A BRIDGE BETWEEN
SILICON VALLEY AND THE
FRENCH TECH SCENE

A French-American tech community based in the San Francisco bay area
gathering entrepreneurs, top executives, investors, engineers and public leaders
bridging the French and Silicon Valley tech ecosystems.

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Sciences Beyond Borders

Fostering stronger connections between the French and American scientific communities in the Bay Area. Organized by French Consulate in San Francisco

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“The French Tech San Francisco mission is to mobilize the local French Tech ecosystem to help French startups establish themselves and succeed in Silicon Valley.

It also promotes the France brand and the value of the French talents to Silicon Valley players and helps them understand the French ecosystem and find their partners there to approach the French and European market. The French Tech community gathers individuals and organizations under a unique banner. Many of the people involved in the project are already very active. Every day they stimulate our local ecosystem, develop it, and support French Tech goals. To know more about La French Tech movement, please visit https://lafrenchtech.com/en

Our board members

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Réza Malekzadeh

General Partner at Partech, President of the Board

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Sunil Chhaya

Co-Founder & General Partner at Kearny Jackson

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Elisa de Martel

CFO at Waymo

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Corinne Grillet

CEO, Alygne, Inc.

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Marie Gassée

Head of Go-to-Market, Column

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Antoine Villata

CEO, Planisware North America

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Valérie Touchon

Advisor & Board Member / Optimist / Serving Planet and Society. ex-CIO, EcoVadis

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Eric Buatois

General Partner, BGV

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Sophie Rougerie

Director

SAN FRANCISCO TECH SCENE AT A GLANCE

BAY AREA REMAIN A TOP U.S
TECH TALENT CENTER

162

Unicorns
+ including 2 French Startups

12 000

High Tech Companies

600

French Startups

20 640

Patents Registered to Silicon
Valley in 2023

Venture Capital investments in Silicon Valley and San Francisco companies in 2023, reaching a total of over $20 billion

FRENCH TECH SAN FRANCISCO

A COMMUNITY OF 600 FRENCH STARTUPS

2

French Unicorns

+4000

Community members on social media

30

Investors

30

Ambassadors

French Tech San Francisco hosts monthly events organized by various partners (French Tech Meetup, French founders, and the Chamber of Commerce) as well as a big annual event. We also meet with French Tech leaders visiting Silicon Valley and open communication channels with local influencers.

FRENCH TECH SF SUCCESS IN 2024

MistralAI

Mistral AI raised $640M in a mix of equity and debt.

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odaseva1

Odaseva Raised $54M in funding

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Verkor

French battery maker Verkor Verkor secures over €1.3 bn in green financing for its battery gigafactory in 2024

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planisware

April, 2024: Software firm Planisware launches $1.18 bln IPO in Paris

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French companies collected €8.4 billion in 2023. Energy, fintech and healthtech lead the way.

In 2023 French companies raised €8.4 billion over 410 deals. According to our Annual report, France took third place among countries by the total raised amount. The companies within the energy sector contributed the most to the numbers, with €2.8 billion raised in total. In second place was fintech (€1.1 billion) followed by healthtech (€836.2 million), artificial intelligence (€554.1 million) and transportation (€365.1 million) companies.

FRENCH TECH NEXT 40/120 STARTUPS

BLOOMING IN CALIFORNIA

ivalu2

IVALUA provides web-based spend management solutions that offer a modular suite covering the Spend Management spectrum.

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PLATFORM.SH is an automated, continuous-deployment high-availability cloud hosting solution. Delivering everything your team needs to build, run, and scale sites and apps

Ecovadis

EcoVadis’ mission is to provide reliable, globally recognized sustainability ratings and insights, enabling all companies to reduce risk, drive improvement and accelerate positive impact on our planet and society. EcoVadis’ global platform is used by 800 multinationals to monitor the sustainability performance of 100,000 trading partners of all sizes in 175 countries and 200 industry sectors. Businesses rely on EcoVadis’ expert intelligence and evidence-based ratings to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their trading partners and accelerate impact.

Brevo has raised a total funding of $197M over 3 rounds. Brevo is the leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite designed to efficiently build meaningful customer relationships at scale in a fast changing digital world.

SUPPORTING MEMBERS

Director

Sophie Rougerie

Your contact for the French Tech in San Francisco. Over 25 years of experience managing and developing business and communications strategies for large companies (Accenture, Quiksilver) and start-ups at the International level. She has helped companies and individuals to compete and achieve their goals. She helps develop and promote the French ecosystem in the tech & innovation industry across the Bay Area.

French Tech in San Francisco

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