11 Hot Paris Startups Saying ‘Bonjour’ to Top Tech Talent
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Paris is fast becoming one of the hottest startup ecosystems in Europe and a top destination for tech talent.
VC investment in French startups doubled to nearly $12B in 2021 as the country welcomed 12 new unicorns. A mix of highly skilled young professionals, booming VC investments, and an ecosystem that supports and promotes growth has helped propel the City of Light onto the global startup map.
The city boasts the most research professionals, high-tech patents, and annual R&D spending in Europe. Paris also hosts several top startup events, including Big Data & AI Paris and Hello Tomorrow Global Summit. The city’s proximity to economic centers like London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Luxembourg add to the appeal for entrepreneurs.
Leading tech categories include cosmetics, healthcare, aeronautics, digital transformation, and sustainable cities—which makes sense considering the city’s ambition to be Europe’s greenest city by 2030. Success stories include online home improvement marketplace ManoMano and crypto security company Ledger which have both raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors.
To keep up the momentum, France’s president pledges billions more in tech investment and founder-friendly immigration laws. Startups on the French Tech Next 40/120 list plan to create more than 200k jobs by 2025.
If Paris is calling, check out our list of 11 hot Parisian startups hiring today.
- Website
- http://www.manomano.fr
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- Paris
- About
ManoMano is a collaborative website dedicated to the DIY and gardening markets. Founded in 2012, ManoMano was launched in June 2013 as a specialist marketplace, which means it carries no stock and has no logistics. This pure-player approach allows ManoMano to claim the largest DIY catalogue in the French market and highly attractive prices.
- Industries
DIYHome Improvement
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://www.ledger.com
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- Paris
- About
At Ledger we are developing hardware wallet technology that provides the highest level of security for crypto assets. Our products combine a secure element and a proprietary os designed specifically to protect your assets. The main principle behind hardware wallets is to provide full isolation between the private keys and your easy-to-hack computer or smartphone.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.beanstock.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Cairo Governorate
- About
Beanstock is a real estate fintech that is reimagining property investment. Their mission is to make wealth creation through real estate accessible to everyone and to empower individuals to invest in rental properties in a smart, digital and cost-effective way.
- Industries
Jobs
1 year agoNo equityRemote only • Everywhere4 years of exp
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://www.blindnet.io
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- New York City
- About
blindnet is on a mission to consumerize data protection technologies. We are building developer tools and infra services to help developers build privacy-by-design software architecture, required by various privacy regulations. Our plan is to offer an essential building block for next-gen Internet systems and help them comply with Privacy-by-Design requirements.
- Industries
- Developer APIs
You write code, we run it. Clever Cloud helps companies to deliver software faster51-200 Employees- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://www.clever-cloud.com/
- Employees
- 51-200
- About
Clever Cloud exists for one purpose: helping people and companies to deliver software and services faster. We also focus on true sustainability: we want to make sure that once your app is deployed, it stays up no matter what (high traffic, security udpates, DDoS , application failure, hardware issues and so on…).
- Industries
- Development Platforms
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://getleeway.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Paris
- About
Leeway is on a mission to build the future of contract negotiation with a completely new collaborative and intuitive experience. The journey has just started and we're looking for incredible people that believe in our mission and are passionate about their job, willing to create the future of company agreements.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- http://www.groover.co
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Paris
- About
Groover is a web platform where artists submit their music to media, labels & music professionals for coverage and get guaranteed feedback within the week.
- Industries
- Platform For Influencers
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://quiver.co.uk
- Employees
- 11-50
- About
At Quiver we're re-imagining what last-mile fulfilment can be - we want it to be faster, emission-less, more customer-centric, more transparent and more responsive. And that's what we're making. Quiver enables your favourite retailers to provide a range of faster delivery options, including immediate delivery, to their customers at the point of checkout via our proprietary suite of APIs.
- Industries
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- https://mindmesh.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Paris
- About
Mindmesh is a seed-funded Y Combinator startup (YC S21), building a tool to help product-oriented teams, and especially product managers, solve context switching and information fragmentation. Mindmesh reinvents the personal and project workspace through an innovative interface that centralizes all actionable from notes, tasks and calendars, tightly knit with existing company tools (Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Jira, Drive etc).
- Industries
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- https://tryriot.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- New York City, Paris
- About
Riot is a platform that makes it easy to prepare your employees for cyberattacks. Riot has been funded by top-notch investors (Y Combinator, Funders Club and First Capital), and is now protecting more than 10,000 employees in over 300 companies.
- Industries
Jobs
Country Launcher / Head of USFull-time4 months ago$350k – $430kIn office • New York City+17 years of exp
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://zar.gg
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Paris
- About
Zar is a passionate team of gamers who have been playing for more than 20 years, and are veteran players of League of Legends, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike. We’ve all met thanks to our hobbies, and we turned them onto our jobs.
- Industries
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