Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in France in May 2026

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• Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
• Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
• Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.

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• Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
• 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.
• Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.

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• nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
• Tower.dev — Data flow orchestrator for pipelines and agents with optional data management in Iceberg-based lakehouses
• BottleCap AI — BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications.

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• Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
• Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
• Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.

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• Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
• Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.

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• youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
• PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
• Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.

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• Samp — Whatever the scale, age, or number of facilities, Shared Reality helps industrial operators accelerate their digital twin programs in an affordable and accessible way.
• Ambler — Ambler is a startup founded in 2018 by experts in digital and so-called "marketplace" models 100% French, the company enjoys the support of public authorities (Wilco-ex Scientipôle) and the support of prestigious private investors , including Partech, Idinvest Partners, Kima Ventures.The startup is developing technologies to help matchthe supply and demand of medical transports. It aggregates, thanks to win-win partnerships, a considerable fleet of vehicles and offers unparalleled deliverability for contractors. Ambler is the only solution capable, nationwide, of absorbing the constant growth of health transport flows induced by demographic and regulatory factors (reform of regional hospital groups).
• Lalilo — Sign up and invite parents remotely for home access to phonics and reading lessons.

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• Ready — Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum at a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet.
• Gouach — To power people and the planet with sustainable energy.
• Pianity — The new way to experience and discover music! Own rare musical gems attached to amazing fan experiences, Support talented upcoming artists, and join exclusive and authentic communities...

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• Indeez — Indeez is an European insurtech focused on everyday needs of independent workers, by providing them with better income protection.
• LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
• Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

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• AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
• Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
• DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
• Presti — French startup using GenAI to create lifestyle product photos for furniture brands

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• Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
• Omi — Omi turns products into pixel-perfect 3D Digital Twins that global teams use to power visuals across commerce, marketing, retail, and AI. No technical skills required.
• Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.

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• Delpha — Delpha is an AI-driven data quality solution that uses intelligent AI Agents to ensure accurate, reliable customer data, helping businesses improve operational efficiency and boost revenue performance.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Fabriq — Fabriq is a SaaS startup whose mission is to improve the daily operational efficiency of shop floor teams. About 1 in 6 jobs today is in the manufacturing sector today and a vast majority of factories have to take their performance tracking tools digital. By providing a intuitive and collaborative app on which shop floor workers can rely on, Fabriqdelivers efficiency gains of 2% to 3% by allowing users to solve operational issues faster, make information flow freely and leverage operational data to augment daily decision making.

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• Aerospacelab — Aerospacelab makes access to space simple. By combining our satellite platforms with mission payloads, Aerospacelab is able to deliver end-to-end satellite solutions tailored to meet your business needs.
• Qubit Pharmaceuticals — We work alongside biopharmas to transform the way drugs are developed by moving from approximation to prediction.
• C12 Quantum Electronics — Explore C12's innovative quantum technology solutions using carbon nanotubes. Discover how our advancements in quantum computing are shaping the future of technology.

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• Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.

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• Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
• 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.
• Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.

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• CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
• Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
• EdallSystems — EdallSystems provide Educational Service (Aerospace Engineering Training), UAV development, Engineering Service(Lab Development) and consulting in INDIA. Their moto is to become a major Product Development company in the filed of Aerospace In India and to support and Develope Aerospace products in India.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Yavin — Yavin provides modern point-of-sale solutions for European merchants
• Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
• Core Biogenesis — Biodesigning the Future of Regenerative Medicine & Skincare

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• cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
• Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
• Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.

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• Icohup — The aim of Icohup is the development of pollution sensors with high performance yet low costs.
• Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
• Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.

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• Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
• Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
• ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.

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• Beside — Beside is an app that provides users with a dedicated second phone number for calls and texts. It includes AI-driven voicemail transcription, call summaries, and actionable to-dos for conversations. It also supports integration with tools like CRM systems and automation platforms to sync call data and notes.
• Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
• YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Side — Side's mission is simple but ambitious: create the smoothest work experience, matching company's temporary needs with qualified profiles within seconds. Each month, thousands of Siders and companies - e.g. HelloFresh, Deliveroo, Urban Massage, Soundcloud, Uber, Stripe - are using Side on a regular basis, from missions of a few hours toseveral months.Since the launch in 2015, Side has been growing fast and is now managing thousands of tasks every month in France and in the UK. Side is based in Paris and London and plan to expand into new cities, industries and job categories. After a new funding round that brings to a total of $7.2M in funding, Side is supported by Xavier Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Bernard Arnault (Aglaé Ventures), Connect Ventures (Citymapper, Typeform investor), Fly Ventures, Kima Ventures, The Family and many A-level Business Angels.
• Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
• Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.

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• Fungiball — Web3 Fantasy Tennis Game! Each NFT card is linked to a pro tennis player. Card values evolve with real-time player performance. Collect, trade, and profit from your favorite players.
• Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.

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• Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.

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• Eden AI — Eden AI meets your business needs with a unified AI API and powerful Workflow builder, enabling efficient deployment of AI models!
• 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.
• Kerys Software — Kerys Software is a Data Security Product Manufacturing firm developing secured virtualization tool for cases.

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• Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
• Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
• Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.

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• ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
• Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
• Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

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• Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
• Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
• Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living

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• Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
• Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
• Mobile Club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
• NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
• Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.

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• Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
• Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
• Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
• Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Beeye — Beeye, (pronounced BI, like Business Intelligence), a B2B SaaS management software aiming to improve the profitability of their projects while ensuring the well-being of their employees through a time-management assistant. With clients in service companies in Canada and France, Beeye addresses the complex challenges faced by organizations inmanaging and optimizing planning, capacity, accountability and performance.
• ViiBE — Connect contact centers with customers through visual support. In one click, agents access customers' cameras to diagnose and solve incidents.
• Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness

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• Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
• AgroLeague — A platform giving large-scale farmers the tools and data they need to increase margins in stepping into sustainable farming.
• Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

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• Creable — Creable provides creators and managers with a digital workspace solution to manage their entire business.
• La Vie — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
• Mobile.club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.

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• Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
• Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
• Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity

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• Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
• Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
• CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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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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• Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.

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• Homepilot — We revolutionize residential property management through the use of technology.
• Symaps — Location intelligence platform. Decision-making tool for distribution network management and expansion. Catchment area, traffic & geomarketing data. Get a demo.
• Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.

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• SCOUT — Scout Canning is the story of heritage canning reinterpreted by PEI-native, and award-winning Chef, Charlotte Langley.
• Heex Technologies — Heex Technologies accelerates AI development by enabling engineering teams to get the most value out of their data