Startups
Fundraising, unicorns, pivots and tech startup news in France and worldwide.
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Paradigm shift
A two-year-old startup just got published in Nature by teaching AI to ask questions, not scale up
Wiener Intelligence, a two-year-old Hong Kong startup, became the first Chinese data generation company to publish in Nature Communications. Its multimodal kidney cancer risk model, trained on a novel reasoning data paradigm, achieved AUC scores of 0.788 to 0.873 across 15 institutions. The company argues that question-driven, adversarial data generation, not parameter scaling, is the path to industrial-grade AI in high-stakes domains.
2026-07-12
Record round
Mistral AI just raised €600 million. The pressure to convert it starts now.
Mistral AI just raised €600 million in a record funding round led by General Catalyst, becoming France's most valuable AI startup. The pressure to turn that capital into market share starts now.
2026-07-11
IPO
Lime's IPO raised $167 million. That might just be enough to keep the scooters running.
Lime raised $167 million in its IPO, selling 6.68 million shares at $25 apiece. The company, backed by Uber, now trades on the Nasdaq under "LIME" at a valuation of approximately $1.66 billion, but its $1 billion in liabilities means the test is just beginning.
2026-07-04
Funding Round
Together AI raises $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation as open source AI infrastructure booms
Together AI announced an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from NVIDIA and others. The company claims annual bookings exceeded $1.15 billion last quarter, driven by enterprise adoption of open source AI models.
2026-07-02
AI Infrastructure
Groq raises $750M as inference demand surges, partners with DOE and Saudi Arabia for global expansion
Groq secures $750M in funding amid rising inference demand, partners with the U.S. Department of Energy and Saudi Arabia, and expands data centers globally, positioning itself as a next-generation AI infrastructure player.
2026-07-01
Cybersecurity & Startups
Europe's once-austerity founders are about to get 10,000 cybersecurity bodies, for free
A European initiative backed by VCs plans to train 10,000 cybersecurity specialists for startups by 2026, tackling the talent shortage that leaves many digital companies vulnerable to attacks.
2026-06-30
Healthtech funding
DiagFit's €6.5 million bet on the data you already collect
DiagFit closes a €6.5 million Series A to deploy an AI platform that combines imaging, health records, and wearable data into a single risk score for chronic diseases. The company claims its model outperforms standard screening by 12 percentage points.
2026-06-30