Top Tech Startups in France in 2024

GoCardless makes it easy to accept recurring payments online. We unify the world’s Direct Debit networks, simplify them, and open up access to everyone. By doing so, we are creating an entirely new type of payment network. Founded in 2011, we have quickly grown into one of Europe’s leading Direct Debit providers, processing over half a billion pounds a year for over ten thousand businesses. We work with a huge range of organisations: small gyms and scout groups use us to reduce admin, fast growing companies like Funding Circle use us to power their growth, and established institutions like the Financial Times use us to dramatically reduce failure rates. We are a small London based team, and we're backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Balderton Capital, Accel Partners, and Y Combinator.

Whether in the world of payment, finance, fashion, art or retail, more and more companies have decided to adopt blockchain and digital assets. However, these companies are faced with a fundamental problem: how to adopt these new assets without jeopardizing their accounting processes and their “auditability”? Created in 2018 by Antoine Scalia, Cryptio is a startup that has taken on the incredible challenge of inventing the foundations of accounting and financial reporting for digital assets (crypto-currencies, NFT, digital assets). How? By offering a SaaS accounting, auditing and tax solution that bridges the gap between blockchain and accounting systems - turning data into verifiable records for accounting, treasury and tax reporting. We enable pioneering companies in the crypto ecosystem, large enterprises and financial institutions to confidently navigate the fragmented digital asset landscape. Our mission is to tackle one of the biggest challenges in crypto right now - building the infrastructure to help institutional adoption. And we're playing to win. Cyptio wants to become the source of truth in the world of crypto!

At Prose, we don’t believe in “one-size-fits-most.” We create custom hair care that’s inclusive to all hair types, needs and preferences. Each of our hair care products is customized to a person’s hair needs based on the results from an online consultation. The individual data is processed through a proprietary algorithm and made-to-order in the Prose lab using natural active ingredients. Marrying emerging technologies with the best in beauty, Prose is truly creating something special.

Sorare is at the intersection of sports, gaming, and NFT collectibles. Through tradable digital cards, Sorare is designing a collective fantasy sports experience where you can manage your favorite players, hone your passion to earn prizes, and be part of a thriving community. Anyone, anywhere, can connect with the game on Sorare. The company’s mission is to build “the game within the game” and to give fans, players and clubs the platform to celebrate, share, and own your game. Founded in 2018, Sorare has seen tremendous growth. The platform has a card sales volume of over $400M since January 2021 (up from $8M in sales in 2020) and now has exclusive partnerships with over 250 football (soccer) clubs, the MLB & MLBPA, and the NBA & NBPA. Sorare is trusted by a world-class team of investors including Softbank, Benchmark, Accel Partners, athletes such as Serena Williams and Kylian Mbappé, and key tech investors such as Alexis Ohania - all who believe in the future of integrating NFTs with Gameplay.

C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The proven C3 AI Suite provides the comprehensive services to build enterprise scale AI applications 40x to 100x faster than alternative approaches. The core of the C3 AI Suite is a revolutionary, extensible, model-driven abstraction layer that dramatically enhances data scientist and application developer productivity. The C3 AI Suite supports any value chain in any industry with pre-built, configurable, high-value AI applications for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply network optimization, energy management, anti-money laundering, and customer engagement. c3.ai

At coupa we are the cloud platform for business spend; delivering measurable value through real-time spend visibility, control, compliance, and agility. we are transforming the way that businesses manage their spend. in partnership with the business spend management (bsm) community, we are co-creating new and unique capabilities that empower our customers, partners, and suppliers with increased visibility, actionable insights, and solutions to manage their spend.

Payhawk is the leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses, present in more than 32 countries across two continents. Our customer-centric organisation and the product-oriented team have helped disrupt the expense management market, by combining company cards, expenses and invoice payments - enabling finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale. The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies including LuxAir, Gtmhub, and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East, and Eleven Ventures. Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.

Founded in 2009, contentsquare is a digital experience insights platform that helps businesses understand how and why users are interacting with their app, mobile and web sites. we compute billions of touch and mouse movements, and transform this knowledge into profitable actions that increase engagement, reduce operational costs and maximize conversion rates. using behavioral data, artificial intelligence and big data to provide automatic recommendations, contentsquare empowers every member of the digital team to easily measure the impact of their actions, and make fast and productive data-driven decisions to optimize the customer journey.

We provide modern big data back up recovery solutions that work using cloud integration, development and testing, and ransomware protection all from a single unified online platform.

Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping computer vision teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like nuTonomy, Nuro, Voyage, Embark, Lyft, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.