Best Mining Companies in France
The 34 best Mining companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Lithosquare.
Our analysis of 100 Mining companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Mining companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithosquare Developer of AI-driven solutions for strategic mineral exploration and discovery | $26M | 5 mo ago | Seed | Aymeric Preveral-Etcheverry Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Genomines Provider of enhanced plants for renewable nickel and metal extraction | $5M | 13 mo ago | Series A | Dali Rashid Co-Founder & CTO | 2021 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+7 | 2 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 3 | Geolith Provider of sustainable lithium extraction | $2M | 5 mo ago | Seed | Jean-Philippe Gibaud Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+9 | 18 patents Lithium extraction using novel composite materials and related processing methods. | — |
| 4 | GEOLITH Provider of technology solution for extracting lithium | $2M | 62 mo ago | Seed | Jean-Philippe Gibaud Founder & President | 2016 | — | 18 patents Lithium extraction using specialized composite materials and related processing methods. | — |
| 5 | Geovariances Geo-statistical Software Provider | $495K | 112 mo ago | Funding Raised | Olivier Bertoli CEO & MD | 1986 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 6 | Eramet Provider of lithium mining and exploration services | — | 29 mo ago | Public | Christel Bories Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer | 1880 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | 147 patents Hydrometallurgical processes for lithium‑ion battery recycling and metal recovery | — |
| 7 | Caspeo Mineral Processing Simulator Solution | — | 112 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — | — |
| 8 | Acro BTP Provider of reinforcement, stabilization, securing sites and mountain work services based in Passy, France. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | 6 patents Patents concentrated in construction | — |
Top 7 Mining companies in France
#1
Seed · France · founded 2024$25.8Mraised▾
Developer of AI-driven solutions for strategic mineral exploration and discovery. It combines artificial intelligence with geological expertise to accelerate the process. The technology aims to reduce uncertainty, prioritize targets, and lower costs associated with mineral exploration. The company’s approach integrates field sampling with model optimization.
- May 2026Seed$25.8M
#2
Seed · Orsay, Ile de France · founded 2016$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of sustainable lithium extraction. The company offers processes and technology that increase extraction yields and reduce environmental impact, enabling lithium producers to extract magnesium and calcium from the brine without loss of lithium.
- May 2026Seed—
- Aug 2021Seed$1.8M
#3
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2021 · 26 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Provider of enhanced plants for renewable nickel and metal extraction. It enhances plants' natural biology to extract metals from metal-rich fields and mine tailings. The company uses synthetic biology to improve plants' ability to efficiently and economically extract metals while remediating land. It optimizes plant growth by enhancing the microbiome, allowing harvest with limited use of synthetic fertilizer. The company recovers metal from biomass by combining techniques, including bioleaching, to form precursors, aiming for carbon neutrality in downstream processing.
- Sep 2025Series A$45M
- Oct 2021Seed$5.2M
- Grant (prize money)$12M
#4
Seed · Orsay, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 22 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of technology solution for extracting lithium. They use the their developed technology that enables the extraction of lithium from a raw brine and its conversion to a commercial product. It cut downs the process to transfer brines from pond to pond, nor to transport intermediate products, reducing the related emissions, as well as the footprint of the installation.
- Aug 2021Seed$1.8M
#5
Funding Raised · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1986 · 54 employees$494.8Kraised▾
Geovariances is a provider of geostatistical software.The product portfolio includes Isatis (Reference Software in Geostatistics), Minestis (Route to mineral resource estimates), and others. Functionalities include estimating mineral resources, classifying mineral resources, characterizing mineral uncertainties, optimizing drill-hole spacing and validating model and achieving reconciliation. Some of the clients include SRK Consultores do Brazil, De Beers, Eramet nickel division, and others.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$208.7K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$196K
- Apr 2015Grant (prize money)$90.2K
#6
Public · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1880 · 1798 employees—raised▾
Provider of lithium mining and exploration services
#7
Funding Raised · Orleans, Centre Val de Loire · founded 2004 · 12 employees—raised▾
Caspeo is a provider of mineral processing simulator solutions. Caspeo's product USIM PAC is an industrial process simulation software that has features such as plant design, plant audit and production optimization. Other product portfolio includes Inventeo, Bilco, Echant, and FluidFLow. Some of the key clients include Anglo American, ArcelorMittal, Amara, and others.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
How research on Mining Technology is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Mining Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 51 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique20
- Université de Lorraine11
- GeoRessources11
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières4
- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse3
- Mineral processing5
- Mineral3
- Muscovite2
- Mineral exploration2
- Earth observation2
- Mineral2→7
- Tailings3
- Refractory (planetary science)2
- Uranium2
- Phosphate fertilizer2
- Phosphate2
Where mining tech 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 mining tech patents in France
France mining tech patent filing is cooling — 13 filings from 2 assignees (2017–2023), led by Arkema France, CECA; annual filings 2→1.
- Arkema France13
- CECA2
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.