40 best-performing startups in 2024 🔥
Every year, STATION F unveils the Future 40. A list of the top 4% of startups selected from over 1,000 companies at STATION F. Let’s see how many belong to the HEC ecosystem… 🔎
17 startups on this list are part of the HEC ecosystem.
Boom.
42.5% of this year’s list are HEC Paris students, HEC Alumni, or startups that have participated in one of our innovation and entrepreneurship programs, such as the Incubateur HEC Paris, HEC Paris Startup Launchpad, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Paris), TotalEnergies On or the Meta AI European Startup program.
The 40 selected startups in this batch have collectively raised €93 million to date, with 88% of the investments coming from international investors. 25% of these forty startups are working in AI, reflecting a true revolution in the sector.
But before diving deeper into these startups, here are two events you don’t want to miss.
Find your co-founder!
What if you could meet your next co-founder at an event hosted at STATION F?
The Incubateur HEC Paris, 42 Start-up Club , and Hook invite you to join us next Monday for an inspiring event: “Find Your Co-Founder”. 🤝
This event will feature Olivier Reynaud ◢◣◥ ◢, founder and CEO of Aive, and Lucas Scariot, founder and CTO of Voggt, as they share their experiences and insights on co-founder relationships.
The discussion will be followed by a structured networking session designed to help you find the perfect partner.
📅 When: November 25, 2024
🕡 Time: 6:45 pm
📍 Where: Station F
👉 Book now!
Come meet Japanese startups in person!
Join us to celebrate our entrepreneurs and participate in an unforgettable pitch night with 10 startups our Japanese International Acceleration Program.
A unique opportunity to meet actors of the French and Japanese entrepreneurial ecosystem! You're welcome to come meet us, from BAs, VCs, tech leaders, and curious alumni from Station F & HEC Paris.
📅 When: November 26, 2024
🕡 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
📍 Where: Station F
👉 Sign up
Altrove 💎
Reinventing Critical Materials with AI
Altrove is a French deep-tech startup, develops sustainable alternatives to critical materials, focusing on rare earth elements. Combining proprietary AI with an automated synthesis lab, it accelerates material discovery to reduce reliance on sensitive sources and strengthen supply chains. In mid-2024, Altrove raised €3.7M
in pre-seed funding to drive its innovations.
Congrats to: Thibaud Martin | Jonathan Laulainen
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Bluco
Your shortcut to recruitment
Bluco is a French startup specializing in recruitment process automation through conversational AI. Their platform leverages WhatsApp to streamline hiring, enabling candidates to apply without CVs or cover letters, and allowing recruiters to engage directly with applicants, significantly reducing time-to-hire.
Congrats to:Nicolò Magnante | Francisco Shiarazi
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CarbonFarm 🌾
Decarbonizing Rice Farming with AI
CarbonFarm is a French startup dedicated to decarbonizing rice farming by leveraging satellite technology and artificial intelligence. Their platform monitors and certifies methane reduction projects, enabling stakeholders to achieve sustainability goals. CarbonFarm secured €2.5 million in seed funding to expand its operations across major rice-producing regions, including Asia, Africa, and South America.
Congrats to: Vassily Carantino and James Hastwell
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Corma 💻
Your IT Copilot for Smarter Software Management
Corma is a French startup that has created an IT copilot to streamline the management of software licenses and digital identities. Their solution consolidates software applications, automates access management, and reduces costs. By integrating with identity providers such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra ID, Corma enhances onboarding and offboarding workflows while strengthening security and compliance.
Congrats to: Héloïse Rozès | Samuel Bismut | Nikolai David Fomm
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Exxa 🚀
Smarter AI with Off-Peak Efficiency
EXXA is a French startup specializing in optimizing large language model (LLM) operations to reduce financial and environmental costs. Their platform reduces costs and environmental impact, ideal for delay-tolerant tasks like batch inference.
Congrats to: Constant Razel | Etienne Balit
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Icono
Revolutionizing Video Search with AI
ICONO is a French startup offering an AI-powered video search engine that enables precise searches through video content using natural language, without manual tagging.
Congrats to: Louis Develle | Adrien Le Falher
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Jimini ⚖️
The AI Co-Pilot Revolutionizing Legal Work
Jimini is a French legal technology startup on a mission to automate low-value tasks, enabling legal professionals to focus on high-impact work. Their AI-powered co-pilot supports law firms and in-house counsel with research, analysis, and drafting, offering unparalleled efficiency and precision. In November 2023, the company raised €1.9 million in seed funding.
Congrats to: Raphael Arroche | Stéphane Béreux
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Neuralk-ai
Transforming Structured Data into Intelligent Solutions
Neuralk-AI develops proprietary AI embedding models specialized in structured data representation, enabling enterprises to create custom AI solutions that interact accurately with their data. Their models are designed for seamless integration into existing systems, ensuring robust security and adaptability across various infrastructures.
Congrats to: Alexandre Pasquiou | Antoine Moissenot
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Optimmo 🏠
Smart Renovations for a Greener Future
Optimmo is a French company specializing in energy-efficient home renovations. Their digital analysis tool evaluates over 300 parameters from a property’s Energy Performance Certificate (DPE) to propose three optimized renovation scenarios:
Most Economical | Most Spacious | Most Efficiency
Congrats to: Emma Freyd | Gabriel Koutchinsky
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Orus energy ⚡️
Unlocking Flexibility for a Greener Grid
Orus Energy is an energy flexibility software enabling consumers to automatically shift flexible loads off carbon peak times, thereby supporting the balance and resilience of the power grid. In July 2024, Orus Energy secured €2.2 million in seed funding to further develop their software and expand their services.
Congrats to: Fanny Sauvée | Alexandre Girard
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Pollen Robotic 🤖
Redefining Humanoids with Open-Source Innovation
Pollen Robotics is revolutionizing the field of robotics by creating open-source humanoid robots that address critical challenges in automation. Their mission is to empower the AI community with cutting-edge, human-like robots designed for complex physical tasks, improving efficiency and solving labor shortages across industries.
Congrats to: Matthieu Lapeyre | Pierre Rouanet
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Qevlar AI 🤖
Revolutionizing Cybersecurity with Autonomous AI
Qevlar AI is a French cybersecurity startup specializing in autonomous investigations for Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Their AI-powered platform performs comprehensive, end-to-end analyses without relying on predefined playbooks, ensuring seamless integration with existing cybersecurity tools to quickly and accurately assess alerts. In 2023, Qevlar secured €4.5 million in seed funding to accelerate its growth and innovation.
Congrats to: Ahmed Achchak | Hamza Sayah
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Rakoono 🎓
An educational companion in every student’s pocket.
Rakoono powered by machine learning, breaks down problems step by step, generates quizzes tailored to upcoming deadlines, creates exercises inspired by students’ passions, and keeps parents informed with weekly progress reports.
Congrats to: Thomas Le Corre | Hermès Dezautière | Louise Riché | Thomas Niel
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Rounded Technology
Revolutionizing Customer Engagement with AI Voice Agents
Rounded is a French startup specializing in AI-powered voice agents. Their platform enables businesses to effortlessly build, deploy, and monitor custom voice agents using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Congrats to: Aymeric Vaudelin | Valentin Flageat | Yassine M’hamdi
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Theremia
AI for inclusive healthcare
Theremia is an AI-powered platform specializing in creating tailored drug derivatives for specific population subgroups, with a focus on neurological disorders. Using advanced multi-scale algorithms and machine learning, the platform optimizes key drug parameters like dosage, frequency, and formulation to maximize effectiveness and reduce adverse effects.
Congrats to: Iris Maréchal | Chloé Geoffroy
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Twenty
The Open-Source CRM Redefining Business Flexibility
Twenty is an open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform designed to adapt to unique business workflows. It offers features such as customizable data models, powerful GraphQL and REST APIs, and task management tools, all within an intuitive interface inspired by Notion.
Congrats to: Félix Malfait | Thomas Colas des Francs | Charles Bochet
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Veeton
Fashion Photography without photoshooting
Veeton is an AI platform revolutionizing fashion imagery by transforming flat lay photos into high-quality, on-model visuals, enabling brands to scale content production efficiently and cost-effectively.
Congrats to : Christian Kotait | Flore Lestrade | Tristan François
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Want to join the journey of one of these Future 40 startups?
Here are some open positions!
Altrove is a deep-tech startup revolutionizing sustainable materials with AI.
Want to join a team tackling this challenges?
👉 Join Altrove
Corma is redefining software management with its IT copilot.
Ready to simplify digital workflows and enhance efficiency?
👉 join Corma
Neuralk AI is transforming structured data into intelligent AI solutions.
Want to be part of the AI-driven data revolution?
👉Join Neuralk-ai
Orus Energy is unlocking energy flexibility to create a greener grid.
Want to shape the future of sustainable energy?
👉Join Orus Energy
Theremia is advancing healthcare with AI-driven drug optimization.
Want to make a difference in inclusive healthcare?
👉 Join Theremia
Veeton is revolutionizing fashion imagery with AI.
Want to shape the future of content production in fashion?
👉 Join Veeton
Twenty is redefining business flexibility with its open-source CRM platform.
Ready to shape the future of customer engagement?
👉 Join Twenty
Rounded is transforming customer engagement with AI voice agents.
Interested in helping companies enhance their customer interactions?
👉 Join Rounded
A guided tour of Tech Valley with Luc Julia
Want to learn how the development of artificial intelligence was driven, in part, by cats? (They’re everywhere!)
Are you curious to know why Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley?
Never heard of Doug Engelbart?
The man who deserves as much recognition as Steve Jobs.
And did you know that William Hewlett and David Packard (yes, the HP behind your printers) were the original founders of Silicon Valley?
It’s time to uncover the story behind Silicon Valley with Discover Silicon Valley, a six-episode documentary series that dives deep into the heart of technological innovation.
Guided by Luc Julia, co-creator of Siri and a 30-year resident of Silicon Valley, this journey unveils the secrets of one of the world’s most influential ecosystems.
From Stanford University’s labs to tech powerhouses like the GAFAM giants, Luc Julia meets the key players shaping the future of technology and reveals the untold stories of the digital revolution.
Don’t miss this captivating dive into the world of tech, available on ARTE.
👉 Watch it here.
“The future of AI is not about machines replacing humans but humans collaborating with machines to amplify creativity and innovation.”
Dr. Andrew Ng - Founder of DeepLearning.ai
