Best Electronic Design Automation Tools Companies in France
The 32 best Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: VSORA.
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Ranked: Best Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VSORA Developer of digital signal processors for application in 5G communication | $20M | 18 mo ago | 13 | 2015 | Khaled Maalej CEO & co-founder | 31 patents Advanced processor architectures and memory-access techniques for high-performance SIMD data processing | — |
| 2 | Soisic Silicon on insulator (SOI) semiconductor intellectual property | $15M | 275 mo ago | 35 | 2001 | — | 17 patents SOI-based Schmitt trigger circuits and optimized SRAM cell layout technologies | — |
| 3 | 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 | 125 mo ago | 30 | 2010 | — | 9 patents Semiconductor test data analytics and advanced data processing algorithms | — |
| 4 | Menta Provider of embedded FPGA IPs for 5G NR SoC | $9M | 57 mo ago | 3 | 2003 | — | 52 patents FPGA and SoC architecture, interposer integration, and configurable digital signal processing | — |
| 5 | Emulation and Verification Engineering Provides hardware and software co-verification solutions | $7M | 268 mo ago | — | 2002 | Ludovic LARZUL Ex-CoFounder | — | — |
| 6 | ANIAH Provider of electronic design automation tools for functional verification of ICs | $6M | 47 mo ago | 27 | 2019 | Vincent Bligny Founder and CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Aselta Nanographics Software solutions for manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuits | $3M | 177 mo ago | 34 | 2009 | — | 144 patents Computational modeling and correction of lithography dose and proximity effects in IC manufacturing | — |
| 8 | edXact Electronic Design & Verification Experts | $3M | 141 mo ago | 14 | 2004 | Mathias Silvant CEO | 13 patents CAD tools for resistive value calculation and circuit analysis in microelectronics | — |
| 9 | AMSimCel Physical verification tools for electronic designing | $2M | 48 mo ago | 7 | 2017 | Catalin Tugui Co-Founder | — | — |
| 10 | Algodone Hardware IP design rights management solution developer | $2M | 108 mo ago | 8 | 2015 | Lionel Torres Co-Founder | 7 patents IP core licensing and usage metering for semiconductor hardware designs | — |
| 11 | Luos Developer of an engine for linking systems from microcontrollers to supercomputers | $2M | 68 mo ago | 16 | 2018 | Emanuel Allely Co-Founder & COO | 2 patents Decentralized communication protocols for distributed control in IoT networks | — |
| 12 | Docea Power EDA tool for power consumption and thermal behavior simulation | $2M | 197 mo ago | 30 | 2006 | Ghislain Kaiser Co-Founder | 4 patents Thermal modeling and simulation tools for power system and power electronics design | — |
| 13 | AccelaD Electronic design software suite | $1M | 117 mo ago | 10 | 2014 | Yoann Meste Founder | — | — |
| 14 | Intento Design EDA solutions for analog design | $992K | 52 mo ago | 12 | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 15 | RivieraWaves Wireless connectivity semiconductor IP provider | $355K | 94 mo ago | 29 | 2010 | Steven Lher Co-Founder | 17 patents RF front‑end signal processing: digital pre‑distortion for OFDM and CPM decoding | — |
| 16 | Satin Technologies Software solutions for quality monitoring in semiconductor industry | $322K | 194 mo ago | — | 2006 | Michel Tabusse Founder & CEO | 5 patents Integrated circuit design assistance tools for automated layout and verification | — |
Top 12 Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in France
#1
Series C · Meudon, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 13 employees$19.7Mraised▾
Developer of digital signal processors for application in 5G communication. Its offerings include single-core processor and multi-core processor. The MPU-801 single-core processor is a customizable DSP that works on high-level description algorithms and is claimed to be power efficient. The multi-core processor provides a development platform that allows users to select DSP-Cores with different sizes (MPU-801 & MPU-3201). It also provides IPs for its products to businesses. It has application in multiple industries including wireless mobile, base stations, and IoT.
- Apr 2025Series C$46M
- Nov 2023Series B$13.8M
- 2023Grant (prize money)$13.8M
- Jan 2023Series A$4.2M
#2
Series A · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2019 · 27 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Provider of electronic design automation tools for functional verification of ICs. It has developed an algorithm that enables a full-chip analysis at the transistor level. It can detect and remove errors from chip designs.
- Nov 2022Series A$6.2M
#3
Series A · Montpellier, Occitanie · founded 2003 · 3 employees$8.9Mraised▾
Menta provides embedded FPGA IPs for 5G NR SoCs. The embedded FPGA IP cores of the company have been categorized based on the number of logic cells available into three broad categories; Small for 12 to 2K LC, Medium for 2K to 6K LC, Large for 6K to 60K LC and eXtra Large for 60K to 200K LC. It also offers Origami Programmer(Programming Software) and Origami Designer (IP Specification software) software. The product of the company caters to multiple business verticals including automotive, aerospace & defense, and security vertical. Its clientele base includes Toshiba, Hitachi, Motorola, and other clients. The company released its 4th generation IP in 2016.
- Feb 2022Conventional Debt$8.4M
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$440.9K
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)—
#4
Acqui-Hired · France · founded 2001 · 35 employees$14.9Mraised▾
Developer of intellectual property based on SOI CMOS technologies. The company primarily focuses on patents and IP of fully-depleted and partially-depleted SOI CMOS technologies and circuit design, enabling foundries, and integrated circuit design companies to get standard cell libraries, memory compilers and standard I/O libraries.
#5
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
#6
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2017 · 7 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Physical verification tools for electronic designing. It offers a GPU-powered physical verification framework for integrated circuits.
#7
Acqui-Hired · Palaiseau, Ile de France · founded 2002$7.2Mraised▾
Provides hardware and software co-verification solutions
#8
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 12 employees$992Kraised▾
Intento design provides innovative EDA solutions for analog design and solves the inherent productivity gap by reducing the simulation iterations. The technology is a result of 25 years of research at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris, France. The EDA tool accelerates the design cycle by automating the sizing and migration of analog and mixed-signal circuitry used in complex SoCs for various connected applications.
- Jun 2022Seed—
- Nov 2015Seed$992K
#9
Series A · Le Bouscat, Nouvelle Aquitaine · founded 2018 · 16 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Developer of an engine for linking systems from microcontrollers to supercomputers. The engine operates across diverse systems, facilitating communication between various hardware configurations. It provides remote control capabilities for services on computers, machines, and cloud applications. The system supports multiple networks simultaneously, including UART, WIFI, CAN, and RS485. A bootloader enables firmware updates for cyber-physical systems.
- Feb 2021Series A$1.5M
- Nov 2019Seed$197.7K
#10
Seed · Grenoble, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2009 · 34 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provider of advanced software services intended to deliver integrated chip manufacturing. The company's services reduce the lithography costs for sub-32 nm integrated circuits, enabling customers to use e-Beam lithography equipment for all advanced technology nodes.
#11
Acquired · Voiron, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2004 · 14 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Electronic Design & Verification Experts
#12
Deadpooled · Montpellier, Occitanie · founded 2015 · 8 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Algodone provides IP design rights management technology for an IP block or a circuit. It has also developed its patented Silicon Activation Learning Technology (SALT) in collaboration with the University of Montpellier. Through it, semiconductor companies can activate/de-activate functionalities, configure features throughout silicon’s life cycle, monitor/control device usage through time, space, or special events, and protect silicon Intellectual Property (IP) assets. The solution is available for both ASIC and FPGA technologies. This allows the hardware vendors a complete monetization strategy with a flexible anti-counterfeiting tool. The technology is modeled on the Software Licence Manager (SLM).
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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.
Common questions
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