M&A and Fundraising Analysis for August 13, 2026
Defense, nuclear fusion, infrastructure AI, and software consolidation: European capital chooses its industrial battles for the next decade — the complete overview for decision-makers and investors.
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The day of August 13 outlines two distinct forces. On one side, capital is repositioning itself on long-neglected physical infrastructures—drones, fusion, geolocation, aerial mobility—as if Europe is acknowledging, with hard cash, that sovereignty is first won in the material world. On the other, a software layer is densifying around AI: no longer the models themselves, but the tools that control, audit, and bill them. In between, a few French consolidation operations—Qonto, Comet, Bending Spoons—each tell in their own way how a market position transforms into a strategic asset.
🤝 Mergers & acquisitions today · 11
In focus — the deals we decoded
Schneider Electric pays $3.1 billion for Cognite: the price of a position in industrial AI
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Schneider Electric acquires Cognite for €2.9 billion ($3.1 billion). Cognite is an industrial software publisher founded in 2017, generating just over $170 million in annual revenue.
The implicit multiple—approximately 18 times revenue—immediately raised market skepticism. The critical interpretation is obvious: Schneider is overpaying for industrial software to brand itself as an AI company.
But we must look at what Cognite actually sells. Its platform aggregates operational data from sensors, SCADA systems, and heterogeneous industrial equipment, then makes it usable by AI agents for predictive maintenance, energy optimization, and asset management. This is not just another software: it is an interoperability layer between the physical world of factories and the world of language models. Schneider sells precisely to these factories—its distribution boards and automation systems are already present in thousands of industrial clients. Cognite gives it the software key to monetize this physical presence in a radically new way.
What Schneider is buying for $3.1 billion is not $170 million in revenue—it's the right to become the software nervous system for its own hardware clients, before a third party installs itself there instead.
The short-term negative market reaction is understandable; it measures uncertainty about execution, not strategic logic.
Qonto buries Regate and acquires ACASI: accounting as a field of expansion
Buyer
TargetQonto quietly closes Regate—its accounting tool for chartered accountants—before the end of summer, while acquiring ACASI, another accounting player, from the Paris Commercial Court, and announcing the upcoming launch of certified accounting integrated into its platform.
The sequence is instructive. Regate was designed as a bridge to the accounting profession: Qonto did not want to replace the chartered accountant; it wanted to work with them. The burial of Regate—discreetly, which explains the dissatisfaction of professionals who had invested in it—signals that this cooperation strategy is being abandoned in favor of direct integration. The acquisition of ACASI through collective proceedings allows Qonto to acquire a technological and regulatory component at a very reduced price.
Qonto is not consolidating its tools; it is choosing its side: the all-in-one financial platform, which absorbs what chartered accountants used to do, rather than the platform that assists them. The profession's dissatisfaction is a sign that the maneuver was perceived for what it is.
Comet falls under Icade's wing: coworking seeks a solid balance sheet
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Buyer
TargetComet, a French coworking network, joins Icade, a listed real estate company specializing in commercial and healthcare real estate.
The amounts are not disclosed. The logic, however, is clear: independent coworking needs a real estate balance sheet to endure—rents, fit-outs, and renewal cycles weigh heavily against volatile corporate demand. Icade brings exactly what Comet lacks: a portfolio of real estate assets, long-term investment capacity, and relationships with major corporate clients. The acquisition says less about Comet than about the market structure: viable coworking at scale is backed by real estate, not by an asset-light model.
Isoskèle appoints Julien Vottero to head the Acquisition Division and CyberCité
Buyer
TargetIsoskèle appoints Julien Vottero—until now General Manager of TimeOne since 2017—to lead its Acquisition Division, which includes CyberCité and TimeOne, as well as to the General Management of CyberCité. The group brings together its expertise in consulting, performance, and brand for advertisers under a single governance. This is a managerial consolidation move that accompanies a "Global Acquisition" strategy—the integration of acquisition levers into a unified offering.
All of today's M&A, by sector
The full list for today — including the deals decoded above.
B2B Software & Cloud · 2 →
- Airtable — Bending Spoons reprend Airtable pour 2,25 Md$
- NextSlide — OpenAI rachète NextSlide, startup de présentation IA
Data & Analytics · 2 →
- CyberCité — Julien Vottero prend la tête du Pôle Acquisition d’Isoskèle et la Direction Générale de CyberCité
- SEO et GEO — SEO et GEO : comment l’IA redéfinit les règles de l’acquisition en 2026
Construction & PropTech · 1 →
- Comet — Icade reprend Comet, plateforme de coworking française
Developer & IT Infrastructure · 1 →
- Adaptive ML — Datadog rachète Adaptive ML pour renforcer son laboratoire IA
FinTech · 1 →
- Acasi — Qonto rachète Acasi pour intégrer la comptabilité à sa plateforme
Food & AgTech · 1 →
- Genomatica — Again (Danemark) rachète Genomatica pour la biofabrication
HealthTech & Digital Health · 1 →
- Nabla — ‘I’m not here to be acquired’: Meet Nabla’s new CEO Brian Manning
Industrial Tech & Manufacturing · 1 →
- Cognite — Schneider Electric rachète Cognite pour 3,1 Md$ en IA industrielle
Media & Entertainment · 1 →
- VideoVerse — Acquisition VideoVerse de 250 M€ s'effondre en fraude
🚀 Fundraisings today · 59
In focus — the deals we decoded
Quantum Systems raises $1.2 billion: from drone to command system
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Quantum SystemsQuantum Systems (Germany) raises €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion). The company was known for its VTOL drones; it announces a pivot towards command platforms and defense data management.
This is the clearest signal of the day regarding the maturity of the European defense-tech sector. Two years ago, Quantum Systems was just another drone manufacturer—performing well, with feedback from Ukraine, but in a crowded category. This $1.2 billion round indicates that the company has crossed a threshold: the value is no longer in the flying platform, but in the ability to integrate heterogeneous data streams—satellite imagery (partnership with Planet), onboard sensors, intelligence—and make them actionable in real-time for a general staff.
In other words, Quantum Systems no longer sells a drone; it sells a decision infrastructure. The drone battle is indeed over in the sense that it has become commoditized; what is now at stake is the sovereign software layer that orchestrates the whole—and that is where sustainable margins and entry barriers will be found.
For a French investor or industrial partner in defense: the window to enter this integration layer is closing fast.
Stark raises €500 million: Peter Thiel funds European attack drones
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StarkThe German startup Stark, specializing in attack drones, raises €500 million at a valuation of €3.2 billion. Investors include Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) and Sequoia.
Two elements are noteworthy. First, the presence of Founders Fund and Sequoia—American funds—in a European defense startup specializing in attack drones: this signals that American capital views the demand for European rearmament as a full-fledged growth market, not a secondary one. Second, the €3.2 billion valuation for a startup with limited operational revenues: investors are paying for a position in a sector where sovereign demand is guaranteed by national defense budgets, with long procurement cycles and regulatory barriers that protect certified players.
Stark is not valued like a technology startup—it is valued like a nascent defense supplier, with the premium that government contracts give to early entrants.
Proxima Fusion raises €411 million: nuclear fusion leaves the labs
Proxima FusionProxima Fusion (Germany) raises €411 million. Spun out of the Max Planck Institute, the company develops magnetic confinement fusion reactors (stellarators).
For decades, nuclear fusion was funded almost exclusively by states, at the pace of projects like ITER whose timelines are measured in decades. This €411 million round marks a shift: private capital is entering fusion with tickets that genuinely allow for the construction of industrial demonstrators, not just research funding.
The logic is that of energy as a strategic infrastructure: in a continent that has painfully measured its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons, a nearly unlimited, decarbonized, and non-geopolitically constrained energy source commands a high-risk premium. This is not speculation on a distant technology—it's a bet that fusion will scale industrially before alternatives (new-generation fission nuclear, renewables with massive storage) saturate demand.
Proxima Fusion is the longest-horizon fundraising in terms of return for the day. It is also, potentially, the most transformative.
Lovable raises €343 million: AI development platform valued at €11.4 billion
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Lovable (Stockholm) raises €343 million in Series C at a valuation of €11.4 billion, with the support of the European Scale-up Fund.
Lovable allows the creation of functional applications from natural language prompts—without writing code. The €11.4 billion valuation for a company founded less than two years ago is dizzying. It reflects a simple thesis: if the cost of software development tends towards zero, value shifts to the platform that controls the interface between human intent and generated code. Lovable positions itself as this interface for non-developers.
The symmetrical risk is that this position may be ephemeral: underlying models are improving rapidly, and what Lovable does today could be natively integrated into major publishers' development tools in eighteen months. The race is therefore a race for distribution and adoption, not for technology.
Accel closes its ninth European fund at $800 million
Accel closes its ninth early-stage European vehicle at €736 million ($800 million).
Accel's consistency in Europe—nine funds, a presence since the 2000s—is a signal in itself. Where many American funds have European ambitions that fade with cycles, Accel has built a long-term thesis on European early-stage, with foundational bets on Spotify, Supercell, Deliveroo. An eighth fund followed by a ninth of comparable size indicates that the conviction holds and that returns justify continuity. For European early-stage founders, Accel remains one of the few American funds that truly understands local dynamics—and this ninth fund confirms that the geographical arbitrage (more reasonable valuations than in the US at an equivalent stage) remains attractive.
Sapiom raises $35 million: the management controller for AI agents
SAPIOMSapiom raises €32 million ($35 million). The startup offers an observability and cost control layer for AI agents deployed in enterprises.
The problem it addresses is real and underestimated: an AI agent can make dozens of calls to external models, use third-party tools, restart operations in case of failure—and the company deploying it doesn't know precisely what each mission cost. As AI budgets undergo their first serious audits, the question of the real cost per automated task becomes critical. Sapiom positions itself where corporate finance meets AI infrastructure—a niche that didn't exist eighteen months ago and is becoming structural as agents proliferate.
Tsuga raises €30 million: the hidden cost of AI monitoring
TsugaTsuga raises €30 million. The company offers a monitoring infrastructure for AI agents, with an approach that aims to drastically reduce the cost of observability compared to current solutions.
The paradox that Tsuga addresses is striking: AI is sold as a cost-reduction tool, but the tools needed to monitor, debug, and audit AI agents themselves generate significant costs—sometimes exceeding the value produced for medium-sized deployments. Sapiom and Tsuga, raising on the same day for the same underlying problem, together outline a new category of infrastructure: not AI itself, but the layer that makes it governable and economically legible for financial departments.
Prophesee raises €20 million: neuromorphic sensors find their defense market
PropheseeProphesee raises €20 million. Founded in 2014, the company develops "event-based" or neuromorphic sensors—inspired by the functioning of the human retina, they only capture changes in a scene rather than a complete image at a fixed frequency. The round is led by Mantara, a fund specializing in defense and security technologies.
Mantara's entry is the most instructive signal of this operation. For ten years, Prophesee sought outlets in automotive and consumer electronics—markets that are slow to penetrate with demanding qualification cycles. Neuromorphic sensors have a particularly valuable property in a defense context: their near-zero latency and resistance to extreme lighting conditions make them superior to conventional cameras for detecting fast drones, missiles, or mobile targets in degraded environments. Mantara's funding indicates that the defense-security market has identified Prophesee as a critical component—and that twelve years of technological development are finally finding their volume outlet.
Wheere raises €8.5 million: indoor GPS aims for orbit
WheereWheere raises €8 million (€8.5 million communicated). The startup develops indoor geolocation technology—where GPS does not penetrate—and announces its intention to complement its solution with a satellite component.
GPS is a critical infrastructure whose structural weakness is known: it stops at walls. Logistics warehouses, hospitals, airports, factories—all environments where precise indoor localization has real operational value—currently operate with costly and fragmented substitute solutions. Wheere addresses this void. The satellite ambition adds a layer of resilience: a proprietary constellation would allow it to bypass ground-based Wi-Fi or UWB infrastructures. At this stage, it's a seed round based on a solid thesis; execution on the space component will determine whether Wheere builds an infrastructure or remains a niche tool.
Linc raises €8.5 million: AI tackles payroll
LincLinc raises €8 million (€8.5 million). The startup offers accounting firms an AI-augmented payroll management tool, in a market where approximately 22 million payslips are produced monthly in the French private sector.
Payroll is one of the last bastions of manual processing in companies: high regulatory complexity, strong legal risk, constrained monthly cycles. This is precisely the type of process—repetitive, standardized, high-volume—that AI automates best. Linc enters a market that Qonto is attacking from above (integrated certified accounting) and that several HR players are attacking from below—the window to establish itself as a dedicated layer is open, but not indefinitely.
Vertical Aerospace secures €86.6 million for its electric air taxi
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Vertical AerospaceVertical Aerospace (Bristol) secures €87 million in funding commitments from existing and new investors. The funds are intended to support progress towards certification and commercialization of Valo, its four-passenger piloted eVTOL.
Vertical Aerospace is one of the most advanced eVTOL players in Europe, but the sector as a whole has undergone a severe correction since 2022—several competitors have disappeared or drastically reduced their ambitions. This funding round indicates that Vertical Aerospace has survived the culling and is maintaining its trajectory towards EASA certification. In a sector where regulatory certification is the real bottleneck, maintaining the balance sheet until type certification is essential—and that is exactly what this funding buys.
Inforcer raises $50 million: cybersecurity for SMEs in the age of AI
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InforcerInforcer (London) closes a Series C of €46 million ($50 million) led by Insight Partners. The startup helps SMEs prepare for AI-related security risks—access management, compliance, protection of Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.
The addressed market is structurally underserved: large enterprises have dedicated security teams; SMEs lack the resources and expertise to manage the growing attack surface created by the deployment of AI tools. Inforcer positions itself as the managed security layer for this segment. The presence of Insight Partners—a fund specializing in B2B software scale-up—signals that the growth thesis is credible and the go-to-market is validated.
Quartr raises €15.6 million: investor relations data for the AI agent era
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QuartrQuartr (Stockholm) raises €16 million (€15.6 million) with Altos Ventures leading and SEB as a new investor. The platform aggregates first-hand data on listed companies—earnings call transcripts, investor presentations, annual reports—and structures it for consumption by AI agents.
The entry of SEB, a Nordic investment bank, is significant: it validates that financial institutions see Quartr as a data infrastructure, not a niche tool. As AI agents replace analysts for financial information collection and synthesis tasks, value shifts to those who control structured quality data—Quartr positions itself exactly there.
Ahead Health raises $10 million: preventive medicine establishes itself in Europe
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Ahead HealthAhead Health (Switzerland), cited in a panorama on preventive medicine including Zoī and Prenuvo, raises an additional €9 million ($10 million) and establishes itself in Germany and the Netherlands. The startup combines imaging, biology, AI, and longitudinal monitoring for anticipatory medicine.
The premium preventive health sector—comprehensive body scans, biomarkers, long-term monitoring—is transitioning from a niche market for the ultra-rich to a structured industry. Imaging and biological analysis costs are decreasing, AI allows the interpretation of previously unexploitable data volumes, and a growing demand for proactive health management creates the market. The fundamental challenge is regulatory and reimbursement: as long as these assessments remain outside social security coverage, the size of the addressable market remains limited to affluent classes—which caps growth.
Entravel Group raises €6.5 million: supplier financing in travel
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Entravel GroupEntravel Group (Denmark, founded in 2026) raises €6 million (€6.5 million), co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Finality Capital, with participation from GSR, Varrock, G1 Ventures, Seier Capital, Veris Ventures, and Funfair. The funds are intended to secure larger supplier credit lines, process higher booking volumes, and extend a white-label model to traditional travel.
The presence of crypto-native funds (Ethereal, Finality, GSR, Funfair) in a TravelTech fundraising suggests a payment or settlement infrastructure that relies on blockchain rails—likely to accelerate supplier settlements in a sector where payment delays are structurally long. This is a financial infrastructure fundraising as much as a travel one; viability depends on the ability to maintain margins on high volumes in a sector where dominant OTAs crush prices.
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All of today's fundraisings, by sector
The full list for today — including the deals decoded above.
Developer & IT Infrastructure · 9 →
- Lovable — Lovable lève 400 M€ à 13,3 Md€ de valorisation
- CodeRabbit — CodeRabbit lève 143 M$ à 1,5 Md$ de valorisation (Série C)
- SAPIOM — SAPIOM lève 35 M$ pour son contrôleur de gestion des agents IA
- Tsuga — Tsuga lève 30 M€ pour optimiser le monitoring des agents IA
- Rocapine — Rocapine lève 13 M$ pour transformer le développement d'applications mobiles avec l'IA
- Smallest.ai — Smallest.ai lève 13 M€ pour l'IA vocale ultra-rapide et naturelle
- Cognition — Cognition en négociation pour lever à 40 Md€ de valorisation
- Blacksmith — AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
- Olix — Olix lève des fonds pour accélérer l'inférence IA et réduire les coûts énergétiques
B2B Software & Cloud · 6 →
- Thrive Holdings — Thrive Holdings lève 2 Md€ pour l'IA en entreprise à 12 Md€
- River AI — River AI lève 1,1 Md$ pour ses agents IA personnels
- Accel — Accel lève 800 M$ pour son neuvième fonds dédié aux startups européennes
- Index in talks to lead $500m round for DeepMind researcher’s new AI lab
- Seedcamp — Seedcamp lève 279 M€ pour accompagner la prochaine génération de champions tech européens
- June — June lève 20 M€ en pré-seed pour simplifier le déploiement d'IA
FinTech · 6 →
- Airwallex — Airwallex lève 320 M$ pour devenir le système d'exploitation financier
- Yuno — Yuno lève 45 M$ pour son OS de paiements (Série B)
- Ellis AI — Ellis AI lève 10 M€ en seed pour l'IA du crédit privé
- Linc — Linc lève 8,5 M€ pour son IA de paie destinée aux cabinets comptables
- Waniwani — Waniwani lève 8 M$ pour une infrastructure d'agents IA dans la distribution financière
- TFN — The 15 fintech startups that became unicorns in 2026 — TFN - Tech Funding News
Mobility & Transportation · 5 →
- Moove — Moove lève 250 M€ pour la gestion de flottes robotaxi
- Vertical Aerospace — Vertical Aerospace sécurise 86,6 M€ pour son taxi aérien électrique
- Yulu — Yulu lève 93 M$ pour sa flotte de vélos électriques en Inde
- Entravel Group — Entravel Group lève 6,5 M€ pour son modèle de voyage blanc
- Zerolook — Zerolook lève 1,6 M€ pour API de recherche de vols IA
Robotics & Automation · 5 →
- Hadrian — Hadrian lève 1,37 Md$ pour usines automatisées de défense
- Quantum Systems — Quantum Systems lève 1,2 Md$ pour ses drones et plateformes de défense
- Stark — Stark lève 500 M€ pour ses drones d'attaque, soutenue par Peter Thiel
- Prophesee — Prophesee lève 20 M€ pour accélérer sa technologie de capteurs neuromorphes
- Uforce — Uforce vise une valorisation de 4 Md$ dans sa nouvelle levée de fonds
Climate & Energy Tech · 4 →
- Proxima Fusion — Proxima Fusion lève 411 M€ pour la fusion nucléaire industrielle
- WindBorne Systems — WindBorne Systems lève 37 M€ pour ses ballons météo et IA
- Otrera New Energy — EDF investit dans Otrera New Energy pour le nucléaire avancé
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering reçoit une subvention pour composants fusion
Space Tech · 4 →
- SpaceX — Ron Baron investit 25 Md$ dans SpaceX
- Wheere — Wheere lève 8,5 M€ pour son système de géolocalisation satellitaire
- ICEYE — ICEYE reçoit un investissement du fonds Scaleup Europe
- Cambridge Aerospace — Cambridge Aerospace lève pour atteindre 3,4 Md€ de valorisation
Biotech & Pharma · 2 →
- Vaderis — Vaderis lève 152 M$ pour sa thérapie HHT en Phase 3 (Suisse)
- Exobiosphere — Exobiosphere reçoit 1 M€ pour découverte de médicaments en microgravité
Cybersecurity · 2 →
- Inforcer — Inforcer lève 50 M€ en série C pour l'IA et la sécurité PME
- Cytix — Cytix lève 6 M€ en série A pour sécurité des changements logiciels
HealthTech & Digital Health · 2 →
- Ahead Health — Ahead Health lève 10 M$ pour la médecine préventive en Allemagne et Pays-Bas
- Kiro — Kiro reçoit un financement pour son IA d'assistance aux prescriptions médicales
Logistics & Supply Chain · 2 →
- Singapore’s data center company seeks to raise $5B in US IPO - VnExpress International
- ClearJet — ClearJet lève 25 M$ pour sa plateforme logistique IA de fret aérien
Data & Analytics · 1 →
- Quartr — Quartr lève 15,6 M€ pour données de finance institutionnelle IA
Industrial Tech & Manufacturing · 1 →
- Discovered Materials — Discovered Materials lève 9 M$ pour matériaux de puces plus efficaces
Legal Tech · 1 →
- Lightbringer — Lightbringer lève 8,6 M€ pour automatiser la création de brevets
Other deals (sector not classified) · 9
- Accel — Accel raises $3.5B across four funds as AI reshapes early-stage VC — TFN - Tech Funding News
- Ventures — Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds
- Emilabs — Mistral AI à 11,7 milliards d'euros, Emilabs lève 900 millions : la France recense 1 114 startups IA début 2026 - lavoixdefrance.fr
- Pyra — Nick Blair cherche 200 M$ pour la startup pré-produit Pyra
- RP — Comment bâtir une communication RP qui prépare réellement une levée de fonds?
- QMUL — QMUL spinouts looking to raise
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B2B Software & Cloud · 1 →
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📰 News of the day · 95
In focus — the deals we decoded
Bending Spoons goes public at $18.4 billion: Wall Street bets on the acquisition machine
Bending Spoons successfully completes its IPO at a valuation of €16.9 billion (approximately $18.4 billion), above the indicative range, based on a portfolio that includes Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and AOL.
The immediate takeaway: an Italian software conglomerate monetizing declining digital brands, generously valued by the markets. But what Wall Street is truly buying is not the existing portfolio—it's the method. Bending Spoons has industrialized an operation that most acquirers perform artisanally: identifying software with a strong installed base but under-monetized, acquiring it at a discount, refactoring it with a lean team and automation tools, then extracting profit. Evernote had tens of millions of users and was burning cash; under Bending Spoons, it became profitable in less than a year.
The model is actually a thesis on the accelerated depreciation of software in the age of AI: development costs are plummeting, so software assets that seemed expensive to maintain become cheap to acquire and re-optimize. The IPO does not validate a portfolio; it capitalizes on execution capability—and what investors are paying for is the promise that this machine can run indefinitely, acquisition after acquisition, without ever breaking down.
For a French fund or corporate considering mature software assets in its sector: the Bending Spoons model is now listed, therefore comparable and imitable.
All of today's news (ex-M&A / fundraising)
B2B Software & Cloud · 6 →
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons réussit son IPO à 18,4 Md$ en tant que consolidateur logiciel
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Space Tech · 6 →
- The Exploration Company — The Exploration Company vise l'intégration du transport spatial européen
- NVIDIA — Pourquoi les champions français du quantique regardent désormais vers Seoul
- Blue Origin — VIVATECH 2026, avec Blue Origin, Jeff BEZOS veut construire une entreprise plus grande qu’Amazon
- Récolter aujourd’hui, déchiffrer demain : pourquoi Washington accélère sa transition post-quantique
- Why French Quantum Champions Are Now Looking Toward Seoul
- L’Europe veut reprendre la main sur son espace satellitaire
FinTech · 4 →
- Wallester — Embedded finance : comment Wallester s’inscrit dans la transformation des modèles B2B
- Revolut — Revolut obtient sa licence bancaire française
- Lendable — 'We are more constrained by capacity than ideas': Why Lendable is chasing the superapp dream
- Pleo — Inside Pleo's culture crisis: Executive exodus, unhappy staff and sale speculation
Developer & IT Infrastructure · 3 →
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- Sandbar — Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
- UK semiconductor funding exceeds 2025 total - Startups Magazine
Horizontal & Productivity SaaS · 3 →
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Retail & E-commerce Tech · 3 →
- Doofinder — Le commerce conversationnel est déjà là : comment l’IA transforme l’expérience d’achat en ligne
- Phia — Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months
- Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups
Climate & Energy Tech · 2 →
- 16 energy startups to watch in Europe, according to investors
- Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston
Cybersecurity · 2 →
- IA — VivaTech, France Quantum, Eurosatory : les nouveaux réflexes cyber à adopter pour éviter le piratage
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HealthTech & Digital Health · 2 →
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Media & Entertainment · 2 →
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Mobility & Transportation · 2 →
- HandleVisa — HandleVisa digitalise l'accompagnement des voyageurs pour les formalités
- BlaBlaCar — L’IA permet à BLABLACAR d’accélérer… mais surtout de se revaloriser
Social & Creator Economy · 2 →
- Pearltrees — PEARLTREES, l’un des derniers survivants français du Web 2.0, prépare son changement d’échelle
- Le Royaume-Uni ouvre-t-il un nouveau front contre les géants américains de la tech ?
Data & Analytics · 1 →
- LLM — Les LLM lisent-ils vraiment vos données structurées ?
Future of Work & HR Tech · 1 →
- Deel — Pourquoi les meilleurs cas d’usage IA émergent désormais des métiers
Gaming · 1 →
- Ubisoft — Décès de Claude Guillemot, l’un des architectes du champion européen du jeu vidéo UBISOFT
Industrial Tech & Manufacturing · 1 →
- GYS — GYS transforme son offre d'électronique de puissance en OS industriel
Other deals (sector not classified) · 54
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