Best Cybersecurity Companies in France
The 423 best Cybersecurity companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ledger.
France's Cybersecurity sector has 423 tracked companies and $2.5B in disclosed funding — and if you want to know where that capital is concentrating, this directory ranks them by equity raised and recent momentum.
Filigran leads the disclosed-funding table at $57M, with GitGuardian close behind at $56M. Those two alone account for a meaningful share of the pool, while the broader field thins fast: Prelude sits at $28M, and most others are still in single-digit millions. The global cybersecurity market is pegged at roughly $72.5B, expanding at a 10.99% CAGR, driven by regulatory pressure and deepening corporate internet dependency. I'd note that France's regulatory environment, shaped by ANSSI oversight and EU frameworks, adds a compliance layer that tends to accelerate institutional buying. Two unicorns have already cleared the valuation threshold here. Bpifrance and Elaia are among the most active backers in this cohort, which tells you something about where patient, structured capital is flowing. So the question isn't whether France is a real cybersecurity market. It clearly is. The question is which funded companies are building durable revenue to match their raise.
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Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies
$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ledger 🦄 Blockchain based hardware wallet for cryptocurrency 80Innovation top 15%Tech top 18%Patents top 22%Customers top 22% All 12 signals ▾Innovationtop 15% Techtop 18% Patentstop 22% Customerstop 22% Moattop 22% Fundingtop 25% Talenttop 28% Newstop 39% Producttop 40% Globaltop 45% Growthtop 47% Marketbottom 44% Innovation: 128 patents (top 15% of patent-holders) · 117 filings since 2022 vs 11 in 2017-21 Tech: 103 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $575M | 39 mo ago | 2 | 2014 | Eric Larcheveque Co-Founder & CEO | ContentfulSentryApple iCloud Mail+39 | — | 128 patents Secure hardware wallets for crypto private-key storage and multi-signature account management | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Shift Technology 🦄 Provider of AI solutions for insurance underwriting, claims, and risk 80AI top 20%Market top 25%Moat top 26%Funding top 28% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Markettop 25% Moattop 26% Fundingtop 28% Producttop 33% Innovationtop 36% Newstop 39% Globaltop 42% Fin. healthtop 43% Growthtop 44% Techtop 44% Talentbottom 49% AI: Classified as an AI company Market: 555 employees (top 7% of Enterprise Infrastructure) · Revenue ~$671M rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $320M | 55 mo ago | 555 | 2014 | Eric Sibony Co-Founder & CSO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | — | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 3 | InterCloud Cloud networking platform for enterprises 32Moat top 31%Product top 32%Funding top 36%Market top 43% All 12 signals ▾Moattop 31% Producttop 32% Fundingtop 36% Markettop 43% Fin. healthtop 44% Talentbottom 49% Innovationbottom 46% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Patentsbottom 33% Newsbottom 21% Growthbottom 9% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 5 patents Product: 3 distinct product lines · Company stage: Acquired rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $153M | 52 mo ago | 241 | 2010 | Jerome Dilouya Founder & CEO | Craft CMSApple iCloud MailPHP+18 | — | 5 patents Network data transmission protocols and error-control mechanisms | — |
| 4 | Vade Secure AI-based e-mail security solutions provider 48Tech top 23%Funding top 32%Product top 36%Growth top 45% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 23% Fundingtop 32% Producttop 36% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Moattop 45% Talentbottom 49% Innovationbottom 40% Patentsbottom 37% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 27% Tech: 55 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services Funding: Raised $121M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 9 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $121M | 49 mo ago | 3 | 2008 | Georges Lotigier CEO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+26 | — | 2 patents Email security: detecting malicious barcode URLs in inbound corporate email traffic. | — |
| 5 | LumApps Cloud based employee communication platform provider | $102M | 77 mo ago | 314 | 2012 | Elie Melois Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowSentryApple iCloud Mail+25 | — | — | — |
| 6 | DataDome Website protection against bot and marketplace for content motenization 37Moat top 31%Product top 36%Market top 37%Funding top 37% All 10 signals ▾Moattop 31% Producttop 36% Markettop 37% Fundingtop 37% Partnerstop 41% Newstop 42% Talentbottom 46% Innovationbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 29% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn Product: 1 product launch event in 12 mo · Company stage: Series C rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $81M | 38 mo ago | 180 | 2015 | Fabien Grenier cofounder & chairman | — | — | — | 2 awards |
| 7 | Zama Provider of cloud application security 40Funding top 41%News top 42%Tech top 44%AI top 45% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 41% Newstop 42% Techtop 44% AItop 45% Moattop 45% Talenttop 45% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Patentsbottom 37% Innovationbottom 30% Funding: Raised $79.2M · 1 rounds over 2 yrs (0.5/yr) News: 2 BI events in 12 mo (of 7 tracked, 4 types) · Top themes: M&A, Capital raise rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $79M | 27 mo ago | 81 | 2019 | Pascal Paillier Co-Founder | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesPlausible+14 | — | 5 patents Encrypted real-valued function evaluation for privacy-preserving machine learning | 4 launchs |
| 8 | Tehtris Unified network threat management platform 57Moat top 22%Funding top 32%Market top 35%Global top 39% All 10 signals ▾Moattop 22% Fundingtop 32% Markettop 35% Globaltop 39% AItop 45% Producttop 46% Talenttop 46% Newstop 47% Techbottom 43% Growthbottom 35% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn Funding: Raised $66.3M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $66M | 44 mo ago | 300 | 2010 | Laurent Oudot Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+21 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Qwant Provider of a data security search engine to filter results 60Moat top 32%Market top 35%Funding top 35%News top 39% All 12 signals ▾Moattop 32% Markettop 35% Fundingtop 35% Newstop 39% Customerstop 39% Producttop 42% Patentstop 43% Techtop 44% Innovationtop 47% Growthtop 47% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 43% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 6/10 · IP moat: 42 patents Market: 118 employees (top 23% of Enterprise Infrastructure) · Top-10,000 web property rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $57M | 60 mo ago | 118 | 2013 | Rozan Jean-Manuel co-founder and Board Member | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+21 | — | 42 patents Search engine indexing and query refinement for web and database retrieval | 1 launch |
| 10 | Filigran Provider of cyber threat intelligence, adversarial exposure validation, and attack simulation 48Funding top 20%Growth top 35%News top 35%Talent top 38% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 20% Growthtop 35% Newstop 35% Talenttop 38% Moatbottom 48% Techbottom 46% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 32% Funding: Raised $56.7M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $57M | 8 mo ago | 20 | 2021 | Julien Richard CTO and Co-founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+23 | 5 signals ▲25% Funding | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 11 | GitGuardian Provider of secrets detection, public monitoring, and non-human identity governance 76Growth top 20%Funding top 23%Tech top 23%News top 24% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Fundingtop 23% Techtop 23% Newstop 24% Moattop 31% Markettop 44% Partnerstop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $56.2M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $56M | 4 mo ago | 129 | 2017 | Eric Fourrier Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowGhostApple iCloud Mail+30 | 5 signals Funding · Capital raise · Announcements | — | 1 launch |
| 12 | Stoik Provider of cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions 60Funding top 25%Growth top 32%Talent top 35%News top 45% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Growthtop 32% Talenttop 35% Newstop 45% Producttop 46% Techbottom 47% Marketbottom 38% Globalbottom 38% Funding: Raised $53.9M · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $54M | 20 mo ago | 45 | 2020 | Jules Veyrat Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceRuby+15 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Yes We Hack Provider of a global bug bounty and vulnerability management platform 57Funding top 29%Moat top 31%Tech top 41%Growth top 42% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Moattop 31% Techtop 41% Growthtop 42% Markettop 45% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 43% Globalbottom 32% Funding: Raised $52.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 7 yrs (0.7/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $52M | 24 mo ago | 172 | 2013 | Guillaume Vassault-Houlière CEO - Co-Founder | SanityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21 | — | — | — |
| 14 | CybelAngel Cyber risk intelligence based on dark net monitoring | $52M | 76 mo ago | 164 | 2012 | Gregory Faitas Deputy CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+37 | — | 4 patents Assessing and quantifying data exposure risk for cloud and enterprise data assets | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 15 | SEKOIA.IO Provider of a security operations platform with threat intelligence capabilities 67Talent top 28%Tech top 29%Funding top 30%Moat top 31% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Techtop 29% Fundingtop 30% Moattop 31% Growthtop 35% Markettop 50% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 18% Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 Tech: 56 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $50M | 14 mo ago | 100 | 2008 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | — | — | — |
| 16 | Livestorm Video meeting and communication platform | $35M | 67 mo ago | 121 | 2016 | — | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+26 | — | — | — |
| 17 | HarfangLab Endpoint detection & response solutions provider 50Moat top 39%Funding top 40%Growth top 45%AI top 45% All 8 signals ▾Moattop 39% Fundingtop 40% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Marketbottom 47% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 21% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 10 curated direct competitors tracked Funding: Raised $32.6M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $33M | 32 mo ago | 68 | 2018 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+25 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Gatewatcher Provider of network traffic analytics based APT detection 60Funding top 32%Growth top 35%Innovation top 39%Product top 40% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 32% Growthtop 35% Innovationtop 39% Producttop 40% Techtop 43% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 48% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $28.4M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $28M | 11 mo ago | 100 | 2015 | Jacques De La Rivière Chief Executive Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 19 | Prelude Provides SMS, OTP, and fraud detection APIs for secure verification 60Growth top 28%Funding top 30%Tech top 30%Talent top 38% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Fundingtop 30% Techtop 30% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 38% Moatbottom 38% Marketbottom 36% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $28.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $28M | 0 mo ago | — | 2022 | Quentin Le Bras Co-Founder | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | — | — | — |
| 20 | Trustpair Provider of solutions for protection against payment fraud | $25M | 44 mo ago | 35 | 2017 | Baptiste Collot Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Secure-IC Provider of cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects | $23M | 52 mo ago | 113 | 2010 | Hassan Triqui CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | 12 patents Secure card transaction authentication and automated digital data backup solutions | — |
| 22 | EVINA Provider of cyber security suite services | $23M | 54 mo ago | 70 | 2014 | David Lotfi CEO & Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | — | — | — |
| 23 | CrowdSec Network firewall security solutions provider | $21M | 44 mo ago | 30 | 2019 | Thibault Koechlin Co-Founder | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+22 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 24 | Deepomatic AI-powered platform for automated quality control in field operations | $20M | 42 mo ago | 79 | 2014 | Vincent Delaitre Co-founder | PrismicNode.jsReact+13 | — | 4 patents Automated visual training-data annotation for machine‑learning models | — |
| 25 | Bfore.Ai Cloud based platform offering predictive analytics solutions 55AI top 30%Funding top 35%Moat top 39%Tech top 41% All 8 signals ▾AItop 30% Fundingtop 35% Moattop 39% Techtop 41% Growthtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 39% Globalbottom 39% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence Funding: Raised $19.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $19M | 18 mo ago | 35 | 2019 | Luigi LENGUITO Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | — | — | — |
| 26 | EfficientIP Hardware and software appliances for IPAM, DNS and DHCP security & management | $16M | 78 mo ago | 95 | 2004 | — | WordPressSentryZoho+26 | — | — | — |
| 27 | Prove & Run Provider of security solutions for embedded systems and connected devices 37Innovation top 23%Product top 36%Growth top 45%Funding top 46% All 7 signals ▾Innovationtop 23% Producttop 36% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 46% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 31% Marketbottom 27% Innovation: 7 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Tech Hardware Product: 7 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series A rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $16M | 30 mo ago | 23 | 2009 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 28 | MailInBlack Provider of cybersecurity solutions focused on email protection and user training | $16M | 47 mo ago | 101 | 2006 | — | WordPressUnbounceMySQL+24 | — | 5 patents Email anti‑spam filtering and multi‑clickable secure signature technologies | — |
| 29 | ubble AI powered online identity and document verification solution | $16M | 55 mo ago | 100 | 2018 | Juliette Co-Founder & COO | — | — | — | 2 partnerships |
| 30 | PatrOwl Provider of external security posture management platform and pentesting services 40Growth top 20%Funding top 47%Tech bottom 48%Talent bottom 42% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Fundingtop 47% Techbottom 48% Talentbottom 42% Marketbottom 29% Globalbottom 29% Newsbottom 18% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $14.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $14M | 21 mo ago | 19 | 2018 | Nicolas Mattiocco Founder | NginxCloudflareMicrosoft Clarity+18 | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 31 | Hackuity AI based solutions for vulnerability assessment and management | $13M | 51 mo ago | 53 | 2018 | Patrick Ragaru CEO | WebflowSalesforceGSAP+17 | — | 2 patents Cybersecurity risk scoring for vulnerable computer assets | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 32 | Citalid Cybersecurity Threat intelligence platform for analyzing, and sharing cyber threats | $13M | 44 mo ago | 34 | 2017 | Maxime Cartan Co-Founder & President | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — | — | — |
| 33 | Cryptonext-Security Provider of quantum cryptography based data security solution 27Talent top 38%Growth top 45%Funding top 48%Tech top 50% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 48% Techtop 50% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 21% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $12M | 30 mo ago | 11 | 2019 | Ludovic Perret Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | — | — | — |
| 34 | EVERTRUST Provider of certificate lifecycle management software 32Growth top 35%Funding top 45%Tech bottom 49%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 45% Techbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 25% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $11.6M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $12M | 6 mo ago | — | 2017 | Jean Alvado CEO | Animate.cssAstroAlpine.js+19 | — | — | — |
| 35 | Yes It Is Online suite solutions for digital transaction management | $11M | 54 mo ago | 17 | 2015 | Nicolas Baudry Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 36 | Dotfile Provider of AI-powered business verification and compliance automation solutions 48Tech top 28%Funding top 45%AI top 45%Growth top 48% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 28% Fundingtop 45% AItop 45% Growthtop 48% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 32% Newsbottom 18% Tech: 45 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $9.8M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $10M | 20 mo ago | 20 | 2021 | Vasco Alexandre Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowSentryWistia+25 | — | — | 2 partnerships |
| 37 | Stamus Networks Provider of network threat detection and response solutions based on Suricata 50Growth top 35%Funding top 36%Innovation top 38%Product top 41% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Innovationtop 38% Producttop 41% Newstop 45% Talenttop 46% Moattop 48% Techbottom 47% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 35% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $7.5M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $8M | 9 mo ago | 25 | 2014 | Peter Manev Co Founder | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyLeadfeeder+19 | — | — | 3 launchs |
| 38 | Astran Decentralized blockchain and cloud based encrypted data storage | $7M | 36 mo ago | 20 | 2021 | Yahya Jarraya Co-Founder | — | — | 3 patents Zero‑trust distributed cloud file storage and secure data integrity verification | — |
| 39 | VirtualBrowser Remote browser isolation solution 45Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Funding top 37%Tech top 50% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 37% Techtop 50% Productbottom 48% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 31% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $7M | 1 mo ago | — | 2009 | Cedric Mermilliod Co-Founder | WebflowLeadfeederMicrosoft Clarity+18 | — | — | — |
| 40 | IDEMIA Provider of biometric and cryptographic solutions for secure transactions and identities | $7M | 54 mo ago | 2,090 | 2007 | Pierre Barrial President & Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+29 | — | 2 patents Contactless smart card chips and secure document anti‑counterfeiting technologies | — |
| 41 | Finovox Provider of document verification and fraud detection software solutions 40Growth top 30%Tech top 48%Funding bottom 46%Global bottom 37% All 5 signals ▾Growthtop 30% Techtop 48% Fundingbottom 46% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 36% Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY Tech: 32 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $6M | 24 mo ago | 22 | 2019 | — | WebflowGSAPAxeptio+17 | — | — | 1 partnership |
| 42 | Cosmian Data privacy solutions based on blockchain and cryptography | $6M | 47 mo ago | 21 | 2018 | — | MkDocsPythonMathJax+8 | — | — | — |
| 43 | Lupin And Holmes Developer of cybersecurity tools for supply chain vulnerability management 37Talent top 38%Funding top 41%Growth top 45%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 41% Growthtop 45% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 45% Marketbottom 31% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $5.9M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $6M | 3 mo ago | — | 2024 | Oren Carta-Lag Co-Founder | VarnishTailwind CSSReact+11 | — | — | — |
| 44 | Mindflow Provider of GenAI hyperautomation platform for enterprise IT and cyber teams 32AI top 8%Talent top 38%Funding top 47%Tech bottom 45% All 7 signals ▾AItop 8% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 47% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 22% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $5M | 26 mo ago | 10 | 2020 | Paul Jonville Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+16 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 45 | Qevlar AI AI automation to triage alerts for threats 48News top 20%Growth top 32%Funding top 36%Talent top 38% All 8 signals ▾Newstop 20% Growthtop 32% Fundingtop 36% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 36% News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 13 tracked, 3 types) · +133% YoY Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $5M | 3 mo ago | — | 2022 | Hamza Sayah Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | 7 signals ▲133% Funding · Fundraising | — | — |
| 46 | NANO Cloud based network observability solution | $4M | 32 mo ago | — | 2019 | Francois Courvoisier Co-Founder | WebflowThree.jsPostHog+20 | — | 77 patents Real-time biomedical data stream analysis and traffic management for diagnostic communication systems. | — |
| 47 | Nucleon Security Offering endpoint threat detection solutions 45Growth top 28%News top 37%Talent top 38%AI top 45% All 8 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Newstop 37% Talenttop 38% AItop 45% Fundingtop 50% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 23% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 3 tracked, 1 types) · Top themes: Funding rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $4M | 9 mo ago | 11 | 2019 | Anas Chanaa Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsRadix UIHeadless UI+19 | 3 signals Funding | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 48 | Kraaft Job site management software for field workforce 55Growth top 29%Tech top 32%Talent top 38%Customers top 44% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 29% Techtop 32% Talenttop 38% Customerstop 44% Moattop 48% Fundingtop 50% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 18% Growth: Web rank 1,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · App-install growth +242% YoY Tech: 37 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $3M | 16 mo ago | 28 | 2018 | Thomas Reygagne Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowHubSpotSendinblue+22 | — | — | — |
| 49 | Wallix Provider of identity and access management and privileged access solutions | $3M | 36 mo ago | 233 | 2003 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | 13 signals ▼24% Earnings · Announcements · Leadership | 89 patents Privileged access management and secure remote session encryption with side‑channel attack detection | 2 partnerships |
| 50 | Elba Offering threat intelligence platform | $3M | 36 mo ago | 14 | 2021 | Grégoire Ostian Co-founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in France
#1
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022$28.1Mraised▾
Provides SMS, OTP, and fraud detection APIs for secure verification. The platform enables businesses to send verification codes and transactional messages via multiple messaging channels. It automatically selects optimal delivery routes to ensure high reliability and efficiency. Real-time fraud detection analyzes digital signals to prevent suspicious activity before verification. The system is designed to enhance onboarding, maintain security, and support scalable communication workflows.
- May 2026Series A$20M
- Nov 2024Seed$8.1M
#2
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2017 · 129 employees$56.2Mraised▾
Provider of secrets detection, public monitoring, and non-human identity governance. The company offers tools to find, fix, and prevent hardcoded secrets. It provides external attack surface protection on public code repositories. The company gives visibility and control of non-human identities. It offers a command line interface, detectors, and integrations. Solutions include code security, secrets sprawl, and supply chain security.
- Feb 2026Series C$50M
- Dec 2021Series B$44M
- Dec 2019Series A$12.2M
#3
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2021 · 20 employees$56.7Mraised▾
Provider of cyber threat intelligence, adversarial exposure validation, and attack simulation. The company offers software as a service, support, and training options. It delivers platforms for threat monitoring, incident response, and breach simulations. The offerings include enterprise editions and resources for community collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Oct 2025Series C$58M
- Oct 2024Series B$35M
- Feb 2024Series A$16.3M
- Jun 2023Seed$5.4M
#4
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2009$7Mraised▾
Remote browser isolation solution. It is a remote browser isolation solution that provides seamless protection for end users and sensitive web applications. Provides simplified access to online video conferencing tools, with controlled access to cameras, microphones, and screen sharing.
- May 2026Series A$7M
#5
Seed · Paris · founded 2024$5.9Mraised▾
Developer of cybersecurity tools for supply chain vulnerability management. The company offers a tool that provides real-time insights into supply chain security. It allows security teams to identify vulnerabilities, track patches, and respond to risks. The company aims to help organizations proactively protect their supply chains.
- Mar 2026Seed$5.9M
#6
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022$4.9Mraised▾
AI automation to triage alerts for threats. The platform uses AI automation to triage alerts and investigate security threats. It can connect to any security tool, including SIEM, EDR, and CTI.
- Mar 2026Series B$30M
- Apr 2025Series A$10M
- Nov 2023Seed$4.9M
#7
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2017$11.6Mraised▾
Provider of certificate lifecycle management software. It offers digital trust, PKI, authentication, certificate lifecycle, identity and acces management, IoT, digital certificat management, security software tools, PKI managed service, secure code signing, PKI automation, SSL,TLS certificates, IT security, certificates automation, secure certificates authorities, IAM, encryption, and MDM.
- Dec 2025Series A$11.6M
#8
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2008 · 100 employees$49.5Mraised▾
Provider of a security operations platform with threat intelligence capabilities. The platform offers extended detection and response through cyber threat intelligence. It integrates with security infrastructure, consolidating events and alerts. The platform helps with attack identification, mitigation, and incident management. It provides features such as detection rules, automation, and interoperability.
- Apr 2025Series B$28.6M
- May 2023Series A$37.8M
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$28.9K
- Oct 2020Series A$11.8M
#9
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 100 employees$28.4Mraised▾
Gatewatcher provides a hardware appliance for network traffic analysis for detecting advanced persistent threats in an enterprise network. The platform Gatewatcher consists of probes monitoring the network traffic, and a collector appliance receives and analyzes information from the probes.
- Jun 2025Venture Debt$29.1M
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Feb 2022Series A$28.4M
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$735.3K
#10
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2014 · 25 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Provider of network threat detection and response solutions based on Suricata. The company delivers network security solutions designed to transform network traffic into actionable security insights. It offers network detection and response systems that expose threats to critical assets and empower rapid response. The company provides detection with explainable results by applying technologies to problems.
- Sep 2025Series A$2.4M
- Apr 2025Series A$530K
- Aug 2023Series A$6M
- Apr 2020Seed$1.5M
#11
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020 · 45 employees$53.9Mraised▾
Developer of a cyber security platform designed to provide insurance and security against cyber-attacks. The company's platform offers a subscription that combines protection that can be controlled, insured for the residual risk and ongoing monitoring, enabling businesses to get an end-to-end control of their exposure to cyber risk.
#12
Seed · Vanves, Ile de France · founded 2019 · 11 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Offering endpoint threat detection solutions. It provides a cyber security platform that offers solutions to detect attacks, respond effectively, and quickly remediate security incidents by using artificial intelligence technology. It also provides multi layer of business centric protection against cyber attacks.
- Sep 2025Seed$3.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 317 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique59
- Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique24
- Montimage17
- Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications17
- Centre Inria de l'Université de Lorraine16
- Intrusion detection system16→30
- Anomaly detection4→17
- Scalability2→12
- Key (lock)3→10
- Architecture3→8
- Key (lock)2→4
- Intrusion detection system1→5
- Key (lock)2→4
Where cybersecurity 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.
Who's filing cybersecurity patents in France
France cybersecurity patent filing is accelerating — 15,865 filings from 5,076 assignees (2016–2025), led by Thomson Licensing, Gemalto, Alcatel Lucent; annual filings 1478→1522.
- Thomson Licensing1745
- Gemalto1536
- Alcatel Lucent1315
- Orange1173
- Thales1172
- Commissariat Energie Atomique890
- France Telecom882
- ST Microelectronics Rousset810