Best Telecom Infrastructure Tech Companies in France
The 49 best Telecom Infrastructure Tech companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Qosmos.
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Ranked: Best Telecom Infrastructure Tech companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amarisoft 4G LTE network solutions provider | $17K | — | 15 | 2012 | Franck Spinelli Founder & CEO | PHPApache HTTP ServerAxeptio+3 | — | 1 launch |
| 2 | 5GMEDE Mobile edge network solutions provider | — | — | — | — | Jean-Charles Point CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Alcatel Lucent Managed Solutions Alcatel-Lucent is a of provider IP and cloud networking and ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access… | — | — | 334 | 1919 | Vijaya G Country HR Director - India | SitecoreWindows ServerVideoJS+22 | — | — |
| 4 | Antell Connect Provider of IoT and SDWAN solutions | — | — | — | 2023 | Xavier Dupont CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Antennessa Manufacturer of antennas and electromagnetic field measurement systems. | — | — | 22 | 1998 | — | — | 8 patents Measuring and monitoring electromagnetic radiation absorption and ambient fields using specialized antennas. | — |
| 6 | Anyfields Developer of an electromagnetic measurement device designed for antenna designers and radiating systems… | — | — | 10 | 2021 | Stephane Gemble Co-Founder & CEO | — | 7 patents Electromagnetic radiation measurement devices for object radiometry and sensing | — |
| 7 | C3T Developer of a multimedia communication system intended to replace traditional corporate telecommunication… | — | — | 5 | 2000 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Centile Cloud based platform offering unified communications solutions | — | — | 50 | 1998 | — | — | — | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
Top 12 Telecom Infrastructure Tech companies in France
#1
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2015 · 41 employees$16.2Mraised▾
EM wave-based technology for wireless transmission & network enhancement. The company has developed an EM wave-based passive technology for wireless transmission & network coverage enhancement. Uses reconfigurable surfaces to optimally reflect electromagnetic waves, particularly in complex environments such as vehicles, buildings, warehouses, and more. Use cases include connected automobiles, asset tracking, defense, communication on the move, industry, and retail, among others.
- Feb 2024Series B$16.2M
- 2023Grant (prize money)$13.4M
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$545.7K
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$331.7K
#2
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2000 · 90 employees$42.7Mraised▾
Qosmos provides deep packet inspection & NFV solutions. It provides networking solutions for IP traffic classification and network intelligence which can be used by telecoms and enterprises and data centres as a ready to use service. It is based on the concept of virtualization. Virtual networking equipment (VNFs) such as service routers, GGSN, PGW, PCEF, BRAS, ADC/load balancers, network analytics, NG firewalls, and WAN optimization are available to the customers. It also provides a DPI-based IP-classification software for SIEM vendors which brings full application visibility for all network communication. Its software allows policy control, QoE, and subscriber analytics.
- Sep 2011Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2011Series B$27.8M
- 2008Angel—
- May 2008Series B$10.8M
#3
Public · Barentin, Normandy · founded 2008 · 53 employees$36.8Mraised▾
Develops luminaires for simulating daylight, and builds other LiFi-compatible luminaires and accessories
#4
Acquired · Clamart, Ile de France · founded 2001 · 103 employees$9.3Mraised▾
OneAccess is a physical and virtual network equipment provider. It is a provider of physical and virtual network functions that enable cloud and enterprises SMB communication. Its solutions include CPE deployments for enterprise services, white box for CPEs and other services for programmability, automation and service migration.
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$483.5K
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$580.2K
- Jul 2014Series C—
- Mar 2005Series A—
#5
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2017 · 5 employees$9.4Mraised▾
Tofane Global is a VoIP carrier services to telecom operators and other service providers. It offers voice terminations, toll-free, local numbers DID, IPX, SS7, LTE diameter exchange, 2G & 3G signal hubbing, and value-added solutions. The company claims to terminate 14+ billion international voice minutes in 160+ countries.
- Sep 2018Seed$9.4M
#6
Acqui-Hired · Valbonne, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur · founded 2000 · 20 employees$10.2Mraised▾
UDcast provides WAN optimization solutions to satellite services providers. It offers mobile, terrestrial, and WiMAX television solutions, as well as provides satellite Internet protocol solutions. Its products include IP Encapsulator (enables broadcasting of multi-channel TV and data to wireless devices), IPE-Manager (enables the control of IP encapsulation points distributed in the network), iSplicer (enables the distribution of mobile or digital television content directly to the DVB-H, DVB-SH, or DVB-T broadcast towers), and TSprocessor (enables flexible manipulation of MPEG2 transport streams in digital and mobile television networks). It was acquired by OneAccess in 2011for its WAN optimization capabilities.
- Feb 2002Series A$8.1M
- 2001Seed$2.1M
#7
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1999 · 61 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Cirpack provides core network, cloud communication, security and user control solutions to telecom operators and service providers for their home and enterprise end-users. Solutions include softswitch platforms, media platforms, and session border controllers for residential and business customers, least cost routing solution, telephony solution (Cirpack END2END Enterprise Telephony) for telecoms operators, voice trunking and access solution (VTA Software).
- Jul 2015Series B$3.3M
- Nov 2002Series A$4M
- 2002Unattributed—
#8
Series A · Montigny, Centre Val de Loire · founded 2000 · 104 employees$6.3Mraised▾
6WIND is an embedded software company supplying packet processing frameworks for networking and telecom platforms enabling them to transition to NFV/SDN based networks. Their customers are equipment suppliers worldwide like Ericsson, Hitachi, LG-Nortel, and Nokia-Siemens.
- Jul 2015Series A—
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$316K
- Feb 2004Series A$6.3M
- Nov 2000Seed—
#9
Acqui-Hired · Fontenay, Bourgogne Franche Comte · founded 1999 · 80 employees$7Mraised▾
Ipanema provides solutoin of WAN optimization along with full visibility on application usage and performance. The user can set the quality expectations and application importance and other factors according to which the applications are controlled.
- Aug 2008Series B$7M
#10
Series A · Limoges, Nouvelle Aquitaine · founded 2016 · 11 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Wupatec is a technology company that develops a solution to decrease the power consumption of wireless communication RFE. It provides an envelope tracking modulator, coupled with the GaN process to deliver a solution for the 5G MIMO antenna.
- Jan 2020Series A$3.3M
#11
Seed · Orsay, Ile de France · founded 2010 · 5 employees$792.4Kraised▾
Green Communications provide wireless network equipment solutions. It uses the device-to-device and embedded technologies to increase the capacity of telecommunications networks by creating an interactive and participatory local network (Green PI). It offers a YOI router with a GreenSoft software which enables communications connectivity in dense areas. It provides local off-loading which increases network capacity with parallel communications. Its patented algorithm Qolyester, measures the real-time status of radio links, optimize resources and improves the quality of service and resolves problems like signal fluctuations, frequent disconnections, and interferences. Other applications include defense, civil security, and drones.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$201.5K
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$150.7K
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Feb 2013Seed$792.4K
#12
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2013 · 9 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Air-Lynx provides tailor-made 4G LTE private network infrastructure for professional communication (oil platforms, communities, defense etc). The company manufactures the products and also act as a system integrator for the LTE infrastructure. Its solution can be deployed both eas a fix installation or as a mobile and transportable system. Its Tsolution includes an antenna, eNodeB station, and nodal ePC (Evolved Packet Core).
- Jan 2016Seed$1.6M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Telecom Infrastructure Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in France
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,326 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique414
- CentraleSupélec115
- EURECOM104
- Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes94
- Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique89
- Beamforming82→167
- MIMO50→84
- Electronic engineering17→49
- Telecommunications3→18
- Antenna (radio)6→20
- Telecommunications10→26
- Beamforming171→186
- Adaptive beamformer3→9
- Phased array5→10
- Ultrasonic sensor2→7
- Antenna (radio)2→4
- Precoding4→5
Where 5g 6g 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 5g 6g patents in France
France 5g 6g patent filing is cooling — 23,110 filings from 7,883 assignees (2016–2025), led by Alcatel Lucent, Orange, Thomson Licensing; annual filings 3354→1419.
- Alcatel Lucent13391
- Orange4440
- Thomson Licensing3001
- Thales2884
- France Telecom2383
- Gemalto1331
- CIT Alcatel920
- Commissariat Energie Atomique805