Top 29 AI startups in Paris

Mar 30, 2026
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Mistral AI
Funding: €4B
Mistral is a leading European AI company that develops own LLM models and provides AI products and solutions for the enterprise. The startup competes with American AI giants by focusing on the European market and local specifics/languages. Furthermore, Mistral is committed to open source - nearly all of its models are open. The company has created the online assistant Le Chat, which is available on the web and mobile app, free and by subscription. It also offers businesses the AI ​​Studio platform for creating and managing the full lifecycle of enterprise models and agents, Mistral Code - AI-powered software development system and Mistral Compute - European AI cloud that combines high-performance GPUs, ready-to-use orchestration and advanced model building tools into a single, fully integrated platform.
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AMI Labs
Funding: $1B
AGI startup by renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun who was formerly VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta. AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) Labs is working on world model AI. It positions this model as an alternative to LLMs. The goal is to create AI that "understands" its environment (aka the world) so it can simulate cause-and-effect and what-if scenarios to predict outcomes. It’s the answer to LLMs’ structural error/hallucination problems.
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Shift Technology
Funding: $540M
Shift Technology is developing an AI platform for insurance using generative, agent-based and predictive models. AI-based functions include risk underwriting (policy fraud detection and premium leakage prevention), fraud detection, case investigation management with greater accuracy, speed and efficiency, as well as support for AML, KYC and risk and compliance management. Agent-based AI enables faster claim processing, accurate liability assessment, prevention of missed reimbursement opportunities and ensures payment accuracy in healthcare.
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H
Funding: $220M
H Company develops AI models to enhance worker productivity and decision-making.
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Akur8
Funding: €166.6M
AKUR8 is a SaaS Insurtech specialized in Insurance pricing optimization with Transparent AI.
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Nabla
Funding: $114.7M
Nabla is the developer of Nabla Copilot, an ambient AI that helps clinicians enjoy care again.
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Prophesee
Funding: $111.4M
Prophesee develops innovative computer vision sensors and systems for applications in all fields of artificial vision. The sensor technology is inspired by biological eyes, acquiring and processing the visual information in an extremely performing yet highly efficient way.
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NAVYA
Funding: $110.3M
NAVYA develops driverless vehicles for the specific site transportation of goods and people.
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AQEMIA
Funding: $109.5M
Aqemia is aiming to invent better therapeutic molecules faster. We do that by combining generative AI and quantum-inspired statistical mechanics algorithms to predict affinity between therapeutic target and drugs with experimental accuracy and 10’000 times faster than best softwares.
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Kayrros
Funding: $78.6M
Kayrros develops Geospatial & AI Data Platform for data analysis, helping global energy market participants make more informed investment and environmental decisions. This data includes, for example, data on oil production, solar power plant construction, energy storage systems, wildfires, deforestation, methane emissions and more. Kayrros also provides trading houses and hedge funds with precise, data-driven decisions to navigate the growing market volatility caused by the energy transition, changing geopolitics and the AI ​​boom. The company uses AI to process, combine, enhance and analyze data from over 20 satellite constellations. It provides clients with high-frequency, granular analytics that they can use in near real-time for decision-making or directly incorporate into their AI models.
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Bioptimus
Funding: $76M
Bioptimus is a developer of a universal AI foundation model for biology.
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Gradium
Funding: $70M
Gradium creates audio-language AI models, designed to generate and recognize voices with ultra-low latency. The startup's goal is to create a voice API for developers that works in real time. Its voice cloning feature allows to create custom AI voices, including your own (you simply need to upload a 10-second audio sample for speech synthesis). The models have multilingual support: English, French, German, Spanish and more languages ​​to be added in the future. Gradium competes with leading LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama, and Mistral) which are providing voice and speech models. However, Gradium cites that its advantages are hyper-realistic voice reproduction and accuracy.
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Photoroom
Funding: $69.1M
PhotoRoom is an AI-enabled image capturing app that lets users create studio-quality product pictures in seconds.
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MWM
Funding: €56M
MWM is using Artificial Intelligence to craft engaging apps across music, photography, drawing, and video.
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METRON
Funding: €52.5M
METRON's unique AI, supported by Machine Learning and ontologies, is fully context-aware and provides unrivaled insight into energy usage. METRON-EVA, the "Energy Virtual Assistant", collaborates with experts on energy intelligence strategies.
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Sesamm
Funding: €50.5M
SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.
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Spore.Bio
Funding: $31.6M
Spore Biotechnologies is applying machine learning to microbiology testing
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FlexAI
Funding: €28.5M
Unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure
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AZmed
Funding: $21.2M
AZmed offers powerful AI-aided diagnosis tool that detects all types of fractures in radiography
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Dust
Funding: €20M
Dust is a modular technology platform that builds customized AI assistance to enhance and optimize workflows.
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Yseop
Funding: $12.8M
Yseop develops suite of solutions that translate data into written narrative in English, French, German, and Spanish.
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Lili.ai
Funding: €7.5M
Lili.ai creates AI-based virtual assistant specialized in project management
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Biolevate
Funding: €6M
Biolevate is an AI company that helps healthcare professionals accelerate scientific innovation and improve knowledge management.
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Foodvisor
Funding: $5.7M
Foodvisor app automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning
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Riminder
Funding: $2.3M
Riminder operates as an AI assistant that automates talent assessment by leveraging state of the art deep learning technology.
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Retail Robotics Solutions
Funding: €500K
Retail Robotics Solutions develops one-of-a-kind Neural Network that possesses the remarkable ability to swiftly identify meals on trays within self-service eateries or corporate dining establishments.
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Examino
AI-powered exam grading application. Scan your handwritten papers, let Examino evaluate them, and receive accurate grades and feedback in seconds.
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People for AI
People For AI is a French data labeling company. Using our service, you will obtain high-quality training data for your computer vision, NLP or speech recognition algorithms.
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Outrank
Outrank is AI-based SEO tool that allows to get traffic and outrank competitors with automatic SEO-optimized content generation
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro