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Recently Funded Hardware Startups in France

Updated Sep 2026

There are 43 funded Hardware startups in France in the FundedIQ database, each with its funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the Hardware startup funding landscape in France, along with the 43 most recently funded Hardware startups in France.

Paris and Grenoble hold the deepest concentrations of these companies. Hardware startups in France closed 20 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 9 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $612M in disclosed capital. The median disclosed round is $9.4M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $4.4M and $38M.

French hardware ventures lean toward early stages and mid-sized teams. These firms possess enough staff to execute complex physical production but lack the massive scale of late-stage enterprises. This profile creates a target with established operations and a clear product, yet they remain agile enough to adopt new vendor partnerships before their procurement processes harden.

Hardware funded startup statistics in France

Funded Hardware startups in France
43
tracked in the database
Funding rounds, last 12 months
9
20 over 24 months
Disclosed capital raised, 24 months
$612M
17 of 20 rounds disclosed an amount
Median round size
$9.4M
middle half $4.4M to $38M

Most recent funding round on record: Jun 2026.

43 most recently funded Hardware startups in France

43 shown

Ordered by the date of the latest funding round. Each row gives the company, its location and industry, what it does, the stage and date of that round, and the disclosed amount.

A
Grenoble, France · Hardware
AlpSemi is a semiconductor developing next-generation wide-bandgap power semiconductor technologies for…
Seed ·
$19M
E
Ellona
Toulouse, France · Hardware
Ellona develops environmental intelligence solutions-based devices for outdoor and indoor spaces. Its…
Series Unknown ·
Undisclosed
Q
Grenoble, France · Hardware
Quobly develops silicon-based quantum computing technology using semiconductor manufacturing processes to…
Series A ·
$134M
U
Paris, France · Hardware
Univity is a space infrastructure company that develops satellite-based connectivity solutions for…
Series A ·
$32M
M
Toulouse, France · Hardware
Metavonics creates modular avionics platform that provides safety-critical computing power to all airborne…
Series A ·
$8.5M
F
Nice, France · Hardware
Firecell operates in the telecommunications sector.
Series Unknown ·
$9.4M
U
UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant)
Paris, France · Hardware
UMA design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a sophisticated grasp of…
Seed ·
Undisclosed
M
Lyon, France · Hardware
MyFit Solutions creates enterprise software as a service (SaaS) that utilizes 3D scanning technology to offer…
Seed ·
$2.3M
S
Grenoble, France · Hardware
SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions…
Series B ·
$58M
S
Maisons-laffitte, France · Hardware
SiPearl is developing energy-efficient processors designed for high-performance computing and artificial…
Series A ·
$38M
S
Colombes, France · Hardware
Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a leading provider of single-mode LTE chipset solutions for…
Series Unknown ·
$195M
W
Paris, France · Hardware
Wandercraft develops and sells the first exoskeleton to walk self-balanced, providing a realistic gait…
Series D ·
$75M
V
Paris, France · Hardware
Versant is a company that specializes in managing forestry projects. They gather biodiversity information…
Pre-Seed ·
$400k
C
Lyon, France · Hardware
Seed ·
$2.2M
R
Toulouse, France · Hardware
We are on a mission to empower the daily mobility of millions of people affected by gait disorders like…
Seed ·
$9.2M
M
MoveR
Paris, France · Hardware
MoveR was founded in 2024 in France by three engineers (Emmanuel Icart, Marie Brugulat, Julien Baessens), two…
Seed ·
Undisclosed
A
Naveil, France · Hardware
The MELODY remote ultrasound imaging system helps address the growing problem of « medical desertification »…
Series Unknown ·
$4.4M
S
Bordeaux, France · Hardware
Our mission: We bring digital life to vehicles and passengers through the best internet and deep data…
Seed ·
$7.5M
I
Paris, France · Hardware
Inbolt has created a vision system for industrial robots that allows them to make quick and effective…
Series A ·
$17M
M
Paris, France · Hardware
My Digital Buildings is a software platform used to create and examine geographic building information, such…
Seed ·
$1.3M
G
Paris, France · Hardware
We are aiming to change the world by helping every customer to always have a good wireless indoor connection
Series A ·
$16M
A
Paris, France · Hardware
Aldoria ensures the protection of valuable space assets by gathering, analyzing, and utilizing data on space…
Series A ·
$11M
S
Paris, France · Hardware
Scalinx is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and supplying Signal Conversion ASIC and…
Series B ·
$37M
B
Reims, France · Hardware
basecamp vascular is a medical technology company that provides a robotic system for guiding endovascular…
Series A ·
$6.5M
S
Paris, France · Hardware
Stockoss is a cutting-edge solution that enables real-time management of stocks and flows. Take control of…
Seed ·
$4.3M
G
Geoflex
Paris, France · Hardware
Geoflex, a cloud service operator, is revolutionizing GPS/GNSS based applications by improving their…
Series Unknown ·
Undisclosed
N
Bordeaux, France · Hardware
Nimbl'bot argues that robotics can help to protect the health of manual workers. Its robots are designed to…
Seed ·
$2.2M
I
Palaiseau, France · Hardware
ISYBOT is a company that designs and manufactures collaborative robots, also known as "Cobots," which work…
Series Unknown ·
$3.2M
M
Paris, France · Hardware
Smartphone rentals for individuals and businesses start at $9.90 per month.
Series Unknown ·
$5.4M
Q
Montrouge, France · Hardware
A French startup founded in 2010, Qarnot offers its customers an innovative way to significantly minimise the…
Series Unknown ·
$24M
G
Paris, France · Hardware
More and more people live on earth. increasing numbers of them require surgery It will be hard to train as…
Series B ·
$15M
N
Massy, France · Hardware
Pre-Seed ·
$1.2M
A
Paris, France · Hardware
Arcure specializes in the development of intelligent sensors designed to enhance the autonomy of machines on…
Convertible Note ·
$4.2M
A
Grenoble, France · Hardware
Aledia develops and manufactures innovative light-emitting diodes based on a unique 3D architecture using…
Debt Financing ·
$30M
I
Paris, France · Hardware
As the European leader of Software-Defined Interconnectivity, InterCloud is disrupting the way organizations…
Series D ·
$114M
E
Lille, France · Hardware
Exotec is the designer and manufacturer of the Goods to Person SKYPOD solution which enables order…
Series D ·
$337M
H
Strasbourg, France · Hardware
HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain and anxiety.
Series A ·
$5.1M
I
Gentilly, France · Hardware
iFollow develops collaborative autonomous robots for the logistics industry and the retail industry.
Series A ·
$87M
W
Aucamville, France · Hardware
Wyca provides the ODM/OEM hardware design and the suite of software components allowing any business to…
Seed ·
$1.9M
N
Paris, France · Hardware
Nestwave SAS provides advanced, IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. Nestwave's patented,…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$2.9M
L
Bordeaux, France · Hardware
Get rid of electronics struggles thanks to an open source architecture to turn electronics devices and…
Seed ·
$1.5M
A
Grenoble, France · Hardware
Antaios develops innovative memory technology. Antaios is fully engaged in bringing the technology to the…
·
$11M
S
Paris, France · Hardware
Spectral Augmented Industries offers an internal SaaS platform for augmented maintenance that helps and…
·
$2.0M

Where are funded Hardware startups located in France?

Where funded Hardware startups in France are based, by the city on the company record.

City
Funded startups
Aucamville
1
Colombes
1
Gentilly
1
Maisons-laffitte
1

Funding stages of funded Hardware startups in France

How the last 24 months of funding rounds for funded Hardware startups in France break down by stage.

Stage
Rounds, last 24 months

A further 4 rounds in this period were announced without a stage label and are not ranked above.

About the FundedIQ Hardware startup funding data in France

FundedIQ tracks announced startup funding rounds and organises them by company, funding date, stage, amount, industry, location and investor. The dataset is refreshed weekly, and new rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, so the same round reported twice on different dates is recorded once.

Figures on this page cover the 43 funded Hardware startups in France currently tracked. Round counts, capital totals and the median round are computed over a trailing 24 months. Rounds whose amount was not disclosed (3 of 20 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded Hardware startups in France is dated Jun 2026.

The table above shows the 43 most recently funded companies. Full funding histories, investor lists and founder contacts across the whole dataset open on a FundedIQ plan.

Frequently asked questions

How many funded Hardware startups are there in France?

FundedIQ tracks 43 funded Hardware startups in France. This page lists the 43 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.

How much funding have Hardware startups in France raised?

Hardware startups in France tracked by FundedIQ have raised $612M in disclosed capital across 20 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 9 rounds in the last 12 months. 17 of those 20 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.

Which cities have the most funded Hardware startups in France?

Paris leads with 18 companies, then Grenoble (5), Bordeaux (3) and Toulouse (3).

What is a typical funding round size for Hardware startups in France?

The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $9.4M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $4.4M and $38M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.

What is the most common funding stage for Hardware startups in France?

Seed is the most common labelled stage, with 8 rounds in the last 24 months, ahead of Series A (5) and Pre-Seed (1). A further 4 rounds were announced without a stage label and are not counted here.

How often is the Hardware startup funding data in France updated?

The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded Hardware startups in France is dated Jun 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.

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