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In just a few days France will receive a Artificial intelligence action summitHeads of state arrive in Paris to meet global technology leaders. They are likely to announce some major investments and diplomatic agreements that focus on security or the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.
Before the summit, the early -stage VC company Galion.exegrowth investment company Reviaand consultancy Chausson Partners have been compiled with the French AI reportwhich examines the current trends of the technological ecosystem.
While every gaze is currently on the United States and China and wants to raise tens of billions of dollars for Openai, and deeper to raise awareness of everyone, it has boosted in start -ups. It was only in 2024 that AI companies were represented by approx. 20%.
Overall, this is about $ 8 billion in funding for start -ups in 2024. This metric is likely to grow rapidly, as start -ups AI are still relatively young. Seventy percent of the capital raised by AI start -ups in 2024 was in the B -series circle.
European countries that generally attract venture capital financing have also become the main investment nodes, the United Kingdom, leading the group, France and Germany, and is punching over the demographic weight of Nordics. Here is the demolition between 2020 and 2024:
Interestingly, since AI companies become bigger, they tend to attract international investors, and US vessel companies are about the money invested in AI companies. They make up 50% in the C series and later.
Specifically, in France, “More than 750 start -ups have created 35,000 jobs and have been operating in all areas that are transforming today’s society,” said Clara Chappaz, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, at a press conference.
He also mentioned that 2000 scientists focus on AI research and 600 doctoral students work on artificial intelligence. And he probably noticed that many French engineers and researchers in the United States are working for AI companies.
The team behind the French AI report watched the French best 400 AI start -ups and tried to identify the rising stars. While Mistral AI and Poolside are some familiar names for readers who follow the AI industry, the vast majority of AI start -ups do not work against the next basic model.
Before the infrastructure, some companies optimize data workflows and pipelines such as Linkup and Kestra, or improve the conclusion performance such as MmlOr the development of agents that can sift and improve productivity through large data stocks. The dust is a good example.
But the reality is that in France, most AI start -ups focus on specific vertical applications. According to the report, health and climate are two important areas for start -ups for start -ups in France.
OWKIN and its spin-off biotechnology company, Bioptimus, led the package on the Health Tech Front, but it is a surprisingly wide variety of corporate groups in three high-profile areas: imaging tools, drug discoveries and medical treatment.
Similarly, while a large piece of the AI industry focuses on increasing the productivity of office workers, artificial intelligence is actively used to build the next generation of climate start -ups. In addition to Agritech, carbon and energy management – two topics – related topic – is a great emphasis. There is also a handful of promising new material manufacturing companies that appear (for example, Altrove).
All companies in the list found here– You can also find a lot of AI companies that work to develop a working situation – sales, customer service, HR or legal – and using AI to simplify the most common tasks.
Of course, some companies will not be there in five years. But many are currently growing fast. We are still at the beginning of the AI Revolution, and although it is easy to think about the AI industry as a zero game, one country or a company that “won” over the others, it seems that AI boom is more distributed. Than expected.
