| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.03.2026 | AI Healthcare Automation Secures $20 Million Investment for Parallel | Parisian startup Parallel secured $20 million in Series A funding. This investment propels its AI agents for healthcare administration. The technology automates vital hospital tasks like medical coding, billing, and admissions. It functions... |
| 20.03.2026 | Parallel: $20 Million Raised For AI Agents Automating Hospital Administration | Parallel, a Paris-based startup building AI agents for hospitals, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to accelerate the deployment of its technology across healthcare systems. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation f... |
| 19.03.2026 | Parallel Raises $20M in Series A Funding | Parallel, a Paris, France-based startup building AI agents for hospitals, raised $20m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Frst, YC, Hexa and notable angels including Arthur Mensch (Mistral), Fel... |
| 05.11.2025 | Freeda Raises €3.4M in Funding | Freeda, a Paris, France-based startup that finds hidden errors in construction plans using artificial intelligence, raised €3.4m in funding.
The round was led by Frst with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures.
The company, which a... |
| 05.11.2025 | Freeda raises €3.4M to transform construction plan reviews with AI | Paris-based Freeda, the startup that detects hidden errors in construction plans using artificial intelligence, has closed a €3.4 million funding round led by Frst with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures. The company is also joi... |
| 17.07.2025 | Spiko secures $22M Series A to bring US-style cash optimisation to Europe | Tokenised infrastructure fintech Spiko has raised $22 million in Series A funding.
As of today, $25 trillion sits idly in European bank deposits, missing out on yields, capital efficiency, and essential capital protection.
This stands in co... |
| 17.07.2025 | Spiko Raises $22M in Series A Funding | Spiko, a Paris, France-based fintech company democratising access to money markets, raised $22M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from White Star Capital, Frst, Rerail, Bpifrance and Blockwall and ... |
| 17.07.2025 | Paris-based FinTech platform Spiko raises €18.9 million to democratise access to treasury yields | Spiko, a French FinTech platform aiming to transform the European cash management market through tokenised infrastructure, has today announced €18.9 million in Series A funding to accelerate their go-to-market strategy, with investments in ... |
| 16.01.2025 | The Future of HR: Maki's AI Revolution and the Sustainability Challenge of Generative AI | In the bustling world of human resources, a new player is making waves. Maki, a Paris-based startup, has just secured €26 million in Series A funding. This isn’t just another tech company; it’s a game-changer. Maki aims to transform HR from... |
| 15.01.2025 | Maki raises €26 million to further HR efficiency with conversational AI agents | Maki, the Paris-based conversational AI agent focused on talent acquisition, has announced the successful closing of its EUR €26 million Series A funding round.
The round was led by Blossom Capital, with participation from DST Global and ex... |
| 25.10.2024 | Attention: $14 Million (Series A) Secured To Transform Customer Conversations Into Insights | Attention, a platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable insights, announced $14 million in Series A funding to power its next phase of growth. Alven led this funding round, which also included Eniac, 645 Ventures, Aglae... |
| 24.10.2024 | Attention Raises $14M to Enhance Sales with AI-Powered Automations | Attention, the platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable insights, announced today its $14 million Series A funding to power its next phase of growth. The investment was led by Alven, with participation from Eniac, 645... |
| 17.04.2024 | Paris-based Dark bags €5.6M to remove dangerous space debris; this SpaceX investor joins the round | Read this article in:
Dark, a Paris-based space company focusing on orbital security, announced that it has secured $6M (approximately €5.63M) in extension to its Seed funding round. This round adds to the $5M Dark raised in 2021.
The Frenc... |
| 17.07.2023 | Rising Titans of FinTech: Ile-de-France’s 15 Pioneering Finance Startups | Table of Contents show
1 1. SheeldMarket
2 2. Vybe
3 3. Aria
4 4. Fygr
5 5. mondaycar
6 6. KIMPA – Impact Investing
7 7. Frst
8 8. EquiSafe
9 9. WAGAS Group
10 10. KLS
11 11. Global Sovereign Advisory
12 12. Akiba Business Partn... |
| 26.06.2023 | France’s Frst announce first close of new fund at €72 million | Parisian seed fund dedicated solely to French startups, Frst has announced the first close of its newest fund at €72 million. According to the firm, this makes them the largest of their kind with over €200 million in assets managed or advis... |
| 25.06.2023 | French VC firm Frst reaches $80 million first close for its new seed fund | Frst, the Paris-based VC firm with no vowel in its name, is in the process of raising its second fund. The firm has already reached a first closing of €72 million (nearly $80 million at today’s exchange rate).
And if there’s one thing to sa... |
| 06.06.2023 | French API security platform Escape raises €3.6 million and plans to double its team | French API security platform Escape has raised €3.6 million which will allow the company's plans to double its team’s size, hire international sales specialists and engineers and develop new security features.
The Seed funding round was led... |
| 27.04.2023 | Bastion raises €2.5 million to give SMBs a fighting chance in the battle against cyberattacks | SMEs are prime targets for ransomware and phishing attacks. Why? Because small teams or local businesses have neither the know-how or the budget for a cybersecurity specialist on staff - and given that 'human error' is one of the main ‘gate... |
| 12.10.2022 | Resonance is a new $150 million VC fund based in Paris | There’s a new VC fund in town — at least if you live in Paris. Meet Resonance, a new $150 million fund (€150 million) backed 100% by Otium Capital.
You may already be familiar with Otium Capital. It is Pierre-Edouard Stérin’s family office.... |
| 20.06.2022 | French fintech FORMANCE taps $3.1 million for real-time payment flows | Paris-based fintech startup which develops low code solutions to build payment flows in real-time, FORMANCE has raised $3.1 million. The round was co-led by Hoxton Ventures and Frst and backed by Y Combinator and angel investors, including ... |
| 07.06.2022 | Paris-based Castor casts a spell to improve data experience with $23.5 million | Companies are collecting a huge amount of data but struggling to efficiently scale its use. Very often, data analysts lack proper data discovery tools and create the same dashboards with each market they enter.
Enter Castor. The Paris-based... |
| 02.06.2022 | Dalma claws on €15 million to unveil superapp for pet parents in France and beyond | With 200 million cats and dogs in European households in 2021 and a pet population now twice as large as the EU population of children under 15, the pet care sector is over a €30-billion industry in Europe.
Pet insurance startup in France, ... |
| 28.06.2021 | Electra raises €15 million, aims to deploy 1,000 electric charging stations across France by 2030 | Brand spanking new French startup Electra has raised €15 million with the ambitious goal of placing 1,000 ultra-fast electric vehicle stations across France by 2030. Electra is addressing the elephant in the room with EVs, namely the lack o... |
| 23.06.2021 | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
| 03.06.2021 | Frst and Fabric Ventures announce fellowship program for crypto entrepreneurs | VC funds Frst and Fabric Ventures are teaming up to create Le Crypto Fellowship. With this program, the two firms want to find the next 10 crypto entrepreneurs in France. And they think they might foster the most promising crypto startups i... |
| 01.09.2020 | 12 Paris-based VCs look at the state of their city | Four years after the Great Recession, France’s newly elected socialist president François Hollande raised taxes and increased regulations on founder-led startups. The subsequent flight of entrepreneurs to places like London and Silicon Vall... |
| 10.07.2019 | VC firm Otium Venture becomes Frst and raises new fund | It’s a breakup of some sort, but with no hard feelings. The team behind Paris-based VC firm Otium Venture is creating a new management company called Frst and raising a new fund.
But first, let’s talk about Otium Venture. Smartbox founder P... |
| - | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
| - | French fintech FORMANCE taps $3.1 million for real-time payment flows | Paris-based fintech startup which develops low code solutions to build payment flows in real-time, FORMANCE has raised $3.1 million. The round was co-led by Hoxton Ventures and Frst and backed by Y Combinator and angel investors, including ... |
| - | Paris-based Castor casts a spell to improve data experience with $23.5 million | Companies are collecting a huge amount of data but struggling to efficiently scale its use. Very often, data analysts lack proper data discovery tools and create the same dashboards with each market they enter.
Enter Castor. The Paris-based... |
| - | Boosting professional insurance for SMEs lands €5 million for Orus | While personal insurance began its digital transformation a few years ago with the emergence of numerous 100% digital players, professional insurance remains largely dominated by traditional players. Major insurers have neglected the SME ma... |
| - | Electra raises €15 million, aims to deploy 1,000 electric charging stations across France by 2030 | Brand spanking new French startup Electra has raised €15 million with the ambitious goal of placing 1,000 ultra-fast electric vehicle stations across France by 2030. Electra is addressing the elephant in the room with EVs, namely the lack o... |
| - | Dalma claws on €15 million to unveil superapp for pet parents in France and beyond | With 200 million cats and dogs in European households in 2021 and a pet population now twice as large as the EU population of children under 15, the pet care sector is over a €30-billion industry in Europe.
Pet insurance startup in France, ... |
