Best Telecom Operators Companies in Paris, France
The 36 best Telecom Operators companies in Paris, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Iliad.
Our analysis of 50 Telecom Operators companies
$110.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Telecom Operators companies in Paris
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iliad Provider of voice calling and internet services | $727M | 86 mo ago | Public | Xavier Niel Founder | 1999 | PHPHandlebarsBackbone.js+13 | — | — |
| 2 | Eutelsat Provider of commercial satellite coverage, broadband network, and data connectivity services | $562M | 45 mo ago | Public | Eva Berneke Chief Executive Officer | 1977 | DrupalApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | 437 patents Satellite communications: adaptive demodulation, IoT via non‑geostationary satellites, quantum key distribution, spectrum monitori | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Erenis Fiber-optic internet, telephony, and TV services provider | $30M | 248 mo ago | Acquired | Jacques Veyrat CEO | 2002 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Arkadin Global collaboration service provider | $21M | 170 mo ago | Acquired | Thomas Boudier Cto And Co-Founder | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Marlink Provider of voice, data, satellite connectivity, and communication services | $13M | 56 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | Neos CMSPHPVimeo+22 | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Skynopy Operator of a ground station network service for satellite communications | $3M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Pierre Bertrand Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+18 | — | — |
| 7 | Hopcast Provider of internet services | $16K | 38 mo ago | Funding Raised | Farid Benbadis Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 8 | Prologue Cloud computing, dematerialization, and unified communication services provider | — | 142 mo ago | Public | Georges Seban Founder & CEO | 1986 | PHPparticles.jsMicrosoft 365+3 | 16 patents Real-time collaborative multimedia scene representation and lossless bidirectional compression. | — |
Top 9 Telecom Operators companies in Paris
#1
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2023$3.1Mraised▾
Operator of a ground station network service for satellite communications. The company provides access to ground networks through a single application programming interface. It offers pre-integrated advanced modulations and supports testing and integration of satellite to ground. The service facilitates end-to-end data handling from satellite to cloud.
- Jun 2025Seed$17.6M
- Jun 2024Seed$3.1M
#2
Public · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1977 · 1067 employees$561.7Mraised▾
Provider of commercial satellite coverage, broadband network, and data connectivity services
#3
Public · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1999 · 9712 employees$726.5Mraised▾
Provider of voice calling and internet services
- Jul 2019Conventional Debt$168.6M
- May 2019Conventional Debt$558M
- Apr 2003Series A—
#4
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2002 · 206 employees$12.9Mraised▾
Marlink provides satellite connectivity & communication services for the maritime, aviation & land industries. It offers voice and data, Internet access, local area network, hybrid network, remote communications, emailing, integrated VSAT and MSS, mobile satellite, and handheld voice and mobile IP broadband services.
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$42.8K
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$138.3K
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$43.4K
#5
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2001 · 299 employees$20.8Mraised▾
Arkadin is a global collaboration service provider, offering audio, web and video conferencing solutions. Arkadin enables organizations to communicate and collaborate using customizable, user-friendly unified communication solutions. Arkadin has 47 operating centres in 28 countries throughout Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and North America, offering a full suite of remote collaboration solutions to more than 14,000 clients.
- Jul 2012Series B—
- Apr 2009Venture Debt$19.8M
- Apr 2009Series B$6.6M
- Oct 2005Series A$6.2M
#6
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2002$30.3Mraised▾
Fiber-optic internet, telephony, and TV services provider
- Jan 2006Series B$30.3M
#7
Funding Raised · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2019$16.5Kraised▾
Provider of internet services
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$16.5K
#8
Public · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1986—raised▾
Prologue Group provides cloud computing, dematerialization, and unified communication services to the business customers. Its services include cloud computing (brokerage platfrom, migration, development infrastructure, interoperability), dematerialization (paperless, incoming/outgoing/circulating), unified communication (VoIP, computer telephony, IP fax), and DBMS systems (Linux distribution, language & database, managing desktops). Provides both licensed and hosted services.
#9
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1997 · 163 employees—raised▾
Provider of telecom services intended to offer a full range of telephony services to small and medium enterprises. The company's telecom services offer high-quality telephony at attractive prices and high-quality routing networks, thereby enabling it to simplify management of the telecom station, telecom consumption and simplification of telecom stations.
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How research on 5G 6G in Paris is moving
A read on the academic research around 5G 6G in Paris — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 178 papers.
- Université Paris-Saclay57
- Télécom Paris37
- ESPCI Paris21
- Université Paris-Sud19
- Institut Polytechnique de Paris17
- Beamforming9→21
- Electronic engineering1→5
- Channel state information1→3
- Antenna (radio)1→3
- Beamforming15→25
- Wireless1→5
- Telecommunications3→6
- Electronic engineering2→4
- Joint (building)1→3
- MIMO2
- Electronic engineering2
- Precoding2
- Multiplexing1
- Transmission (telecommunications)1
Who's building 5g 6g IP in Paris
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