Radar · Native AI in France
Best Native AI Companies in France
The 382 best Native AI companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mistral AI.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
382companies tracked
$5Bdisclosed funding
4unicorns
139have raised
France's Native AI ecosystem has quietly become one of Europe's most fundable bets, and this directory ranks the best Native AI companies in France by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum across 382 tracked firms.
$5.0B in total disclosed funding tells you the scale here is real. Mistral AI and Ami Labs each sit at $1.0B raised, figures that put them well clear of the pack, while Owkin has pulled in $321M building AI into clinical research. Four unicorns have emerged from this cohort, and the market itself is expanding at roughly 50% CAGR, driven by automation of routine workflows and predictive tools in healthcare and programmatic advertising. I'd flag that Bpifrance's consistent presence as a lead investor signals state-backed conviction, not just venture fashion. The case for native AI adoption keeps sharpening as embedded intelligence moves from feature to foundation. So what separates the companies worth your attention from the noise? The funding gap does. Below $22M, firms like Dust and HrFlow.ai are still early. Above $300M, the thesis is already proven.
Sources & further reading
- benzinga.com
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · NATIVE AI × FRANCE
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
150companies analysed
94%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
50unicorns
2022median founding year
2.6Mcombined LinkedIn audience
78%of audience held by top 3
6companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral AI 🦄 Provider of customizable, open-source artificial intelligence models and solutions for various applications 96Funding top 10%Innovation top 18%Tech top 19%News top 20% All 13 signals ▾Fundingtop 10% Innovationtop 18% Techtop 19% Newstop 20% Growthtop 21% Customerstop 22% Talenttop 23% AItop 26% Moattop 26% Partnerstop 32% Producttop 34% Markettop 39% Globaltop 42% Funding: Raised $1.0B across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 3 yrs (2.7/yr) Innovation: 6 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 96/100 | $1.0B | 2 mo ago | Series C | 22 | Arthur Mensch Co-Founder & CEO | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 2 | Ami Labs Developer of AI systems that understand the real world data 48Funding top 19%Talent top 23%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 41% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 19% Talenttop 23% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 41% Marketbottom 37% Funding: Raised $1.0B across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 6 named leaders on record · 6 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $1.0B | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | Pascale Fung Co-Founder & CRIO | WebflowApple iCloud MailjQuery+10 | — | — |
| 3 | Hugging Face 🦄 Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models 87Market top 24%Funding top 24%Tech top 25%Moat top 26% All 11 signals ▾Markettop 24% Fundingtop 24% Techtop 25% Moattop 26% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 30% AItop 30% Producttop 37% Globaltop 42% Growthbottom 42% Newsbottom 24% Market: 170 employees (top 14% of High Tech) · Top-5,000 web property Funding: Raised $400M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 10 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $400M | 33 mo ago | Series D | 170 | Thomas Wolf Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+19 | — | — |
| 4 | Owkin 🦄 AI generative biology company to create the new standard of biology reasoning 89AI top 18%Innovation top 21%Patents top 21%Funding top 23% All 12 signals ▾AItop 18% Innovationtop 21% Patentstop 21% Fundingtop 23% Growthtop 23% Moattop 25% Globaltop 34% Fin. healthtop 37% Talenttop 38% Markettop 40% Techtop 46% Newsbottom 27% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Innovation: 49 patents (top 29% of patent-holders) · 39 filings since 2022 vs 10 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 89/100 | $321M | 3 mo ago | Series B | 47 | Gilles Wainrib Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+21 | 25 patents AI-powered medical imaging analysis for cancer prognosis and federated learning networks | 1 launch |
| 5 | Shift Technology 🦄 Provider of AI solutions for insurance underwriting, claims, and risk 80AI top 20%Market top 25%Moat top 26%Funding top 28% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Markettop 25% Moattop 26% Fundingtop 28% Producttop 33% Innovationtop 36% Newstop 39% Globaltop 42% Fin. healthtop 43% Growthtop 44% Techtop 44% Talentbottom 49% AI: Classified as an AI company Market: 555 employees (top 7% of Enterprise Infrastructure) · Revenue ~$671M rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $320M | 55 mo ago | Series D | 555 | Eric Sibony Co-Founder & CSO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 6 | H Company Developer of an AI agent platform for web interface automation 72AI top 20%Innovation top 26%Talent top 28%Moat top 31% All 11 signals ▾AItop 20% Innovationtop 26% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Fundingtop 32% Techtop 36% Growthtop 45% Productbottom 39% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 36% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company Innovation: 4 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $220M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | Charles Kantor Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Node.jsVue.jsGSAP+11 | — | 1 launch |
| 7 | Prophesee Platform for perception sensors and camera technologies | $127M | 44 mo ago | Series C | 110 | Christoph Posch Co-founder and CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | 208 patents Neuromorphic event‑based vision sensors and ultra‑low‑latency image processing | 2 launchs |
| 8 | Moon Surgical Provider of robotic surgical devices | $87M | 37 mo ago | Series B | 33 | Brice Pretty Founder | Craft CMSPleskPHP+19 | 67 patents Robotic co-manipulation platforms for laparoscopic instrument control and surgical data analytics | 1 award |
| 9 | PhotoRoom Application for product and portrait photography | $64M | 29 mo ago | Series B | 40 | Eliot Andres Cofounder and CTO @ Photoroom (YC S20) | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+30 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 10 | Aqemia Provider of an AI and quantum physics to discover therapeutic molecules 60Funding top 28%AI top 30%Moat top 38%Tech top 39% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 38% Techtop 39% Innovationtop 44% Growthtop 48% Patentstop 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 18% Funding: Raised $62.7M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 7 yrs (0.7/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $63M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 60 | Maximilien Levesque Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15 | 4 patents Small-molecule inhibitors of METTL3 RNA methyltransferase and MAP4K1 kinase for therapeutic use | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 11 | QantEv Provider of an AI platform for health and life insurance claims 42AI top 20%Funding top 32%Talent bottom 49%Growth bottom 42% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 32% Talentbottom 49% Growthbottom 42% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 33% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $45.1M · 3 rounds over 6 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $45M | 20 mo ago | Series B | 34 | Hadrien De March Chief Technology Officer And Founder | — | — | 1 award |
| 12 | Nabla Provider of an AI assistant for streamlining clinical documentation workflows 72Moat top 22%AI top 23%Funding top 25%Talent top 28% All 9 signals ▾Moattop 22% AItop 23% Fundingtop 25% Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Producttop 40% Techtop 42% Marketbottom 43% Globalbottom 39% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $45M | 12 mo ago | Series C | 46 | — | WebflowYouTubeGSAP+17 | — | 1 award |
| 13 | Tomorro Provider of AI-powered contract management software 74Talent top 23%Tech top 24%Funding top 30%AI top 30% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 23% Techtop 24% Fundingtop 30% AItop 30% Growthtop 35% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 37% Talent: 5 named leaders on record · 5 C-suite/founder profiles curated Tech: 34 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $39M | 14 mo ago | Series B | — | Thibaut Caoudal Co-Founder & CRO | SentryTypeScriptGraphQL+16 | — | 1 partnership |
| 14 | Bioptimus Developer of AI foundation model to transform biological research 64AI top 20%Talent top 23%Funding top 33%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 23% Fundingtop 33% Growthtop 35% Moattop 42% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 36% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 6 named leaders on record · 6 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $35M | 17 mo ago | Series A | — | Jean-Philippe Vert Co-Founder | WebflowGSAPMicrosoft Advertising+16 | — | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 15 | GetVocal AI Conversational AI phone agents for automating customer service processes 60AI top 8%Funding top 28%Tech top 36%Talent bottom 49% All 7 signals ▾AItop 8% Fundingtop 28% Techtop 36% Talentbottom 49% Moatbottom 45% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Funding: Raised $28.8M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $29M | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | Antonin Bertin Co-Founder | SanityTurbopackNode.js+25 | — | — |
| 16 | Arago Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput 48AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 31%Global top 46% All 6 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 31% Globaltop 46% Techbottom 42% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $26M | 11 mo ago | Seed | — | Nicolas Muller Co-Founder & CEO | PrismicNode.jsThree.js+10 | — | 1 partnership |
| 17 | Moments Lab Provider of an AI-powered platform for video content discovery and management | $24M | 12 mo ago | Series B | — | Philippe Petitpont Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | — | 1 partnership |
| 18 | Dust AI-based design and deployment platform for large language models 67AI top 19%Tech top 24%Funding top 28%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾AItop 19% Techtop 24% Fundingtop 28% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 30% Newsbottom 21% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-based, llms Tech: 43 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $22M | 1 mo ago | Series B | 9 | Stanislas Polu Co-Founder | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+21 | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 19 | 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 | Jonathan Soto Cofounder and CTO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | 2 patents Dynamic allocation of compute resources for machine learning workloads | 2 launchs |
| 20 | Bfore.Ai Cloud based platform offering predictive analytics solutions 55AI top 30%Funding top 35%Moat top 39%Tech top 41% All 8 signals ▾AItop 30% Fundingtop 35% Moattop 39% Techtop 41% Growthtop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 39% Globalbottom 39% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence Funding: Raised $19.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $19M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 35 | Luigi LENGUITO Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | — | — |
| 21 | Raidium Developer of an AI-native platform for precision medicine in radiology 42AI top 25%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Funding top 39% All 10 signals ▾AItop 25% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 39% Moattop 45% Innovationbottom 40% Techbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Patentsbottom 35% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $17M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | Paul Herent Co-Founder & CEO | ContentfulNode.jsJava+13 | 2 patents AI-driven medical image annotation devices and methods for diagnostic imaging | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 22 | Continuity AI-based insurance underwriting solutions for insurance brokers and insurers | $17M | 24 mo ago | Series A | 29 | Pierre Beauhaire Co-founder & CTO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+21 | — | 1 award |
| 23 | DeepLife Provider of AI-based drug discovery and omics analysis tool for researchers 37AI top 22%Funding top 40%Moat top 45%Patents top 48% All 8 signals ▾AItop 22% Fundingtop 40% Moattop 45% Patentstop 48% Innovationtop 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 24% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Funding: Raised $16.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $16M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 10 | Jonathan Baptista Co-Founder & CEO | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 award |
| 24 | Sifflet Provider of AI-augmented data observability platform for data producers and users | $16M | 11 mo ago | Series B | 33 | Salma Bakouk Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowYouTubeAmazon Web Services+24 | — | — |
| 25 | BrightHeart Provider of ultrasound screening services 57AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Market bottom 37% All 5 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 30% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 29% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $13M | 5 mo ago | Series A | — | Bertrand Stos Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 26 | dottxt Developer of tools ensuring predictable, programmable, and production-ready large language models 32AI top 20%Funding top 42%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 36% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 42% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 34% Marketbottom 29% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $11.9M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $12M | 22 mo ago | Seed | — | Remi Louf Co-Founder & CEO | VarnishGitHub PagesMailChimp+7 | — | 1 launch |
| 27 | Kinetix Developer of a video model providing 3D character and camera control | $12M | 23 mo ago | Seed | 45 | Yassine Tahi Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+17 | — | — |
| 28 | Zaion Provider of conversational artificial intelligence solutions for customer relationship management 64AI top 26%Growth top 35%Funding top 39%Tech top 46% All 6 signals ▾AItop 26% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 39% Techtop 46% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 37% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, natural language processing Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $11M | 16 mo ago | Series A | 80 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | — | — |
| 29 | White Circle Provider of automated AI vulnerability detection and protection 42AI top 20%Funding top 42%Tech bottom 49%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 42% Techbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $11.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $11M | 1 mo ago | Seed | — | Denis Shilov Founder & CEO | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+11 | — | — |
| 30 | Veesion Provider of AI-based video analytics solution for video surveillance 57AI top 26%Talent top 28%Funding top 38%Moat top 39% All 11 signals ▾AItop 26% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 38% Moattop 39% Producttop 40% Markettop 45% Techtop 50% Growthbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 17% Customersbottom 17% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based, deep learning Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $11M | 12 mo ago | Series B | 163 | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailHubSpot+14 | — | 1 partnership |
| 31 | 73 Strings AI-based valuation tools for investors 72Growth top 27%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Fin. health top 30% All 12 signals ▾Growthtop 27% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fin. healthtop 30% Fundingtop 38% Producttop 41% Techtop 44% Innovationtop 48% Moattop 48% Globalbottom 46% Marketbottom 41% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Revenue +64% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $10M | 15 mo ago | Series B | 47 | Abhishek Pandey Co-founder & Deputy CEO | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Node.js+18 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 32 | Entalpic Generative AI platform for the chemical industry | $9M | 21 mo ago | Seed | — | Victor Schmidt CTO & Co-founder | WordPressProton MailApple iCloud Mail+20 | — | 1 internship · 1 launch |
| 33 | HrFlow.ai AI-based recruitment of candidates | $9M | 1 mo ago | Seed | 20 | — | TurbopackCannySentry+26 | — | 1 job opening · 1 internship |
| 34 | pyannoteAI Provider of AI-powered speaker diarization and intelligence solutions 62Growth top 28%Talent top 28%Funding top 45%AI top 45% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 45% AItop 45% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 37% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $9M | 14 mo ago | Seed | — | Herve Bredin Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer | Framer SitesThree.jsReact+13 | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 35 | Maki Provider of AI-powered platform automating human resources hiring and talent management | $7M | 17 mo ago | Series A | 30 | Benjamin Chino Co-founder & CPO | WebflowStripecore-js+11 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 36 | HeartFocus AI-driven app for healthcare professionals to perform cardiac ultrasound exams 35AI top 30%Talent top 38%Funding top 45%Moat top 48% All 7 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 45% Moattop 48% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 28% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $6M | 12 mo ago | Seed | — | Bertrand Moal Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowYouTubeGSAP+13 | — | 1 launch |
| 37 | Clarifeye Provider of a knowledge server designed for agentic enterprise applications 65Talent top 25%Funding top 41%Global bottom 48% All 3 signals ▾Talenttop 25% Fundingtop 41% Globalbottom 48% Talent: 6 named leaders on record Funding: Raised $4.7M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 65/100 | $5M | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | Mathieu Grisolia Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 38 | Noota Provider of language services | $3M | 12 mo ago | Series A | — | Darius Alnaddaf Co-Founder | WebflowStripecore-js+20 | — | 3 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 39 | Dessia Provider of AI-powered solutions for design generation, verification, and validation 60Growth top 20%AI top 26%Talent top 38%Funding top 48% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 20% AItop 26% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 48% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 34% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered, artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $3M | 20 mo ago | Seed | — | Steven Masfaraud Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowHubSpot Chatcore-js+13 | — | — |
| 40 | LightOn Provider of a private GenAI platform with enhanced knowledge and workflow | $3M | 18 mo ago | Public | 30 | Sylvain Gigan Co-Founder | WebflowGSAPSwiper+23 | 5 patents Accelerating machine learning via photonic processors and optical data pipelines | — |
| 41 | Comand Developer of AI-powered command software for defense and security operations | $3M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 3 | — | WebflowjQueryHotjar+10 | — | 1 partnership |
| 42 | Yampa AI-powered customer service solutions for businesses | $3M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | Stephane Blondeau Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 43 | Kleio Platform providing conversational AI solutions | $3M | 15 mo ago | Seed | — | Philippe Wellens Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 44 | Delos.so Provider of AI-powered productivity applications for businesses | $3M | 14 mo ago | Seed | — | Pierre Grand-rive Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowApple iCloud Mail+19 | — | — |
| 45 | Overmindlab Developer of an AI platform providing security and observability to systems 53Talent top 28%Funding top 44%Global bottom 48% All 3 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 44% Globalbottom 48% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $2.7M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $3M | 4 mo ago | Acquired | — | Sam Brunt Co-Founder & COO | — | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 46 | 2501.ai Platform offering autonomous AI agents for automating IT tasks 45AI top 8%Talent top 28%Funding top 48%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾AItop 8% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 48% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 47% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $2M | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | Alex Zhuk Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowMixpanelLeadfeeder+16 | — | — |
| 47 | Celest Science Developer of AI-driven sub-seasonal to seasonal climate prediction and risk assessment | $2M | 13 mo ago | Seed | — | Toscane Porteu De La Founder Associate | — | — | — |
| 48 | Solaya Provider of AI-powered 3D scanning and content creation services 67Growth top 35%Tech top 40%AI top 45%Talent top 45% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Techtop 40% AItop 45% Talenttop 45% Fundingbottom 49% Globalbottom 48% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 27 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $2M | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | Mariem Farhat Co-Founder and COO | Framer SitesThree.jsReact+14 | — | 7 job openings · 1 launch |
| 49 | Feedae Provider of an AI platform for call center quality monitoring | $2M | 14 mo ago | Seed | — | Cedric Couton Co-Founder | WebflowPlausibleMicrosoft Advertising+6 | — | 1 award |
| 50 | LemmaAI Developer of a platform for continuous learning and improvement of agents | $500K | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | Cole Gawin Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in France
#1
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023 · 22 employees$1Braised▾
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023 · 22 employees
Provider of customizable, open-source artificial intelligence models and solutions for various applications. It is a company specializing in open-source large language models and generative AI, providing cutting-edge language models for various applications.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 96how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 10%Innovation
top 18%Tech
top 19%News
top 20%Growth
top 21%Customers
top 22%Funding: Raised $1.0B across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 3 yrs (2.7/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (Mar 2026)
Innovation: 6 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Envoy
Audience (LinkedIn): 680k LinkedIn followers — 26.4% of this cohort's audience · 1132 engagements/post (22.1× cohort median)
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 2 partnerships (incl. BNP Paribas) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Conventional Debt$830M
- Sep 2025Series C$2B
- Feb 2025Series B$5.4M
- Jun 2024Conventional Debt$142M
Founders & team
Investors
Microsoft, Databricks, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAxeptioCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-Js
#2
Seed · Paris · founded 2026$1Braised▾
Seed · Paris · founded 2026
Developer of AI systems that understand the real world data. It builds intelligent systems with persistent memory that can reason and plan. The company focuses on creating controllable and safe AI for various applications. These applications include industrial process control, automation, wearable devices, robotics, and healthcare. The company advances AI research through open publications and open source contributions.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 19%Talent
top 23%Global
bottom 48%Tech
bottom 41%Market
bottom 37%Funding: Raised $1.0B across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Mar 2026)
Talent: 6 named leaders on record · 6 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Global: Investors from 6 countries beyond France
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Seed$1B
Founders & team
Investors
Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Nvidia
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle Tag Manager
#3
Owkin 🦄Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 47 employees$321.1Mraised▾
Owkin 🦄
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 47 employees
AI generative biology company to create the new standard of biology reasoning. The company is creating the only large-scale reasoning model trained natively on patient-level multimodal data and reinforced through real biological feedback — a closed-loop system that continuously improves itself. It is building the operating system for biology a platform in general-purpose biology intelligence.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 89how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 18%Innovation
top 21%Patents
top 21%Funding
top 23%Growth
top 23%Moat
top 25%AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC)
Innovation: 49 patents (top 29% of patent-holders) · 39 filings since 2022 vs 10 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Patents: 49 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 39 filings since 2022 vs 10 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2025
Audience (LinkedIn): 67k LinkedIn followers — 2.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series B$33M
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$216.4K
- Jun 2022Series B$80M
- Nov 2021Series B$180M
Founders & team
Investors
Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Google Ventures, MACSF, Cathay Innovation, Bpifrance
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022 · 9 employees$21.5Mraised▾
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022 · 9 employees
AI-based design and deployment platform for large language models. It enables users to design workflows on top of LLMs and semantic search and to sequence calls to models, code execution, and inquiries to other services arbitrarily.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 19%Tech
top 24%Funding
top 28%Growth
top 35%Talent
top 38%Moat
top 39%AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-based, llms
Tech: 43 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud · Devops: Nginx, Varnish
Funding: Raised $21.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (May 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 40k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: engineering, product
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- May 2026Series B$40M
- Jun 2024Series A$16M
- Jun 2023Seed$5.5M
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, XYZ Venture Capital, Seedcamp, Motier, Tiny, AI Grant
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDatadogGoogle Analytics
#5
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2025$11Mraised▾
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2025
Provider of automated AI vulnerability detection and protection. It offers a platform that automatically detects and fixes AI vulnerabilities, including jailbreaks, data leaks, and compliance risks. The platform simulates real-world attacks to stress-test AI systems and provides real-time visibility into blocked and flagged interactions. Integration is achieved via API, SDK, or middleware, supporting various models and deployments, including on-premises solutions. Vulnerability detection leads to automatic patching, eliminating manual intervention. The system minimizes latency and offers configurable logging options.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 42how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Funding
top 42%Tech
bottom 49%Talent
bottom 49%Market
bottom 37%Global
bottom 25%AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $11.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (May 2026)
Tech: 14 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Security: Http/3
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- May 2026Seed$11M
Founders & team
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle AnalyticsHttp/3Next.JsNext.Js App Router
#6
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2013 · 20 employees$9.3Mraised▾
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2013 · 20 employees
AI-based recruitment of candidates. Its products are profile and job API, source connectors, and destination connectors. It caters to corporates and developers. It offers to parse, reveal, search, gives scores, reason, and embed API.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 24k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Business Development Representative - AI Startup
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Seed$7M
- May 2018Angel$2.3M
Investors
115K, EmergingTech Ventures, Via.io, Kima Ventures, Hacker Unit, SaaS Lander
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCannyCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#7
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023$28.8Mraised▾
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023
Conversational AI phone agents for automating customer service processes. It features AI conversations, advanced conversational intelligence, and Continuous learning. It helps companies to automate customer service processes with advanced conversational AI technology. Its goal is to assist companies in growing their sales without needing to increase their payroll.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%Funding
top 28%Tech
top 36%Talent
bottom 49%Moat
bottom 45%Market
bottom 36%AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Funding: Raised $28.8M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Nov 2025)
Tech: 28 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel · Observability: Microsoft Clarity
Audience (LinkedIn): 9k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Nov 2025Series A$26M
- Jan 2025Seed$2.8M
Founders & team
Investors
Speedinvest, Elaia, Creandum
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Workspace
#8
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020$12.9Mraised▾
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020
Provider of ultrasound screening services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Talent
top 28%Funding
top 30%Market
bottom 37%Global
bottom 29%AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $12.9M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Jan 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Jan 2026Series A$12.9M
Founders & team
Investors
Odyssee Venture, GO CAPITAL, Liftvalue, Sofinnova Partners
#9
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2018 · 46 employees$44.6Mraised▾
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2018 · 46 employees
Provider of an AI assistant for streamlining clinical documentation workflows. The AI assistant combines ambient artificial intelligence, dictation, and clinical suggestions. It integrates with electronic health record vendors to simplify clinical documentation. The assistant supports clinical documentation in multiple languages and offers note formatting.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 22%AI
top 23%Funding
top 25%Talent
top 28%Growth
top 35%Product
top 40%Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Funding: Raised $44.6M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series C (Jun 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 42k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jun 2025Series C$70M
- Jan 2024Series B$24M
- Apr 2021Series B$20.4M
Investors
Daphni, Artemis Health, Firstminute Capital, Cathay Innovation, ZEBOX, HV Capital
Tech stack
CloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Cloud StorageGoogle Font Api
#10
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2019 · 60 employees$62.7Mraised▾
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2019 · 60 employees
Provider of an AI and quantum physics to discover therapeutic molecules. The software uses AI-Based technology for screening different small molecules, knowing its physical properties helping in upstream processing and drug discovery. The software also helps in determining therapeutic targets responsible for particular diseases.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 28%AI
top 30%Moat
top 38%Tech
top 39%Innovation
top 44%Growth
top 48%Funding: Raised $62.7M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 7 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Grant (prize money) (Apr 2025)
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 4 patents
Audience (LinkedIn): 23k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Le Figaro article
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$7.4M
- Dec 2024Series A$40.1M
- Jan 2024Series A$32.5M
- Oct 2022Series A$29.1M
Founders & team
Investors
Elaia, Eurazeo, Bpifrance, Cathay Innovation, Wendel, Gouv.fr
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Workspace
#11
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2024$25.9Mraised▾
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2024
Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput. The company has built a photonic AI accelerator that leverages light as a computing principle. The chip maximizes performance per watt and per dollar, to power AI workloads with significantly lower energy and cost overhead. Its architecture is designed to deliver reductions in energy consumption. The AI unit accelerates high-volume AI tasks with proprietary multi-physics computing core. The control unit maximizes memory transfer efficiency and speeds up pointwise operations. The software stack interfaces with PyTorch and abstracts away low-level hardware details, enabling developers to deploy and scale AI models without modifying their existing codebase.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Talent
top 28%Funding
top 31%Global
top 46%Tech
bottom 42%Market
bottom 25%AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $25.9M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Jul 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Arago) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jul 2025Seed$25.9M
Founders & team
Investors
Earlybird, Protagonist, Visionaries Tomorrow, GenerativeIQ, C4 Ventures, Acequia Capital
#12
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023$2.7Mraised▾
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023
Developer of an AI platform providing security and observability to systems. The platform facilitates input security and data protection for agentic observability. It also offers model-agnostic integration, enabling organizations to deploy AI workflows. This allows for oversight, compliance, and reduced risk in high-risk industries.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 53how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%Funding
top 44%Global
bottom 48%Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $2.7M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Feb 2026)
Global: Investors from 2 countries beyond France
Audience (LinkedIn): 941 LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Seed$2.7M
Founders & team
Investors
Osney Capital, 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, Endurance Ventures
Funding & investor landscape
$5Btotal disclosed funding
137companies funded
270disclosed rounds
4rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Y Combinator8 rounds
Notable founders
Arthur Mensch
Co-Founder & CEO · Mistral AI
Timothee Lacroix
Co-Founder · Mistral AI
Pascale Fung
Co-Founder & CRIO · Ami Labs
Laurent Solly
Co-Founder & COO · Ami Labs
Gilles Wainrib
Co-Founder · Owkin
Thomas Clozel
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder · Owkin
Stanislas Polu
Co-Founder · Dust
Gabriel Hubert
Co-Founder & CEO · Dust
Denis Shilov
Founder & CEO · White Circle
Antonin Bertin
Co-Founder · GetVocal AI
Bertrand Stos
Co-Founder · BrightHeart
Marilyne Levy
Co-Founder · BrightHeart
Prism market signals · France · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,050,595 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · France
How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 610 France-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
200820142026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 56% → 45% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique147
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne42
- Inserm33
- Sorbonne Université27
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique20
leading researchers
Nikos Komodakis · Julien Mairal · Pierre Vandergheynst · Cordelia Schmid · Jean Ponce · Jean Guillaume Nardi · McMurray, , Rusty Williams · Pascal Fua
▲
Breakthroughs279 · 46%
▼ 48%→44% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations67% since 2021mostly methods-led
Context (archaeology) research is surging — papers jumped from 1 to 16 among French AI institutions.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Context (archaeology)1→16
- Benchmark (surveying)1→10
- Segmentation2→10
- Graph2→10
- Artificial neural network8→15
Newly emergingReinforcement learning 0→10 · Cognition 0→9 · Tracking (education) 0→6
Landmark MizAR 60 for Mizar 50 · 74,517 cites
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Advancements117 · 19%
▼ 20%→19% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations68% since 2021mostly methods-led
Artificial neural network advancements are intensifying — newly emerging cluster adds 9 papers alongside 10 rising.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Artificial neural network10
- Pattern recognition (psychology)9
- Benchmark (surveying)7
- Workflow7
- Convolutional neural network6
Newly emergingArtificial neural network 0→9 · Workflow 0→7 · Benchmarking 0→6
Landmark Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide · 10,180 cites
▼
Concerns82 · 13%
▼ 17%→12% share
▼0.7× share momentum0 median citations62% since 2021mostly empirical
Feature (linguistics) concern research is newly emerging — 5 papers appeared while overall Concerns field-share dropped 17%→12%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Context (archaeology)2→4
Newly emergingFeature (linguistics) 0→5
Landmark Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization · 11,568 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · France
Where artificial intelligence 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.
Paris177 · +0.49
Grenoble23 · +0.50
Toulouse21 · +0.50
Lyon20 · +0.36
Strasbourg9 · +0.12
Marseille6 · +0.37
PATENT SIGNAL · France
Who's filing artificial intelligence patents in France
France artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 8,068 filings from 1,523 assignees (2016–2025), led by Commissariat Energie Atomique, Services Petroliers Schlumberger, Centre NAT RECH Scient; annual filings 179→1464.
8,068 filings1,523 assigneespeak 1464/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Commissariat Energie Atomique982
- Services Petroliers Schlumberger665
- Centre NAT RECH Scient656
- Thales564
- Geoquest Systems516
- Schlumberger Technology481
- BULL SAS321
- Schlumberger CA314
Common questions
How many Native AI companies are there in France?
Radar tracks 382 indexable Native AI companies headquartered in France that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Native AI companies in France?
The Native AI companies in France on this list have raised a combined $5B in disclosed equity funding across 137 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Native AI company in France?
Mistral AI is the highest-funded Native AI company in France, with $1B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Native AI companies in France are funded?
137 of the 382 Native AI companies in France on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Native AI unicorns are there in France?
4 Native AI companies in France on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in France Native AI companies?
The most active investors in France Native AI companies on this list include Bpifrance, Kima Ventures, Elaia, Europa, Plug and Play Tech Center.
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