Paris has always had a strong AI ecosystem, thanks to it great talent and strong research history. Here are the top startups to join in the French capital
1. Mistral AI: €3bn Series C at ~€21bn, plus $830M debt for its own datacentre; open-weight and frontier foundation models.
2. AMI Labs: €890M seed at a ~$3.5bn valuation; Yann LeCun's new lab building "advanced machine intelligence" world-models.
3. Alan: €480M Series G at €5.5bn; AI-first health insurance and preventive care.
4. Poolside: ~$626M raised to date at ~$12bn; foundation models specialised for software engineering.
5. Dust: $40M Series B; enterprise AI-agent platform over company data.
6. Gradium: $100M seed; real-time voice AI models.
7. Nabla: $70M Series C, $120M total; ambient AI clinical scribe.
8. H Company: $220M seed; autonomous AI agents for enterprise workflows.
9. Photoroom: €40M Series B; AI image editing/generation at consumer scale.
10. Owkin: spun out Waiv with $33M; own last major raise ~$180M, $321M+ total; AI + techbio for drug discovery.
11. Gladia: $16M Series A; real-time speech-to-text/audio-intelligence API.
12. LightOn: publicly listed on Euronext Growth Paris; ~$3.3M prior private funding; sovereign enterprise GenAI.
13. Adaptive ML: ~$20M seed; enterprise LLM tuning and reinforcement learning.
14. Finegrain: seed; AI image editing/optimisation for professional visuals.
15. Kyutai: ~€300M in commitments; open-science AI research lab (Moshi voice model).
