Best High Tech Companies in Nantes, France
The 34 best High Tech companies in Nantes, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kiwatch.
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 Nantes
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3d counting 3D Counting is a business-oriented company that offers computer engineering services with the design of 3D… | — | — | Deadpooled | 7 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Air Spectral Manufactures hyperspectral cameras for use in aerial remote sensing | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Abdou Baldet Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Bloc in Bloc AR and VR-based 3D visualization software | — | — | Unfunded | 8 | Laurent BARTHOLOMEUS Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Cardinal Robotics Develops an indoor surveillance drone for homes | — | — | Unfunded | — | Abdou Baldet Founder | — | — | — |
| 5 | Eagle View Developer of drones and robots for commercial applications | — | — | Unfunded | — | Frederic Chesnin Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 6 | Eagle View Develops drones and provides drone-enabled services | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Anne Marie Haute President & CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Intuitive Robots Researches and innovates in humanoids, human-robot-interactions | — | — | Unfunded | — | Franck Calzada Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — | — |
| 8 | IS2T Software solutions for IoT & embedded systems | — | — | Unfunded | — | Fred Rivard Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Nantes
#1
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2015 · 15 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Enerdigit is a platform for monitoring the energy consumption of industrial buildings. It offers an Energdigit CAPS application that provides real-time energy consumption data of the industry. Its features include monitoring, visualization, analysis, exploitation, etc. and provides the software to the industries for free.
- Sep 2024Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed$1.4M
#2
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2019 · 17 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of hardware to help the motor handicap. The company offers medical devices, including prostheses and assistive robotics, based on technologies of 3D printing, advanced material, and open-source hardware.
- Feb 2023Seed$2.2M
- 2019Seed$572.2K
#3
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2018 · 18 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of VR and AR-based retail solutions. It enables businesses to generate in context, realistic visualization of all merchandising proposals and show them to clients in a superimposed environment. It also lets users show promotional and POS content in AR/VR and gather analytics or reports. It features in-store activation, retail staging, a virtual showroom, and other eCommerce solutions.
- Apr 2022Seed$1.6M
#4
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2020 · 13 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Online software for data anonymization. It offers a platform to govern, process, and organize data sets and generate anonymous reports. It provides security, privacy, and controlled sharing of enterprise data.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.8M
#5
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2011 · 15 employees$4Mraised▾
Kiwatch offers has developed video monitoring solutions for home or Small business surveillance. A live feed from the camera is available at the user phone, tablet or laptop to view. Kiwatch camera are night vision enabled and starts video recording only on detecting motion. User can preset the areas for which they want alerts.Company gives upto 24 hours of cloud video storage. User can either give one time cost to buy camera or can get into a subscription plan.
- Dec 2017Seed$2.5M
- Dec 2017Conventional Debt$1M
- Jun 2015Seed$893.3K
- Oct 2012Seed$600K
#6
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2016 · 10 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Developer of a platform to automate the inspection by drones for utility companies. Allows the user to upload the raw information about their infrastructures (supported formats include KML files, CSV tables, JPEG images, Lidar LAS, SHP Shapefiles) and generate 3D flight plans using geometrical parameters for guiding the drone along trajectories that wrap tightly around structures. The captured data is processed using artificial intelligence algorithms that automatically detect and characterize defects on industrial infrastructures. Use cases are in the areas of wind energy, electricity distribution, electricity transmission, and solar energy.
- Dec 2018Seed$2M
- 2018Seed$120K
#7
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2005 · 60 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Provider of an IDE platform for IoT development. It offers a platform that enables the design and development of applications for IoT Devices and embedded systems. It provides an operating system and studio to develop graphical user interfaces. It also provides cloud-based apps from OEM and 3rd party users that can be developed.
- Nov 2011Series A$3.4M
#8
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2012 · 8 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Qivivo has developed smart connected thermostat with features like occupancy detection, proximity detection. It learns from user heating patterns and automates the entire process.Moreover user can also program their heating by going previous heating data.
- Aug 2016Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$589.3K
- Dec 2015Grant (prize money)$53.1K
- Jan 2015Series A$1M
#9
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2014 · 11 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Hélicéo designs and builds drones and UAV systems. It builds a fixed-wing drone called the FoXy which comes in Slim and Pro variants. It also manufactures multicopters, namely the FoX4 quadcopter and the FoX6 hexacopter. It also builds a processor unit called DroneBox. The DroneBox includes autopilot modules, avionics, and other flight control systems and can be used for controlling and conducting flight planning for multiple drones, one at a time.
- Feb 2016Seed$1.6M
#10
Funding Raised · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2005$1.6Mraised▾
In-Cell-Art specializes in the preclinical and pharmaceutical development of proprietary nanocarriers (Nanotaxi) for different therapeutic applications (vaccines, cancers, etc.). The CSO & Founder is Bruno Pitard and Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate- 1987) is a founder and in the Scientific Advisory Board. The company was co-financed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a four-year project (budget USD33.1 M) with Sanofi-Pasteur and CureVac on RNArmorvax. RNArmorvax seeks to create a universal vaccine platform based on mRNA. EMER-IT (IMMUNOTHERAPY against EMERGING diseases) is a public-private project of USD 20 M for developing immunotherapy for pandemic viruses such as SARS, Ebola and Avian Flu H5N1.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)—
- Mar 2012Grant (prize money)$1.6M
#11
Funding Raised · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2000 · 7 employees$457.7Kraised▾
Roboplanet develops ultrasonic and vision based mobile robotic crawlers for inspection of assets such as storage tanks, pipelines etc. Their product offerings include Altiscan and Hermine. Altiscan is a magnetic crawler that is used for storage tank inspections and employs ultrasonic thickness measurement technology. The company also develops custom robots for inspection and maintenance activities in industrial, marine sector and nuclear industry.
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$457.7K
#12
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2010 · 2 employees$566Kraised▾
Biomedical tissue synthesizes 3D matrix microfiber tissue membrane for regeneration of tissues. Their product is called Tisseos which mimics the structure of human tissues and is biodegradable. Application of the technology include Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) and Guided Tissue Regeneration (GTR) applications.
- Sep 2017Series A$566K
Funding & investor landscape
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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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