Within just a few days, France will host The summit of artificial intelligence workWith the heads of state flow to Paris to meet global technology leaders. They are likely to announce some major investments and diplomatic agreements that focus on safety or environmental impact of artificial intelligence.
Before the summit, VC company in the early stage Galion.exeInvestment in growth RuralAnd the consulting company Chausson partners Cooperation to create French artificial intelligence reportWhich examines the current trends in the technical ecosystem.
While all eyes are currently present in the United States and China with Openai looking to collect tens of billions of dollars and Deepseek drew everyone’s attention, there was a boom in startups in Europe as well. In 2024 alone, artificial intelligence companies represented about 20 % of all VC financing in the region.
In total, this represents about $ 8 billion of financing for emerging artificial intelligence companies in 2024. This scale will most likely grow quickly, as startups of artificial intelligence are still relatively young. Seventy percent of the capital collected by startups of artificial intelligence in 2024 was the seeds to the B.
European countries that tend to attract VC financing in general also have become the main investment centers of Amnesty International, where the UK leads the group, France and Germany after its example, and the accents that exceed their demographic weight. Here is the collapse from 2020 to 2024:
Interestingly, when artificial intelligence companies become larger, they tend to attract international investors, as American VC companies represent about 50 % of the money invested in artificial intelligence companies in the C Tour and after that.
In France more specifically, there are “more than 750 startups that have created 35,000 jobs and work in all areas that transform today’s community,” said Minister Mandar for AI and Digital Technologies Clara Chapas at a press conference.
It also stated that there are 2000 scientists focusing on artificial intelligence research and 600 students who work on artificial intelligence. I may have noticed that there are a few French engineers and researchers working for artificial intelligence companies in the United States as well.
The team was closely looked at AI’s AI’s report to the best 400 startups in France and tried to identify the rising stars. While Mistral Ai and Poolside are already some familiar names for readers who have followed the artificial intelligence industry, the vast majority of emerging companies of artificial intelligence do not work on the next foundation model.
On the infrastructure interface, some companies improve the workflow of data and pipelines, such as Linkup and Kestra, or improve inference performance, such as MmlOr development factors that can search for large data groups and improve productivity. Dust is a good example of this.
But the fact is that most startups in France focus on specific vertical applications. Based on this report, there are two important areas for emerging companies in France: health and climate.
Owkin and the Bioptimus biotechnos are at the top of the health technology front, but it is an amazing variety of companies that have three large areas of importance: photography tools, drug detection, and improve medical treatment.
Likewise, while a large part of the artificial intelligence industry focuses on productivity gains for office workers, artificial intelligence is also actively used to build the next generation of climate startups. In addition to AGRITECH, carbon and energy administration – two related topics – appears to be a large axis. There is also a handful of promising new material companies that appear (altrow, for example).
All companies listed in the list It can be found here. You will also find a lot of artificial intelligence companies that work on one job function – sales, customer service, human or legal resources – and use artificial intelligence to simplify the most common tasks.
Of course, some companies will not be there for five years. But many of them are currently growing at a rapid pace. We are still at the beginning of the artificial intelligence revolution, and although it is easy to think about making artificial intelligence as a zero game with one country or one company “victory” over others, it seems that the mutation of artificial intelligence is expected.