Best Gaming Tech Companies in Paris, France
The 32 best Gaming Tech companies in Paris, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Shadow.
Ranked: Best Gaming Tech companies in Paris
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shadow Cloud-based game streaming application | $105M | 84 mo ago | Acquired | Stephane Heliot Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLRedis+21 | 12 patents Image compression algorithms and virtual machine orchestration/network data flow | — |
| 2 | Gamestream Platform providing services for cloud gaming | $9M | 31 mo ago | Series B | Ivan Lebeau Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Gadsme Platform offering ad network software | $8M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Simon Spaull Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder | 2020 | Node.jsThree.jsMUI+17 | 15 patents 3D web content management and visibility computation for interactive graphics rendering | — |
| 4 | Toornament SaaS-based esports tournament management platorm | $3M | 65 mo ago | Series A | Lam Hua Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 5 | Playtem Native advertising for games | $2M | 145 mo ago | Seed | Michael Alves CTO & Co-Founder | 2012 | Windows ServerMediaElement.jsMicrosoft ASP.NET+12 | — | — |
| 6 | PlayMakers Digital platform to monetize user-generated content in games | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Ilan Nabeth Co-Founder & CEO | 2022 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowSentry+19 | — | — |
| 7 | ePawn NFC Technology used for VR in games | $1M | 166 mo ago | Acquired | Christophe Duteil Co-Founder & CEO | 2010 | — | 66 patents Real-time tracking and control of hybrid mobile devices for AR/VR systems | — |
| 8 | Gamersband Geo-social network for video gamers | $500K | 192 mo ago | Series A | Antoine Frankart Co-founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Gaming Tech companies in Paris
#1
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 42 employees$8.7Mraised▾
Platform providing services for cloud gaming. It offers cloud gaming services. It offers white label solutions for streaming, servers, games catalog, and web APIs, and more. The company also provides solutions like streaming on various platforms, low latency gaming, KPI tracking, high image quality, and more. The clients of the company include accor, disney, intel, IBM, and more.
- Mar 2024Series B$4.9M
- May 2020Series A$3.8M
#2
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022$1.5Mraised▾
Digital platform to monetize user-generated content in games. It offers in-game UGC API allows players to create and submit new game assets such as character skins, maps, animations, and more.
- Feb 2024Seed$1.5M
#3
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 200 employees$104.7Mraised▾
Cloud-based game streaming application. It allows users to access and play games on various devices such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows, and more from the cloud-based PC devices. It monetizes through monthly and yearly subscription packages.
- Oct 2019Series A$33M
- 2019Series A—
- Jun 2017Series A$57.1M
- Angel$14.6M
#4
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020 · 13 employees$8Mraised▾
Platform offering ad network software. It is an online in game advertising platform. It is a platform for both advertisers and publishers to monetize games and ad experiences that deliver the attention and ensures brand lift. It is an in-game advertising platform designed for the gaming and e‑sports industries. Features include realistic experiences with premium in-game branded ads, improve game retention, control campaigns, increase revenue and drive stronger CPMs, etc.
- Apr 2022Seed$8M
#5
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2013$3.1Mraised▾
SaaS-based esports tournament management platform. The platform provides organizations with customizable structure, match formats, and more. It also enables players to register and manage their data through the website. It also provides streaming and VOD services. Organizers can also get white label solutions for their tournaments.
- Jun 2021Series A$3.1M
#6
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2012$1.9Mraised▾
Playtem is a French advertising company focusing on native advertising in games. The company offers SDK's to game developers for integrating Playtems advertising technology into their games. The company offers a wide user base for advertisers to advertise their brands and better monetization for game developers.
- Sep 2014Seed$1.9M
#7
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2010 · 7 employees$1.3Mraised▾
ePawn has developed a platform using NFC technology which merges virtual gaming with real toys and figurines. The toys are placed on a NFC gaming board which tracks their exact position. The movement of the figurines and combination of tags can be visualized within the gameplay. The board supports up to 40 tags to be put in play simultaneously.
- Dec 2012PE$1.3M
#8
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2009$500Kraised▾
Gamersband, developed by France based developer Oxent, is a geo-social network for video gamers. It enables the video gamers to find other gamers and video game tournaments near their location.
- Oct 2010Series A$500K
#9
Deadpooled · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 14 employees$16.7Kraised▾
World Gaming Federation(WGF) is a social network platform for gamers. It acts as a community platform for gamers and allows them to browse events, watch videos, and find new players to play with. It also helps brands to figure out events and reach out to them.
- Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$55.4K
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$54.5K
- Seed$16.7K
#10
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 6 employees—raised▾
Provider of AI-powered engine to create characters for games and metaverse. It offers Characters-as-a-Service powered by KuteEngine that facilitates the creation of next-gen AI characters for games and the metaverse.
- Jun 2021Seed—
#11
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2011 · 10 employees—raised▾
Mobile cloud gaming for mobile users. It enables mobile operators and service providers to offer their own mobile cloud gaming service. The company offers a fresh outlet for mobile game distribution. There are more than a thousand mobile games available on the platform.
- Apr 2019Seed—
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What Paris researches in gaming tech
- Télécom Paris8
- Université Paris Cité6
- Université Paris-Sud4
- Paris-Est Sup2
- Université Paris-Saclay2
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