Best High Tech Companies in Brittany, France
The 57 best High Tech companies in Brittany, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Secure-IC.
Our analysis of 50 High Tech companies
$5.7b in tracked funding; 85% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Brittany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Secure-IC Provider of cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects | $23M | 53 mo ago | Acquired | 113 | 2010 | Hassan Triqui CEO | 12 patents Secure card transaction authentication and automated digital data backup solutions | — |
| 2 | Gladia Provider of speech-to-text APIs for developers 60AI top 20%Tech top 23%Funding top 36%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Techtop 23% Fundingtop 36% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Globaltop 50% Innovationbottom 40% Marketbottom 37% Patentsbottom 34% AI: Classified as an AI company Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $20M | 20 mo ago | Series A | 21 | 2022 | Jonathan Soto Cofounder and CTO | 2 patents Dynamic allocation of compute resources for machine learning workloads | 2 launchs |
| 3 | Energiency Cloud-based platform for optimizing industrial energy efficiency | $9M | 76 mo ago | Series A | 27 | 2013 | Arnaud Legrand CEO | — | — |
| 4 | Biosency Provider of smart band and platform for remote patient monitoring | $8M | 32 mo ago | Series A | 33 | 2018 | — | 29 patents Non‑invasive physiological monitoring sensors and signal‑quality analytics for remote patient care | 1 partnership |
| 5 | TIBOT Technologies Provider of robots services for poultry | $4M | 81 mo ago | Acquired | 12 | 2016 | BENOIT SAVARY Co-Founder | 9 patents Automated mobile robots for poultry farm management and litter scarification | — |
| 6 | Target First Multichannel customer engagement solution | $2M | 117 mo ago | Seed | 6 | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Acklio Software solution for core networks and devices to enable interoperability | $2M | 79 mo ago | Acquired | 17 | 2014 | — | 30 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 8 | Artefacto Provider of augmented reality, virtual reality, and 360° immersive solutions | $2M | 44 mo ago | Early Stage | — | 1998 | Valerie Cottereau CEO | 2 patents Mobile 3D urban scene rendering and composite image generation for smartphones | 2 launchs |
| 9 | DriveTrust AI-powered dashcam with ADAS functionalities | $2M | 83 mo ago | Seed | 2 | 2017 | Tolga Varol Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 10 | AriadNEXT ID document verification for anti-fraud, enrollment and identity management | $2M | 57 mo ago | Acquired | 300 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Vytruve 3D printing and scanning systems for orthopedics | $2M | 28 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Erwan Calvier Founder & CEO | 16 patents Digital acquisition and modeling of prosthetic limb sockets for custom fit manufacturing. | — |
| 12 | Optinvent Smart glasses | $1M | 66 mo ago | Seed | 6 | 2007 | Kayvan MIRZA Co-Founder & CEO | 84 patents Advanced pupil-expanding light guide assemblies for optical imaging systems | — |
| 13 | Dynamixyz Video-based facial capture and analysis solution provider | $1M | 144 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 20 | 2010 | — | 4 patents Advanced head-mounted imaging and display systems for augmented reality | — |
| 14 | Mesure Systems3D Designer and manufacturer of inspection machines for 3D printed parts | $808K | 145 mo ago | Deadpooled | 7 | 2010 | Marc Rosenbaum Founder | 26 patents Non‑contact 3D optical metrology for turbine blades, gears and hollow internal surfaces | — |
| 15 | Voxygen Provides human-like speech synthesis solutions | $707K | 124 mo ago | Funding Raised | 19 | 2011 | Philippe Vinci CEO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 16 | Golaem VFX Software tool for Maya | $668K | 138 mo ago | Acquired | 13 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 17 | YoGoKo IoT systems for smart mobility infrasctructure | $512K | 66 mo ago | Funding Raised | 17 | 2014 | Jean-Marie Bonnin Co Founder / Scientific Advisor | — | — |
| 18 | Syrlinks Manufacture of GPS-based tracking systems for space | $363K | 55 mo ago | Acquired | 140 | 2011 | Guy Richard CEO | 21 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 19 | itiView Indoor mapping solution provider | $286K | 157 mo ago | Seed | 12 | 2011 | Jean-Philippe Gros Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 20 | Ubiscale Provider of IoT software and low-power receiver IPs for GPS tracking | $166K | 104 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2015 | — | 6 patents Real-time positioning and orbital data updates for geolocation beacons | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Brittany
#1
Series A · Rennes, Brittany · founded 2022 · 21 employees$20Mraised▾
Provider of speech-to-text APIs for developers
- Oct 2024Series A$16M
- Jun 2023Seed$4M
#2
Series A · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2018 · 33 employees$8.4Mraised▾
Provider of smart band and platform for remote patient monitoring. The company offers a smart band to remotely monitor the outpatient's health and predict the insights on system failure prior to better treatment planning and engagement.
- Nov 2023Series A$7.5M
- 2018Seed$931.5K
#3
Seed · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2021$1.5Mraised▾
3D printing and scanning systems for orthopedics. It develops ahrdware and software for creating prosthetic sockets. It allows users to compare, correct and align their scans to create tibial, femoral and radial sockets.
- Feb 2024Seed$1.5M
#4
Acquired · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2010 · 113 employees$22.7Mraised▾
Provider of cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects. The company offers protection technologies, integrated secure elements, and security evaluation platforms. It provides services to manage connected objects lifecycle and reach compliance with certification standards. The company delivers pre and post-silicon analysis tools, software security evaluation, and security training.
- Jan 2022Series B$22.7M
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$581K
#5
Early Stage · Betton, Brittany · founded 1998$2Mraised▾
Provider of augmented reality, virtual reality, and 360° immersive solutions. The company delivers custom augmented reality and virtual reality applications. Services include 2D and 3D film creation, drone capture, and industrial perspective mockups. They offer software for product configuration, wind and solar project visualization, and urban development project management. The company also provides software for construction site management using BIM technology.
- Nov 2022Unattributed$2M
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$71.1K
#6
Series A · Rennes, Brittany · founded 2013 · 27 employees$8.5Mraised▾
Energiency is a SaaS-based analytics platform for enterprises to optimize their energy efficiency. It automatically analyzes data from information systems on the plant and provides a dashboard for monitoring the energy consumption based on the conditions of production and maintenance. Through its algorithms, it provides an operational action plan to users, which helps in optimizing the energy usage of a plant. The company's clientele includes Henaff, Saur, and Nissan among others.
- Mar 2020Series A$5.1M
- Feb 2017Series A$3.4M
#7
Acquired · Rennes, Brittany · founded 2010 · 300 employees$1.7Mraised▾
AriadNEXT provides a mobile-app based solution for customer enrollment management and identity documentation verification. Products include S cube, an enrollment management solution to digitalize and automate enrollment; Idcheck.io, a verification solution for paperless identity verification; and SmartStamp, a secure environment for document management and sharing. Main clients include telecom operators, distributors, banks, insurance and other sectors including Decathlon, Aunchan, and others.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Sep 2010Series A$1.7M
#8
Seed · Rennes, Brittany · founded 2007 · 6 employees$1.3Mraised▾
ORA offers smart glasses. It can run applications as a standalone wearable computer and can connect via WiFi and Bluetooth to any smart device. The ORA is equipped with a dual core processor with GPU, camera, microphone, sound, inertial sensors, WiFi, Blootooth, GPS, ambient light sensor, photochromic lenses, and a high capacity rechargeable battery.The glasses are available for pre-order. Their ORA-1 AR glasses raised $100K on kickstarter.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$555K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$303.9K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$327.8K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$819.9K
#9
Acquired · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2016 · 12 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of robots services for poultry. Company is an autonomous robots for poultry farms that help reduce the number of eggs laid on the floor and stimulate hens to use nests. Company focus on automation of repetitive tasks, increasing both technical and economic performance for farmers.
- Oct 2019Seed$3.3M
#10
Acquired · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2014 · 17 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Software solution for core networks and devices to enable interoperability. It enables interoperability among the former, applications, connectivity, and technology while relying on standard IP protocols. It enables IP communication between the device and the application over LPWAN. This functionality is supported by two software components, an IP Device SDK and an IP Core Network. The company claims that its solution transforms LPWAN network communications (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, 5G IoT) into IP to remove all the most critical current barriers to multi-connectivity.
- Dec 2019Seed$2.2M
#11
Funding Raised · Cesson Sevigne, Brittany · founded 2016 · 18 employees$57.2Kraised▾
Kermap is a platform for geospatial analysis. It uses artificial intelligence algorithms to provide concrete urban planning solutions. It offers remote sensing technology for plant mapping of cities and climate modeling on a neighborhood scale. The data is extracted from information contained in satellite or airborne images.
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)—
- 2018Grant (prize money)$57.2K
#12
Seed · Rennes, Brittany · founded 2017 · 2 employees$1.7Mraised▾
DriveTrust has developed an AI-powered dashcam that provides drivers with advanced driving assistance, connectivity, and safety on road. Features dual cameras that record & evaluate real-time scenario inside & outside the vehicle. Combines the video footages with sensor data to provide various functionalities such as driving evaluation, distraction& drowsiness detection, overspeeding & harsh braking alerts, real-time vehicle tracking, and more.
- Jul 2019Seed$1.7M
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,795 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique413
- IMEC343
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives339
- Laboratoire d'Électronique des Technologies de l'Information204
- CEA Grenoble197
- Photonics9→40
- Photonic integrated circuit10→34
- Detector3→15
- Electronics4→13
- Power (physics)6→13
- Fabrication5→13
- Resonator2→7
- Semiconductor device8→13
- NMOS logic2→6
- Photodiode1→5
- Electronics2→9
- Photonics4→9
- Sensitivity (control systems)1→4
- Chip4→5
- Photonic integrated circuit3→4
Where semiconductors 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 semiconductors patents in France
France semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 5,203 filings from 1,647 assignees (2016–2025), led by Commissariat Energie Atomique, Soitec Silicon ON Insulator, ST Microelectronics Crolles 2 SA; annual filings 590→239.
- Commissariat Energie Atomique1920
- Soitec Silicon ON Insulator745
- ST Microelectronics Crolles 2 SA654
- ST Microelectronics Rousset533
- ST Microelectronics518
- Centre NAT RECH Scient263
- ST Microelectronics Grenoble 2231
- Aledia215
Common questions
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