European start -ups have raised $ 8 billion in 2024.

In just a few days, France will host The tip of the artificial intelligencewith the heads of the state who flock to Paris to meet the global technology leaders. They are most likely to announce some major investments and diplomatic agreements focused on safety or impact on environmental intelligence.

Before the top meeting, VC Early Stage Company Galion.exegrowth investment company Roarand an advisory company Chausson Partners have united to create French AI reportwhich looks at current trends in technological ecosystem.

While all eyes are currently in the US and China with Openai looking for lifting Tens of billions of dollars and depepeek capture Everyone’s attention, in Europe, also had a boom in startup companies in Europe. In 2024 alone, AI companies represent about 20% of the full funding of the VK in the region.

In total, this is about $ 8 billion in funding for startup companies for AI in 2024. This indicator is most likely to grow rapidly, as startup companies for AI are still relatively young. Seventy percent of the capital, collected by startup companies for AI in 2024, is for a circle of seeds to Serie B.

European countries, which tend to attract the funding of the VK as a whole, have also become the main investment centers of the AI, with the United Kingdom leading the group, France and Germany, which follow the costume and the Nordic breaks over (demographic) weight. Here is the breakdown from 2020 to 2024:

Interestingly, since AI companies become more bigge, they tend to attract international investors, with US VC companies representing about 50% of the money invested in AI companies in a series of Series C and later.

In France, there are more than 750 start -ups that have created 35,000 jobs and work in all areas that transform today’s society, “said the minister of artificial intelligence and digital technology Clara Chapaz at a press conference.

She also mentioned that there were 2,000 scientists focused on AI Research and 600 PhD students working on artificial intelligence. And you may have noticed that there are a lot of French engineers and researchers working for AI companies in the United States.

The team behind the French report of AI looked more at the top 400 start -up companies in France and tried to identify the rising stars. While Mistral you have and Near the pool There are already some familiar names for readers who follow the AI ​​industry, the bigger part of the start -up companies do not work on the next model of the foundation.

At the infrastructure front, some companies optimize the operating flows and data pipelines such as Likunp and Kestor improving the effectiveness of the conclusions such as MmlOr developing agents that can sift large sets of data and improve productivity. Dust is a good example of this.

But the reality is that most start -ups in France focus on applications for specific verticals. Based on this report, two important areas for startup companies in France are health and climate.

Oakin and his biotechnology company Bioptimus They led the package on the Health Technology Front, but this is a surprisingly diverse group of companies with three large areas of interest: image tools, drug detection and improvement of medical treatment.

Similarly, while much of the AI ​​industry focuses on the profit of office workers’ performance, artificial intelligence is also actively used to build the next generation of climate startup companies. In addition to Agritech, carbon and energy management – two topics that are connected – seem to be a big focus. There are also a handful of promising new companies for materials that appear (Elsewherefor example).

All companies included in the list You can find hereS You will also find many AI companies working on one work function (sales, customer care, HR or legal) and use AI to simplify the most common tasks.

Of course, some companies will not be there in five years. But many of them are currently growing at a rapid pace. We are still at the beginning of the AI ​​revolution, and although it’s easy to think about AI industry as a zero sum with one country or one company that “wins” over the others, it seems that AI Boom is more distributed by the expected S