Top 20 Clean Energy Startup Investors in France (August 2026)

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• Cebix — Cebix is focused on the development of chronic replacement therapy based on human proinsulin C-peptide for the treatment of type 1 diabetic neuropathy. The role of C-peptide will also be explored in type 1 diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy.
• Merus — Merus is a biotechnology company that discovers and develops new treatments for cancer patients. The company utilizes its proprietary Multiclonics Platform technology to advance its clinical pipeline of medicines. Merus conducts scientific research and clinical trials focused on developing novel treatments.
• Dauntless Pharmaceuticals — Dauntless Pharmaceuticals is a therapeutics company that focuses on the development of drugs. The traditional biotech company holds numerous assets at various stages of development, and its investors, management, labs, and staff collectively share an interest in all company assets. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego,California.

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• spineart — Spineart is a privately held medical device company focused on simplifying the surgical act by designing, developing and promoting safe and efficient solutions to spine surgeons, operating room teams, and patients.
• NovoPolymers — NovoPolymers NV is a company, with the vision and mission to develop and produce sustainable solutions for primarily the photovoltaic market.
• Kinaset Therapeutics — Kinaset Therapeutics is a therapeutics company that focuses on the advancement of novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Medfield, Massachusetts.

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• Deenova — Deenova - The fine art of mechatronics safety
• Eduservices — Eduservices network and pool a set of skills and resources for schools.
• WeBlade Group — Welcome to the new productive reality of excellence for blades. Stronger, more solid, more complete, faster, and more high-performing.

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• Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
• Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
• Click&Care — Click&Care is a caregiver marketplace empowers families to easily find, manage and pay licensed caregivers online. Click&Care is a transformation in quality homecare that contribute to make it more affordable and accessible.

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• EODev — EODev develops and industrialises sustainable, reliable and accessible energy solutions using hydrogen.

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• Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
• Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
• Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.

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• McPhy — As a leading supplier of hydrogen production and distribution equipment, McPhy contributes to the deployment of clean hydrogen throughout the world.
• KIPLIN — Games to prevent sedentary lifestyle and to help you walk and move daily
• SuperSonic Imagine — SuperSonic Imagine SA develops and manufactures ultrasound medical imaging systems for measuring and visualizing tissue elasticity. The company provides Aixplorer, an ultrasound system for breast lesion imaging; and ShearWave, an ultrasound technology platform for quantitative elastography. It offers its products through its offices and a networkof distributors in France, Belgium, Austria, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. SuperSonic Imagine SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Aix-en-Provence, France with additional offices in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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• Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
• Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping. End-to-end decarbonization with integrated CO2 logistics and storage.
• Hephae Energy Technology — Enabling Next-Generation Geothermal with Ultra High Temperature Robotics to support the life cycle of the geothermal energy transition.

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• Glowee — Glowee is engaged in the development of biological light systems using the natural properties bioluminescent marine organisms. Requiring neither electricity nor installation infrastructure, these systems are built by encoding particular genes in symbiotic bacteria.
• WiSEED — Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.
• YMoney — YMoney develops digital payment solutions for people that enable them to make instant payments within their mobile phones. They offer card payment, account transfer, API collection, and wallet payment services, enabling clients to transfer money online through laptops, smartphones, or any other digital mode.

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• EODev — EODev develops and industrialises sustainable, reliable and accessible energy solutions using hydrogen.
• Vanguard Renewables — Vanguard Renewables engages in the development of organics-to-renewable energy projects. Its program provides solutions that benefit businesses, farms, communities, and the planet. The company offers two platforms: manure-only and co-digestion of manure and food waste to renewable energy platforms.
• Hycamite TCD Technologies — Hycamite is decarbonising industry using its proprietary methane pyrolysis technology. It provides its industrial clients with low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable carbon products for demanding applications.

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• EODev — EODev develops and industrialises sustainable, reliable and accessible energy solutions using hydrogen.

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• nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
• Hummink — Dream Smaller Now : Experience a revolution with Hummink's world's smallest fountain pen. Redefine micro-scale writing with our innovative technology.
• Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.

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• Negratin — Negratin is an industrial and services group that operates in the energy and facilities sectors with turnkey and integrated solutions.
• eSmart Systems — ESmart Systems provides AI-driven software solutions to the energy industry and service providers. The company is based on more than 20 years of international experience in establishing and operating knowledge based, leading IT and energy related companies targeting global markets.The company provides software solutions to the energy industry andservice providers. Its cloud-born platform is designed to handle and exploit the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics in real-time. Common to all applications is vast data quantities gathered from sensors, which are analyzed using advanced prediction and optimization models. This results in completely new ways of visualizing data, making decisions and saving resources and costs. The platform is designed for Big Data from the ground up without legacy.eSmart Systems originates from the renowned IFE environment (Institute for Energy Technology). The company was founded in 2012 by an experienced team previously responsible for large IT service exports including delivery of the world's first power exchange to Nord Pool, the Nordic Power Exchange, in 1991. Since 2012 the company has grown rapidly and currently consists of almost 80 employees with offices in Norway, Denmark, the UK, and USA.
• Nomad Solar Energy — Nomad Solar Energy, a subsidiary of Lone Lighthouse, is dedicated to the design and manufacture of photovoltaic solutions that deliver solar energy to all businesses and sectors without limitation. Our commitment is to develop products that respond to the demands of our clients, with the goal of pushing the energy transition in sectors that haveyet to begin in this field, by providing relevant innovations that complement and improve existing photovoltaic systems. A constantly developing R&D team is the driving force behind Nomad Solar Energy's ability to take on new challenges and achieve significant success in the solar industry.

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• Cofarco — Official COFARCO twitter account. Commodity finance and trade credit insurance specialist.
• DESTIA Group — DESTIA Group is a provider of personal services to different aged people.
• Ekoscan Integrity — Ekoscan Integrity is an innovative solution for the integrity and sustainability of industrial products through the implementation of innovative technology.

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• Joe — Joe is an financial service that reimburses and allows ALL expenses to be paid in several installments.
• uptime.ac — Founded in 2016, uptime's predictive maintenance technology for elevators provides access to data that leads to fewer breakdowns, more uptime and less costs. Elevators with uptime’s artificial intelligence system benefit from real-time data to monitor safety, increase performance and modernise the outdated elevator experience, while theavailability of transparent information strengthens trust between building managers and elevator service providers. uptime’s brand-agnostic offering allows elevator service providers to grow their maintenance portfolios and improve retention rates thanks to fewer failures and more transparency, while residential and commercial buildings rely on uptime technology to enhance the safety and efficiency of their facilities. Today, uptime is used by more than 200 companies in Europe. uptime is headquartered in Paris and London, and plan to expand in multiple countries by 2023. The company is backed by major funds such as Serena Capital, KIMA Ventures and Acequia Capital.
• Urgence Docteurs — UrgenceDocteurs is a brand new application. A study shows that 20,000 to 30,000 doctors do not practice in France. Which does not help anyone else Everyone is constantly looking for doctors. Whatever the position of the practitioner: general practitioner, pediatrician, physiotherapist, nurse, osteopath or carer, allows all these professionals todevelop their activity with a minimum of constraints! UrgenceDocteurs has been thought to meet the needs of physicians, who, even with long years of study, do not have the opportunity to leverage their expertise. While medicine studies are very difficult, each year, nearly 25% of thesed doctors do not settle. that 20,000 to 30,000 doctors do not practice in France. Lack of social protection, high installation costs, unsuitable premises or the fear of the administrative are all arguments put forward to explain this observation.

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• Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
• Cailabs — Cailabs is a global leader in free-space optical communications. Its dual-use Optical Ground Stations (OGS) are deployed worldwide by leading satellite operators and agencies such as SES, ESA and Contec. The company is among the very few globally to have demonstrated satellite-to-ground links fully compliant with the US Space Development Agency(SDA) standard, confirming its unique technological position.It also plays a central role in European sovereignty/defense programs such as Keraunos, developing secure OGS for next-generation optical satellite links.Founded in 2013, Cailabs has raised over €100M and grown to 170 employees (as of Dec 2025). Cailabs has a global presence with 3 offices : its HQ based in Rennes (Brittany, France), 1 office in Paris (France) and 1 office in Washington DC (Arlington, VA).
• Eurodia — Eurodia is a designer, manufacturer, and assembler of industrial solutions for the purification of fluids. They provide liquid purification industrial processes combining electrodialysis, chromatography, ion exchange systems, and membrane filtration. They provide these tools for the dairy and cheese industries, the sugar and wine industries, andthe field of energy and ecological transition. They provide electrodialysis technology, bipolar membrane electrodialysis, membrane filtration, and much more.

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• Utocat — Utocat offers a solution for managing the registration and life of unlisted securities by automating the transfer process.It was created in 2014 by Clément Francomme, Utocat aims to facilitate the process of investing in unlisted companies. The company has developed a suite of unique software tools that leverage Blockchain technology. It hasjoined the Acceleration program of EuraTechnologies of Lille in 2016 and has achieved its first fundraising of 500 000€ in September 2016. It has more than 10 clients including AXA and BNP Paribas.
• Declique — Declique specializes in quantifying the loss of time and money on production lines.
• Corail — Responsable shoes

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• Papkot — Saving the world from plastic packaging by delivering a coating that gives paper superpowers - to replace plastic in packaging.

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• Worklib — Worklib develops productivity software for the hybrid work model. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
• Alltheway — Our mobile-based luggage solution will allows passengers to transfer their luggages anywhere.
• OnePark — OnePark develops an innovative network of shared parking . Thanks to a software and unique hardware solution , OnePark enables partners to share their seats when not used.OnePark provides its members with access to a new offer at an attractive price , simply and securely . No badge or remote control is required : simply using our mobilesmartphone application gives access to our entire network . By optimizing the use of existing capacity , OnePark provides a solution to parking problems in large cities and meets a triple challenge.

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• Papkot — Saving the world from plastic packaging by delivering a coating that gives paper superpowers - to replace plastic in packaging.