France unveiled the 2025 cohort of French Tech 2030, highlighting 80 companies building strategic technologies for the decade ahead. Announced on November 6, 2025 by Economy Minister Roland Lescure and Digital and AI Minister Anne le Hénanff, the selection shows a clear industrial and sovereign focus. The group spans artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, robotics, electronics, space, and data infrastructures including cloud, storage, and connectivity.
Program Overview
French Tech 2030 supports startups that pair technological excellence with public-interest outcomes and security objectives. The new cohort is positioned to protect personal data, counter disinformation, and harden critical infrastructure, while advancing industrial competitiveness. The program casts these firms as the next generation of French champions, aligning innovation with resilience and sustainability.
Selection and Sectors
Winners include startups advancing AI platforms and applications, quantum hardware and software, advanced robotics, and secure-by-design cybersecurity products. Space companies focus on launch services, optical communications, and in-orbit services, while infrastructure players target high-performance networking, cloud sovereignty, and data storage. Electronics firms round out the lineup with specialized semiconductors, photonics, and sensing solutions that enable national and European value chains.
Patronage and Governance
Christel Heydemann, CEO of Orange, serves as patron of the 2025 promotion and will back efforts to scale strategic technologies. Her role centers on championing French know-how, strengthening trusted digital ecosystems, and elevating international visibility for the cohort. The Mission French Tech remains the operator, coordinating state resources and partner networks to accelerate growth.
One-Year Support Package
Each laureate receives a year of tailored support covering international expansion, financing strategies, sales development, hiring, regional footprint, intellectual property, and regulatory topics. Dedicated startup managers inside the Mission French Tech diagnose priorities, activate the right service offers, and help firms engage on state-level initiatives. Heightened visibility is part of the deal through media exposure, major events, international delegations, and a talent boost via the Welcome to the Jungle partnership.
Financing and Go-to-Market
Companies get individualized guidance to optimize financing plans, improve access to public funding, and strengthen relationships with private investors. Commercial development is accelerated through curated meetings with public and private buyers in France and abroad, including large groups and mid-caps. The “Je choisis la French Tech” initiative further opens doors for strategic partnerships, technology collaborations, and enterprise pilots.
Administrative and Security Enablement
The “Correspondants French Tech” network connects laureates with 60 administrations and partner bodies such as Bpifrance, Business France, Banque de France, INPI, CNIL, AFNOR, UGAP, DGFIP, Urssaf, and Euronext. This interface is designed to simplify procedures across financing, recruitment, IP protection, and international development, reducing friction as companies scale. The program also runs security and sovereignty awareness actions covering cybersecurity and protection of industrial and intellectual assets.
Economic Footprint
Taken together, the 2025 winners have raised €1.1 billion since inception and reported €138 million in combined 2024 revenue. They employ 3,200 people directly and count 45 factories that are either operating or planned across the territory. Their intellectual property pipeline includes 353 patents, while reported R&D investment exceeds €130 million.
Community and Ambition
Laureates join a broader community of French Tech Next40/120 and French Tech 2030 alumni to share experience, connect with decision makers, and sharpen execution. Mission French Tech Director Julie Huguet underscored the cohort’s international ambition and the program’s commitment to stress-testing and accelerating robust business models. The overall message is consistent, that strategic tech scale-ups are a pillar of European competitiveness and resilience.
The 2025 French Tech 2030 promotion reflects a deliberate bet on dual goals, technological leadership and sovereignty anchored in real-world applications. With targeted state support, corporate patronage, and an administrative fast lane, the cohort is set up to convert deep tech innovation into industrial scale. If execution keeps pace with ambition, these 80 companies could shape a safer, more sustainable, and more competitive digital economy.