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A few days ago, I wrote that AI becomes really interesting when it leaves the screen. Since then, the news has almost been making the case for me. In France, Mistral has raised €3 billion to accelerate not only AI models, but infrastructure and deployment into real organisations. In Europe, new investment is flowing into…

In my previous post, I asked: What if European Tech is not dying — but maturing? Perhaps one of the best places to look for an answer is Artificial Intelligence. Most of the AI conversation today is dominated by what happens on our screens. Chatbots.Generative AI.Large Language Models. Fascinating, certainly. But from my industrial perspective,…

Back from the summer break, with lots of things happening in the French startups landcape like Pasqal IPOs at the Nasdaq and raising $280m, or Mistral signing a large contract with Saudi Arabia, I wanted to start with some numbers and put things in perspective. We hear a lot about Europe’s inability to compete with…

After healthcare. After artificial intelligence. After deeptech and energy. I found myself discovering… stablecoins. To be honest, I initially thought this world was mainly about crypto. I quickly realized it was actually about something much bigger. Payments. Liquidity. Trust. Infrastructure. For more than thirty years in industry, international payments were simply part of doing business.…

After discovering ÜMA, improving women’s health through science… …and Birdia, using AI to solve concrete operational challenges… …I found myself exploring a completely different frontier. Physics. Plasma. Hydrogen. This is where I came across  SPARK Cleantech. What immediately fascinated me was not simply the technology. It was the ambition. Some startups improve existing processes. Others…

Last week, I wrote about Laboratoire ÜMA. A mission-driven company improving women’s health through natural, science-based solutions. Today, a completely different universe. Artificial Intelligence. Aerial imagery. Computer vision. Deeptech. At first glance, it has nothing in common. And yet, it follows exactly the same entrepreneurial logic. I recently met the founder of BIRDIA, a young…

In my previous post, I wrote that structural change only becomes real when entrepreneurs transform ideas into operational business models. Over the coming weeks, I would like to illustrate this through a few companies I have recently had the privilege to discover. This is also the beginning of a new personal journey. After more than…

A natural question follows: Where do these shifts become visible in practice? The answer is: in companies. Because structural change only becomes real when entrepreneurs turn it into operational models. What is increasingly interesting in the French startup ecosystem is that a new generation of companies is doing exactly that. Not by simply aligning itself…

As I write these lines, another heat wave is spreading across large parts of Europe. The temperature in Paris will rise till 39°C during today! And Summer is just around the corner ! For most of us, it means uncomfortable temperatures. For others, it means pressure on energy systems, agriculture, infrastructure, logistics and public health. Regardless…

At first glance, perhaps not. After months of disruption, the prospect of renewed oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz has already pushed energy markets lower and reassured investors. One could conclude that the urgency around carbon markets, electrification, or energy transition may fade with it. I believe the opposite is true. In the previous…