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Real World. Real Intelligence.

AMI Labs builds AI systems that learn how the physical world works instead of predicting the next word. The goal is machines that can plan and act reliably, in settings such as factories, robotics and healthcare. Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner and former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, founded the company with five others. They include CEO Alex LeBrun, who previously founded the health AI company Nabla, and COO Laurent Solly, a former Meta Europe executive. Pascale Fung, Saining Xie and Mike Rabbat are also co-founders.

Founded 2025

Production-ready speech recognition for your product, within minutes

Blynt AI builds speech recognition that is tuned to each customer's own field. Off-the-shelf tools often misread specialist vocabulary, accents and noisy rooms. Blynt adapts an existing open model to a customer's setting, such as a medical clinic or a children's voice app, so it makes fewer mistakes. David Leroy led the team behind Sonos Voice Control. He founded Blynt with Alexandre Caulier, who also worked at Sonos, and Benjamin Lalanne, who previously founded a company acquired by Hopper.

Founded 2025

Europe's next-generation arsenal

EGIDE builds low-cost interceptors to stop mass-produced drones. Its case is that expensive missiles are a poor answer to cheap drones. The interceptors are electrically powered and designed for mass production. Its software, called Mystique, uses sensors and AI to detect threats in the air, at sea and on land. The company sells this as a continuously updated service. Simon Calonne, a guidance and navigation engineer, and Florian Audigier, a lethality engineer trained specifically in pyrotechnic systems integration, both worked at the missile maker MBDA before founding EGIDE together.

Founded 2025

The voice layer for agentic and interactive apps

Gradium builds voice technology that lets AI assistants speak and listen in real time. Its models convert text to speech and speech to text, and can clone a voice from a short sample or design a new one from a written description. The company grew out of the Paris AI lab Kyutai. Neil Zeghidour, who co-founded Kyutai and previously worked at Google Brain and Google DeepMind, founded it with Olivier Teboul, Alexandre Défossez and Laurent Mazaré.

Founded 2025

Better data for better robots

Macrodata Labs helps robotics teams turn raw video into data that robots can learn from. Its tools check the quality of each recording, label the steps in a task and pull hand movements out of ordinary footage. The core software is open source, with a managed cloud version for larger teams. Guilherme Penedo and Hynek Kydlíček founded the company after building FineWeb and other widely used open datasets for training language models together at Hugging Face.

Founded 2026

The optimal design already exists

NPco builds AI that simulates how engineered parts behave in seconds rather than days. Engineers use it to test designs in aerospace, defence, automotive and energy without waiting on slow traditional simulations. Safran and EDF are among the industrial companies working with it. NPco is a spin-off of the French research institute Inria. Its co-founders, Matthieu Nastorg and Emmanuel Menier, both earned PhDs at Paris-Saclay on using AI for simulation.

Founded 2025

European video AI that detects, alerts and enables action.

Orasio builds video analysis software for police, intelligence services, cities and operators of critical infrastructure. It flags events in live camera feeds and lets investigators search past footage by typing a plain-language question. It is designed to rely as little as possible on non-European technology and to meet EU data and AI rules. Florian Fournier, a co-founder of the payroll software company PayFit, founded Orasio. His co-founders are Arnaud Delaunay, a computer vision specialist, and Fabio Gennari, a former judge at France's Council of State.

Founded 2025

AI Test Agents that build, run, and maintain tests

Thunders builds AI Test Agents for end-to-end software testing. Teams describe what to check in plain language. The agents build the tests, run them across web, mobile, API, desktop and enterprise systems like SAP, and keep them working as the product changes. Thunders was founded by Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani, who previously built and sold the expense-management company Expensya in 2023.

Founded 2024

We build intelligent robots that enhance quality of life for everyone

UMA Robotics is building humanoid robots for factories and warehouses. It plans to rent them to companies for repetitive jobs that are hard to staff. The first prototype, Version 0, was built from scratch in nine months by about 30 people from Tesla, Google DeepMind and Hugging Face. The founders are Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla engineer, and Simon Alibert, the chief technology officer. The other founders are Rob Knight, a robot designer with 25 years of experience, and Pierre Sermanet, a former Google Brain and DeepMind researcher.

Founded 2025

Runtime AI safety and alignment infrastructure

White Circle builds software that keeps AI systems in check once they are in use. It tests for failures, enforces company rules on what an AI can say or do, and keeps a record of every decision. Lovable uses it to review what its AI does before actions run. Denis Shilov founded the company. He first became known for a jailbreak that bypassed the safety filters of the major AI models, and was then invited into Anthropic's safety programme.

Founded 2025