Complete List of Startup Unicorns in France in 2023

Sign-up for our free weekly newsletter to get notified when new startups are added.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

What is a startup "unicorn"? The term unicorn refers to a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion. Below is a list of the top startup unicorns in France, updated for 2023.

Ynsect

Ynsect has developed Entoraffinerie for the nutritional and green chemistry markets. The company uses insects to bioconvert organic substrates, such as cereal byproducts, and turns those insects into a sustainable nutrient resource for agro-industries and bioactive compounds for green chemistry.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Evry
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Other
  • Website:
    Click here
Veepee

Veepee is the original creator of exclusive sales events on the internet with over 20 years of experience specializing in fashion and stylish homeware. These limited-time sales have led to the creation of a new way of shopping. Veepee organizes exclusive designer brand sales in all product categories: fashion, fashion accessories, homeware, sports products, electronics and wine to name just a few.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.38
    Billion
  • City:
    La Plaine Saint-Denis
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Voodoo

Voodoo is a game developer that creates and publishes mobile games for casual players.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    2.31
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Other
  • Website:
    Click here
Vestiaire Collective

Vestiaire Collective owns and operates an online platform that allows users to buy and sell pre-owned luxury fashion products. The company’s platform allows users to buy and sell shoes, clothing, accessories, jewelry, bags, and watches for men, women, boys, and girls. It also lists lifestyle products such as design and decoration, arts and culture, sports and leisure, and high-tech products, as well as pet accessories. Vestiaire Collective was founded in 2009 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.7
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Swile

Swile develops a restaurant title card that provides reimbursements between colleagues, bill sharing, instant messaging, organization of events, and lunches at reduced prices.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Montpellier
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Fintech
  • Website:
    Click here
Spendesk

Spendesk aims to change the way companies manage their payments by offering a full-fledged corporate spending solution. Spendesk provides a central dashboard to track budgets, receipts, and expense approvals for European companies.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.5
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Fintech
  • Website:
    Click here
Sorare

Sorare offers a platform to buy, sell, and play with official football crypto goods. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    4.3
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Internet software & services
  • Website:
    Click here
Shift Technology

Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, the Shift Insurance Suite helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Artificial intelligence
  • Website:
    Click here
Qonto

Qonto enables business owners to open a bank account in only a few minutes. The platform supports payment and money receipts via IBAN, physical cards, and digital cards. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    5
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Fintech
  • Website:
    Click here
OVH

OVH is an independent company that specializes in web hosting. OVH also offers related products and services, such as domain names, emails, and internet access.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.1
    Billion
  • City:
    Roubaix
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Other
  • Website:
    Click here
Mirakl

Mirakl provides a marketplace platform that allows both B2B and B2C businesses to increase the number of products available for buyers, grow the lifetime value of customers, and anticipate buyer needs and preferences. The solution integrates into any eCommerce platform.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    3.5
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Meero

Meero offers high-quality production of commercial photos, videos, and panoramic 360-degree virtual reality experiences to help clients such as real estate brokers, automobile dealers, hotels and resorts, and restaurants sell their spaces.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Artificial intelligence
  • Website:
    Click here
ManoMano

ManoMano is a European online marketplace that operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    2.6
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Lydia

Lydia allows retailers, independent professionals, and entrepreneurs to put their credit cards and cash in smartphones by connecting them to a Lydia account and generating an eCheque to scan.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Fintech
  • Website:
    Click here
Ledger

Ledger leverages encrypted chips technology to build security solutions for cryptocurrencies and blockchains. The company builds hardware wallets for consumers, hardware security modules for enterprises and hardware oracles for the IoT world.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.5
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Hardware
  • Website:
    Click here
Exotec

Exotec offers an order preparation system based on a fleet of collaborative mobile robots. The Exo collaborative robots moves the bins among the warehouse, thanks to their no-infrastructure navigation. The Fleet Control supervisor coordinates motions of robots and bins. It interfaces with the WMS and assigns movement missions to the Exos. Exotec's autonomous industrial robots, called Skypods, aim to move horizontally and vertically and offer a “goods-to-person” picking system that the company says improves productivity and also reduces challenges from physical exertion that human workers face.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    2
    Billion
  • City:
    Croix
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Hardware
  • Website:
    Click here
EcoVadis

EcoVadis provides businesses with business sustainability ratings. Its platform enables firms to gather intelligence and evidence-based ratings to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Supply chain, logistics, & delivery
  • Website:
    Click here
Doctolib

Doctolib offers a mobile and online platform to make reservations with doctors.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    6.4
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Health
  • Website:
    Click here
Dental Monitoring

Dental Monitoring allows orthodontists and dentists to remotely follow the treatment of their patients. After downloading the DM app to their smartphones, patients follow the patented DM auto-scan procedure. DM AI technology then extracts from these scans the essential parameters desired by the practitioner and combines them with the 3D dental modelings captured at the beginning of treatment.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Health
  • Website:
    Click here
ContentSquare

ContentSquare monitors touch and mouse movements on websites and apps to understand how these services are used. It leverages data to improve users' experience and increase engagement. Contentsquare helps brands everywhere transform the way they do business, allowing them to take action at enterprise scale and build customer trust with security, privacy and accessibility. Contentsquare was founded in 2012 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    5.6
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Internet software & services
  • Website:
    Click here
BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is an online marketplace that connects drivers with empty seats with people looking for a ride or with travelers and commuters going the same direction. To ensure the quality of the matching between drivers and passengers, the website displays preferences such as smoking or not, animals accepted in the car or not, etc. BlaBlaCar was founded in 2006 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    2
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Auto & transportation
  • Website:
    Click here
Back Market

Back Market is a web platform for the sale of reconditioned electronic products, offering products such as refurbished smartphones, tablets, printers, computers, and household appliances.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    5.7
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Ankorstore

Ankorstore is a marketplace that connects brands and designers with boutiques all over Europe.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    1.98
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    E-commerce & direct-to-consumer
  • Website:
    Click here
Alan

Alan is a Paris-based digital health insurance company that develops subscription-based software for insurance with clear pricing and transparent reimbursement policies. Alan is a primary insurer that distributes its own health plans directly to companies and individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.

Details

  • Valuation:
    $
    2.85
    Billion
  • City:
    Paris
  • Country:
    France
  • Industry:
    Fintech
  • Website:
    Click here