Best Enterprise Storage Companies in France
The 31 best Enterprise Storage companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Technicolor.
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Ranked: Best Enterprise Storage companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Technicolor Platform offering enterprise optical storage drivers for enterprises 89Growth top 5%Market top 22%News top 26%Global top 32% All 12 signals ▾Growthtop 5% Markettop 22% Newstop 26% Globaltop 32% Fin. healthtop 32% Innovationtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Patentstop 37% Producttop 37% Moattop 45% Talenttop 46% Techtop 48% Market: 3,415 employees (top 1% of Enterprise Infrastructure) · Revenue ~$714M rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 89/100 | $421M | 133 mo ago | Acquired | Elihu Thomson Founder | 1915 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 12 patents Digital cinema security, watermarking, and content processing for streaming and film preservation | — |
| 2 | atempo Atempo develops data protection and movement solutions for all major platforms and file systems | $37M | 57 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1992 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+22 | — | — |
| 3 | Active Circle Provider of hardware agnostic storage and archiving solutions | $13M | 220 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | — | 15 patents Distributed cluster software synchronization and virtualized data storage management | — |
| 4 | Astran Decentralized blockchain and cloud based encrypted data storage | $7M | 41 mo ago | Seed | Yahya Jarraya Co-Founder | 2021 | — | 3 patents Secure zero‑trust distributed cloud storage for file integrity and access control | — |
| 5 | OpenIO Object storage solution for Big data and AI | $5M | 108 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Dmailer Synchronization and Backup Solutions | $4M | 227 mo ago | Deadpooled | Lucas Leonardi Founder & CEO | 2001 | — | 3 patents Dual-mode data synchronization for mobile devices across multiple communication links | — |
| 7 | Leviia Secure enterprise cloud storage solutions provider | $3M | 52 mo ago | Seed | Arnaud Meauzoone Founder & CEO | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | — | — |
| 8 | Plakar Developer of cross-platform backup solutions with CLI, API, and UI interfaces 24Talent top 38%Funding top 48%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 38% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 48% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 38% Marketbottom 31% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $3.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $3M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Gilles Chehade Founder | 2024 | HugoYouTubeTailwind CSS+9 | — | — |
| 9 | Akord Platform offering decentralized storage solutions | $2M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Richard Caetano Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Infinit Provider of storage management solutions | $2M | 152 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Enterprise Storage companies in France
#1
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2024$3Mraised▾
Developer of cross-platform backup solutions with CLI, API, and UI interfaces. It provides tools for data protection, restore, and management across various environments. The solutions offer features such as encryption, deduplication, and compression. It supports integration with different storage systems and offers options for file system, database, and object storage backups.
- May 2025Seed$3M
#2
Acquired · Moulineaux, Normandy · founded 1915 · 3415 employees$420.6Mraised▾
Platform offering enterprise optical storage drivers for enterprises. The company licenses intellectual property focused on imaging and sound technologies. Its clients are media companies requiring visual effects, animation, and post production services for movies, TV, and other media. It also provides set top boxes and gateways for distributing content. The company also manufactures Blu ray and DVD content.
#3
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2021 · 20 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Developer of decentralized data storage and collaboration software based on threshold cryptography technology intended for fighting cyberattacks. The company engages in encryption and fragmentation of information and distributes data across several cloud services making it difficult for malicious entities to collect and use the data, enabling clients with an efficient solution against cyber-attacks while taking advantage of the performance of major cloud players.
#4
Acquired · Massy, Ile-de-France · founded 1992 · 230 employees$37Mraised▾
Developer of a data management software designed to protect, store, move and recover data. The company leverages technology to migrate all mission-critical business data and commercialize a range of all-in-one backup appliances particularly for remote-site environments for distributed organizations, centralized or multi-site organizations as well as data centers, enabling clients to solve complex environments challenges and securing data for the future.
#5
Seed · Saint Soupplets, Ile de France · founded 2020$3Mraised▾
Secure enterprise cloud storage solutions provider. The platform allows users to synchronize NAS and servers to the system. It also provides a military grade system to manage DDOS, partitioning, and ransomware protection. Its features include backup and recovery of data and etc. It enables user access to a subscription based pricing module.
- Jul 2022Seed$3M
#6
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020 · 7 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Platform offering decentralized storage solutions. The platforms digital vaults secure clients files and messages onchain, using end to end encryption and permanent blockchain storage. It gives web3 startups the ability to store files and collaborate in a decentralized way. It combines permanent blockchain storage with end to end encryption.
- Mar 2022Seed$2.3M
#7
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2002 · 12 employees$13.3Mraised▾
Active Circle provides software storage solutions for media, scientific and imaging markets. It provides software products that help in optimizing the content of the storage. It can be integrated with other applications to provide storing, archiving and sharing data.
- Jun 2008Series A$10.9M
- Nov 2005Seed$2.4M
#8
Acqui-Hired · Lille, Hauts de France · founded 2015 · 40 employees$5Mraised▾
OpenIO is an open-source software solution for objects storage + grid for applications targeting very large-scale infrastructure. OpenIO ensures that no time is wasted due to data re-balancing and it can be deployed on any hardware, thus there is no vendor lock-in. OpenIO also has native APIs for S3, OpenStack Swift and others to access data stored from any storage environment.
- Oct 2017Series A$5M
#9
Deadpooled · Marseille, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2001 · 7 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Dmailer S.A provides market portable backup and synchronization software solutions for mobile devices for consumers and original equipment manufacturers. Its product Dmailer Sync PC/data synchronization software enables the user to synchronize and save the personal data, including files, photos, music, emails, contacts, calendars, favorites/bookmarks, and desktop background to the portable storage devices, such as USB keys, external hard disk drives, SIM cards, and MP3 players. It also provides Dmailer Backup, a data backup software that enables the users to backup the personal data on various storage devices, Dmailer Online, provides an online storage services.
- Dec 2007Series A$3.6M
#10
Acqui-Hired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2012 · 18 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of storage management solutions. It provides a file system platform that allows for creating storage infrastructure. It creates an overlay network that connects the devices in a peer to peer manner and supports the networks. The file systems provide the advantage of centralized and DFS solution which is secure, reliable and fault tolerant solution.
- Mar 2014Seed$2.2M
#11
Deadpooled · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2011$65Kraised▾
Nuage Labs is a cloud storage gateway software which enables read/write of existing clients-servers applications on any public or private Cloud (Amazon, IBM Softlayer, Azure, Scality etc.) to increase reliability of storage mechanism by its mirroring capacity towards a second instance of cloud storage. Their technology ensures performance storage along with encrypted data transfer ensuring security. Nuage Labs is based in Paris & SFO is aiming at making their cloud gateway 1.2 as an open-source software.
- Apr 2013Seed$65K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Enterprise Storage coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Memory & Storage Tech is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Memory & Storage Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 688 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique242
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives177
- IMEC134
- CEA Grenoble117
- Laboratoire d'Électronique des Technologies de l'Information84
- Ferroelectricity8→32
- Neuromorphic engineering3→21
- Memristor3→16
- Optoelectronics15→23
- Capacitor1→8
- Ferroelectricity6→14
- Random access memory1→5
- Microcontroller1→4
- Artificial neural network3→5
- Bottleneck3→4
- Non-volatile memory30
- Reliability (semiconductor)15
- Flash (photography)14
- Flash memory13
- Resistive random-access memory12
Where memory storage 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 memory storage patents in France
France memory storage patent filing is cooling — 394 filings from 218 assignees (2016–2025), led by Crocus Technology, Commissariat Energie Atomique, ST Microelectronics Rousset; annual filings 77→36.
- Crocus Technology144
- Commissariat Energie Atomique123
- ST Microelectronics Rousset115
- Centre NAT RECH Scient100
- ST Microelectronics54
- ST Microelectronics SRL46
- ST Microelectronics Crolles 2 SA26
- Gemalto22
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.