Best Smart Cities Companies in France
The 70 best Smart Cities companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Open Data Soft.
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Ranked: Best Smart Cities companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open Data Soft Provider of data marketplace solutions for internal, B2B, and public use | $32M | 53 mo ago | Series B | 99 | David Thoumas Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | 1 award |
| 2 | Sunna Design Manufacturer of solar lighting solutions for public and private sector | $16M | 69 mo ago | Series B | 60 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | 32 patents Dynamic control and energy management for autonomous electrical equipment and lighting systems | — |
| 3 | RUBIX Senses & Instrumentation Provider of IoT based environmental monitoring solutions | $10M | 76 mo ago | Series A | 56 | Jean-Christophe Mifsud Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | ForCity Develops a platform for analysis of urban data | $10M | 87 mo ago | Deadpooled | 82 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Instant System Provider of MaaS solutions for transport operators | $10M | 63 mo ago | Series A | 94 | Yann Hervouet Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspacePHP+15 | — | — |
| 6 | Plume Labs Developer of air quality monitor and offers a pollution and weather forecast solution | $4M | 79 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | — | styled-componentsReactGatsby+21 | 8 patents Foldable electric scooter steering mechanisms and integrated battery charging systems | — |
| 7 | SPALLIAN Provider of visual data analytics software for enterprises | $3M | 108 mo ago | Series A | 21 | Renaud Prover Founder & CEO & Chairman | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 8 | Altaroad Provider of software for waste collection management | $2M | 67 mo ago | Seed | 34 | Rihab Jerbi Co-founder & COO | WordPressPleskMySQL+35 | — | — |
| 9 | Videtics Artificial intelligence based platform offering video analytics solutions | $2M | 50 mo ago | Acquired | 20 | — | ReactNginxCloudflare+7 | 5 patents Automated maintenance and cleaning of surveillance cameras | — |
| 10 | Qucit Developer of big data-based analytics solutions and applications for smart cities | $2M | 95 mo ago | Series A | 19 | — | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceApple iCloud Mail+19 | 4 patents Contextual data-driven predictive modeling for business analytics and decision support | — |
| 11 | FEELBAT Provider of smart sensors for remote structural health monitoring solutions | $2M | 25 mo ago | Seed | — | Jean-Christophe Habot Founder & CEO | BackdropOdooCart Functionality+15 | 10 patents Structural health monitoring sensors for crack detection and evolution measurement in walls | 2 job openings · 2 launchs |
| 12 | Hikob Wireless sensors networks | $2M | 121 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 12 | — | — | 12 patents Embedded passive RFID and autonomous sensors for smart road and civil infrastructure monitoring | — |
| 13 | GridPocket Provider of a SaaS-driven energy management solution | $2M | 44 mo ago | Series A | 18 | — | — | 2 patents Selective power‑source connection management for portable electronic devices | — |
| 14 | Lyko Provider of a cloud-driven multimodal mobility solution | $2M | 30 mo ago | Seed | 17 | Laurent Bouzon Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | — | — |
| 15 | ONHYS Develops crowd behavior simulation software tools | $572K | 77 mo ago | Seed | 11 | Sébastien Paris Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 16 | YoGoKo IoT systems for smart mobility infrasctructure | $512K | 65 mo ago | Funding Raised | 17 | Jean-Marie Bonnin Co Founder / Scientific Advisor | — | — | — |
| 17 | CityTaps Provider of pay-as-you-go water meters | $457K | 80 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Grégoire Landel Founder & CEO | QuasarVue.jscore-js+5 | — | — |
| 18 | SENSING-LABS Manufacturer of long range wireless sensors | $421K | 113 mo ago | Seed | 9 | Yann Guiomar Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | — |
| 19 | UZER Provider of software & hardware solution to assist waste sorting operation | $383K | 80 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Paul Alarcon Co-Founder & CPO | WebflowjsDelivrGoogle Hosted Libraries+7 | 6 patents Waste storage and sorting systems for solid waste management. | — |
| 20 | Greencityzen Provides industrial and environment monitoring solutions | $344K | 41 mo ago | Acquired | 10 | Guy Lafayette Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 5 patents Ultrasonic IoT sensors for wastewater level, storm‑water debris detection, and low‑power data transmission | — |
| 21 | Icohup Developer of a radiation monitoring device for consumers | $150K | 68 mo ago | Funding Raised | 23 | Gael Patton Co-Founder | — | 8 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
Top 12 Smart Cities companies in France
#1
Seed · Montpellier, Occitanie · founded 2020$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of smart sensors for remote structural health monitoring solutions. They offer sensors for crack, tilt, deformation, soil moisture, piezometric, and convergence monitoring. Fixations, accessories, connectivity solutions, and services are also available. The sensors are designed for use in buildings, infrastructure, mines, cultural sites, geotechnics, and railways. The company provides a mobile application for continuous structural monitoring.
- May 2024Seed$1.1M
- May 2024Conventional Debt$543K
#2
Seed · Villeurbanne, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2016 · 17 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-driven multimodal mobility solution. It caters to travel management software providers, travel agencies, airlines, hotels & more. Their transport API enables businesses to integrate the reservation systems of multiple transporters. It also offers intermodal planning, reservation, and data visualization.
- Dec 2023Seed$1.5M
- Sep 2017Seed—
#3
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2011 · 99 employees$32.2Mraised▾
Provider of data marketplace solutions for internal, B2B, and public use. The company offers capabilities such as data cataloging, business glossary, and metadata management. It facilitates data visualization, automation, and intelligent search through AI. The platform enables collaboration, API integration, and user access management. Solutions address data governance, dashboarding, smart cities, open government, and master data management needs.
- Jan 2022Series B$25M
- Oct 2016Series A$5.5M
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$232.1K
- Jul 2015Seed$1.7M
#4
Series A · Valbonne, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2009 · 18 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of a SaaS-driven energy management solution. It provides users with a company that specializes in the development of innovative value-added energy services for utility companies, taking part in the smart grid revolution. Their services are designed to complement monitoring and analysis elements of energy efficiency, encouraging consumers to adopt more sustainable energy practices.
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$213.9K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$203.3K
- Nov 2017Series A—
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$308.6K
#5
Series B · Blanquefort, Nouvelle Aquitaine · founded 2011 · 60 employees$15.9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of solar lighting solutions for public and private sector. The company provides autonomous and connected streetlights for roads, parking lots, pathways, and parks. Its product lines include solutions for residential areas, cycle paths, and bus stops. The company offers lighting options for rural and isolated sites.
- Sep 2020Series B—
- Dec 2017Series B$8.3M
- Jan 2015Series A$6M
- Mar 2013Seed$1.7M
#6
Series A · Biot, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2013 · 94 employees$9.5Mraised▾
InstantSystem provides a mobility-as-a-service solution for transport operators. The company designs & offers custom white-label software solutions for intermodal mobility in the areas of multi-modal route planning, real-time tracking & information, carpooling, mobile ticketing, and more.
- Mar 2021Series A$9.5M
#7
Acquired · Vallauris, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2019 · 20 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Artificial intelligence based platform offering video analytics solutions. It provides a software suite that facilitates the monitoring of protected areas, post investigation and decision making using the existing IP cameras of the video park.
- Apr 2022Seed$2.2M
#8
Series A · Toulouse, Occitanie · founded 2016 · 56 employees$10Mraised▾
RUBIX Senses & Instrumentation provides an Internet of Things-based solution for environmental monitoring of both indoor and outdoor locations. The product line includes Watch Tower 1, Rubix POD, and Rubix Home. Watch Tower 1 measure parameters such as odour, air quality, pollutant gases (H2S, NH3, VOC etc.), and noise. Rubix POD monitors parameters like humidity, temperature, light, noise, and air quality. It is ideal for hotel rooms, a shopping mall, department stores, subways, airport, and restaurants. Rubix Home comes with an integrated LCD screen and is ideal for monitoring indoor air quality. The company also provides a companion software with that interface with its products for providing real-time readings, dynamic 3D mapping, and setting threshold alerts. In addition, the company provides development services tailored to the client's need.
- Feb 2020Series A$7.7M
- May 2018Series A$2.3M
#9
Acquired · Marseille, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2015 · 10 employees$344.2Kraised▾
GreenCityzen provides industrial and environmental monitoring solutions. Solutions include tank monitoring, sewer networks monitoring, smart watering, soil and water weather monitoring, frost alert, room, and air quality monitoring, platform and app. It offers products and uses sensors such as level ultrasonic, soil and weather, weather stations, rain gauge, room monitoring sensors, air indoor and outdoor sensors, H2S ppb/ppm sensors, temperature, dry contact, pulse, and electro valve controllers.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$344.2K
#10
Deadpooled · Lyon, Auvergne Rhone Alpes · founded 2014 · 82 employees$9.9Mraised▾
ForCity develops a data analysis platform that city authorities and urban planners can use to analyze large city datasets for planning and designing purposes. The platform allows users to analyze both current data and simulate decisions to measure likely impact. It also offers analysis services.
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$56.9K
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$57K
- Jan 2018Series A$9.9M
#11
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2014 · 20 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Developer air quality monitor and offers a pollution and weather forecast solution. It develops a small portable air quality sensor called Flow which it sells to consumers to help them understand the levels of pollution at various places (home, workplace, etc.). The data collected from all the Flow sensors in a specific area/city is also incorporated into weather maps that are sold to governments, businesses, and researchers/planners. In addition, Plume also offers an AI-powered pollution forecasting tool, made available through an API.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Dec 2016Seed$4.5M
#12
Seed · Gentilly, Ile de France · founded 2017 · 34 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of software for waste collection management. It offers features such as the collection of data, real-time decision making, and more.
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$2.2M
- 2019Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Cities coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Smart Cities is moving in France
A read on the academic research around Smart Cities — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 762 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique122
- Université Gustave Eiffel31
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne30
- Télécom Paris23
- EURECOM22
- Intelligent transportation system8→38
- Smart city2→15
- Scalability2→12
- Architecture2→11
- Traffic flow (computer networking)1→10
- Intelligent transportation system13→61
- Smart city9→32
- Key (lock)2→15
- Transport engineering2→14
- Traffic congestion1→13
- Smart city15→32
- Intelligent transportation system4→19
- Key (lock)1→13
- Computer security7→14
- Internet of Things5→11
Where smart cities 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 smart cities patents in France
France smart cities patent filing is cooling — 5 filings from 9 assignees (2019–2023), led by Blackberry, Williams Roland Emlyn, Barrett Stephen JOHN; annual filings 3→2.
- Blackberry2
- Williams Roland Emlyn2
- Barrett Stephen JOHN2
- Alfano Nicholas Patrick2
- LEPP James Randolph Winter2
- DOIG IAN Christopher Dummond2
- ST Microelectronics Rousset2
- Blackeberry1
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.