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Stonly
How two Dashlane veterans turned the frustration of writing a help article nobody reads into a knowledge platform that answers back.
Hivebrite
The community platform built for impact - combining a flexible engagement engine, AI agents, and expert support to help organizations turn scattered members into active networks.
COACH
COACH is an AI sales coach for in-person and field sales teams. Reps record every meeting; the AI figures out what the best closers do differently and coaches everyone else to do the same, delivering personalized feedback after each meeting. Managers get visibility into 100% of what happens in the field so they only step in when it matters. Founded in Paris by Mathieu Perez, Thomas Perez and Nicolas Sebag, COACH is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and reached roughly $500k ARR in its first five months.
David Dokes
David Dokes is the co-founder and CEO of Polar Analytics, a first-party data and business intelligence platform built for Shopify and direct-to-consumer brands. Before Polar, he led growth at car-sharing marketplace Turo, where he ran a roughly $20M annual marketing budget. He teamed up with former Airbnb data scientist Charbel Seif in 2020 to give smaller retailers the kind of enterprise-grade data infrastructure that big companies take for granted, unifying scattered marketing, sales, and inventory data into one dashboard that installs in days rather than months. Under his leadership Polar has raised roughly $28.5M and now serves several thousand merchants across dozens of countries.
Kili Technology
Kili Technology is a Paris-based enterprise software company that helps large organizations build high-quality datasets to train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models. Founded in 2018 by Edouard d'Archimbaud and François-Xavier Leduc, its platform spans image, video, text, PDF, and geospatial annotation, and has increasingly focused on LLM evaluation, RLHF, and expert-driven data curation for generative AI. Backed by a $25M Series A led by Balderton Capital, Kili works with enterprises including SAP, Airbus, Louis Vuitton, Michelin, and Crédit Agricole.
Olyzon
Olyzon is an AI-native adtech company building an agentic decisioning and orchestration layer for Connected TV (CTV) advertising. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Paris with offices in New York and London, its platform sits on top of the fragmented CTV ecosystem - agnostic across every DSP, SSP and direct publisher - and uses AI agents to qualify inventory at the program level, plan and activate campaigns, adapt creative to viewing context, and normalize measurement into unified outcomes. The company has powered hundreds of campaigns for global brands and agencies, and closed a $10M Series A led by Sir Martin Sorrell and Sanja Partalo's S4S Ventures in May 2026.
PlayPlay
PlayPlay is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that lets communication and marketing teams turn ideas and text into professional, on-brand videos without editing skills. Its browser-based platform pairs drag-and-drop templates with AI tools - avatars, auto-subtitles, voice-over, translation and clipping - plus enterprise brand governance. Founded in 2017 by Thibaut Machet, Aurelien Dayres and Clement Moracin, PlayPlay is used by 3,000+ companies including IBM, L'Oreal and Booking.com, and has raised roughly $65.8M, led by a $55M Series B from Insight Partners in 2022.
Pricemoov
Pricemoov is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that builds a cloud-native price management and optimization platform. It combines data science, automation, and competitive market intelligence to help retailers, distributors, and enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices across channels - protecting margins and lifting revenue. Founded in 2016 by Pierre Hebrard, Francois Aubert, and Jean Saglio, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 and serves customers across auto-parts, grocery, retail, distribution, and rental industries.
Qobra
Qobra is a sales compensation and commission-management platform that helps operations, finance and sales teams replace spreadsheets with automated, real-time commission calculations. Founded in Paris in 2020, its no-code builder lets teams design pay plans, connect CRM and data-warehouse sources, run validation workflows and give every rep live visibility into what they are earning. The company has certified over $1B in commissions and serves 350+ customers including ElevenLabs, GoCardless, Factorial and Make.
Lago
Lago is an open-source billing and metering platform that lets companies build usage-based, subscription, and hybrid pricing models without building a homegrown billing stack from scratch. Founded in 2021 by two early Qonto employees, it offers a free, self-hostable core plus managed cloud tiers, and is used by companies such as Mistral AI, PayPal, Groq and Synthesia to meter events and issue invoices at scale.
Thibaut Machet
Thibaut Machet is the CEO and co-founder of PlayPlay, a video creation platform that lets marketing, HR and communications teams turn text and raw clips into polished branded videos without editing skills. He started it in 2017 after six years running social media at Eurosport, grew it to roughly 240 employees across Paris, New York and Berlin, and raised a $55M Series B in 2022 led by Insight Partners. He now runs the company from New York, where he moved to build out the US business.
Arago
Arago is a Paris and Palo Alto deeptech startup building a photonic AI accelerator that uses light instead of electrons to run AI workloads, targeting 10x lower energy consumption than today's leading GPUs at equivalent performance and cost while staying compatible with PyTorch and standard hardware ecosystems.
Mindee
Mindee is a Paris- and San Francisco-based AI company building an API-first platform that turns any document - invoices, receipts, passports, bank statements - into clean structured JSON. Founded in 2018 and backed by GGV Capital, Alven and Y Combinator, it gives developers pre-trained OCR endpoints plus a no-training-required custom builder called docTI.
Alexandre Pasquiou
Alexandre Pasquiou is the CEO and co-founder of Neuralk-AI, a Paris deeptech building tabular foundation models - AI designed natively for the spreadsheets, SQL tables and product catalogs that run real businesses. A CentraleSupelec engineer with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Inria, he spent his doctorate measuring how well language models like GPT-2 and BERT predict human brain activity, then turned that obsession with structured signal into a company. Founded in 2023 with Antoine Moissenot, Neuralk raised a $4M seed in early 2025 led by Fly Ventures, backed by angels including Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and Mirakl's Philippe Corrot, and works with retailers like E.Leclerc and Auchan.
David Chevalier
David Chevalier is the co-founder and CEO of Surfe, a Paris-born sales-tech company that bridges LinkedIn and the CRM. He and Romain Ginestou dreamed up the tool during an exchange at UC Berkeley after getting fed up with copy-pasting prospects into their CRM. Launched as Leadjet, the company bootstrapped to over 1,500 paying customers and 1M EUR ARR with no sales team before rebranding to Surfe and raising a 4M EUR seed round in 2022. Customers include Google, Uber, Spendesk, Mirakl and Opendoor. Chevalier is a vocal advocate for keeping the human in B2B selling, even as he builds tools to automate the busywork around it.