Desk | €600K | ↔️ B2B Software

Desk raised €600K from CentraleSupélec Venture, Baluchon, and other investors to scale its operating system for coworking spaces. The software automates booking, billing, and day-to-day management for shared workspace operators, essentially letting them run a complex physical space without building an operations team to match. The company is transitioning to a recurring subscription model and targeting France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the UK by 2027, with an ambition to reach 1,000 equipped spaces.

Revolty | €1M | ⚡ Renewable Energy

Revolty raised €1 million in seed funding from Hexa, 50 Partners, and business angels, including founders of Verkor, Electra, and Murfy, to certify and launch France's first domestically manufactured residential battery in 2026. The product stores surplus solar energy generated by home panels for later use, and its key differentiator is using recycled European lithium cells rather than new Asian-imported ones. Backed by alumni of some of France's most credible energy startups, the round positions Revolty as the circular-economy answer to a residential storage market still dominated by standardized imports.

OOrion | €1M | 🏥 HealthTech

Lyon-based OOrion raised €1 million in seed funding from business angels and Bartimeus (a Franco-Dutch investor network focused on visual impairment) to accelerate commercial deployment of its AI-powered accessibility app. The app uses a smartphone camera to identify and locate everyday objects in real time, solving what the team calls "the last meter" problem: the gap between where GPS drops off and where a visually impaired person actually needs to go.

Opus Aerospace | €1.2M | ✈️ Aerospace

Based in Essonne south of Paris, Opus Aerospace raised €1.2 million through a Sowefund crowdfunding campaign alongside Bpifrance, BADGE, Fives, Itera Invest, and Défense Angels to advance industrialization of its Mésange reusable rocket. The round is intended to bridge to a pre-Series A of ~€5 million planned for late 2026. The company develops small reusable launch vehicles capable of carrying up to 1,000 kg on sub-orbital trajectories and 250 kg to orbit, built around a proprietary 3D-printed heatshield.

Stairling | €1.4M | 🛣️ Transportation

Based in Paris, Stairling raised €1.4 million in seed funding from Side Angels, One Green, and Bpifrance to expand its employment-as-a-service model for ride-hailing drivers across France and into Europe. The platform gives VTC drivers a ready-made employment contract with full social protections (unemployment insurance, pension, health coverage) while letting them keep up to 80% of gross revenue and choose which platforms to work on.

Kimialys | €3.6M | 🩺 Medtech

Paris-based Kimialys raised €3.6 million in a Series A round led by Turenne Santé, with GO Capital, BADGE, Angels Santé, OCTALFA, and Evolem also participating, to industrialize its K-One® nanoparticle-based diagnostic technology. Kimialys sells a plug-in liquid or slide that makes those same machines ten times more sensitive at detecting disease, catching cases that would otherwise slip through as a false negative. Born from 10 years of CNRS research, Kimialys is already being applied in Alzheimer's biotherapies and HIV diagnostics, making this less a science bet and more a commercialization play on a platform that's already proven in the lab.

Meelo | €14M | 💳 Fintech

Three years after raising €3 million, Meelo has completed a new funding round of €14 million. The company sells software that helps large organizations verify new customers, spot fraud early, and predict non-payment risk across industries like banking, insurance, and energy. With 60 signed major accounts, including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Bouygues Telecom, and Carrefour Banque, Meelo is now aiming to expand across Europe.

Verley | €32M | 🍽️ Food & Beverage

Lyon-based Verley raised €32 million in a Series A round led by Alven, with participation from Sofinnova Partners, Founders Future, Blast, Sparkfood, and Captech Santé, to commercialize its precision fermentation-derived whey proteins in the US market. The company produces dairy proteins without cows, using microorganisms instead, under the FermWhey™ brand, supplying food and beverage manufacturers who want high-protein formulations. Notably, the company secured FDA clearance in 2025 and reports demand already exceeding production capacity, which makes this more of a scale-up story than a technology bet.

Hummingbirds | €50M | 🌡️ Climate Tech

The nature-based solutions developer, raised €50 million to deploy carbon credit projects across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia through a new investment platform called hummingbirds Gondwana. The company designs conservation and ecosystem restoration projects that generate carbon credits for corporate buyers. The round was anchored by Proparco, Swedfund International, and British International Investment at €15 million each, a trifecta of development finance institutions that signals this is less a climate bet and more a sovereign-grade infrastructure play.