Top 25 ESports Startup Investors in France in May 2026

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• Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
• Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
• Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

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• Plural.com — Plural is the intelligent marketplace for human talent. Showcase your skills, earn more, hire top professionals, and expand your network. Discover smarter connections and opportunities today.
• EQUIP — In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon.
• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
• NIL FanBox — NIL FanBox is a sports merchandise company that offers curated boxes of autographed collectibles for sports fans.
• The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.

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• Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
• Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
• Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!

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• Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
• Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
• Inboxbooster — Test your email deliverability for free. See if emails go to spam or inbox with our patented technology.

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• Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
• Jam.gg — Piepacker is a free cloud gaming platform to hangout and plays premium retro games with your friends online. Piepacker combines the video with a series of licensed popular retro-style games that friends can easily play together. It is simpler than organizing a discordant group but more interactive than just streaming. So far, the platform has seenlong sessions and participation. It was selected by TechCrunch in their top 12 favorite startups of the YC20 batch.
• Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.

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• Svrf — Svrf was founded with the vision to empower people to see the world differently. Today, the Svrf platform does this by making 3D searchable, shareable, and accessible on all platforms.Svrf's iOS app enables anyone to create and share 3D filters on their phone. No prior 3D or game engine knowledge required!Svrf's API supercharges yourcamera or messaging application with the largest cross-platform database of 3D face filters, objects, and more: developers.svrf.com.
• SIMULATE — Simulate.com is a sought-after domain that MediaOptions can help broker for you. Contact us today to get the domain name your company needs!
• Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.

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• Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.
• Nifty Games — Nifty Games is reimagining innovative, authentic and competitive game experiences for the massive global audience of passionate sports fans, from casual gamers to seasoned aficionados. We develop and publish quick-session, head-to-head games for mobile devices, in partnership with the world’s largest sports licenses and backed by a contingent ofthe industry’s most powerful investors.
• Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.

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• Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
• Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
• uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).

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• Audivi AI — Audivi AI is a tech company that offers drive through voice automation service for QSR industry.
• Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
• Mosh — MOSH is a mission-focused, family-run company to get you thinking more about your brain health! Try our MOSH bars formulated with superfoods & vital brain nutrients.

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• AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
• Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
• nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.

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• iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
• Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• Querio — Querio is an AI native Business Intelligence platform that meets everyone at their technical level. From fully automated queries and visualizations, to co-pilot jupyter notebooks.
• ThinkSono — ThinkSono Guidance enables any non-ultrasound trained healthcare professional to scan for blood clots (DVT). It reduces waiting times, negative DVT cases and can be used at the point of care.
• Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.

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• INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
• Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
• DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.

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• Odata Brasil — Odata Brasil S.A. operates a network of data centers. The Company provides colocation services, as well as infrastructure solutions for electronic equipment.
• Pacific Energy — Our innovative energy solutions are transforming the way power is generated, delivered, and managed across the nation.
• Fosun Tourism Group (FOLIDAY) — Fosun Tourism Group provides a one-price, all-inclusive leisure and vacation experience. Their tourist destinations include one-stop entertainment and comprehensive tourism and vacation destinations operated by a company that provides resort operations, tourism destination development, and other related services.

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• PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
• Piston — Piston is the first Agentic ERP that thinks, advises, and executes tasks autonomously, so revenue grows while your team stays lean.
• Gobano Robotics — Gobano Robotics develops AI-driven robots capable of automating complex, dexterous tasks. Their solutions include soft manipulation, bin picking, packing and unpacking, and precise assembly operations. The robots learn from real-world experiences, improving performance to handle new situations with human-like decision-making. They are designed toreplace manual labor with automated processes.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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• Corneille — Corneille is an educational entertainment platform where parents can subscribe to a sizable and regularly updated library of interactive stories and games for their children between the ages of Three to eight. Users' child is encouraged to gradually learn about this enjoyment thanks to their application.
• Showplace — Showplace is a B2B company that allows brands to sell their products directly to rental companies and provides concierge services for short-term rentals.
• Cogntivie Engines — Cognitive Engines is a robotics integrator using AI and real-time vision to control industrial robot arms, adapting to product size changes, and using a hand gesture interface for easy operation, compatible with various robotics brands.

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• Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
• Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
• Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need. It develops stand-alone inhibitors of bacterial metalloenzymes that can be combined with various antibiotics to restore their activity against the most critical pathogens. Thecompany's novel inhibitor of bacterial Metallo ß-lactamases (“MBLs”) which will be combined with a carbapenem to fill an important gap in the treatment of drug-resistant infections. They develop a novel, safe and efficacious inhibitor of bacterial Metallo ß-lactamases to be combined with a carbapenem for the treatment of drug-resistant nosocomial infections.Antabio received a Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery Award. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Labege, France.

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• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• GamersOrigin — GamersOrigin is a club bringing together 24 professional players around 6 different licenses and having achieved many successes with 292 podiums to its credit since its creation. The club then established itself on various essential games like Overwatch, League of Legends or even on Fortnite in 2018.

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• Icon.X World — IconX World, the future of Esport Racing, brings the compete-and-Earn concept to GAMES through the ICNX token. We are already live on Assetto Corsa.

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• Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
• Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
• The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.

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• AirCampus — Discover the best BBQ grills, tools, smokers, and accessories at BBQ House. Make every day a grilling day with our online marketplace. Shop now!
• Major Corp — Economics & Strategic Intelligence Explorer
• Keyop Média — Keyop Média développe des titres de presse experts.

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• Evera — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
• PureNat — PureNat is a deep-tech economy company that has developed a brand new patented biomimetic material for the purification of air and sustainable air pollution control solutions.
• ShareID — Trigger users' identity verification or personal data sharing on demand and in real time through a reusable digital identity