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.
“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
Réza Malekzadeh
General Partner at Partech, President of the Board
Sunil Chhaya
Co-Founder & General Partner at Kearny Jackson
Elisa de Martel
CFO at Waymo
Corinne Grillet
CEO, Alygne, Inc.
Matthieu Soulé
Partner & Head of C.Lab, Cathay Innovation
Antoine Villata
CEO, Planisware North America
Valérie Touchon
Advisor & Board Member / Optimist / Serving Planet and Society. ex-CIO, EcoVadis
Eric Buatois
General Partner, BGV
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
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
IVALUA provides web-based spend management solutions that offer a modular suite covering the Spend Management spectrum.
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’ 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.
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
