The 2023 promotion of the Next40/French Tech 120 label, which selects the 120 most promising French start-ups, gives pride of place to revolutionary innovations, the ecological transition and industry, according to the list announced by the Elysée Sunday. Emmanuel Macron receives today at 5:00 p.m. several hundred industry leaders to “take stock of the economic situation of the ecosystem and present his vision to amplify its development in the coming years,” the Elysee specified, after the financing was slows down. down due to the war in Ukraine.
In 2022, a record year for fundraising, companies labeled French Tech Next40/120 raised €5.8bn last year, almost half the €13.5bn raised by French start-ups.
Two new unicorns at Next40
New entrants to Next40 include Two Unicorns (companies valued at over $1 billion), EcoVadis (corporate CSR performance assessment) and NW Storm (electric vehicle charging stations). Nine start-ups that have raised more than 100 million euros are also on the list: ClubFunding (crowdfunding), Electra (charging stations), Flying Whales (airship balloons), Innovafeed (breeding insects for food ), Pigment (planning financing), Safti (real estate agents), Verkor (electric batteries), Wifirst (Wi-Fi for professionals) and ZePlug (recharging stations).
To enter the club of the 40 most dynamic companies, you had to have unicorn status or have raised at least 100 million euros between 2020 and 2022. The French label Tech 120, with broader criteria, sees companies like Deepki enter (data energy efficiency), ITEN (microbatteries), Qair (renewable electricity), Sweep (management of the carbon footprint of companies) or even Prophesee (electronic vision). The selection also contains around fifteen start-up companies that produce innovative biomedicines or medical devices. Women are still a very small minority in this ecosystem: there are only 15 leaders or co-founders, just one more than last year.
Source: BFM TV
