Paris‑based Cycloid, an internal developer portal startup, secured a strategic agreement with the European Commission to provide the unified portal for its €180 million sovereign cloud framework, positioning the company as a pre‑approved supplier for EU institutions after its 2025 Series A funding.
Wero has expanded its payment solution to physical cash registers in Belgium, allowing consumers to pay with NFC or QR codes via Payworld. The rollout marks a step toward European payment sovereignty, bypassing US card processors, and follows a rapid adoption across several European countries.
Polish pipe maker Radpol Pipes was fully acquired by French industrial group Elydan after the THC fund sold its entire stake, marking an exit for the fund and a cross‑border acquisition within the European heating‑infrastructure sector.
A new AI lab founded by ex‑DeepMind researchers in Paris is nearing a $4 bn valuation after securing a large funding round.
Hackuity, a French cybersecurity startup, announced a $19 million funding round aimed at building technology to defend against attacks that leverage artificial intelligence.
Paris‑based startup Opio, founded in 2025, secured €4 million from Frst, Seedcamp, GFC and angel investors to automate the data‑collection phase of financial due‑diligence, cutting auditors’ time by 27 %. The company already serves major firms such as Forvis Mazars Group and BDO and aims to increase its international revenue share to 50 % within a year.
Training tomorrow’s lawyers without AI would be nonsense, so the French National Bar Council has allied with the startup Jimini AI to bring AI tools into legal education.
Two years after its creation, French mobility startup Stairling bought the MySam platform (founded in 2016) and renamed it Staircab. The deal gives Stairling access to about 200,000 corporate clients and 18,000 drivers across 200‑350 cities, allowing the company to provide a white‑label VTC service to hotels, airports, tourism offices and other organisations. The acquisition complements Stairling’s cooperative model for drivers and supports its ambition to become a leading fintech player in the gig‑economy. A new funding round is being finalised to secure an ACPR licence for handling driver payments directly.
Paris‑based AI startup Arlequin AI secured €28 million in Series A funding, co‑led by redalpine and OTB Ventures, to develop proprietary topological neural network models and scale its platform for security, fraud detection and other high‑impact use cases across Europe and beyond.
French medtech startup Implicity secured a €35 million financing round led by IRIS and Five Arrows to enhance its platform that aggregates cardiac device data and enables predictive cardiology, supporting its growth in the U.S. market.