioneer in digital therapeutics.

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$6.5m

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Mojo provides fertility care through partnering tech experts with fertility experts.

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$12.9m

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Yseop is a Dallas-based artificial intelligence company offering artificial intelligence-based content generation around business reporting.

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$7.1m

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EXo Platform is an open source enterprise social collaboration platform founded in 2003 by Benjamin Mestrallet.

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PayPlug is the first online payment solution designed specifically for SMEs. Founded in 2012, the platform has quickly become a key alternative to legacy players thanks to its simple products, high performance converison tools, and strong customer service. In 2016, only 15% of SMEs were selling online! Our ambition is to make online commerce accessible, enable small businesses to stand out against giant players, and contribute to the digitization of the economy. Today, we are proud to help thousands of online merchants grow by offering them simple online and mobile credit card acceptance. After raising more than 12 million euros in funding and obtaining a Payment Institution License from ACPR Banque de France, PayPlug has joined the Natixis / BPCE group in April 2017.

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$5.9m

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Algama is a company that produces microalgae-based foods and ingredients for chemicals, cosmetics, nutrition, and health.

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$14.1m

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API and dashboard designed to optimize ordering, shipping, and delivery.

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Servoy is a company founded in 2001 by Ron van der Burg.

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$14.3m

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Platform for connecting and deploying autonomous drones and robots to the cloud securely.

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$11.6m

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Doctrine developes legal research and analytics software for legal professionals.

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$20.4m

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DreamQuark is an artificial Intelligence company.

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$114.5m

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Virtuo is a digital car rental company, using an algorithmic approach to track and anticipate demand, optimise and adapt fleet sizing, and set pricing levels.

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$28.1m

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B12 is a company that develops human-assisted AI platform designed to offer integrated website-design services.

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$9.3m

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Shine is a neobank based in France offering Business accounts including a debit card, with all transactions being managed from an iPhone or Android application. Shine currently accepts to open mobile bank accounts for residents of France.

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$38.0m

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Kalray is a semiconductor company focused on the development of software and hardware solutions for a wide variety of applications.

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$254.4m

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Creating the future of tissue reconstruction with a novel platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.

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$27.8m

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Zefir is a Paris-based real estate company founded in 2020 by Louis Lambert.

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$5.9m

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CASTOR is an automated 3D printing software enabling manufacturers to identify cost reduction opportunities, utilizing the benefits of industrial 3D printing.

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$200.0m

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Vade Secure is a Hem, France-based developer of cybersecurity solutions offering email filter services.

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$7.0m

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Ipanema SD-WAN is focused on end user Quality of Experience (QoE) using an application identification engine to apply specific SLAs to specific network flows.

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$2.2m

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Manufacturer of aerial machines to carry out intensive work at height.

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$7.7m

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LNC Therapeutics is the 1st company to harness the therapeutic potential of Christensenella. We have been focused on the fundamental causes of illnesses

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$36.0m

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Scalefast is a global eCommerce solution that simplifies eCommerce for inspirational brands to make their store the best place to shop online.

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$23.1m

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Intalio is a company founded by Pascal Belloncle, Assaf Arkin and Thierry Koehrlen.

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$157.3m

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TreeFrog Therapeutics aims at making iPS-derived cell therapies safer, more efficient and more affordable.

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$18.7m

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BIOMODEX develops and provides pre-operative training solutions for physicians based on 3D printing technology.

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$95.7m

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Shippeo is a real-time multimodal transportation visibility platform founded in 2014 by Pierre Khoury.

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$2.5m

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The Company has recently released electric turbofans optimized for static thrust and VTOL/STOL.

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$43.0m

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Therapixel is an artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging founded in 2013 by Olivier Clatz.

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$9.6m

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Stratumn is a blockchain company founded in 2015 by Richard Caetano, Stephan Florquin, Sebastien Couture and Francois Dorleans.

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$194.4m

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Ivalua is a a Redwood City, California-based provider of enterprise spend management tools.

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$14.5m

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Vekia is a SaaS solution specialized in inventory optimization and supply automation. They use AI and machine learning to boost the performance of your supply chain.

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$2.1m

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Sterblue is a company developing drone software platform for industrial inspections.

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$5.3m

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WOODOO manufactures a new wood material, translucent, weatherproof, stronger and durable, transforming lower grade wood species into high-performance materials.

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$1.7m

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zenchef is a France-based company founded in 2010 by Xavier Zeitoun, Julien Balmont, Thomas Zeitoun and Xavier Zeitoun.

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$5.3m

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Dracula Technologies is a company that generates sustainable energy.

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$66.0m

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Extend is an innovative digital credit card distribution platform that redefines how credit cards are issued and shared

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$58.0m

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Destinus is a transportation technology company building near-space vehicles and the infrastructure to power the transportation network.

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$698.3k

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Developer of a payment application designed to simplify paying and managing money in Africa. The company's platform allows users to instantly pay in local stores by scanning QR codes with the help of a virtual card, enabling them to easily manage and control their budgets.

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