Best Open Source Companies in France
The 63 best Open Source companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Hugging Face.
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Ranked: Best Open Source companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 34 mo ago | Series D | Thomas Wolf Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer | 2016 | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+19 | — |
| 2 | Akeneo Provider of open-source product information management solutions for businesses 76Partners top 24%Growth top 25%Tech top 26%News top 26% All 10 signals ▾Partnerstop 24% Growthtop 25% Techtop 26% Newstop 26% Fundingtop 29% Moattop 31% Innovationtop 37% Producttop 37% Markettop 42% Globalbottom 36% Partners: 2 partnership announcements in 12 mo (2 in 24 mo) · Marquee-customer mentions: top 7% of tracked companies rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $197M | 51 mo ago | Series D | — | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Strapi Cloud-based API development and CMS platform 55Tech top 23%Talent top 28%Moat top 31%Funding top 38% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 23% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Fundingtop 38% Markettop 45% Producttop 49% Globalbottom 38% Growthbottom 35% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 53 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $47M | 48 mo ago | Series B | Jim Laurie Co-Founder | 2016 | SentryNode.jsEnvoy+24 | 1 launch |
| 4 | Bonitasoft Provider of an open source business process management software | $27M | 47 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | WebflowSalesforceAmazon Web Services+21 | — |
| 5 | CrowdSec Network firewall security solutions provider | $21M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Thibault Koechlin Co-Founder | 2019 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+22 | 2 launchs |
| 6 | MeiliSearch Provider of open-source software for web search | $20M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Quentin Quelen Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | SentryNode.jsRadix UI+28 | 2 launchs |
| 7 | PrestaShop Developer of an open source e-Commerce software with PrestaShop | $13M | 147 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | Cart FunctionalityPrestaShopSentry+29 | 1 launch |
| 8 | Axelor Provider of tools for low code BPM | $11M | 48 mo ago | Series A | Laith Jubair CEO | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | 1 partnership |
| 9 | eNovance Tools to deploy private cloud and manage applications in multi-cloud | $8M | 155 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2008 | — | — |
| 10 | cozy cloud Cozy Cloud is a web application that helps users organize their digital information. | $6M | 120 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | GhostNode.jsUbuntu+11 | — |
| 11 | OpenIO Object storage solution for Big data and AI | $5M | 104 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 12 | Convertigo Mobile enterprise application platform | $4M | 201 mo ago | Series A | — | 2009 | WebflowAmazon ALBAmazon Web Services+16 | — |
| 13 | Edgee Open source based edge computing platform 24Talent top 38%Funding bottom 43%Market bottom 37%Global bottom 36% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingbottom 43% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $2.9M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 2 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $3M | 20 mo ago | Seed | Alexandre Gravem Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — |
| 14 | Linagora Open source software company | $2M | 137 mo ago | Series A | — | 2000 | DrupalPHPDebian+8 | — |
| 15 | Tailwarden Provider of SaaS-based open-source platform for cloud infrastructure | $2M | 39 mo ago | Seed | Cyril Allard Co-founder & CEO | 2022 | — | — |
| 16 | Alter Way open source business process | $583K | 45 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2006 | Node.jsReactNext.js+14 | 2 job openings · 1 partnership |
| 17 | OpenSearchServer Open Source enterprise search tool | $300K | 179 mo ago | Seed | Emanuel Keller Founder | 2010 | JavaVideoJSFlat UI+12 | — |
| 18 | AdaCore Cloud and IDE based web application development platform | — | 26 mo ago | Funding Raised | Richard Kenner Co-Founder | 1994 | Craft CMSApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | — |
Top 12 Open Source companies in France
#1
Series D · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 170 employees$399.9Mraised▾
Platform offering collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models. It provides a centralized hub where users can access a vast collection of pre-trained models and datasets across various domains. The platform supports the creation and hosting of interactive machine learning applications, enabling developers and researchers to showcase their work and facilitate community engagement.
- Aug 2023Series D$235M
- Apr 2022Series C$100M
- Mar 2021Series B$40M
- Dec 2019Series A$19.7M
#2
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2024$2.9Mraised▾
Open source based edge computing platform. It offers edge computing services such as app development, testing, analytics, and more. It enables developers to develop and run applications and services to users at the networks edge. The platform provides an infrastructure for processing data in real-time.
- Oct 2024Seed$2.9M
#3
Series D · Nantes, Pays de la Loire · founded 2013 · 442 employees$196.8Mraised▾
Provider of open-source product information management solutions for businesses. Its features include data import, bulk actions, validation workflow, onboard supplies, channel activation, and more.
- Mar 2022Series D$135M
- Sep 2019Series C$46M
- Dec 2018Series B—
- Mar 2017Series B$13M
#4
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 95 employees$47Mraised▾
Cloud-based API development and CMS platform. It enables users to develop and customize content API in real time. The platform allows users to use Graphql API to query the content. It provides plugins for content-type builder, file upload, and settings manager.
- Jun 2022Series B$31M
- Apr 2020Series A$12M
- Oct 2019Seed$4M
- Aug 2019Conventional Debt$3.5M
#5
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2009 · 97 employees$27Mraised▾
BonitaSoft offers an open-source business process management and workflow application platform for enterprises to design, automate, and optimize business processes. Features include Studio- allows to graphically modify business processes using parts of the BPMN standard, BPM Engine- a Java application that executes process definitions created with Studio, Portal- allows end users to manage the tasks in which they are involved, UI Designer-allow UI developers to mix graphical tools, tooling and frameworks, and custom coding for developing customized UI; Continuous Delivery- an add-on based on Docker and Ansible that permits automatic provisioning with Amazon AWS, and more. The target market includes education, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, telecommunication, among others. The company also provides professional and paid support services to enterprises. Partners include The University of Queensland, IIC Technologies, OneSource, and more.
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$1M
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$13.8M
- May 2013Series C$13M
- Sep 2011Series B$11M
#6
Series A · Montrouge, Ile de France · founded 2019 · 30 employees$20.6Mraised▾
CrowdSec is a network firewall security solutions provider. The product offered by the company is software that detects and prevents attacks on networks. The features of the product include real-time threat detection, security automation, data breach prevention, reputation & behavior analysis, etc.
- Oct 2022Series A$13.9M
- May 2021Seed$5M
- Oct 2020Seed$1.8M
#7
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2018 · 37 employees$20Mraised▾
Provider of open-source software for web search. Its features include real-time search while typing, synonym-based search, multi-lingual support, typo error tolerance, customized search filters, faceting, and placeholder search. It caters to consumers, developers and businesses.
- Oct 2022Series A$15M
- Jan 2022Seed$5M
#8
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2005 · 152 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Provider of tools for low code BPM. The product offerings include Alexor ERP, CRM, and BPM solutions. The BPM platform, allows users to create and modify business applications in real time, without any custom development. It is aimed at manufacturing, energy, retail, education industries, and more.
- Jun 2022Series A$10.7M
#9
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2022 · 9 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-based open-source platform for cloud infrastructure. It supports AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, and digital ocean and it develops DevOps.
- Mar 2023Seed$2.1M
#10
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2007 · 200 employees$13.4Mraised▾
Developer of an open-source e-Commerce software with PrestaShop. It offers open-source software that allows businesses to create and deploy their e-commerce stores. Some of the features include creating categories & subcategories for product navigation purposes, tracking the inventory of each product, getting an overview of manufacturers and suppliers with sorting order and filters, running geographical delivery zones and applying shipping carriers, configuring the display of the products, displaying & allowing the customer to navigate in the checkout process, among others. The company has two major sources of revenue viz Addons which a marketplace through which merchants purchase custom add-ons and themes for their stores and strategic partnerships with e-commerce enterprises such as PayPal or Google.
- Mar 2014Series B$9.3M
- Sep 2011Series A$4.1M
- 2010Angel—
- 2008Angel—
#11
Acquired · Saint Cloud, Ile de France · founded 2006 · 200 employees$582.9Kraised▾
Alter Way is the integrator of open source reference in France. Created in 2006, the group quickly assembled Alter Way teams emblematic of the main market segments of the Open Source: Anaska (training), Ingeniweb (Web Solutions Company), Solinux (specific development, outsourcing and system integration of middleware tools) Kanope(development php) O4DB (decisional and database), Nexen Services (hosting value added) and ECLIPS’S Software (open solution for management and configuration of DNS and DHCP).
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$582.9K
#12
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2008 · 95 employees$7.8Mraised▾
eNovance is a open cloud computing software.Its services are deployed around two lines of businesses.First one is around the development, integration, operation and support of cloud computing infrastructure for Private Cloud uses or for Public Cloud Services Providers and the second one is on distributing and managing critical web applications on the world's largest Public Cloudspublics such as AWS, Google Compute Engine, RackSpace, Cloudwatt. Their cloud solutions are based on reference architecture and can be customized as per user requirements.
- Jun 2013Series A$7.8M
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