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French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers

France’s data privacy watchdog, the CNIL, has fined Amazon’s logistics subsidiary in France €32 million, or $35 million ...
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Staking technology provider Kiln raises $17 million in rare crypto funding round

2023 hasn’t been the best year for crypto companies. According to PitchBook data, VC investments in crypto companies are...
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N26 launches stock and ETF trading to complement its banking offering

Berlin-based banking startup N26 is rolling out a new stock and ETF trading feature starting with Austria as the first m...
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EV charging startup Electra secures $330 million

It’s not often that you see a $300 million+ Series B round that is entirely in equity. And yet, Paris-based startup Elec...
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Micromobility startups Tier and Dott plan to merge to find a path to profitability

After years of exploding growth and massive funding rounds, it’s time for consolidation in the micromobility industry. T...
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Unity to lay off another 1,800 employees, representing 25% of its workforce

Just a few weeks after its most recent round of layoffs, Unity is once again reducing its workforce. This time, around 1...
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Nabla raises another $24 million for its AI assistant for doctors that automatically writes clinical notes

Paris-based startup Nabla just announced that it has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Cathay Innovatio...
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Here’s how HSBC’s international payments app Zing compares to Wise and Revolut

HSBC has just launched a new product called Zing focused on international transfers to better compete with fintech compa...
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With Amo’s third app, the makers of Zenly release a Zenly-like app

Amo, the buzzy Paris-based startup that keeps releasing consumer social apps, is dropping its third app today. And it’s ...
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Paris-based VC firm Singular raises $435 million for its second fund

For a VC firm, the second fund is a make-or-break moment. With the initial fund, you raise money based on an investment ...
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Procurement software startup Pivot raises $21.6 million just a few months after its creation

French startup Pivot is an interesting startup story as it is scaling at a rapid pace even though startup investments ar...
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Startup studio Hexa wants to partner with startups growing too slowly

Just a couple of weeks after announcing $22 million in fundraising, Paris-based startup studio Hexa is expanding beyond ...
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Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385...
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With its second app, Amo wants to make photo-sharing as simple taking a photo

Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated laun...
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Retro lets you create recaps of your most memorable photos and send the best ones as postcards

Retro is a super interesting social app that helps you share photos and catch up with long-distance friends, family memb...
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Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI

Pimento is a new French startup that is using generative AI in an interesting way as the company focuses on the first st...
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After e-signatures, Tomorro believes e-contracts will be the next big thing

You might not be familiar with the name Tomorro, but it is actually not a new startup. Tomorro is a French contract mana...
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Carbon Maps, a carbon accounting startup for the food industry, gets new backers

Carbon Maps is a relatively new entrant in the carbon accounting space as it is less than one year old. But the French c...
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Twilio lays off another 5% of employees following activist pressure

Just a few hours after Spotify announced a large round of layoffs, Twilio is also announcing hundreds of job cuts. Aroun...
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This small French company wants to build the open alternative to Kindle and Kobo

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged ebook ecosystems with devices, apps and digital boo...
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Augment provides an MBA-like program, but exclusively online

French startup Augment has seen the incredible rise of online courses and edtech companies, as well as its potential whe...
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Paris-based startup studio Hexa raises some funding to launch even more startups

You might not be familiar with Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, ...
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Osium AI uses artificial intelligence to speed up materials innovation

While everybody is trying to figure out how artificial intelligence can be leveraged across various industries, French s...
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Callyope monitors mental health through speech-based technology

French startup Callyope isn’t your average startup as it is addressing a very hard problem in a highly regulated industr...
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Callyope monitors mental health through speech-based technology

French startup Callyope isn’t your average startup as it is addressing a very hard problem in a highly regulated industr...
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Indy raises $44 million to simplify taxes and paperwork for freelancers

French startup Indy has recently closed a new funding round of $44 million (€40 million) with BlackFin Capital Partners ...
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With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again

In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting...
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Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details abo...
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Ida uses AI to prevent grocery food waste

Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of...
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Here are this year’s top 40 startups at Station F

Every year, hundreds of (very) early stage startups choose to participate in one of the startup programs of Station F, a...
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