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Best High Tech Companies in Pays de la Loire, France

The 69 best High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Qowisio.

69companies tracked
$42.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · HIGH TECH × PAYS DE LA LOIRE

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.

50companies analysed
85%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
6unicorns
2019median founding year
59kcombined LinkedIn audience
33%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
13d counting
3D Counting is a business-oriented company that offers computer engineering services with the design of 3D…
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2Air Spectral
Manufactures hyperspectral cameras for use in aerial remote sensing
———Abdou Baldet
Founder & CEO
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3Axiome
Develops robots for industrial cutting applications
———Patrick Seguin
CEO & President
DrupalPleskPHP+12Top 10M2 patents
Controlled plastic cutting installations for creating weakened deformation zones in airbag components.
1 launch
4Bigblock Datacenter
Cryptocurrency mining service provider
———Sebastien Gouspillou
Co-Founder & CEO
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5Bliss DTx
Provider of virtual-reality-based digital device for pain management
———Etienne Lepoutre
CEO
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6Bloc in Bloc
AR and VR-based 3D visualization software
——8Laurent BARTHOLOMEUS
Co-Founder & CEO
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7Cardinal Robotics
Develops an indoor surveillance drone for homes
———Abdou Baldet
Founder
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8CogniTalk
Machine learning techniques to enable human machine interface
———Stefan Knerr
Founder & CEO
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Top 12 High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire

#1
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2015 · 15 employees
$1.4Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2024Seed—
  • Jun 2018Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Benedicte PleauFounder
Investors
Le Mans Sarthe Investment, Pays de la Loire Participations, Ring Capital, Bpifrance
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementComplianzContact Form 7Core-Js
#2
Series A · Guerande, Pays de la Loire · founded 2016 · 21 employees
$7.8Mraised
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Provider of solar-powered autonomous UAVs for multiple applications. It manufactures solar-powered drones for commercial applications. It also offers drone research and development services. It caters to agriculture, maritime, law enforcement, and public safety industries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 10.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series A$5M
  • Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$56.3K
  • Jan 2022Seed$2.8M
  • Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$2.1M
Founders & team
Benjamin DavidXSun CEO
Investors
Pays de la Loire Participations, Credit Agricole, EIC Fund, Friedrich & Wagner, Europa
Tech stack
AosApache Http ServerCivicthemeFont AwesomeGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#3
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2019 · 17 employees
$2.8Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 9.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Seed$2.2M
  • 2019Seed$572.2K
Investors
Bpifrance, Enchanted Tools
Tech stack
BunnyBunny FontsCore-JsElementorFont AwesomeGoogle Font Api
#4
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2018 · 18 employees
$1.6Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 8.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Seed$1.6M
Investors
Pays de la Loire, ABAB, Bawomen, HAI, Wynd, Le Village by CA
#5
Acquired · Angers, Pays de la Loire · founded 2009 · 16 employees
$11.9Mraised
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Qowisio develops connected solutions for enterprises to simplify and accelerate their deployment of IoT solutions. Its chief offering is an open network which is essentially a dual-mode UNB/LoRa compatible, hardware agnostic network. The company also offers a range of intelligent devices organized by requirement type (security, environment, energy, and more) for developing end to end solutions for each use case.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2015Series A$11.3M
  • Jun 2012Seed$628.9K
Investors
Ouest Croissance, GO CAPITAL, Sodero Gestion, BNP Paribas Developpement, SaaS Lander
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapContact Form 7Yoast Seo
#6
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2020 · 13 employees
$1.8Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 6.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. BNPP Paribas) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Seed$1.8M
Investors
Pays de la Loire, Pays de la Loire Participations, Crdit Agricole, Bpifrance, Sodero Gestion, Novapuls
#7
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2011 · 15 employees
$4Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2017Seed$2.5M
  • Dec 2017Conventional Debt$1M
  • Jun 2015Seed$893.3K
  • Oct 2012Seed$600K
Founders & team
Cedric WilliamsonFounder & CEO
Investors
5M Ventures, Entrepreneur Venture, Fair West, Pays de la Loire Participations, BA
Tech stack
Animate.CssApache Http ServerAstraAvis VerifiesAxeptioBricks
#8
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2016 · 10 employees
$2.2Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Seed$2M
  • 2018Seed$120K
Founders & team
Nicolas DraberCo-Founder & COOGeoffrey VancasselCEO
Investors
The Westly Group, innogy.ventures, EDP Ventures, Contrarian Ventures, Taver Capital, Y Combinator
#9
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2005 · 60 employees
$3.4Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 12.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2011Series A$3.4M
Founders & team
Fred RivardFounder & CEO
Investors
Innovacom, Turenne Groupe
Tech stack
A3 Lazy LoadApache Http ServerBootstrapContact Form 7Crazy EggGoogle Analytics
#10
Series A · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2012 · 8 employees
$1.2Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2016Grant (prize money)$1.3M
  • Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$589.3K
  • Dec 2015Grant (prize money)$53.1K
  • Jan 2015Series A$1M
Investors
Saint-Gobain, Bpifrance, GO CAPITAL, Europa, Kima Ventures
#11
Seed · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2014 · 11 employees
$1.6Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2016Seed$1.6M
Investors
Sequoia Fund, Pays de la Loire Participations, Siparex
Tech stack
Animate.CssAstraCart FunctionalityCookieyesDrupalElementor
#12
Funding Raised · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2005
$1.6Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2016Grant (prize money)—
  • Mar 2012Grant (prize money)$1.6M
Founders & team
Jean Marie LehnCo-FounderBruno PitardCo-Founder
Tech stack
DrupalPhpGoogle MapsApache Http ServerModernizrJquery Ui

Funding & investor landscape

$42.9Mtotal disclosed funding
16companies funded
28disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Pays de la Loire Participations7 rounds
Bpifrance4 rounds
Europa4 rounds
Novapuls4 rounds
GO CAPITAL3 rounds
Le Village by CA3 rounds
Sodero Gestion3 rounds
ABAB2 rounds
Le Mans Sarthe Investment2 rounds
Pays de la Loire2 rounds

Notable founders

Benedicte Pleau
Founder · Enerdigit
Benjamin David
XSun CEO · XSun
Cedric Williamson
Founder & CEO · Kiwatch
Nicolas Draber
Co-Founder & COO · Sterblue
Geoffrey Vancassel
CEO · Sterblue
Fred Rivard
Founder & CEO · MicroEJ
Jean Marie Lehn
Co-Founder · In-Cell-Art
Bruno Pitard
Co-Founder · In-Cell-Art
Jean-Marie Brussieux
Founder · Roboplanet
Valerie Dumay
CEO · Biomedical Tissues
Olivier Rayant
CEO & President · Tracers Technology
Alex Nassiopoulos
Founder & CEO · Ecotropy
Prism market signals · France · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,086,066 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of High Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · France

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.

research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 42% → 56% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • 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
leading researchers
Alexandre Boyer · Geert Van der Plas · Eric Beyne · Erik Jan Marinissen · P. Batude · Herman Oprins · Pascal Vivet · Giorgio Di Natale
▲ Breakthroughs619 · 34%
▲ 30%→39% share
▲1.3× share momentum3 median citations39% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (30%→39% of field), led by Photonics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Photonics9→40
  • Photonic integrated circuit10→34
  • Detector3→15
  • Electronics4→13
  • Power (physics)6→13
Newly emergingSchematic 0→5 · Gallium nitride 0→5 · Lithium niobate 0→5
Landmark Integrated Circuits and Logic Operations Based on Single-Layer MoS2 · 1,321 cites
◆ Advancements772 · 43%
▼ 48%→38% share
▼0.8× share momentum3 median citations30% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (48%→38% of field), led by Fabrication.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Fabrication5→13
  • Resonator2→7
  • Semiconductor device8→13
  • NMOS logic2→6
  • Photodiode1→5
Newly emergingPixel 0→9 · Degradation (telecommunications) 0→5 · Gallium nitride 0→5
Landmark Electrical Modeling and Characterization of Through Silicon via for Three-Dimensional ICs · 581 cites
▼ Concerns196 · 11%
▼ 12%→10% share
▼0.8× share momentum2 median citations31% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (12%→10% of field), led by Electronics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Electronics2→9
  • Photonics4→9
  • Sensitivity (control systems)1→4
  • Chip4→5
  • Photonic integrated circuit3→4
Landmark On the Correct Extraction of Interface Trap Density of MOS Devices With High-Mobility Semiconductor Substrates · 362 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · France

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.

Paris323 · +0.56
Hot · Application-specific integrated circuitAdvancing · CMOSOpportunity · Lithium tantalateConcern · Nanotechnology
Grenoble304 · +0.54
Hot · InterconnectionAdvancing · WaferOpportunity · Artificial neural networkConcern · Three-dimensional integrated circuit
Lyon75 · +0.56
Hot · Etching (microfabrication)Advancing · CapacitorOpportunity · Power electronics
Toulouse69 · +0.43
Hot · Electromagnetic compatibilityAdvancing · Electromagnetic interferenceOpportunity · PhotodiodeConcern · Compatibility (geochemistry)
Marseille25 · +0.51
Hot · PixelAdvancing · DetectorOpportunity · Schematic
Strasbourg8 · +0.56
PATENT SIGNAL · France

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.

5,203 filings1,647 assigneespeak 647/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • 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

How many High Tech companies are there in Pays de la Loire, France?
Radar tracks 69 indexable High Tech companies headquartered in Pays de la Loire, France that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France?
The High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list have raised a combined $42.9M in disclosed equity funding across 16 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded High Tech company in Pays de la Loire, France?
Qowisio is the highest-funded High Tech company in Pays de la Loire, France, with $11.9M in disclosed equity funding.
How many High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France are funded?
16 of the 69 High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many High Tech unicorns are there in Pays de la Loire, France?
None of the High Tech companies in Pays de la Loire, France on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Pays de la Loire, France High Tech companies?
The most active investors in Pays de la Loire, France High Tech companies on this list include Pays de la Loire Participations, Bpifrance, Europa, Novapuls, GO CAPITAL.
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