Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in France in May 2026

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• Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
• Oderis — Oderis helps corporate and private equity clients with transaction advisory, business valuation, consulting and financial assistance.
• VELA — VELA is an innovative 100% wind-powered maritime transport. It has been working to address the climate emergency by providing a creative, sustainable, and socially responsible maritime transportation solution.

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• Gamevestor — Be more than a player. Invest in expert-selected video game projects and earn a share of their commercial revenues.
• IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
• SWEETECH — SWEETECH is a deeptech startup that specializes in the biosynthesizing of rare sugars (oligosaccharides) using a patented, eco-friendly fermentation platform. Born from a passion for biotechnology and sustainable chemistry.

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• Basalt — Basalt is an end-to-end AI reliability platform designed to help teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents.
• Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
• UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) — UMA design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a sophisticated grasp of the physical world.

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• Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
• 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.
• Willy anti-gaspi — Willy anti-gaspi is a waste-fighting e-commerce business.

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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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• 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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• Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
• La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
• Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
• HostnFly — HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.

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• Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
• SURGAR — SURGAR provides a plug-and-play augmented reality software suite for computer-aided laparoscopic surgery.
• Continuity — Continuity’s SaaS platform uses Open Data and AI to detect insurance contracts that are either outdated or invalid across four product lines including Professional Indemnity, Commercial Property, Construction Workers Insurance, and Directors & Officers Liability.

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• Cailabs — Cailabs is a French deep tech company, based in Rennes, which designs, produces and sells photonic solutions to fully exploit the industrial potential opened up by the shaping of light.Cailabs develops and produces a unique range of optical components based on its know-how and its patented technological innovations, in particular Multi-PlaneLight Conversion (MPLC).
• Hello Watt — Hello Watt is a digital enthusiasts and developers who help you reduce your energy bills while improving your comfort.
• Caeli Énergie — Caeli Énergie develops and manufactures next-generation air conditioners with great energy efficiency and a minimal carbon impact.

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• auum — auum is a glass cleaning machine that optimizes the cleaning process and reduces its water consumption. It is also an economical cleaning technology designed to promote reusable containers at work. They offer service, maintenance, and replacement services.
• Leakmited — At leakmited they reduce Non Revenue Water by finding leaks and by predicting risky pipes.They collect the client's Geographical Information System providing locations of the infrastructure and the history of breakdowns and leakages.
• Hydroclimat — Hydroclimat is a French DeepTech company using AI and climate data to help industries and authorities manage climate risks.

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• Hema.to — Hema.to provides fully automated, AI-powered blood cancer detection suggestions based on flow cytometry data.
• Traefik Labs — Cloud-native, GitOps-driven API runtime solutions for demanding DevOps and Platform Engineers with diverse use-cases, environments, and deployment models.
• HarfangLab — HarfangLab develops a hunting software to boost detection and neutralization of cyberattacks against companies endpoints. They plug their platform to third-party cybersecurity solutions to enhance visibility on your system. Their specialists have led many operations of defensive and offensive cyberwarfare for ANSSI (the French National Agency forthe Security of Information Systems), the French ministry of Defense and major cybersecurity companies.

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• Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
• Freqens — Freqens is the AI procurement agent for companies that manage suppliers without a dedicated team. Track vendors, benchmark prices, prepare negotiations and stop overpaying.
• Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.

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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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• 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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• Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
• Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
• Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

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• Yogosha — Yogosha is the first private Bug Bounty platform in Europe, helping organizations to detect and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
• Golem.ai — Golem.ai is an artificial intelligence of understanding human language. Their solution automates tasks with low added value, involving interaction between the employee and the machine through language.
• Buster.Ai — SaaS

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• Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
• Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
• MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.

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• Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
• Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
• Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

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• Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
• Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
• SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.

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• Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
• Skynopy — Connecting satellites. As a service
• Presti — Photorealistic images of your furniture in seconds using AI

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• Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
• Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
• Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

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• HABX — habx provides real estate developers with a digital solution enabling the personalization of new housing units
• Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
• Vertical Compute — Vertical Compute offers chiplet-based technology that cuts data movement to achieve up to 80% energy savings.

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• Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
• Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
• The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

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• Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
• Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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.
• POTLOC — Potloc is a consumer research company, extracting consumer insights by targeting respondents by interest or location on the social networks consumers trust.
• Goodays (ex Critizr) — Critizr Connection is a Customer Interaction Management Platform that helps brands become customer-obsessed and deliver memorable customer experiences.

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• FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
• Hepster — hepster, die Onlineversicherung, flexibel, sicher und immer 100% digital.
• BAOUW / Outdoor Organic Nutrition — A raw, healthy, and natural diet made up of energy gels, energy bars, and energy fruit purees.

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• EODev — EODev develops and industrialises sustainable, reliable and accessible energy solutions using hydrogen.
• Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
• Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

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• CapCar — CapCar is the first actor of the used vehicle to offer individuals cars and services of quality, without the commissions usually taken by the professionals. For you sellers, this means receiving 20% ​​more for your car than at a dealership, with a sale in about 2-3 weeks. For you buyers, it is the guarantee of having a quality vehicle havingsuccessfully passed our 200 control points, delivered at home for a price 5% lower than the traditional professional prices.
• CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
• Ponicode — AI-powered unit testing solutions for all developers. Accelerate your code quality journey with the right tools. Monitor, write and review tests faster than ever before. Now available for Javascript, Typescript, Python and Java.

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• Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We providing intuitive 6-axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial markets.
• SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
• NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.

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• Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
• ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
• Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.

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• 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.
• Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
• Infinite Orbits — Infinite Orbits is a company with a vision to provide reliable, turnkey in - orbit services to satellite operators all over the world.

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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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• Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
• ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
• Revoltrain — Revoltrain creates online schools with masters of tomorrow’s topics

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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

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• E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
• NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
• 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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• Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
• Cashmere — Cashmere is the platform for managing, protecting, and licensing premium book content in the AI era. Control your IP. Unlock new revenue. Power ethical AI..
• Massive Dynamic — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising

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• Extensee — Extensee is a French company that specializes in providing comprehensive drone solutions tailored for civil, industrial, and governmental applications. Their offerings include drones (UAVs) and sensors, airworthiness management, maintenance services, logistics support, expert personnel deployment, and supply of spare parts. This enables clients toeffectively implement drone-based operations across various sectors, ensuring operational readiness and compliance with regulatory standards.​
• Nutriearth — Nutriearth is a biotech firm that develops nutritional ingredients for human and animal health.
• Beyond Green — Beyond Green is an agri-food group specializing in agricultural transition and sustainable food.

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• Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
• Skillup — Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.
• Napta — PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

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• Exotec — Exotec is the designer and manufacturer of the Goods to Person SKYPOD solution which enables order preparation in retail logistics in any sector of activity. The SKYPOD is a robotic order picking system but can also be used as a buffer solution for prepared orders and can be installed in cool or ambient environments. Upstream and downstream ofSKYPOD, we customize according to the level of automation sought, according to the logistics characteristics and distribution channels of our customers. Our customers seek performance and flexibility in our solution: All our solutions are dimensioned as accurately as possible for the flow and stock required We can support the growth of the activity without interrupting production by simply adding robots, stations or racks
• Qovery — Qovery is a DevOps automation tool that lets developers deploy and scale applications on their cloud by simplifying and automating infrastructure so tech teams can focus on what matters most: building great products.
• Escape — Escape is the only API Security solution that combines the capabilities of API inventory, security testing, and business logic testing in CI/CD.

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• Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
• Skillup — Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.
• Napta — PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

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• New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
• Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
• Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!

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• E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
• NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
• Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.

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• Replify — HeyLibby is the AI sales assistant and best kept secret for small business owners to engage, qualify, and convert leads.
• H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company
• General Counsel AI — GC AI is an AI platform for in-house legal teams. Draft contracts, review documents, and research legal issues in seconds with SOC 2-certified, zero data retention AI. Trusted by 1,400+ legal teams.

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• WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
• DGG — Reliably deliver impressive results, thanks to a single, standardized pipeline for 3D tooling and delivery.
• Escape — Escape is the only API Security solution that combines the capabilities of API inventory, security testing, and business logic testing in CI/CD.

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• ION-X — Based on patented technology, our unique ionic liquid electrospray thrusters is the next big thing in small satellites propulsion.
• AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
• Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.

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• Interstis — Interstis is a software tool that allows its users to collaborate with the team to share information, project tracking and communication.
• Leader Print — LEADER PRINT GROUP is a company that specializes in large format digital printing. The company offers a range of printing services, including the production of visual solutions for communication purposes. The company's offerings are designed to meet the needs of various industries, with a focus on manufacturing. With a team of dedicatedprofessionals, LEADER PRINT GROUP is committed to providing innovative and tailored solutions to its clients, ensuring their printing needs are met with precision and efficiency.
• eXplain — Explain provides market intelligence solutions to companies who do Business with Governments. Explain leverage proprietary technology to collect and analyze unique datasets to help companies identify and understand local events, local stakeholders, local opinions and local regulation.Previously known as Liegey Muller Pons, Explain developed aleading campaign targeting software used by more than a thousand campaigns across Europe, including the last two French winning presidential bids. Over the past two years, Explain has successfully diversified its portfolio of clients and now mostly works with private companies.

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• Uzaje — Uzaje offers solutions that enable food service professionals and food manufacturers to eliminate packaging and consumption waste through container cleaning and change management.
• Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
• Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.