Hydroclimat | €2M | 🌍 Climate Tech

Aubagne-based Hydroclimat has raised €2 million in its first funding round to scale its hyper-local climate risk modeling platform. The deeptech startup, founded by two climate science researchers, offers ultra-precise projections of climate impacts down to the building level, looking as far ahead as 2100. The funding, backed by the CCR-F fund, will support Hydroclimat’s commercial rollout and international growth as businesses increasingly demand granular climate intelligence.

Flagcat | €2.5M | 🎥 Entertainment

Paris-based Flagcat, a mobile-native webtoon studio, has raised €2.5 million from Acurio Ventures and The Players Fund to bring French-made manga, anime, and webtoons to a global audience. With 20+ in-house artists and six new series planned for worldwide release this year, the startup aims to become a major international creative force in the fast-growing vertical-scroll comic format.

Byome Labs | €3.6M | 🧪 Skincare

Paris-based Byome Labs announced €3.6 million in new funding to industrialize Byome Derma, a point-of-sale skin test that analyzes the microbiome in minutes using antigenic strips. The white-label solution enables cosmetic brands to offer AI-powered skincare recommendations based on real biological data.

Alpic | €5.1M | 🤖 AI Infrastructure

Paris-based Alpic has secured €5.1M ($6 million) in pre-seed funding led by Partech to develop the first cloud platform natively designed for MCP (Model Context Protocol). The startup—founded by the team behind Streamroot—is creating infrastructure for AI agents to safely interact with digital services, aiming to be as foundational for agents as HTTP was for the web. Early backers include founders from Mistral, Dataiku, and Datadog.

ArcaScience | €6M | 🧬 Healthtech

Paris-based ArcaScience has raised $7 million in seed funding to expand its AI-driven drug evaluation platform into the US and UK markets. The startup helps pharma companies improve benefit-risk assessments using unstructured biomedical data—crucial for cutting the time, cost, and failure rate of drug development. Backers include The Moon Venture, Pléiade Venture, Plug & Play, Bpifrance, and AKKA Technologies. Already working with big names like Sanofi, AstraZeneca, and GSK, ArcaScience is also part of a European AI initiative targeting pediatric brain cancer.

Zefir | €15M | 🏠 Real Estate

Paris-based proptech Zefir has raised €15 million in a round led by FinTech Collective with backing from Sequoia Capital and others. The company launched ZIA™, an AI-powered assistant that helps homebuyers by filtering, sorting, and recommending listings like a smart real estate agent. Zefir, which tripled its customer base and now processes €600 million in annual transactions, plans to use the funds to scale its tech and expand across France.

Osivax | €16.7M | 💉 Biotech

Lyon-based Osivax has secured €16.7 million ($19.5 million) from U.S. government agency BARDA to advance its universal flu vaccine candidate, OVX836. The recombinant shot targets the conserved nucleoprotein of influenza A viruses, aiming to offer broad protection—including in pandemic scenarios. Osivax plans to use part of the funding for a large-scale efficacy trial. Though OVX836 doesn’t cover influenza B yet, the company intends to tackle it next.

UNIVITY | €31M | 🛰️ SpaceTech

Paris-based SpaceTech startup UNIVITY has raised €31 million in funding from CNES under the France 2030 plan to accelerate its development of space-based 5G infrastructure. The funds will support the rollout of its VLEO satellite constellation, which aims to deliver low-latency, high-throughput internet by integrating with terrestrial 5G networks. UNIVITY previously raised €9.3 million and has strategic partnerships with TDF and ESA. Two prototype satellites are planned for launch by 2027, with full deployment by 2030.