Best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs Companies in France
The 34 best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sequans.
Ranked: Best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sequans Provider of cellular IoT chips, modules, and intellectual property solutions 60Innovation top 28%Tech top 30%Funding top 31%Product top 32% All 11 signals ▾Innovationtop 28% Techtop 30% Fundingtop 31% Producttop 32% Newstop 36% Talenttop 41% Globaltop 42% Marketbottom 49% Growthbottom 48% Moatbottom 45% Fin. healthbottom 32% Innovation: 3 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Blockchain, Tech Hardware Tech: 40 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $54M | 15 mo ago | 258 | Georges Karam Chairman & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | SCALINX Manufacturer of signal converter ASICs | $50M | 33 mo ago | 35 35 → 68 (+94%) | Hussein Fakhoury Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 50M | 19 patents Precision analog front‑end circuits: comparators, DAC control, delta‑sigma modulators, regulators, calibration. | — |
| 3 | Wise-integration Developer of digitally-controlled gallium nitride power integrated circuits and digital controllers | $19M | 25 mo ago | 17 | Thierry Bouchet Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 50M | 25 patents Gate‑drive voltage regulation and precision voltage reference ICs for power electronics | — |
| 4 | Qualtera Provides big data analytics platform for semiconductor manufacturing 24Innovation top 47%Funding top 48%Moat bottom 49%Patents bottom 40% All 6 signals ▾Innovationtop 47% Fundingtop 48% Moatbottom 49% Patentsbottom 40% Marketbottom 35% Globalbottom 31% Innovation: 9 patents (top 60% of patent-holders) · Deep-tech classification: Tech Hardware Funding: Raised $10.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 15 yrs (0.1/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $11M | 124 mo ago | 30 | — | — | — | 9 patents Semiconductor test data analytics and advanced data processing algorithms | — |
| 5 | Silicon Mobility Developer of semiconductor and software solutions for electric vehicle powertrains | $10M | 96 mo ago | 71 | — | WordPressTypeScriptPHP+31 | Top 50M | 48 patents Advanced electric motor drive control, real-time modulation, and power electronics optimization | — |
| 6 | DiamFab Provider of electronic diamond wafers products | $9M | 28 mo ago | — | Gauthier Chicot Founder & CEO | WordPressPleskMySQL+21 | Top 10M | 13 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 7 | Tiempo Secure Developer of technologies for intelligent computing across various applications | $8M | 194 mo ago | 16 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | GreenWaves Technologies Fabless semiconductor company developing IoT processors and SoCs | $8M | 92 mo ago | 49 | Joel Cambonie co-founder & VP of engineering | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | MAINtag RFID software | $5M | 176 mo ago | 4 | — | — | — | 3 patents Manufacturing multilayer RFID tags with integrated antenna and chip structures | — |
| 10 | IoTize Provider of short-range wireless connectivity chipsets for IoT applications | $4M | 138 mo ago | — | Michael Leplatois CEO & President | ZohoPHPMediaElement.js+12 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 11 | Ommic Manufacturer of III-V microwave and millimeter wave MMICs | $4M | 95 mo ago | 100 | Fabien Robert CEO | — | — | 36 patents Heterojunction FET semiconductor devices and wafer/plate dicing technologies | — |
| 12 | Gridbee Com. Provider of broadband communication solutions for smart objects | $2M | 137 mo ago | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Tame-Power Diverse DC converters and starter kits | $2M | 58 mo ago | 408 | Patrick Collet CEO & MD | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 14 | Nanoz Manufacturer of selective gas sensors | $2M | 100 mo ago | 10 | Thibaud Sellam CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | VectraWave Developer of integrated components and subsystems for microwave, RF and light wave applications | $1M | 148 mo ago | 15 | Yan Haentjens Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 7 patents Implantable self-contained medical devices and ultra‑wideband amplifier bias/load circuitry. | — |
Top 12 Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in France
#1
Acquired · Colombes, Ile de France · founded 2003 · 258 employees$53.8Mraised▾
Provider of cellular IoT chips, modules, and intellectual property solutions. The company offers chips and modules supporting various LTE categories and 5G NR. These products are optimized for IoT applications, enabling connectivity for industrial, medical, and telematics uses. The company also provides RF transceivers for software-defined radio applications.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$384M
- Apr 2021Post IPO$40M
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$631.6K
#2
Series B · Meylan, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2020 · 17 employees$19.4Mraised▾
Developer of digitally-controlled gallium nitride power integrated circuits and digital controllers. The company provides power integrated circuits and digital controllers for efficient power delivery. These products cater to consumer, automotive, industrial, light e-mobility, and data center markets.
- Sep 2024Series B—
- Feb 2024Series B$16.2M
- Sep 2021Seed$3.2M
#3
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 35 employees$49.9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of signal converter ASICs. It offers signal conversion ASICs and IPs formed on proprietary continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ ADC architectures. Its features include broad bandwidth, linearity and noise performance using low-power multi-bit architectures, overload recovery, stability at a low over-sampling ratio, analogue pre-filtering requirement and high degree of flexibility.
- Jan 2024Series C$37.2M
- Feb 2021Series B$12.7M
#4
Series A · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2016$9.4Mraised▾
Provider of electronic diamond wafers products
- 2024PE—
- Mar 2024Series A$9.4M
#5
Series A · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2014 · 49 employees$7.9Mraised▾
GreenWaves Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company which has developed GAP8, which it claims is the industry's first IoT Processor with advanced content understanding capabilities, very high power efficiency, and software-defined modems up to 1Mb/s. It uses GreenOFDM software which makes OFDM implementation power efficient as other modulation techniques. OFDM is important as it supports large data rates above 1Mb/s over a long range. It also supports multiple protocols to be functional in different industries. It also enables AI algorithms to run on these edge devices.
- Feb 2019Series A$7.9M
- Mar 2018Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$497.9K
- Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$1.3M
#6
Acquired · Valbonne, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2015 · 71 employees$10Mraised▾
Developer of semiconductor and software solutions for electric vehicle powertrains. The company provides adaptive control units and software applications. These products are designed to improve energy efficiency, increase vehicle range, and accelerate charging times. The solutions cater to traction inverters, DC-DC converters, and on-board chargers.
- Oct 2018Series B$10M
- Dec 2015Seed—
#7
Acquired · Montpellier, Occitanie · founded 2010 · 30 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Qualtera provides big data analytics platform for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides real-time operational intelligence and engineering data analysis intelligence of IC manufacturing and test operations. It serves fabless companies, IDMs, foundries, and OSATs. Target customers in sectors such as computing, aerospace, mobile, automotive, connectivity networking, and IoT sensor.
- Jun 2016Series A$4M
- Jun 2011Seed$1.3M
#8
Acqui-Hired · Limeil Brevannes, Ile de France · founded 2000 · 100 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Ommic manufactures III-V (GaAs, GaN, and InP ) based microwave and millimeter wave MMICs including LNAs (from 900 MHz to 160 GHz), integrated T/R functions and millimeter-wave power amplifiers. Leveraging epitaxial processes, it manufactures E/D PHEMT, low noise and low power PHEMT, metamorphic HEMT (provides cut-off frequencies up to 400 GHz), and InP DHBT. Other offerings include broadband low noise microwave amplifiers, ultra-low noise amplifier, microwave power amplifiers, wideband amplifiers, trans-impedance amplifiers, digital 6-bit phase shifters, digital 6-bit attenuators, wideband mixers, and radar core chips (used primarily for X-band and C-band radar). Additionally, it provides foundry services, devices for cellular communications, and phased array antennas to the defense and aerospace industry. It primarily serves clients from space and defense industry.
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$260.5K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$743.5K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$284.7K
#9
Series B · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2007 · 16 employees$8.2Mraised▾
Developer of technologies for intelligent computing across various applications. The company focuses on creating solutions that enable advanced processing capabilities. It provides technologies for use in multiple sectors.
- Aug 2010Series B$1.2M
- Jun 2009Series B$7M
#10
Funding Raised · Saint Philbert de Bouaine, Pays de la Loire · founded 2016 · 408 employees$2Mraised▾
Diverse DC converters and starter kits. Its products include high voltage DC-DC converters, custom DC converters, DC converters racks, and battery management systems. It also offers design and manufacturing services.
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$868.2K
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$1.1M
#11
Deadpooled · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2004 · 4 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Maintag SAS develops radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, chips, labels, readers, and RFID software for the aerospace industry. MAINtag is dedicated solely to RFID for the aerospace industry. The entire FLYtag product range is ATA Spec 2000-compliant. MAINtag is AS9100 certified. MAINtag was first to tag life vests and seats, being chosen by Airbus in 2010 for RFID parts marking onboard A350 XWB aircraft. Maintag SAS was founded in 2004 and is based in Paris, France. Subsidiary MAINtag, Inc., is based in Atlanta, Georgia to accommodate clients in the USA, Canada and South America.
- Feb 2012Series A$3.3M
- May 2010Series A$1.3M
#12
Funding Raised · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2015$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of short-range wireless connectivity chipsets for IoT applications. Its RF modules have coprocessors that communicate directly with smartphones through application processors. It provides various target connector options and casing options to connect with any smartphones without making any changes to the target system. It enables rapid and low-risk connections supporting leading RF technologies, including Bluetooth, NFC, and Wifi. It is adaptable across network architectures and other RF technologies like LoRa, Sigfox, and WMbus.
- Apr 2015Grant (prize money)$4.2M
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How research on Chip Design & EDA is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Chip Design & EDA — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 525 France-affiliated papers.
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne136
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique101
- IMEC55
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives51
- Université Grenoble Alpes43
- Scalability3→5
- Overhead (engineering)2→4
- Application-specific integrated circuit3→5
- Boolean function3→4
- Standard cell4→5
- Logic gate74
- Design flow31
- CMOS31
- Field-programmable gate array27
- Logic synthesis26
- Electronic design automation12
- Logic gate11
- Automation11
- Field-programmable gate array8
- Design flow7
Where chip design eda is researched across France
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
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