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This small French company wants to build the open alternative to Kindle and Kobo

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged e-book ecosystems with devices, apps and digital bookstores all working perfectly together — Amazon, Rakuten and a tiny company c

Augment provides an MBA-like program, but exclusively online

French startup Augment has seen the incredible rise of online courses and edtech companies, as well as its potential when it comes to reinventing education at scale. That’s why the startup has been

Paris-based startup studio Hexa raises some funding to launch even more startups

You might not be familiar with Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, but some of its portfolio companies have become well-known unicorns, such as Fro

Non-unicorn insurtech Luko urgently needs a buyer, but will it be Allianz?

Luko's parent company, Demain ES, will be put for sale via a legal notice in the newspaper after Admiral abandoned ship.

Osium AI uses artificial intelligence to speed up materials innovation

While everybody is trying to figure out how artificial intelligence can be leveraged across various industries, French startup Osium AI has found an interesting use case for AI — research and develo

Callyope monitors mental health through speech-based technology

French startup Callyope isn’t your average startup as it is addressing a very hard problem in a highly regulated industry. The startup is building a remote patient monitoring platform for people liv

Indy raises $44 million to simplify taxes and paperwork for freelancers

French startup Indy has recently closed a new funding round of $44 million (€40 million), with BlackFin Capital Partners leading the round. Indy started as an automated accounting platform for freel

With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again

In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting on that article, I’m not sure that 2018 was the turning point. But the pr

Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab, called Kyuta

France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI Act to fix rules for apps, not model makers

Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawmakers trying to secure a political deal on draft legislation in the next few week

Refurbished e-bike marketplace Upway raised $30M at a higher valuation

Upway, the French startup that refurbishes and resells electric bikes and recently launched in the U.S., has brought on new funding at a higher valuation than its previous round. The $30 million Serie

Ida uses AI to prevent grocery food waste

Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of fresh products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. The startup

Here are this year’s top 40 startups at Station F

Every year, hundreds of (very) early-stage startups choose to participate in one of the startup programs of Station F, an iconic startup campus based in Paris. And Station F has shared a list of the 4

Giskard’s open source framework evaluates AI models before they’re pushed into production

Giskard is a French startup working on an open source testing framework for large language models. It can alert developers of risks of biases, security holes and a model’s ability to generate harmfu

There’s something going on with AI startups in France

Last night, Motier Ventures held a tech meetup focused on AI startups featuring some of the most hyped tech startups in the French tech ecosystem: Dust, Finegrain, Gladia, Mistral AI and Scenario —

Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio health, body comp and more

French health tech brand Withings has been around the block and some. These days it offers a range of fitness wearables and monitors. It was also an early mover in smart scales and is continuing to pu

Yellow, a new VC firm from Glovo founders and Atomico investor, is betting on Southern Europe

It’s always interesting when a new VC firm with a fresh team of partners emerges. And with Yellow, it’s interesting in multiple ways. Founded by Oscar Pierre and Sacha Michaud, the founders of Glo

Not many unicorns were spotted in the UK and France this year

Since France and the U.K. have both been vocal about their unicorn goals, it is these two countries we are looking at today.

Hexa, the startup studio behind Front, Spendesk and Aircall, unveils its next batch of startups

Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that started its life as eFounders, just shared a list of the six next companies that will emerge from the studio. It’s an interesting mix of enterprise SaaS sta

50inTech believes it’s time to measure diversity with KPIs

Tech employees who are in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion are tired. They have been talking with internal stakeholders and promoting diversity across the board. But it’s hard to prove that
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